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The rare blooming of a Titan arum plant at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden was a sight - and smell - to behold.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 25cm LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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The Story of 25 years of Environment and Climate Change in Transition Countries
The Environment and Sustainability Department and the Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Team held a panel discussion on environmental and social issues, as well as climate change mitigation, in countries where we invest.
It was also an opportunity to present the 2014 EBRD Sustainability Awards which recognised the achievements of Bank clients in environmental protection and energy efficiency and to launch the Sustainability Report 2013.
The discussion panel aimed to provide a personal perspective on the effects of 25 years of transition on the environment, climate change and society, including consideration of such issues as the impact of EU integration and commitments made under other international conventions and agreements on environmental and social topics.
Award Ceremony Sponsored by Akfen.
Moderator
Josué Tanaka
Managing Director, OSP, Energy Efficiency & Climate Change, EBRD
Speakers
Stephen Lintner
Former Senior Technical Adviser, World Bank
Jacqueline McGlade
Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme
RRS James Cook is an ice-strengthened research vessel serving as an oceanographic survey ship. Homeported in Tilbury, she is seen here approaching Berth 22 in Southampton Docks, on 04/09/2022. The National Oceanography Centre is situated here at the Waterfront Campus where the ship will berth. A British Royal Research Ship, she is operated by the Natural Environment Research Council. She was completed in 2006 to replace the ageing RRS Charles Darwin, with funds from Britain's NERC and the DTI's Large Scientific Facilities Fund. She was built by Flekkefjord Slipp & Maskinfabrikk AS, Norway while her hull built in Gdansk, Poland. Laid down on 22/03/2005 and launched on 04/11/2005, she cost £36 million. She was christened by HRH Princess Royal, Anne, in 02/2007 and her maiden voyage was on05/03/2007. She has a GTW5401 and is powered by Wärtsilä 9L20 - 4x 1,770 kW (2,370hp) and
Teco Westinghouse 2x 2,500 kW (3,400hp)
Propulsion giving a speed of 16 knots. She has a crew of9 Officers, 13 Crew & Technicians and 32 Scientists.
This photo was taken, on 04/09/2022, from P&O Cruises - MV Britannia - IMO: 9614036. MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia was awaiting departure for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruna, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cadiz, Spain - Southampton. © Peter Steel 2022.
2009 World Environment campaign for Landcare Australia - celebrities Candice Falzon and Brent Staker wearing Landcare WED promotional t-shirts and jeans in Kings Park. Various poses with an inflatable world globe which ties in with the national campaign. Perth city skyline in the background.
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay hosts the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at St. Margaret's Church in Annapolis, Md., on Jan. 24, 2019. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
MacArthur Elementary School is seen in Binghamton, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 2019. After remnants of Tropical Storm Lee indundated the school with over three feet of water from the nearby Susquehanna River, the school was rebuilt with numerous measures to improve its resilience to flooding. The lower level of the school, sitting in the river's flood plain, was converted to a playground that can flood without lasting damage, while rain gardens and other structures to soak up and filter stormwater are scattered throughout the campus. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Uganda - UMSC and UMWA: Ugandas 2nd Deputy Prime Minister joins International Climate Champion Hajjat Sebyala in planting trees on behalf of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council and the Uganda Muslim Women's Association . On September 18, 2012, 26 Christian, Muslim and Hindu faith groups in sub-Saharan Africa launched long-term environmental action plans during ARC's 'Many Heavens, One Earth, Our Continent' celebration in Nairobi, Kenya. Visit www.arcworld.org
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
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Workers operating under the H-2B visa program pick crabs at Russell Hall Seafood in Fishing Creek, Md., on June 15, 2020. Russell Hall is one of only two out of the five picking houses on Hoopers Island that were awarded visas for workers this year. Mark Phillips, son of Russell Hall owner Harry Phillips, says “it doesn’t just hurt his business, but the whole community,” as watermen have fewer places to offload their catch. “We’ve had job fairs everywhere, Baltimore to Washington, [but] people just aren’t going to do it,” Phillips said. “If I had to run this business and rely on Americans, I’d sell it today.” (Photo by Carlin Stiehl/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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France, Amiens, 2022-01-20. Photograph by Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas. As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Minister for Ecological Transition is hosting her European counterparts from January 20 to 22, 2022 in Amiens for an informal meeting of the ministers in charge of the Environment and an informal meeting of the ministers in charge of Energy. Barbara Pompili (R), Minister for Ecological Transition, receives the environment ministers before the start of the meetings. MALTA. Joseph CARUANA (L), Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Planning.
France, Amiens, 2022-01-20. Photographie par Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas. Dans le cadre de la Presidence francaise du Conseil de l Union europeenne, la ministre de la Transition ecologique, accueille ses homologues europeens du 20 au 22 janvier 2022 a Amiens pour une reunion informelle des ministres charges de l Environnement et une reunion informelle des ministres charges de l Energie. Barbara Pompili (D), ministre de la transition ecologique, recoit les ministres de l’environnement avant le debut des reunions. MALTE. Joseph CARUANA (G), Secretaire permanent
Ministere de l environnement, du changement climatique et de l amenagement.
Petroglyph expert Paul Nevin uses a wet sponge to reveal carvings made up to 1,000 years ago on rocks in the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Made by an Algonquin-speaking group known as the Shenks Ferry people, many petroglyphs on a stretch of the Susquehanna were flooded by dam construction decades ago, but sites like Big and Little Indian Rock are now on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
Premier Member of Landscape Design Advisor
Kirk Molday has been designing elegant landscapes for years in San Diego, Orange County and Temecula, California.
For more on this member, visit us at www.landscape-design-advisor.com and be sure to follow
The James River is seen in downtown Richmond, Va., on Aug. 13, 2019. Like many cities on the eastern seaboard, Richmond was established along the fall line, the area of geological transition between coastal plain and Piedmont, where rivers often have a steeper gradient and become too rocky for large vessels. Cities like Richmond became the terminus for ships carrying goods as far as they could upstream. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Dustin Wichterman of Trout Unlimited holds a young brook trout caught in a tributary of Seneca Creek in Pendleton County, W.Va., on April 21, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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My husband built this railing from broom sticks so that our 16 months son could learn to get up and down stairs on his own.
I would love to hear what you think. Thanks!
Langen Foundation Neuss, Germany
Main building by Tadao Ando
The Langen Foundation is located at the Raketenstation Hombroich, a former NATO base, in the midst of the idyllic landscape of the Hombroich cultural environment. Visitors enter through a cut-out in the semicircular concrete wall, opening up the view to the glass, steel and concrete building. A path, bordered by a row of cherry trees, guide visitors around the pond to the entrance on the longitudinal side of the building. The glass envelope, supported by steel girders, protects the perimeter around the 76 meter long, 10.8 meter wide and 6 meter high concrete core. Reflections in the glass skin and in the water of the shallow pond dissolve borders and communicate an impression of weightlessness. The ticket office and museum shop break through the concrete core and connect with the northern side of the glass envelope, where the border between inside and outside can be experienced along its entire length. The polished concrete floor is inlaid with turquoise illuminated strips. The building is composed of two architecturally distinct complexes: a long concrete structure within a glass envelope and, at a 45 degree angle, two parallel concrete wings buried six meters deep in the earth and protruding only 3.45 meters above it. A grand stairway between the two wings of the building leads back to ground level. The long and narrow (43 x 5.4 meters) exhibition room in the concrete core, reserved for the Langen Foundation Japanese collection, receives daylight through linear light rails worked into the ceiling. On the south side of building, between the concrete core and the glass envelope, the pathway descends slightly toward the mezzanine overlooking the 8 meter tall exhibition wings containing the Modern I and Modern II galleries. The two galleries, each 436 square meters, have identical dimensions but appear very different. In Modern I a concrete ramp takes up almost half of the space where as Modern II presents itself in pure size and monumentality. The two galleries receive daylight through central narrow skylights with adjustable slats. The Langen Foundation is a masterpiece composed of lines and a fascinating interplay between inside and outside, art and nature, massiveness and lightness. It is a constructed place that is not only an envelope for art but also exhibits itself.
The Hombroich Missile Base is part of the visionary project of collector Karl-Heinrich Müller to turn a "neglected corner of the earth" in North-Rhine Westphalia into a unique synthesis of art and nature. After the development of the Museum Insel Hombroich, he bought the 13 hectares of land of a former NATO base in 1994. Not marked on any map, this area served defence purposes and the storage of cruise missile warheads and Pershing rockets. In 1992/93 it was mothballed as a result of the disarmament agreements between the NATO states and the former USSR. The overall concept, developed by Karl-Heinrich Müller, Erwin Heerich, Oliver Kruse and Katsuhito Nishikawa between 1994 and 1995, was not to completely eradicate the history of the location but to provide it with a new face and purpose. Military elements like barbed wire fences, spotlight systems and bullet-proof glass were removed. The halls, hangars, bunker systems, earth berms and observation tower were preserved, renovated and, in part, redesigned. New buildings by Heerich and Nishikawa complemented the existing ensemble, as did sculptures by Heinz Baumüller, Mark di Suvero, and Eduardo Chillida, among others. Tadao Ando's big arch, today's entrance to the Langen Foundation, was realized in 1998/99 as one of the first buildings serving as a portal to the missile base.
Site area: 120,220 m2; Building area museum by Ando: 1,860 m2; Opening 2004.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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Keep your environmental actions steps simple and regular.
For more info go to; www.runforoneplanet.com/actionchallenge.php
Although coastal ecosystems are already among the most valuable on the planet, the current estimates of the economic value for some of the oceans blue carbon sinks are surprisingly low. How should human perception of these important ecosystems change as we learn of the vast benefits of maintaining healthy coasts and oceans.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
A scheme presenting the main issues related to climate change in Eastern Europe. / Схема, показывающая основные проблемы, связанные с изменением климата в Восточной Европе.
English version here.
2009 World Environment campaign for Landcare Australia - celebrities Candice Falzon and Brent Staker wearing Landcare WED promotional t-shirts and jeans in Kings Park. Various poses with an inflatable world globe which ties in with the national campaign. Perth city skyline in the background.
Manfred Groening, IAEA Laboratory Head (Terrestrial Environment Laboratory) listens to the DG's opening remarks at the First Task Force Meeting, IAEA Review of Safety related Aspects of Handling ALPS-Treated Water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 28 September 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA