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17.03.2016, 17:23
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Earth Day
Earth Day was established in 1970 to draw the attention of mankind on the environment problems and realize its responsibility for its preservation.
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Spot palm oil off the coast of the city of Santa Marta in Colombia, April 23, 2008. Local residents reported seeing dead fish but representative
Terlica plant where about 10 tonnes of palm oil has leaked, she explained that this product is biodegradable, so it can not harm the environment.
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Earth view from the Moon's surface. The photograph was taken by the crew of the ship "Apollo 11," July 20, 1969 for the year prior to the establishment of Earth Day.
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Professor David Noone from the University of Colorado at Boulder studying ice layers in the glacier
on the research station Upper Camp in the center of the ice sheet in Greenland, July 11, 2013.
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Used tires in a landfill in Seseña Nuevo near Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2014.
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Frog species Hypsiboas picturatus in the center of study and conservation of amphibians Jambatu Center in Quito, Ecuador, October 15, 2013.
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Hindus pray to the sun god in the contaminated water of river Yamuna at the festival chhath in New Delhi, India, October 30, 2014.
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Cluster Noctiluca scintillans, green marine dinoflagellates which are capable of bioluminescence, off the coast of Hong Kong January 22, 2015.
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An armed ranger guarding the white rhinos in the reserve near Marondera east of Harare, Zimbabwe, September 22, 2014.
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Contaminated river, which got several dye buckets in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, July 24, 2014.
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The parcel of the Amazon rain forest, carved wood clicker and farmers for agriculture, in the municipality of Santarém, State of Pará, Brazil, April 20, 2013.
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Thick morning fog in the area of Dubai Marina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21 November 2007.
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Workers planting grass to reinforce sand dunes in the desert of the Ordos plateau Linu, Yinchuan Ningxia, China, 19 October 2007.
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Lonely rock in the middle shoaled Powell reservoir near the town of Big Water, Utah, USA March 29, 2015.
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Ember in the hills after a forest fire south of Lake Hughes, California, USA, June 1, 2013.
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Workers Wildlife Service Kenya burn about 15 tons of ivory confiscated from poachers and smugglers in Nairobi National Park, March 3, 2015.
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Adélie penguins on an ice floe near the French scientific Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville, 22 January 2010.
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17.03.2016, 06:58
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17.03.2016, 06:30
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17.03.2016, 05:41
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Fascinating facts, Which are worth knowing about spring.
Spring is almost always occurs March 20-21, sometimes 19 March. The reason that the equinox and solstice does not always
occur in the same day due to the fact that the Earth makes a circle around the sun is not exactly 365 days.
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On the first day of spring , man at the North Pole will observe the sun, moving along the horizon, which means the beginning of the 6-month-old polar day.
In turn, the man at the South Pole that day will witness the beginning of the polar night - 6 months of darkness.
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If the Earth revolved around an axis perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the Sun, and not inclined 23.4º,
then the world would not have seen the change of day and night or season.
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In China, the arrival of spring coincides with the Chinese New Year celebration.
The holiday falls on the first day of the first lunar month - in January or February.
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In the Southern Hemisphere spring lasts from September to November.
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The city of Chichen Itza, Mexico, Mayan originally celebrated the first day of spring. At the time of the vernal equinox on the balustrade of the
pyramid of Kukulkan casts a shadow that resembles a snake crawling up the stairs of Kukulkan - the god of wind, water, fire and air.
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For the Japanese, the beginning of spring signals blooming cherry.
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Date of Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
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Only twice a year, the sun rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west. This phenomenon is observed during the spring and autumn equinox.
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The ancient Egyptians were building the Great Sphinx so that it points directly at the rising sun at the vernal equinox.
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The first day of spring in the southern hemisphere - this first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
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