Earth Day Around the World
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A worker recycles cardboard at a classification plant in Juan Vinas, on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica. Activists across the globe celebrated Earth Day on April 22 with events aimed at bringing awareness to environmental concerns.
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A man sleeps in his boat anchored in the polluted waters of the River Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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An Indian boy takes a dip in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India.
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A May apple grows in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on Earth Day.
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Canuta, a female otorongo remains in Las Leyendas zoo, in Lima. Canuta and Zamba, her twin sister, were born in captivity a year ago in the zoo and were elected as symbols for the Earth Day. Otorongo is an Amazonian species considered to be in risk of extinction.
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Volunteers participate in the reforestation of the 'Rosy Walter' zoo, on El Picacho hill, north of Tegucigalpa. Under the slogan "Your Actions Transform the Planet" and in the framework of Earth Day, youngsters in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica carry out different activities to help preserve the environment.
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A member of the organization E-Waste gathers electronic waste to avoid pollution in Guatemala City. There are no recycling plants for electronic devices in Guatemala.
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Smoke billows from a chimney of a sugar cane processing factory in Juan Vinas on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.
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A Black-crowned Night Heron sits on a branch at Birds Island in the Suchitlan lake, San Salvador. Suchitlan lake, an artificial lake formed by the Cerron Grande dam, is a natural shelter for wildlife in El Salvador.
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An Indian rag picker looks for reusable material at a garbage dump in Jammu, India.
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A Chilacoa at the zoo in Cali, Colombia. Colombia has the second largest biodiversity in the world.
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Tourists walk in the woods of the Tatumbla municipality, Francisco Morazan department. The Mayoralty of Tatumbl prohibited the deforestation of the woods in the framework of Earth Day.
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An Indian worker sprays water onto panels of India's first 1MW canal-top solar power plant at Chandrasan village of the Mehsana district on Earth Day. This solar power plant on a 750 meter stretch of the Sanand Branch Canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project will generate 1.6 million units of clean electricity per year.
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A man and his daughters look at a figure of a Triceratops dinosaur made by Mexican artists with 2,900 recycled bottles in Mexico City.
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Local residents use plastic containers to fetch drinking water from a lake in Yangon, Myanmar.
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Lily James and her brother Ellis of Charleston, S.C., take shelter from the rain next to their mother while attending Earth Day activities on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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