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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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] Used tires in a landfill in Seseña Nuevo near Madrid, Spain, September 24, 2014. [hidden image - please register] Frog species Hypsiboas picturatus in the center of study and conservation of amphibians Jambatu Center in Quito, Ecuador, October 15, 2013. [hidden image - please register] Hindus pray to the sun god in the contaminated water of river Yamuna at the festival chhath in New Delhi, India, October 30, 2014. [hidden image - please register] Cluster Noctiluca scintillans, green marine dinoflagellates which are capable of bioluminescence, off the coast of Hong Kong January 22, 2015. [hidden image - please register] An armed ranger guarding the white rhinos in the reserve near Marondera east of Harare, Zimbabwe, September 22, 2014. [hidden image - please register] Contaminated river, which got several dye buckets in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, July 24, 2014. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] Thick morning fog in the area of Dubai Marina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21 November 2007. [hidden image - please register] Workers planting grass to reinforce sand dunes in the desert of the Ordos plateau Linu, Yinchuan Ningxia, China, 19 October 2007. [hidden image - please register] Lonely rock in the middle shoaled Powell reservoir near the town of Big Water, Utah, USA March 29, 2015. [hidden image - please register] Ember in the hills after a forest fire south of Lake Hughes, California, USA, June 1, 2013. [hidden image - please register] Workers Wildlife Service Kenya burn about 15 tons of ivory confiscated from poachers and smugglers in Nairobi National Park, March 3, 2015. [hidden image - please register] Adélie penguins on an ice floe near the French scientific Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville, 22 January 2010. |
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Hey Guys, Some more of the Western Isles of Scotland!!
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Hey Guys, Some more NE coast of the UK!!
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Hey Guys, A few more animals of the Rain Forests!!
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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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] In the Southern Hemisphere spring lasts from September to November. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] For the Japanese, the beginning of spring signals blooming cherry. [hidden image - please register] Date of Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. [hidden image - please register] 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. [hidden image - please register] The ancient Egyptians were building the Great Sphinx so that it points directly at the rising sun at the vernal equinox. [hidden image - please register] The first day of spring in the southern hemisphere - this first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. [hidden image - please register] |
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HI Guys, Some more of delightful Scotland!!
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Hey Guys, A bit more of the Cairngorms!!
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Hey Guys, some more of delightful Norway!!
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Heart and soul of east Africa - Kenya. [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] [hidden image - please register] |
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Hey Guys, Some nice views of Norway!!
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Hey Guys, Some more beautiful Finland!!
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Places on the our planet where a particularly beautiful spring. Chiang Mai, Thailand [hidden image - please register] Yamaguchi, Japan [hidden image - please register] Germany [hidden image - please register] Bulgaria [hidden image - please register] Lake Myvatn - Iceland. [hidden image - please register] Loughborough, England [hidden image - please register] Holland [hidden image - please register] Buckinghamshire, England [hidden image - please register] Cracker Lake, USA [hidden image - please register] Benasque, Spain [hidden image - please register] National Park "Tatra", Slovakia [hidden image - please register] Menerbes, France [hidden image - please register] |
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Hey Guys, Some more of Death Valley!!
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