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  • Hadyard hill wind farm in South Ayrshire has 52 wind turbines. It generates over 120MW of zero carbon electricity supplying enough electricity to power 80,000 homes.
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  • A cross section of high tension electrical power pylon line. Made up of 7 strands of steel surrounded by 4 layers of aluminium. Aluminium conductor steel reinforced ACSR Carbon core conductor, the metal cable used to transmit electricity throughout the UK pylon network. Part of a display at Nation Grid Headquarters, Wokingham, United Kingdom.
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  • A cross section of high tension electrical power pylon line. Made up of 7 strands of steel surrounded by 4 layers of aluminium. Aluminium conductor steel reinforced ACSR Carbon core conductor, the metal cable used to transmit electricity throughout the UK pylon network. Part of a display at Nation Grid Headquarters, Wokingham, United Kingdom.
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  • Hadyard hill wind farm in South Ayrshire has 52 wind turbines. It generates over 120MW of zero carbon electricity supplying enough electricity to power 80,000 homes.
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  • Pupils from Mornington primary school with wood pellets for their wood burning stove. The school is part of Nottinghamshire County Council who won the 2007 UK Ashden Award. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy recognises projects finding ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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  • Pupils from The Bridgford School look inside their converted wood fuel boiler. The school is part Nottinghamshire Country Council who won the 2007 UK Ashden Award. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy recognises projects finding ways to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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  • The Air that we Grieve march on July 12th 2019 in East London, United Kingdom. Organised by Extinction Rebellion to draw attention to air pollution and the climate emergency. A very young child walks with a placard saying  Reduce Tower Hamlets Carbon Emissions to net 0 by 2025.
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  • A EWZ-Z110 Quadcopter UAV exhibit by Ewatt Aerospace on their stand at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England. The copter has a payload of 20kg, a max speed of 72mph and a max duration of 120mins. It is conctructed from aluminium alloy and carbon-fibre composite.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Two commercial tumble drier machines drying clothes in a launderette Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK.  The energy for the launderette is sourced from roof solar panels and is part of a scheme to make this town the first to be powered by renewable sources in the UK.
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  • Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn, demonstrates the loss of heat from trams with a smoke machine in the tram depot in Ghent, Belgium.  He has modernized the public transport tramcars with innovative technology to reduce electricity consumption and has won a prestigious Ashden sustainable travel award for this work.
    Belgium-Public-Transport-Trams-0548.jpg
  • Chimney stacks of brickfields in the flood plains of the Turag river on the 1st of October 2018  in the Ashulia district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    Bangladesh-Dhaka-Brickfield-Chimney-...jpg
  • Smoke bellows across the valley from the chimney of a brick kiln on the 11th of March 2020 in the Dakshinkali area, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal. Traditional brick kilns continue to pollute air, take life and cause huge financial loss to Nepal.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Distrcit-3959.jpg
  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
    _E6A0391.jpg
  • A home made charcoal making system in Stone Town, Zanzibar. When a tree is felled to make charcoal it is chopped up and set light to then buried under soil and palm leaves and left to smoulder for several days. The wood burns at high temperatures which pyrolyzes the wood. The making and use of charcoal contributes to deforestation and air pollution. It is an affordable fuel used for cooking across Africa.
    Tanzania-Zanzibar-Charcoal-Making-96...jpg
  • A home made charcoal making system in Stone Town, Zanzibar. When a tree is felled to make charcoal it is chopped up and set light to then buried under soil and palm leaves and left to smoulder for several days. The wood burns at high temperatures which pyrolyzes the wood. The making and use of charcoal contributes to deforestation and air pollution. It is an affordable fuel used for cooking across Africa.
    Tanzania-Zanzibar-Charcoal-Making-96...jpg
  • The silhouette of an airliner that has taken off from Heathrow Airport to the west, and overflying the capital amid high altitude soft clouds in a dusk sky over south London, on 24th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • 1990s evening rush-hour traffic at the junction of the 400 to Buckhead and the 401 highway, on 5th November 1995, in Atlanta, Georgia USA.
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  • Inside one of Nottingham’s zero emissions Ecolink buses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of the City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution in the city centre, while still providing accessible public transport.
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  • A Nottingham Community Transport bus driver plugging in one of the Ecolink zero emissions buses to charge in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
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  • A Nottingham Community Transport bus driver plugging in one of the Ecolink zero emissions buses to charge in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
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  • Charging point for the Ecolink zero emissions buses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Nottingham uses electric buses as part of the council’s plan to clear the city air and become more eco-friendly.
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  • Charging points for the Ecolink zero emissions buses in the bus depot in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Using electric buses is part of Nottingham City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution.
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  • Charging points for the Ecolink zero emissions buses in the bus depot in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Using electric buses is part of Nottingham City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution.
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  • Charging point for the Ecolink zero emissions buses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Nottingham uses electric buses as part of the council’s plan to clear the city air and become more eco-friendly.
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  • Priority seats on an Ecolink bus, one of Nottingham’s zero emissions buses, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of the City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution in the city centre, while still providing accessible public transport.
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  • One of Nottingham’s zero emission buses which is part of the Robin Hood Network in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of Nottingham City Council’s scheme to clean up the city air.
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  • One of Nottingham’s zero emission buses charging at the bus depot in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of Nottingham City Council’s scheme to clean up the city air.
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  • Flame emerging from a gas flue, with sooted and scorched brick wall of a house, blackened because of a faulty boiler, on 17th March 2017, in south London, England.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016. Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016. As part of the mock drilling a number of activists dressed as land surveyors inspect the green for potential future fracking.  Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016.  A traffic sign set up by Greenpeace in Parliament Sqaure states Fracking in progress. A flame shoots up from the mock rig as part of the pretence of drilling for gas. Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Tourists relaxing by  a motel swimming pool that just happens to over look the four lane highway route 55, Senatobia, MS. In America the car and lifestyle are so inseparable that this juxtaposition of leisure activity  and  motorways seems perfectly normal and is a common sight in the US .
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  • A variety of locally produced fruit and vegetables on display in a greengrocer and connivence shop in Wadebridge, North Cornwall, United Kingdom. The blackboard informs that the store works “closely with local growers and suppliers to reduce food miles and support the local community”.
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  • A variety of locally produced fruit and vegetables on display in a greengrocer and connivence shop in Wadebridge, North Cornwall, United Kingdom. The blackboard informs that the store works “closely with local growers and suppliers to reduce food miles and support the local community”.
    UK-Village-Shop-Local-Produce-0133.jpg
  • A male shop keeper arranges the carrots in a fruit and vegetable display within a connivence shop in Wadebridge, North Cornwall, United Kingdom.  The shop works closely with local growers and suppliers to reduce food miles and support the local community.  Wadebridge has a grass roots social enterprise called Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) which supports local businesses and aims to become the first renewable energy powered town in the UK.
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  • A young British woman loads clothes into a washing machine in a launderette in Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK. The energy for the launderette is sourced from roof solar panels and is part of a scheme to make this town the first to be powered by renewable sources in the UK.
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  • A young British woman loads clothes into a washing machine in a launderette in Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK. The energy for the launderette is sourced from roof solar panels and is part of a scheme to make this town the first to be powered by renewable sources in the UK.
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  • A poster in a shop window saying “Wrens Accepted Here. Money that stays in Wadebridge”.  Wrens are a local currency developed by Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN) to support local businesses.
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  • Portrait of Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn proudly sits on one of his modern electric tram buses on the Ghent Tramway Network in central Ghent, Belgium.
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  • Portrait of Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn proudly sits on one of his modern electric tram buses on the Ghent Tramway Network in central Ghent, Belgium.
    Belgium-Public-Transport-Trams-1410.jpg
  • Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn, demonstrates the loss of heat from trams with a smoke machine in the tram depot in Ghent, Belgium.  He has modernized the public transport tramcars with innovative technology to reduce electricity consumption and has won a prestigious Ashden sustainable travel award for this work.
    Belgium-Public-Transport-Trams-0565.jpg
  • Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn, steps off an electric tram surrounded with white smoke in the tram depot in Ghent, Belgium. He is demonstrating the loss of heat from trams with a smoke machine.  He has modernized the public transport tramcars with innovative technology to reduce electricity consumption and has won a prestigious Ashden sustainable travel award for this work.
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  • A poster sticker on the side of a De Lijn modern electric tram which uses 20% less energy than the older model of tramcar.
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  • Virgin boss, Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic directors Will Whitehorn and Stephen Attenborough, talk to the media during the unveiling of their SpaceShipTwo concept model's unveiling at the New York Wired NextFest at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.  Now under construction by Burt Rutan in Mojave, California and looking more like a Stanley Kubrick movie set from '2001 A Space Odyssey,' than the future for everyday holidays, SpaceShipTwo is a re-usable orbiting vehicle that will become an important tool for Man's leisure time in space when affordable commercial space tourism starts in around 2009.  <br />
Aboard the re-usable space vehicle will be 6 passengers, each of whom will have paid $200,000 for the 40 minute flight to 360,000 feet (109.73km, or 68.18 miles) and to experience just 6 minutes of weighlessness.<br />
Launched in September 2004 by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic will invest up to $250 million to develop the world’s first commercial space tourism business with the building, testing and flying of five space shipShipTwos and two mother ships.  It is expected that within the first full year of commercial operations Virgin Galactic will enable 500 people to fulfil their dreams of becoming astronauts; in the last 4 decades the world has seen fewer than 500 astronauts. Flights start around 2009.<br />
28/09/2006
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  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • Seen from a hillside opposite, with the clear blue backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks, a Nepalese family crouch on the hilltop to rest during a family walk from their community village near Gorkha, Central Nepal. In the middle of the picture, a young girl twirls and dances across the clearing as her parents and siblings watch, drawfed by the powerfully- dominant range of natural features that form part of the highest altitudes on earth although Gorkha is only 3281 feet (about 1000 meters) above sea level. These peoples' homes cling to the sides of impressive mountains that draw tens of thousands of travellers to this region to trek the paths and conservation sanctuaries of this fast-developing Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom.
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  • Looking down from above, we see young men who are open-chested and with their suit jackets either beneath their heads or on the grass, three office co-workers stretch out over the lush grass and sunbathe during a hot summer lunchtime in Trinity Square in the City of London, England. One has his paperwork under his head and a can of Coke to quench his thirst. Already tanned, the threesome bask under a hot mid-day sun. Risking sunburn after prolonged solar radiation exposure, they enjoy the inner-city heatwave.
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  • High in the Nepali Himalayan foothills, travellers may be greeted by the welcoming relief of a group of mountain inns and hotels offering lodging to weary legs after many hours walking uphill in this gruelling landscape. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning at Poon Hill. Trekkers have gathered at this spot to take in the wonder of this spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. A sherpa has written his name in ice on a rail and western travellers continue their journey higher into the Annapurna range to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
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  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of an unidentified island community seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, a few miles to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding an island of white coral beach sand, a harbour, holiday apartments and importantly coastal defence barriers that may defend against rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
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  • About to board their Sri Lankan airlines flight to the Maldives, crowds of economy class passengers stand and make an orderly queue when their flight has been called by ground staff at London Heathrow airport England. Lines of people from all nations can be seen reflected in a large window that also overlooks the airport apron where their front-facing Airbus A340-300 aircraft awaits them, its flight-deck crew is seen in the cockpit readying their plane for the long night journey ahead. Catering service trucks are parked alongside the aircraft, loading supplies and all is on schedule from this large intercontinental airport hub to the much smaller island airfield in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the idyllic destination for holidaying Europeans.
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  • An accumulation of badges show where a passenger on board a Heathrow Express train to Heathrow Airport has travelled to. Sewn onto the traveller's rucksack, the countries represented by these patches show a much-travelled young person who has amassed a collection of world air miles and travel experiences, with their national flags and emblems on display in a way that adventurers show their routes and wanderlust to others, perhaps as proof of a lifetime wandering the world's borders and airports. As each badge is added, it accounts for new travel companions and the hazards and joys of modern air travel. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as they head home and out of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The inner median is coned off during some construction work which slows the traffic even more. Crossing the 5-lane road comes a train of Atlanta's own mass-transit system, the MARTA network and it approaches the overpass with care. We see the infrastructure of a modern metropolis at the busiest time of day when the exodus to get home puts the roads and feeder lanes under the most pressure. Fortunately, the weather is fine with good visibility making drivers' journeys a little shorter and more tolerable but it shows too America’s habit and dependency on car culture.
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  • A man rides his motorbike through thick haze near a coking factory in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • A dog walks past a wall mural showing a beautiful Chinese landscape in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009. Linfen is one of the most polluted cities in the world as it turns readily available coal from the surrounding regions into coke that powers the steel mills.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • A coking factory discharges a plume of exhaust in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • A coking factory discharges a plume of exhaust in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
    QS091203Linfen039.jpg
  • A coking factory discharges a plume of exhaust in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009. Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
    QS091203Linfen037.jpg
  • A coking factory discharges a plume of exhaust in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
    QS091203Linfen029.jpg
  • A coking factory discharges a plume of exhaust in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • A man rides his motorcycle past a coking factory at sunrise in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009. Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • A man rides his motorcycle past a coking factory at sunrise in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009.  Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
    QS091203Linfen006.jpg
  • A view of the hazy city skyline at sunrise in Linfen, Shanxi Province, China on Thursday, 03 December, 2009. Due to the heavy presence of coal mines and related industries, Linfen was named the world's most polluted city from 2004-2007.
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  • Ecotricity wind turbine at their head office in Green Park, Reading, UK. Ecotricity is the worlds first green electricity company.
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  • A pile of wood chip for burning in fuel efficient stoves.
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  • Chimney stacks of brickfields in the flood plains of the Turag river on the 1st of October 2018  in the Ashulia district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Smoke bellows across the valley from the chimney of a brick kiln on the 11th of March 2020 in the Dakshinkali area, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal. Traditional brick kilns continue to pollute air, take life and cause huge financial loss to Nepal.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Distrcit-3949.jpg
  • Smoke bellows across the valley from the chimney of a brick kiln on the 11th of March 2020 in the Dakshinkali area, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Pradesh, Nepal. Traditional brick kilns continue to pollute air, take life and cause huge financial loss to Nepal.
    Nepal-Kathmandu-Distrcit-2791.jpg
  • Medieval fort ruins in a fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • Fire Damaged landscape on 18th September 2017 in Narbonne, France. The fire was caused by drought conditions and high winds near to the French town of Narbonne, destroying over 400 hectares of scrubland.
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  • The pathway, normally hidden, through a wood revealed after a large fire on 4th August 2019 near the village of Monze, France. The woodland are very suseptable to dangerous fires as the leaves of the mountain oak are rich in oils.
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  • A home made charcoal making system in Stone Town, Zanzibar. When a tree is felled to make charcoal it is chopped up and set light to then buried under soil and palm leaves and left to smoulder for several days. The wood burns at high temperatures which pyrolyzes the wood. The making and use of charcoal contributes to deforestation and air pollution. It is an affordable fuel used for cooking across Africa.
    Tanzania-Zanzibar-Charcoal-Making-96...jpg
  • A home made charcoal making system in Stone Town, Zanzibar. When a tree is felled to make charcoal it is chopped up and set light to then buried under soil and palm leaves and left to smoulder for several days. The wood burns at high temperatures which pyrolyzes the wood. The making and use of charcoal contributes to deforestation and air pollution. It is an affordable fuel used for cooking across Africa.
    Tanzania-Zanzibar-Charcoal-Making-95...jpg
  • Inside one of Nottingham’s zero emissions Ecolink buses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of the City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution in the city centre, while still providing accessible public transport.
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  • A Nottingham Community Transport bus driver plugging in one of the Ecolink zero emissions buses to charge in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.
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  • Charging point for the Ecolink zero emissions buses in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Nottingham uses electric buses as part of the council’s plan to clear the city air and become more eco-friendly.
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  • One of Nottingham’s zero emission buses which is part of the Robin Hood Network in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of Nottingham City Council’s scheme to clean up the city air.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016. A flames shoots up from the Frack&Go fracking site pretending to be a gas flare. Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016. Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
    AB9A2620_1.jpg
  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016. A police officer looks throgh the fence curious as to see what is going on behind the ferris fence. Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016.  The Statue of Mahatma Gandhi watches over the Greenepeace fracking site.  Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Greenpeace pretends to frack with their own mock fracking company Frack&Go and drilling rig in Parliament Square, Central London, 9th February 2016.  Fake smoke and drilling rig at work.  Greenpeace wants to highlight that fracking is a highly polluting and destructive way of extracting gas and to push for increased awareness of this, they set up their own rig outside Parliament without prior permission.
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  • Full Electric sign on the body of a blue Citroen electric car in Wadebridge, North Cornwall, United Kingdom, a town which is aiming to become the first to be powered by renewable energy.
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  • Solar power roof panels on the roof on a commercial launderette in Wadebridge, Cornwall, UK.
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  • Portrait of Patrick De Boeuf, Chief Executive of De Lijn proudly stands in front of two modern electric public transport trams in Gentbrugge, Ghent, Belgium.  The tramcars have been modernized with innovative technology to reduce their electricity consumption.
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  • Chimney sweep's green broom sticking out of a chimney, while chimey is being cleaned. Early winter morning outside a north London home. It is tradition that to gain good luck the people in the house should go outside to watch the broom appear.
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  • Seen at a slight angle, a Total petrol filling station is seen in early evening while there is still detail in the fading sky. The forecourt is illuminated by overhead lights and the place glows invitingly for drivers to stop and replenish their leaded, unleaded or diesel fuel. Business is slow at the moment before the next rush to buy gasoline on sale 24/7 night and day. It is the fourth largest oil company in the UK with a turnover of over £5 billion, and employs over 5,000 people.
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  • As winter fog lifts, the waters of the River Thames clear to reveal an eerie landscape of industrial river life and architecture at Gravesend, Kent England. It is late-morning and in the hazy distance on the northern river bank, steam clouds near the double twin chimneys of npower's 1400MW coal fired Tilbury power station (powering 1.4 million homes using ‘biomass’ fuels and low-sulphur coal) which rise above the passing ghostly bulk of a cargo freighter on its last miles of its voyage from open sea into the Thames Estuary and on to Tilbury Docks. Historically, the Thames has long been a route for shipping that kept the capital supplied and although the docks have seen huge decreases in traffic and volume since the second world war, Tilbury remains a busy hub for containerized vessels arrivng from all over the world.
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  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
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  • Having removed his shoes and socks, and with his wallet sitting on his stomach, a city office workers stretches out over the lush grass during a hot summer lunchtime in trinity Square in the City of London, England. With feet wide apart and arms spread, the young man is clearly fast asleep under a hot mid-day sun. Risking sunburn after prolonged solar radiation exposure, he is joined by dozens of other co-workers who also enjoy the inner-city heatwave.
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  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
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  • High in the Himalayan foothills, dawn arrives on a bitterly cold morning. A traveller has emerged from his rudimentary room on the left of this lodge in Nepal to stand outside staring at the spectacular landscape of snow-capped peaks in the distance. The wind is whipping snow and ice from the peaks of the Annapurna range and trekkers come from all over the world to sample the inner-peace to be discovered here in one of the most dramatic locations on the planet. Villages such as these partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing and also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak.
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  • One a hot November night, a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - is bathed in high-intensity floodlights on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Surrounded by passenger steps, servicing vehicles for catering and the loading of baggage and air freight in the below-floor holds, the aircraft is readied for its next flight to Colombo, another journey for this aircraft as it travels across the world's air routes.
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  • A group of young boys play in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean on Meedu Island, in the Republic of the Maldives. The shallows are a safe playground for these kids who swim and splash about in the clear shallows next to two small dhoni boats often used to fish using traditional hand and line, an important source of income for remote communities in this island nation. The sea is perfectly clear blue and the sand coral-white, in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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