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I think this is the swan that was starving to death after it got a plastic Six pack rings around when it was younger.
Varanasi (Inde) - Ces petites cases sont l’équivalent de nos cabines de plages. Elles appartiennent à des familles relativement aisée afin qu’elles puissent se changer après avoir fait leur ablutions et leurs prières dans les eaux boueuses et polluées du Gange.
Sur les 2.525 km du fleuve, 200.000 millions de litres d’eau sont rejetés chaque jour, sans traitement. Le taux de matière fécale, de produits toxiques et autres bactéries, ont tué toute forme de vie aux abord des ville riveraines. Comme le fleuve sacré est sous la protection de Shiva, les hindous sont convaincus qu’ils ne risquent rien…
Varanasi (India) - These small huts are the equivalent of our beach huts. They belong to relatively wealthy families so that they can change after having performed their ablutions and prayers in the muddy and polluted waters of the Ganges.
Along the entire length of the river, 200,000 million liters of water are discharged every day, without treatment. The rate of fecal matter, toxic products and other bacteria, have killed all forms of life in the waters around the riverside cities. As the sacred river is under the protection of Shiva, Hindus are convinced that they risk nothing...
This photograph was taken after a long period of warm and windless weather as the sun was setting and the moon was rising.
I'm not really sure where the haze came from, but even in the day it had a red / brown tinge to it which made me think of the sort of nitrogen dioxide pollution associated with cars and motorways.
Here the setting sun has exaggerated the color so that even the hills in the background appear to have a red / brown hue to them.
...a wildfire started in the mountains of Fourmile Canyon, out of Boulder, yesterday morning. We could see the flames in the distance from the end of our street when we got home last night. We are NOT in any danger from the fire itself, only pollution danger, as our air is filled with smoke and ash. You can see how hazy it was this morning. Usually, you can see the Foothills behind these trees...we were covered in a smoke-filled haze. More than 3,500 acres have burned...MANY homes have been destroyed. The smoke from the fires can be seen as far away as Cheyenne, Wyoming. The fire is not yet contained. You can read about it here:
www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=151706&catid=339
I feel so sorry and sad for all the people who have lost homes and who have had to be evacuated. AND we always worry about the animals during a fire. My heart goes out to everyone!
Also, it was 35 degrees F this morning...that is why this little squirrel is shivering. It has already warmed up.
Still busy here...still hope to catch up soon! Family will be visiting this week...we have a lot to do!
**Also, it is not this smoky now...but still hazy...my black car, which has been sitting in the driveway, has ashes all over it! Ashes are also on the porch and the sidewalk!
A small (1.5" / 3.8 cm) Western Toad lies in the gravel at the edge of Two Medicine Lake, doing its best to avoid detection or being stepped on by the restless kids waiting for the ferry to arrive.
Western toads occur throughout western North America, at intermediate elevations in the Rockies (lower subalpine to montane) in wetlands and the edges of streams and lakes. The boreal subspecies of the western toad is endangered due to chytrid fungus and possibly air pollution (acid rain).
Smile on Saturday - Made by Me
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A Statement Against Pollution
This was a sculpture I did for an exhibition done in collaboration with the Moving Ethos Modern Dancer Company called Purity & Pollution. It was floating in the pool during the exhibition. It is entirely made out of garbage (rubbish) and is mostly made of plastics, although glass and cans (tins) are included and the surfboard of course. I am trying to encourage people to throw their garbage (rubbish) in the appropriate places, not just throw it anywhere thereby destroying, land, birds, animals, the ocean, and other waterways.
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Delhi airport.
The pollution outside was so dense that the sun appeared like a sort of rising moon in the sky and the light was low enough to let think it was still nighttime ...
Alcoa es una multinacional estadounidense líder en la producción de aluminio, refinado de alúmina y minería de bauxita, con presencia global y una importante factoría en San Ciprián (Lugo), España. Fundada en 1888, es uno de los mayores productores de aluminio del mundo
La fábrica de Alcoa en San Ciprián ha sido objeto de múltiples denuncias y condenas judiciales por contaminación en su entorno, incluyendo impactos en las aguas, lo que ha generado preocupación ambiental y pagos de indemnizaciones por daños a residentes. Ecologistas han alertado sobre el riesgo para el medio marino en la zona.
San Ciprián - Lugo - Galicia - España - Spain
Hemwegcentrale Amsterdam
One of the most polluting coal plants in the Netherlands. The Centrale Hemweg is a power plant in Amsterdam. The current complex consists of two units, a new gas-fired power station and a coal-fired power station. Due to the pollution this central appearance will be closed in 2025.
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
The estuary of Saint-Charles River in Saint-Lawrence River has a special historical significance since it is at this location that was built the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian village of Stadaconé and that Jacques Cartier spent his first winter on Canadian soil in 1535–36. The river was first named Petite Rivière or Rivière Sainte-Croix by Jacques Cartier since he came there on the day of the feast of the Cross. This name was also given to the first fort established by the French in this location. Its current name was chosen between 1615 and 1625 by the Récollets missionaries who built a mission there, in honor of their protector Charles de Boves, vicar general of the diocese of Rouen. The protection of Saint Charles Borromeo is also invoqued.
The southern part of the river's shores, near the estuary, was the site of the construction of industries during the 1960s (who used it as an open sewer) and that was girdled in concrete in the 1970s in order to regulate its flow. At this time, the river was among the most polluted (in great part due to the city's sewage system overflow) in Québec by its microbian pollution and its recreational use near the estuary was impossible. Since the mid-1990s, community and governmental efforts allowed an important renaturalisation project to take place, for over 100 million Canadian dollars.
Shores renaturalisation at Limoilou (2006)
Quebec City counts in 2008 160 overflow canals allowing municipal sewage to pour into the river without treatment during periods of network congestion, specially following heavy rain. Québec's regulations allow four overflows by year, a norm that was exceeded for eleven valves along the Saint-Charles. The number of overflows was however much greater before 2002 and reached up to 50 per summer.[6] Between 2002 and 2006, during the renaturalisation works, 14 retention reservoirs of great size were built, but investments ranging between 2 and 6 million dollars will still be required to alleviate the problem, in part blamed on old constructions where the gutters are directly connected to the city's sanitary installations.
Since 1979, the non-profit oriented organisation Fishing in town releases brook trout young into the river in order to facilitate its access to fishermen, specially young fishers. In 2008, 25 000 trouts were planted, for a sum of 700 000 since the organisation's foundation.
This is the final image of my Moulton Barn Milky Way series. It is a 8 panel panorama showing the whole arch of Milky Way.
I addition to Milky Way, there are several deep sky objects visible. Examples are:
- North America Nebula (NGC 7000) on the upper left in the Milky Way arch
- Andromeda Galaxy (M31) on the left side, above the horizon, between the tree and Milky Way
As well visible are the green and red skyglow and, on the far right, light pollution from the nearby town of Jackson.
The barn was illuminated with low level lighting using two LED panels. As one of these panals was in the field of view when taking the left side of the image, it was removed for the second halve of the shots.
Astro-Modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
8 images of 25s @ ISO6400
Stiched with PtGui
Prints available:
Another hot and humid night in Bay Saint Louis/Waveland, MS. In the distance, a couple was gigging and wading through the colorful lights of the Silver Slipper Casino.
St John, New Brunswick as the Canadian seagull flys. I think the bird is leaving town during this snow storm. While the air pollutants are considered acceptable from the fossil fuels industry and its oil refinery. Certainly there is a concern and questions regarding long term exposure. Fine particulates in the air and the smell of sulphur throughout the day can certainly highlight the importance of controls.
Danish North See Coast around Vorupør
Creative people turned beach-found trash into an artwork, only for the wind to scatter it once more. Everything is ephemeral, only plastic takes about 500 years to disappear from the face of the earth...
According to an estimate by the World Bank in 2018, around 2 billion tonnes of waste were produced worldwide every year. 10 countries are responsible to produce around 53% of the global waste volume at that time. Today, 6 years later, these figures have certainly increased.
Refinery, under stormy skies. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 17 May 2022
2025-26: Expert merit award out of 2821 in Photocrowd 'Industry' in May 2026
2022-23: Expert merit award out of 1342 in Photocrowd 'Smoke' in May 2026