Earth Day 2010 (Earth Day) (40 photos)

Mir said the next Earth Day. There are two major periods of Earth Days in March (near the spring equinox) and 22 April. The collection contains photos of makes us think about how we influence our planet.




Detailed picture of planet earth in natural colors. Using several made from satellite images, scientists and visualizers "stitched" together photos of land, oceans, seas and clouds into a seamless mosaic of true. The photograph was taken, mainly due to radiometer NASA MODIS, flying over the Earth at a distance of about 700 km on board the Terra satellite. (NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center)



The pillar of smoke rising from a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 80 km south-east from the coast of Venice, Louisiana. Fire Boat Rescue. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)



Dart frogs sitting on a leaf in the botanical garden in Medellin April 22. (REUTERS / Fredy Builes)



Technical explosion in a gold mine 660 km north-east of Krasnoyarsk April 13. (REUTERS / Ilya Naymushin)



September 15, 2009 windmills turning in the wind on the world's largest wind farm, which is located 30 km off the west coast of Denmark. (REUTERS / Bob Strong)



A visitor photographs the Royal Botanical Gardens in the town of cherry blossoms Kew, west of London, on April 15th. (REUTERS / Eddie Keogh)



Eye circus elephant in Berlin on 7 April. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber)



Armoured units of the "Centurion" is against the backdrop of lightning hitting in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, on April 19. (REUTERS / Tim Wimborne)



The skulls and bones of cattle lie on the bank of the river in Villahermosa Griyyalva April 20. According to the Mexican National Committee of the protected areas, 12 tons of waste illegally dumped in Canyon del Sumidelo where the river runs through. (REUTERS / Luis Lopez)



General view of the solar power plant "solukar" in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville. (REUTERS / Marcelo del Pozo)



Worker unloads coal at a warehouse in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, April 13. (REUTERS / Sheng Li)



Gray whale rose to the surface of the river Duvamish night in Seattle. Many lucky lucky to observe this vast 12-meter-long peninsula off the coast of West Seattle. Gray whales occur in the waters of Puget Sound less frequently, such as killer whales, and Elliott Bay, near Seattle, they are generally rare. This whale surfaced near the park Jack Block and went to the river mouth Duvamish. The Port Authority of Seattle fear that the whale might try to sail in the industrial part of the Gulf. After the morning meeting of the whale has not been seen. (AP Photo / Seattle Post Intelligencer, Joshua Trujillo)



A worker walks past a wall made from recycled plastic bottles at the site of the exhibition «Flora Expo» in Tayyuee April 13. The world's first eco-friendly building will be used as one of the 14 exhibition rooms of the International flower show, which starts on November 6. (SAM YEH / AFP / Getty Images)



The image of the Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada, taken by satellites DigitalGlobe February 28th. Each year, the Hoover Dam produces about 4, 2 billion kilowatts of energy. (DigitalGlobe)



Swans released on the Alster Lake in Hamburg after the winter. Each year the swans are collected from nearby reservoirs and placed into special wintering until spring. (REUTERS / Christian Charisius)



Freight train company «Union Pacific» passes wind power on January 17 near Palm Springs, California. (David McNew / Getty Images)



In this photo taken by a crew member «Expedition 23" with the International Space Station shortly after the undocking, you can see the lower part of the space shuttle «Discovery». The familiar outline below on Earth - is the southern end of Isla de Providencia, 241 km from the coast of Nicaragua. (NSAA)



Adult bald eagle calling female April 12 near the confluence of the Tanana and Chena in Fairbanks, Alaska. (AP Photo / The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, John Wagner)



Indian children looking for a more or less valuable items at the largest legitimate landfill country Mavallipura village, on the outskirts of Bangalore on April 20. (DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP / Getty Images)



A woman leads a herd of horses on the snow-covered road in a valley not far from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano awakened April 22. (REUTERS / Lucas Jackson)



Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with the International Space Station on April 14. Photo taken on the approach to 80 km from the surface. (NASA)



Technical project manager for wind power «Stetson Mountain» Mike Tsianchette checks tether before to inspect the 91-meter-high power station on July 14. (AP Photo / Robert F. Bukaty)



Larval tube-dwelling anemone reaching for food with their tentacles. (REUTERS / Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft / UAF / CMarZ)



Northern Lights over a plume of smoke and ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in the evening April 22. (REUTERS / Lucas Jackson)



A baby giraffe named Carlo takes the first steps in an open cage at the zoo in Nuremberg on April 20. (Timm Schamberger / AFP / Getty Images)



Work looks into the hole in the hub of solar energy panels at the plant for the production of solar energy in the village Gandlav, 400 km south of Ahmedabad. (REUTERS / Amit Dave)



Health care workers in a truck spray chemicals to disinfect zoofermy around the village, where they were registered cases of FMD, 30 km north-west of Seoul. (REUTERS / Ha Sa-Hun / Yonhap)



High above the African continent hung heavy storm clouds April 22. The clouds can form alone, in groups or along a squall line. The high concentration of energy in these clouds leads to precipitation, lightning, high winds and tornadoes. (AFP / Getty Images / NASA)



Cournot collecting trash on the beach, where you would normally dismantle old ships near the port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta on April 16. Cournot earns about $ 2 per 100 kg of rubbish and rusty objects in the day. Materials sold intermediary which resells them to the processing plant. (REUTERS / Enny Nuraheni)



Plastic bottle lies on the cracked earth at Las Canoas Lake, 59 km north of the capital of Nicaragua, Managua, April 20. The water level in the lake dropped to a critical limit due to a severe drought. (REUTERS / Oswaldo Rivas)



In this photo taken on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, located in a high orbit, the sun seems distorted. Raster magnetometer on board the vehicle passed a series of some of the adjustments, when the Earth is partially closed it. Along the edges of the dark form of the Sun is affected by the refraction of light by the Earth's atmosphere. (NASA)



Hatchling Hawksbill turtles swimming in the sea after 20 young sea turtles were released into the sea on the island of Pramuk, the center of the protection of sea turtles. (ROMEO GACAD / AFP / Getty Images)



Rainbow appeared in the sky in the evening on April 5 Stenvudom, Washington. (AP Photo / Skagit Valley Herald, Frank Varga)



Inside view of the huge turbines at the site of the dam in Uichange, Hubei Province, September 10, 2009. (REUTERS / China Daily)



Palestinian beekeepers work in the hives in the apiary in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on April 19. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP / Getty Images)



People watch the sunset at the edge of the pond, poured at high tide, near Elderberry Park in Anchorage, Alaska. On the right we see the volcano spurrite. (AP Photo / Anchorage Daily News, Anne Raup)



Man floating in a boat on a flooded street in the village of Radul, north of Kiev, on April 19. (REUTERS / Konstantin Chernichkin)



The plane flies against the backdrop of the moon over Frankfurt on April 22. German airspace has returned to normal after the chaos that arose because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland. (AP Photo / Michael Probst)



Man resting on the grass on a sunny day in Lafayette Park near the White House in Washington, DC, April 22. (REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst)