Earth Day 2015

• Earth Day 2015

Earth Day was first organized in 1970 and held in the spring to draw attention to the fragile and vulnerable environment on planet Earth. This year's Earth Day was held for 45 times.

In the last 45 years the population of our planet has doubled, and 75 percent of people alive today were born after 1970.

There are two main periods of Earth Day in March (near the vernal equinox) and 22 April.

Earth Day in New York City, April 22, 1970.

The original Earth Day is celebrated in many countries on the day of the vernal equinox to mark the moment when the spring (northern hemisphere) starts or fall (in the South).

Mountains of used tires in a landfill near Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2014.

Earth flag is not an official symbol of anything (since it does not officially exist obscheplanetnaya government or the state). He is a photograph of the planet from space (currently used a picture taken by the astronauts "Apollo 17" on the way to the moon) on a dark blue background.

Imbabura tree frog - a resident of the lowland areas of the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador. It is endangered.

The worship of the sun god Surya in super-polluted waters of the Yamuna River, New Delhi, October 30, 2014.

The unusual phenomenon - the glow of living organisms in the sea, Hong Kong. This noctiluca scintillans which has a spherical body (diameter 23 mm) with a mobile reducible tentacle. The internal environment noctiluca scintillans filled with fat inclusions, which, when mechanical or chemical stimuli (in the experiments - also with the action of electric current) are capable of bioluminescence - emission of a living organism.

Armed rangers protect the world's last northern white rhinos.

The polluted river in Zhejiang Province, July 24, 2014. It was harmful dye.

The Moon and the Earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere is considered to be the area around the Earth, in which the gaseous medium rotates with the Earth as a whole; the boundary between the atmosphere and interplanetary space is located at an altitude of about 700 km from the Earth's surface and can be carried out conventionally height of 1300 km.

The Amazon rainforest and the results of actions of black lumberjacks, April 20, 2013.

The family row. Father and son on a boat in the river collect plastic bottles, which you can then sell in Manila, March 19, 2015.

10 tonnes of palm oil fell from the factory to the beach in Santa Marta, Colombia, April 23, 2008.

Heavy fog in Dubai, November 21, 2007.

Olive Ridley turtles, November 15, 2013. The populations of olive turtles are very vulnerable due to the slow growth of individuals and a significant anthropogenic impact in the form of direct catch of adult turtles and the collection of eggs, there also indirectly - through the destruction of places suitable for laying eggs.

Pastoruri glacier in the National Park Huascaran, Peru, December 4, 2014.

The great drought in the western United States has endured for the 4th year. Utah, March 29, 2015.

Fires in California, June 1, 2013.

Dead fish south of Los Angeles, California, March 8, 2011.

The destruction of 15 tons of ivory seized in Kenya's Nairobi National Park from poachers, March 3, 2015.

Rainbow and windmills in California, January 28, 2008.

Penguins on the ice in East Antarctica, January 22, 2010.

April 20, 2010, 80 kilometers from the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and fire. Through damage to the well pipe at a depth of 1500 meters in the Gulf of Mexico for 152 days spilled about 5 million barrels of oil, the oil slick has reached the area of 75 thousand square kilometers.

A bird in the oil film, June 3, 2010.

Reschen - is an artificial lake near the Austrian border, which completely engulfed the village of Graun and its church in 1950. But the bell tower built in the 14th century did not fit under the water and remained proudly soar over the lake.

Tons of fun. On the beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 15, 2012.

Smog shrouded the city. It helps to understand the level of blue screen in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, January 23, 2013.

The statue of the late Chairman Mao Zedong of China is hardly visible because of the smog in Liaoning Province, China, May 7, 2013.

Favela Rosina is situated on the steep slopes in the southern part of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 24, 2015. Its population is more than 200 thousand inhabitants.

Huge iceberg in Antarctica

An employee of illegal oil refinery, Nigeria

An oil refinery in Edmonton

The largest solar power plant in France, March 31, 2015. It consists of 112 780 units, located on the territory of 200 hectares and has a capacity of 100 MW.