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Contamination Now { 83 images } Created 7 May 2014

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. These images show the causes and consequences.
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  • A sea turtle (Caretta caretta) striving to get free from a plastic fishing net in Spain
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  • San Roque Refinery, San Roque, Andalusia, Spain
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  • Slum area in lagos, capital of Nigeria
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  • A whale shark swims by while a plastic bag floats around. Plastic kills way too much marine life.  A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) swims by a plastic bag. Pollution like this can have negative effects on all marine life.
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  • colored pollution
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  • nature reserve in Holland
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  • Lake Nakuru in western Kenya, famous for its pink flamingos, is totally polluted.<br />
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Lake Nakuru, a protected wetland declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was home to several types of flamingos - including the pink ones, which delighted tourists - and some 450 species of waterfowl, in addition to 56 types of mammals, including white and black rhinos and lions.<br />
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In the past, Lake Nakuru was home to millions of flamingos. Now, due to rising levels of pollution in untreated sewage and industrial waste, few flamingos can be seen in this degraded space. The floods, increasingly frequent due to climate change, around Lake Victoria and Nakuru, further aggravate the existing contamination with each passing day.
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  • Young worker in a factory, industrial-chemical center, Huelva, Spain
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  • Anti-fracking slogan "No to fracking" spraypainted on a mountain road in the Cantabrian mountains near the city of Santander.<br />
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Opposition to fracking is strong in the countryside in Cantabria. Many locals make a living from dairy  farming and small-scale agriculture and are worried about possible water and soil contamination through leakage of fracking chemicals.<br />
So far the regional government of Cantabria has sided with the anti-fracking movement and banned fracking projects from its territory, even though the central government does not prohibit hydraulic fracturing at national level.
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  • Person with a safety suit lying down in a flowers carpet in a forest area. Ayegui, Navarre, Spain, Europe.
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  • Guatamala city
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  • Water pollution
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  • Littering is an environmantal problem all over South-America, here plastic bags are stuck on a thorny bush. San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
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  • San Roque Refinery, San Roque, Andalusia, Spain
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  • Steam from powerplant in Holland
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  • Repsol-YPF oil refinery. Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain
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  • motorbikes traffic.<br />
Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Asia.
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  • Aerial view of the Moab UMTRA Project to remove radioactive tailings from the site of a former uranium processing mill.  Moab, Utah.
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  • The driver of a crashed semi truck cleans up spilled diesel fuel leaking from a fuel tank.  Near Putre, Chile.
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  • Recycled plastic bottle tops, Mozia, Sicily, Italy
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  • Anti-nuclear demonstration in the center of town<br />
near the headquarters of Japan´s Government (Kokkai or Diet).Tokyo.Japan
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  • Farid Hamid, Man from Zanzibar. Model Released.
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  • Algae colors the water in aquaculture ponds at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Coastal Plain Experiment Station
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  • An Isuzu truck overloaded with plastic bottles and containers,  Berhan, Ethiopia
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  • The Earth Planet's Pollution, Symbolic Image
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  • Oil refinery.
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  • Air pollution in an industrial plant. Spain, Europe.
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  • Plastic debris floating. Camarinas, Galicia, Spain
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  • Dead crayfish in polluted environment
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  • No Dumping, Drains to Ocean sign on sidewalk, Los Angeles, California.
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  • Trash bin, Galicia, Spain
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  • MR Diver in the river "Enns" of Austria
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  • China.Shanghai:  Pudong.Always in construction. At righ Jin Mao Building and Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC).
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  • dorze tribe in Ethiopia
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  • Victims of severe floods in Pakistan (2010)
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  • The controversial whale shark scene of Oslob. More and more whale sharks are gahtering here since the fishermen started feeding the sharks and tourists flock to this place to watch the show. While tourism is booming, environmentalists are concerned about the negative effects feeding wild migratory animals can have.  A whale shark (Rhincodon typus) swims by a plastic bag. Pollution like this can have negative effects on all marine life.
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  • bomb in the river Enns
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  • IMAGE SYMBOLIZINT THE EARTH'S POLLUTION
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  • waste
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  • China.Shanghai: Skyline. Top of Jin Mao Tower and Orient Pearl tower
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  • Sanctuary dedicated to the Difunta Correa, located by Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentinia
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  • Used beer cans left in nature
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  • A lost net covers a section of reef in the Philippines.
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  • car tyre in the sludge
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  • Cleaning works after Queens Pride Parade in Jackson Heights, New York City
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  • Dead crayfish in polluted environment
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  • Redshank (Polygonum persicaria) trying to thrive in polluted environment
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  • Dead insects floating in the reddish water of a rust-colored pond.
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  • Old tyres thrown in the nature
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  • bulky refuse
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  • a immersed LKW from the 2. world war in the river Enns in Austria
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  • Cleaning works for oil spill in Ibiza, Ses Figueretas beach, july 2007. Fortunately, the spill hasn¬¥t reached many of the numerous beautiful beaches the island has - Trabajos de limpieza del vertido de gasoleo en Ibiza, playa de Ses Figueretas, julio 2007. Afortunadamente, el vertido no ha llegado a ninguna de las mejores playas de la isla - Photo by Nano Calvo
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  • waste materials
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  • Used soda cans in a trash bin
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  • China.Shanghai: Oriental Pearl Tower and kite
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  • D?chets
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  • plastic garbage at the shore of Bali.
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  • Waste washed ashore on a beach. Hrutafjordur, Iceland..
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  • Cleaning works for oil spill in Ibiza, Ses Figueretas beach, july 2007. Fortunately, the spill hasn¬¥t reached many of the numerous beautiful beaches the island has - Trabajos de limpieza del vertido de gasoleo en Ibiza, playa de Ses Figueretas, julio 2007. Afortunadamente, el vertido no ha llegado a ninguna de las mejores playas de la isla - Photo by Nano Calvo
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  • Belem is considered the entrance gate to the Amazon and for more than 300 years, boats have unloaded their wares from deep in the Amazon at the market. Fishermen and others who make their livelihood on the waters of the Amazon basin face a variety of environmental hazards including pollution from mining, agricultural runoff and silting of the waters caused by deforestation. 'Ver-o-Peso' means 'see the weight'
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  • People with children washing and bathing in dirty river. Saint Louis. Senegal.
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  • Used face mask on street road, Colombia
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  • Plastic is hazardous for many marine life. Corals like these can also die when they are covered in plastic.
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  • People demonstrate in support of the plaintiffs in the climate change lawsuit Juliana v. U.S. in front of the Wayne L. Morse Courthouse on October 29. Eugene, Oregon, United States.
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  • slums in lagos, Nigeria
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  • plastic pollution at the Italian coast near Naples
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  • Maritsa Iztok is the largest coalmine in Bulgaria
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  • Trash on the ground in the Danakil Depression ,  Ethiopia
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  • The Buckeye pulp mill in Perry, Florida.
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  • Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of the headquarters of Japan´s Government (Kokkai or Diet).Tokyo.Japan
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  • Air pollution in an industrial plant. Spain, Europe.
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  • colored pollution
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  • The Beach of crystals. Laxe, Coruna, Galicia, Spain
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  • Oil refinery.
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  • a nest of Psarocolius decumanus built with synthetic fibers in suburban areas of the city of Cali, Colombia. The degree of human intervention in natural ecosystems has led many of them to use our waste to ensure their survival.
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  • Calle Cobija, Potosi, Bolivia
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  • Dutch radioactive waste is stored in Nieuwdorp
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  • Dutch radioactive waste is stored in Nieuwdorp
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  • Old boat, bridge and tidal remains. Ason river, Colindres, Cantabria, Spain.
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  • Ferry boats sail on the water between the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
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  • Recycling of batteries
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  • Repsol-YPF oil refinery. Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain
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  • Person with a safety suit in a forest area. Ayegui, Navarre, Spain, Europe.
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