Held for the first time in 1970, Earth Day is now a global event to call on people to appreciate the world we live in and protect the environment of this planet. Preserving natural resources, ending pollution, protecting wild life and creating a beautiful environment are topics that are spreading in many countries. Let's keep our planet forever green.
Our green planet is captured by NOAA's GOES-East satellite at 1145 GMT, on Earth Day, April 22, 2014.
A large old Indian stork flies next to the woman picking up trash at a landfill on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, on Earth Day.
A window cleaning worker hangs on a rope beside the Ashton Morph 38 building's wall covered by a vertical garden with natural green vines called Laurel clock vine, also known as Blue trumpet vine, often used as herbal medicine, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 22, 2014.The global theme this year is Green Cities, encouraging people to turn cement walls into green areas and green spaces.
A traffic police signaled the drivers during a foggy day in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.Pollution in China has forced the government to enact a new law, allowing Beijing to have more power to shut down factories that pollute and punish officials, and even to protect one. the number of areas not for industrial use.
A South African boy dumped a glass of garbage into a public garbage bin in Cape Town, on Earth Day, April 22, 2014.
The people of Ivory Coast bathed in a polluted stream flowing through the Ebrie swamp, in Abidjian, April 19, 2014.The pollution level of this wetland has increased in the last few years due to the waste water from nearby urban sewers.
Aceh students with their bodies covered with mud rolled a globe of Earth icons in Banda Aceh, Aceh's capital, April 22, 2014.Protesters demanded the protection and preservation of Indonesian forests, which are quickly being demolished to grow palm oil and agriculture, threatening the lives of some endangered species.
A gas and oil field in Monterey Shale, near McKittrick, California, March 23, 2014.The exploitation of California's gas and oil causes adverse impacts on domestic water supplies and can cause chemical contamination of groundwater, making farmers forced to abandon large areas after one of the droughts. worst in California history.
Children at Northwest Primary School, El Dorado, Arkansas, planted zinnia trees in the tubs that they had seeded from the school greenhouse seed, April 21, 2014, an activity for the Earth's week.
Scavengers sit on a canoe and pick up plastic bottles floating on the waste-filled Citarum River in Cihampelas district, West Java, April 13, 2014.This floating landfill extends along the wind through 297 km along Java Island, crossing Jakarta's capital city of Indonesia.Government officials and non-governmental organizations call it the most polluted place in the world and promise to clean it, because this river is the only source of water for 15 million people living along the shore, accepting threats to health and crops.
Afghan workers planting new grass on the roadside in Kabul, April 22, 2014.Afghanistan organizes Earth Day with activities across the country to combat long-term deforestation as the demand for heating wood is increasing.The erosion of land caused by deforestation often causes flash floods in some places and to cope with the situation, the government gives trees to grow in the spring each year, but to take care of them requires an incident. Great try.
The 2-piece photo shows the sky air quality of the central financial district at the morning (top) and evening (below), April 1, 2014, in Beijing, China.More than 7 million people die globally each year due to air pollution.
Greenpeace activists raised banners to the Brandenburg gate, in Berlin, Germany, April 13, 2014, calling for support for clean energy.
Giant machines are exploiting brown coal in the Garzweiler open pit, near Grevenbroich, West Germany, April 3, 2014. t After coming to the conclusion that global warming is almost man-made and it is a threat to humanity itself, the UN climate change advocates have called for a transfer. to a new stage: 'What are we going to do with it?'
A broken plastic mound broke down on the beach at sunrise, a few days after BP announced that it would end its 'beach cleanup' task in Louisiana after the Deepwater Horizon rig crash, April 19, 2014, Grand Isle, Louisiana.The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and leaked millions of gallons of oil to the sea.
A Sri Lankan stone miner bathed in a rain lake at the quarry on Earth Day in Athurugiriya, outside Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 22, 2014.
The two Kashmiri women rowed the car down full of weeds after cleaning them from Dal Lake Lake on Earth Day, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, April 22, 2014.Dal Lake Lake is one of Kashmiri's tourist attractions and the government is trying to save the lake.Over the past two decades, the lake has been invaded more than half by weeds, according to an environmental research report.
A young girl stood reading a book on the balcony when smoke rose from the chimneys of a steel factory, on a misty day in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, April 3, 2014.
