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  • Boy Scouts lift a huge American flag at the Clay County Fair. Their silhouettes can be seen through the flag, and the shadows of their legs can be seen beneat h.
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  • A man in silhouette wears a traditional brimmed straw hat.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock in the Kireka area just outside Kampala.  Most all of these folks are from Gulu in the north. Insecurity with the LRA made them move south and accept jobs that are basically breaking rocks so gravel can be used in construction materials.
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  • Ugandan men use a fire setting system for breaking rock.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • A man illuminates hieroglyphics on a wall in a Nubian king's tomb from the 25th dynasty. El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Egyptian empire began to decay in 1000BC and in 660BC Kingdom of Kush ruled an empire stretching from central Sudan to the borders of Palestine.
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  • Key Biscayne from the lighthouse at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park.
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  • A mare and foal crest a hill under darkening gray skies of a looming storm in South Dakota.  The silhouetted pair are part of the Gila herd of wild horses with Spanish origin that came to North America with the Conquistadors in the 1600s.
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  • Artisanal fishermen set nets for live reef fish. Pulau is an island nation in the northern Pacific Ocean, located some 700 km east of the Philippines, perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands consists of 20 large islands and 566 smaller islands and is one of the world's youngest and least populated nations.
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  • An illusive band of wild horses crests a ridge under a full moon and a night sky. Horse sleep only a few hours a night ever on guard for their safety from predators.
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  • Boys jump from a sunken canoe into the waters off a fishing village. Brightly coloured pirogues or canoes line the beaches in Saint-Louis.<br />
Upwelling – whereby cold nutrient-packed waters from the ocean’s depths rise up to nourish life on the surface – keeps West African waters some of the richest in the world.
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  • Plastic waste in the Ganges River at Varanasi, India adds to sewage, animal and industrial waste and pesticides making it one of the planet’s most polluted rivers. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Informal plastic waste worker makes his rounds in very early morning in Varanasi, India because the city temperatures rise in unbearable heat during the day. This is the Beniyapark neighborhood. Varanasi has government trash workers but not nearly enough for the 1.2 million population and all the tourists. So people put their trash on the street and wait for informal trash workers/recyclers or some government worker to come by and clean up the street. It’s not a great system. Pappu is part of the informal trash picker system and he collects plastic waste to recycle.
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  • Chairs sit under an arbor in a field.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Fishing near Sitka Sound on Baranof Island.
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  • A father and son skip rocks along Lake Michigan south of the Loop.
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  • Sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach at low tide.
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  • A view through silhouetted evergreen trees at gentle Pacific surf.
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  • Twilight view of shoreline with sea stacks.
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  • Families gather outside a small, white-painted church for a ramps dinner. Allium tricoccum, wild leek, wild onion, spring tonic, or most commonly, the ramp is a wild plant that grows in the mountains of Appalachia. It resembles a scallion and tastes like a cross between an onion and garlic and dinners are a long-standing community tradition.
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  • A lone street sweeper works at dawn under ornate street lamps lighting the Plaza de Armas in the Spanish Colonial city of Arequipa, Peru.
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  • Pedestrians dash through and underground walkway that leads onto International Bridge Number one, the oldest existing link between Mexico's Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas. Day and night more than four million people-commuters, shoppers and sightseers-walk across the bridge each year.
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  • A Daasanach fisherman with his boat on Lake Turkana.
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  • A hoist lifts a camel into a truck for his journey home.
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  • City Planning Museum is just off People’s Square in the Puxi side of Shanghai. Models show not only the buildings that are already done, but also those planned for the future.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • A boy on a swing in Easter Island's countryside.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery.<br />
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Although low on the food chain, jellyfish thrive and are an important substitute food source as the other species decline.<br />
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Salted and dried jellyfish, however, have long been considered a delicacy by the Chinese. Fish ecologists say where stocks of large fish collapse, jellyfish proliferate, impeding recovery of stocks by feeding on larvae and eggs. They also compete for food such as zooplankton.
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  • Plastic waste in the Ganges River at Varanasi, India adds to sewage, animal and industrial waste and pesticides making it one of the planet’s most polluted rivers. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Informal plastic waste industry community called Lahartara.
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  • I was photographing this alley because it had plastic trash around 4AM and these two guys came out of their homes and placed their trash on the street… right in front of me. This is the basic problem… Varanasi has government trash workers but not nearly enough for the 1.2 million population. So people put their trash on the street and wait for informal trash workers/recyclers or some government worker to come by and clean up the street. It’s not a great system.
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  • Informal plastic waste industry community called Lahartara. Group of workers in front of living space are left to right: Zakir Seikh, Heena Bibi, Parveen Bibi, Bhalo Bibi, Alamin Seikh, and Suck Seikh. They moved a bit in and out of this order but the releases have their photos on them so I’ll sort the exact order according to edit. The photo with only one individual carrying big bag of plastic is Alamin
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  • Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Religious bathers and tourists swim in the Ganges on Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges after a plastic cleanup event sponsored by Renew Oceans.
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  • Informal plastic waste worker community called Bajardiha. These are folks from West Bengal that go out early in the morning to collect and then start sorting plastic around 10AM. Renew Oceans sponsored a play in this community to raise awareness about hygiene and other issues associated with the plastic waste informal industry.
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  • Plastic waste in the Ganges River at Varanasi, India adds to sewage, animal and industrial waste and pesticides making it one of the planet’s most polluted rivers. Dashasumedha ghat on the Ganges. This ghat is central to the ghats that run all along the river in Varanasi. Religious tourists bath and send votive candles out into the river that are full of plastic.
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  • Pedestrians walk down stairs to  a tunnel under the International Bridge Number one, the oldest existing link between Mexico's Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas. Day and night more than four million people-commuters, shoppers and sightseers-walk across the bridge each year.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • A woman looks out from the Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • A couple take in a view from Cape Florida Lighthouse, rebuilt in 1847.
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  • State Street and the Chicago Theatre on a rainy night.
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  • A foal stands out in the herd as mustangs head down a dusty trail to a waterhole. Wild horse herds have a distinct social order and as with other animals that live in large groups, establishment of a stable hierarchical system reduces aggression. A lead or “alpha” mare guides the herd to food and water while stallions follow behind protecting their bands from predators and threats.
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  • Sunrise gives a warm glow to morning mist rising over Control Lake framed by the forest on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Family and friends build a bonfire on a secluded beach on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
The main island includes hundreds of adjacent smaller islands—a total of more than 2,600 square miles with 990 miles of coastline and countless bays coves, inlets, and points.<br />
The landscape is characterized by steep, forested mountains and deep U-shaped valleys, streams, lakes, saltwater straits, and bays that were carved by the glacial ice that once covered the entire area. The spruce-hemlock forest covered land is full of muskegs, or bogs. Most of the mountains on the island are 2,000 to 3,000 feet tall.
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  • Skiers race down the slopes of Sestriere, site of Olympic skiing events near Turin in 2006. Snow flies up as they cut back and forth gliding down the snowy downhill path. The resort was first built in the 1930s by the Agnelli family founders of FIAT, and today is one of the largest ski resorts in Italy.
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  • Sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach at low tide.
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  • Tree-topped sea stacks at twilight on Shi Shi Beach.
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  • A family frolics in the surf on a beach with sea stacks.
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  • A silhouetted evergreen tree on a sea stack at Shi Shi beach.
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  • Cloud-filled sky over log strewn beach near the forest's edge.
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  • A duck swimming on placid waters at twilight.
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  • Sea stacks tower above the surf at Shi Shi Beach.
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  • Trees alongside Jamaica Pond, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, are silhouetted by the setting sun. A glacial kettle hole, Olmsted preserved much of the existing vegetation and framed the pond in trees and shrubs in the Emerald Necklace. It is a part of a 1,100-acre chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts.
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  • A silhouetted girl running up Braddock's Trace, a trail behind George Washingto n's hastily built retreat, Fort Necessity.
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  • People stop to watch the setting sun along Skyline Drive, a 105 mile drive along the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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  • View of a church through the steamy windows of a restaurant.
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  • A girl stands in a gazebo on the Mendocino coast at twilight.
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  • Storm clouds above a horse running along a ridge in the rural midwest.
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  • Skateboarders show off their skills and moves in graffiti-lined tubes where families gather together to watch on a Sunday afternoon in a Quito city park.
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  • Sunlight floods the doorway as Christian worshipers file into Lo Vasquez  sanctuary. They walked during a religious pilgrimage to the Catholic cathedral located near both Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile.
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  • Tourists explore the salt flats near San Pedro, in the Atacama Desert. Salar de Atacama is surrounded by mountains, and has no drainage outlets. Water evaporates leaving small deposits of crusted salt.
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  • Street scenes of Beijing.
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  • Wildebeests grazing in the savannah.
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  • The shoreline of Oceanside, Oregon.
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  • In Kalyan, on the outskirts of Mumbai, trash pickers begin their daily rounds at the dump. They sort through mountains of garbage searching for plastic that is a precious find for recycling,
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  • Plastic sorting in Mumbai, India.
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  • Flocks of Sandhill cranes arrive at dusk to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Aerial of Kenya's Omo Delta near Ileret.
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  • Aerial of Kenya's Omo Delta near Ileret.
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  • Crocodile Island in Lake Turkana.
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  • Camels converge on Abu Dhabi for an annual beauty contest.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
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  • Twilight over Lumale Camp in the Kara village of Dus.
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  • A dust cloud envelops the Kara village of Dus.
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  • Kara children playing games in their village.
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  • Cattle have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust.
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  • Workers boring a tunnel that will divert the Omo River.
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  • Workers dismantle a protective fence around the Olympic Stadium area.
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  • Migrant workers with jobs as moving men, play on the street outside an office building.
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  • New construction along the Dong Da Ming Road.
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  • People walking in Shenzhen on a rainy night.
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  • The joke is the "crane" is the official bird of China. They are everywhere. This is the China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition, and one of the biggest auto shows on the planet. When people have MORE STUFF it also creates more demand for resources. China already consumes more of seven of the eight most basic resources on the planet (the eighth being oil). They need THEIR plastic objects, their cars, their air conditioning. There is a (dirty) coal power plant coming online every four to five days in China that could power a city the size of San Diego.
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  • Golf Driving Range, off the Fourth Ring Road lined with skyscrapers.| Beijing, China
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  • Wokers at Rajesh Exports, the largest gold exporter in the world.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Poor villagers clean the Sasakwa Lodge in the Grumeti Reserves.
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  • Tribesmen Steer a boat across the remote Ituri River watershed deep in the Ituri Forest in DR Congo.
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  • Monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Twilight view of silhouetted rock formations near Kakadu.
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  • A woman's shadowy profile seen through a back-lit umbrella.
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