Earth Day 2010 (40 photos) Bashny.Net

Yesterday the world celebrated the next Earth Day. Since 1970, this day, mankind owes to remember and appreciate the surrounding nature and our role in it. Collected here are photos, somehow makes us think about how we influence on their home planet.



1. Detailed photograph of planet Earth in natural colors. Using several images taken by satellites, scientists and visualizers "stitched" together pictures of sushi, oceans, seas and clouds in this seamless mosaic. 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)



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



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



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



5. 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)



6. A visitor takes pictures of the Royal Botanic Gardens cherry blossom in the town of Kew, west London, on April 15th. (REUTERS / Eddie Keogh)



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



8. Armored Division of the "Centurion" stands against the backdrop of lightning hitting in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, April 19. (REUTERS / Tim Wimborne)



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



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



11. Work unloads coal stock in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, April 13. (REUTERS / Sheng Li)



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



13. 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 halls of the International Flora Expo, which starts on November 6. (SAM YEH / AFP / Getty Images)



14. The image of the Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada, made DigitalGlobe satellite on February 28. Each year, the Hoover Dam produces about 4, 2 billion kilowatts of power. (DigitalGlobe)



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



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



17. In this photo taken by a crew member «Expedition 23" with the International Space Station shortly after 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)



18. An 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)



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



20. A woman leads a herd of horses on the snow-covered road in the valley close to the awakened volcano Eyjafjallajökull on April 22. (REUTERS / Lucas Jackson)



21. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to the International Space Station on April 14. The picture was taken on the approximation of up to 80 km from the surface. (NASA)



22. Technical Project Manager for wind farms «Stetson Mountain» Mike Tsianchette checks the safety rope before inspect the 91-meter power on July 14. (AP Photo / Robert F. Bukaty)



23. Tube-dwelling anemone larval reaches for food with its tentacles. (REUTERS / Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft / UAF / CMarZ)



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



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



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



27. Health workers on the truck sprayed 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)



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



29. Cournot collects garbage 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 sell intermediary who sells them to the recycling plant. (REUTERS / Enny Nuraheni)



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



31. 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 goes through a series of some adjustments when the Earth is partially closed it. Along the edges of the dark form of the sun is distorted by the refraction of light by the Earth's atmosphere. (NASA)



32. Bissen calf swims in the sea after 20 young sea turtles were released into the sea on the island Pramuk, the center of the protection of sea turtles. (ROMEO GACAD / AFP / Getty Images)



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



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



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



36. People watch the sunset at the edge of the reservoir, the filling at high tide, near Elderberry Park in Anchorage, Alaska. Right visible volcano spurrite. (AP Photo / Anchorage Daily News, Anne Raup)



37. A man floats in a boat on a flooded street in the village of Radul, north of Kiev, April 19. (REUTERS / Konstantin Chernichkin)



38. 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 from the volcanic eruption in Iceland. (AP Photo / Michael Probst)



39. A man resting on a sunny day on the grass in the park Lafayette, near the White House in Washington, April 22. (REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst)