WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE

A man rows his boat through a heavily polluted part of Chaohu Lake, the fifth largest freshwater lake in China, in Anhui Province

Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features

Source : telegraph.co.uk

6Quirky China News, Rex Features, News, Pollution, Environmental, Landscape, WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE, Chaohu Lake, China,

Oil released from the failed Deepwater Horizon wellhead rises up to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico amidst an offshore platform drilling a relief well.

© Daniel Beltrá

Source : danielbeltra.com

6Daniel Beltrá, Art, Landscape, Pollution, Environmental, Architecture, Offshore Platform, Gulf of Mexico, USA,

Fracking Hell

Natural gas flared as waste is a new sight on the Dakota prairie, where fracking—a way of extracting hard-to-reach oil—and directional drilling have sparked a boom.

Photograph by Eugene Richards

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6Eugene Richards, Landscape, Pollution, Fracking, Environmental, Dakota, USA,

Just Breathe

The air pollution levels in the sky over Tiananmen Square during the National People’s Congress in Beijing are seen in this combination picture taken on March 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15.

Picture: Wei Yao/Reuters

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Source : telegraph.co.uk

6Wei Yao, Reuters, Pollution, Environmental, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China,

The Deadly Beauty of Petrochemistry

A Samsung Total Petrochemicals factory is seen in Seosan, South Korea. Picture: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters

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6Lee Jae-Won, Reuters, Landscape, Architecture, Pollution, Environmental, Petrochemical, Factory, Seosan, South Korea,

The Pollution Dictatorship

Chinese artist dissident Ai Weiwei poses with a gas mask in protest of the bad air quality in Beijing, in this photo taken on January 13, 2013. (Reuters/Courtesy of Ai Weiwei)

Source : The Atlantic

6Ai Weiwei, Reuters, News, Pollution, Environmental, Art, Beijing, China,

A bright video screen shows images of blue sky on Tiananmen Square during a time of dangerous levels of air pollution, on January 23, 2013 in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty Images)

Source : The Atlantic

6Feng Li, Getty Images, News, Pollution, Environmental, Landscape, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China,

Light Pollution

A global view of the Earth at night, compiled from more than 400 satellite images. Researchers have suggested that heat generated by large cities can alter the climate thousands of miles away. The ‘waste heat’ from buildings, factories and road vehicles disrupts atmospheric systems that affect the weather over great distances, it is claimed. Picture: Nasa/Noaa/PA

Source : telegraph.co.uk

6Nasa, Noaa, PA, Environmental, Pollution, Landscape, Earth, Space,

Beijing, China: A power station chimney is seen as severe pollution strikes the city’s inhabitants. Photograph: Feng Li/Getty

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6Feng Li, Getty, News, Pollution, Environmental, Architecture, Landscape, Beijing, China,

Tyres Hills

Thousands of tyres are stored for recycling in a field in Sesena, near Madrid. Picture: Pedro Armestre/AFP/Getty Images

Source : telegraph.co.uk

6Pedro Armestre, AFP, Getty Images, Landscape, Pollution, Environmental, Tyres, Cars, Madrid, Spain,

WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE

Hindu devotee offers prayers after a dip in the Yamuna River, surrounded by industrial effluent, during Karthik Purnima in New Delhi, India on Nov. 28, 2012. Picture: Manish Swarup/APA

Source : photoblog.nbcnews.com

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WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE

Greater adjutant storks look on as a young Indian rag picker stand in a garbage landfill at Boragoan. Environmentalists claim that the population of greater adjutant storks has decreased in recent years due to climate change. Photograph: Biji Borostrdel/AFP/Getty Images

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6Biji Borostrdel, AFP, Getty Images, Poverty, Environmental, Pollution, Animals, Greater Adjutant, Boragoan, India, WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE,

WE ARE THE APOCALYPSE

This Nasa image shows the movement of global aerosols across the planet. An aerosol is a suspension of liquid droplets or solids in the atmosphere. Dust (red) is lifted from the surface, sea salt (blue) swirls inside cyclones, smoke (green) rises from fires, and sulphate particles (white) stream from volcanoes and fossil fuel emissions. Picture: Nasa

Source : telegraph.co.uk

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