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  • Looking down into a steep-sided valley, Distant streets and working-class terraced homes are beyond smoking chimneys from a Furnacite coking plant at Abercwmboi. Once known as the worst polluter in Britain it was owned by the National Coal Board (NCB) and sold to the Welsh Development Asoociation (WDA) for £1 Pound though arguments are still raging about how to clear it up and cleanup estimates range from £15-£20 million. The pollution had cruel effects on the local population. It made smokeless coal and locals joked that the plant took the smoke out and dumped it on the Cynon Valley but there was concern about toxic waste dumped in the village after the plant's closure and some suffered birth defects. Ironically, the plant was closed because of environmental considerations.
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  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell09-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell01-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell41-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell38-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell42-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell34-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell56-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell55-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell50-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell37-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell32-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell26-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell21-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell08-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell49-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell35-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell33-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell29-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell24-08-09-2...jpg
  • The industrial Sellafield nuclear reprocessing glows on the skyline in the darkness of the Cumbrian countryside
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  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell54-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell51-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell39-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell30-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell23-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell25-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell20-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell16-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell13-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell07-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell05-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell47-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell40-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell28-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell15-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell12-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell11-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell10-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell02-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell45-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell46-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell22-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell17-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell06-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell04-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell03-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell53-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell43-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell44-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell36-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell19-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell14-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell52-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell48-08-09-2...jpg
  • Climate Change and environmental activists from Extinction Rebellion, protest outside petrochemical corporation, Shell on London's Southbank, on 8th September 2020, in London, England. XR say that Shell is lobbying governments to extend the role of gas and the lifespan of the oil industry - jeopardising the Paris Agreement worldwide.
    extinction_rebellion_shell18-08-09-2...jpg
  • A week after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, an NYPD police officer cop wears a face mask covering nose and mouth - protection from Ground Zero pollutants rumoured to be toxic, on 21st September 2001, New York, USA.
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  • An aerial cityscape of polluting street traffic below St Paul's Cathedral during the early-1990s. Looking down from a high viewpoint we see London traffic and polluted streets below with the corner of St Paul's Cathedral before its stonework was cleaned, its stained surfaces removed after centuries of grime and poor air quality. Red Routemaster buses drive from Ludgate Hill towards Cannon Street into the City, London's London's financial district.
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  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a section of the River Neckinger that once flowed from south London into the Thames at Bermindsey but during the redevelopment of the warves into expensive riverside apartments, the waters were once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution02-11-09-1993.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter blocks the waterways of a canal in Stratford, east London. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future Olympic Park would be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    canal_pollution01-11-09-1993.jpg
  • Rubbish and litter in the 1990s blocks the waterways of a canal, on 10th September 1994, in Stratford, east London, England. Algae and household pollution lies on the surface of the waters dug by navvies of the Victorian era when canals around Britain helped supply the industrial revolution with the raw ingredients to power the furnaces, mills and wharves of the transport age. This is a small outlet of the River Lea where the future 2012 Olympic Park would eventually be built - the waters once again freed from 20th century dereliction.
    river_pollution-10-09-1994.jpg
  • A Met Police officer wears a pollution mask while in traffic in central London. With elastic ties reaching behind his head, the policeman breathes easier in the presence of microscopic background bacteria particles and NO2 gas levels found in areas of heavy traffic, in large UK cities. His work takes him out into polluted areas and the Police Federation insist on protecting its union members from atmospheric harm.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, the stone decoration on an office building wall has been eaten away by atmospheric pollution, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
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  • It is 10.15 in the morning and a mother and her daughter have crossed a road in Ruda Slaska, Poland, while an older lady has paused on the zebra crossing. It is a dark and gloomy day in this heavily polluted, industrial town in southern Poland. The local employer is the Huta Pokoj  SA steel mill that dominates the landscape, rising as a filthy tower that makes the air quality so poor that respiratory deceases are common, with soot present in the atmosphere for children to breathe. The environmental impact of 1990s post-Stalinist Polish heavy industry is evident. The day is damp, depressing and unhealthy with a truck's headlights on as pedestrians stand on the roadside, wait at the bus stop or cycle past on the pavement.
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth..
    maldives212-13-11-2007.jpg
  • Seen from Miradouro de de Santa Luzia, the 'Independence of the Seas' cruise liner dominates the medieval/Moorish district rooftops of Alfama, on 13th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Pollution from such huge ships is a toxic problem that is growing as the cruise industry and its ships get ever bigger, docking close to communities with narrow streets such as Lisbon. MS Independence of the Seas is a Freedom-class cruise ship operated by the Royal Caribbean cruise line which entered service in April 2008. The 15-deck ship can accommodate 4,370 passengers and is served by 1,360 crew. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    portugal_lisbon-50-13-07-2016.jpg
  • A new Trabant car shell is lifted by forklift from a truck at the East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.  A worker carefully manoeuvres the unfinished bodywork into a crate where other vehicles await completion on the production line. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time.
    DDR_travel03-06_1990.jpg
  • High up on the buttresses of Westminster Abbey in central London during the mid-90s, new white Portland and Caen stone replaces the blackened materials of old - discoloured after a hundred years of pollution from the capital's industrial revolution and traffic fumes. Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth realms. The abbey is a Royal Peculiar and briefly held the status of a cathedral from 1540 to 1550.
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  • On a dark evening in the Welsh countryside eight ventilated hemispherical glasshouses called Solardomes have been 'painted' with gels and with coloured flash strobes while a torch has streaked whiter light in this scientific facility. Replicating climate change and its effects on plant-life, this experiment run by the University of Aberystwyth has run for 20 years, its research being invaluable to our understanding how rising levels of greenhouse gases (CO2) will affect photosynthesis and therefore plant food growth. By increasing the levels of such gasseous pollutants are we now more sure of how the biology in seminatural grasslands alters. Glowing red, the Solardomes sit like futuristic houses on another planet. Surrounding hills are dark on this evening but there is still detail in the fast-fading sky. ..
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  • A police officer looks over stormy waves wich crash over the super-structure and funnel of the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea, on 7th January 1993, in Quendale Bay, Shetland, Scotland, UK. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beaching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occurred in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
    brear_shetland-07-01-1993.jpg
  • An Egytptian carrying a blue football walks through smoky air, emitted from a kebab business on a street in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Two Egytptian women walk through smoky air, emitted from a kebab business on a street in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt268-04-03-2016.jpg
  • A black cab carrying door advertising for GWR rail travel, stops to drop-off a fare outside the Selfridge's department store on Oxford Street, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
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  • With engines running, traditional black cabs queue for fares, consequently blocking bus traffic outside the Selfridge's department store on Oxford Street, on 4th March 2019, in London England.
    oxford_street-17-04-03-2019.jpg
  • A police officer looks over stormy waves wich crash over the super-structure and funnel of the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker, spilling 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea, on 7th January 1993, in Quendale Bay, Shetland, Scotland, UK. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beaching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occurred in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
    braer_shetland-07-01-1993.jpg
  • Three Egytptian women walk through smoky air, emitted from a kebab business on a street in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
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  • Three Egytptian women walk through smoky air, emitted from a kebab business on a street in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt.
    egypt267-04-03-2016.jpg
  • Next to a beach bather, water pours from an outlet pipe on a tourist beach on Coloane island Cheoc Van beach, Macau, China.
    beach_pollution01-10-08-1994.jpg
  • Alongside rush hour traffic, a woman cyclist rides under the railway bridge at the corner of Herne Hill and Milkwood Road in SE24, and on 21st January 2021, in London, England. Herne Hill is located betwen Brixton, Dulwich Village and Camberwell and lies over the shared London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark with a community of approximately 15,000.
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  • The evening rush hour increases the amount of traffic passing through the road junction at Herne Hill, SE24, in south London, on 21st January 2021, in London, England. Herne Hill is located betwen Brixton, Dulwich Village and Camberwell and lies over the shared London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark with a community of approximately 15,000.
    herne_hill_traffic02-21-01-2021.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, two east German women walk past a closed and decaying Pharmacy and photography business where a poster advertising a New Germany weekly newspaper has been attached to a rotting door, on 15th June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    90s_germany-15-06-1990.jpg
  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, are the partially-collapsed ballustrade and porch of a semi-derelict German house, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
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  • A detail of a child's deflated 'Thomas The Tank Engine' Anagram balloon that has landed, making it hazardous to wildlife, on marshland near Two Tree Island, at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • A detail of a child's deflated 'Thomas The Tank Engine' Anagram balloon that has landed, making it hazardous to wildlife, on marshland near Two Tree Island, at Leigh creek in Old Leigh, on 10th September 2019, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England.
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  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Climate Change protestors with Extinction Rebellion block central London and simultaneously stop traffic across the capital including Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Waterloo Bridge and roads around Parliament Square, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A chest freezer apparently from a shop selling ice creams, has been fly-tipped in a parking bay of a residential street, on 1st January 2019, in Herne Hill, south London, England.
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  • A chest freezer apparently from a shop selling ice creams, has been fly-tipped in a parking bay of a residential street, on 1st January 2019, in Herne Hill, south London, England.
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  • A chest freezer apparently from a shop selling ice creams, has been fly-tipped in a parking bay of a residential street, on 1st January 2019, in Herne Hill, south London, England.
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  • With the New York skyline shrouded in smog, a young Asian couple embrace on the open-air deck of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, on 31st July 1998, in New York, USA. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A mermaid in the window of a seaside business warns in both the English and Welsh languages, of the dangers of litter on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
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  • An abandoned mattress lies tied up on a residential street corner in the borough of Lambeth, on 4th December 2017, in London England.
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  • A walker passes a pile of assorted plastic materials awaiting removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A pile of assorted ropes and fibrous cord and fishing pots await removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-05-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A woman throws a drinks bottle on to a pile of assorted plastic materials awaiting removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-07-27-09-2017.jpg
  • A pile of assorted ropes and fibrous cord and fishing pots await removal from the coastal landscape, having been collected by volunteers from a beach on Holy Island, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The amount of rubbish found dumped on UK beaches rose by a third last year, according to a new report. More than 8,000 plastic bottles were collected by the Marine Conservation Society’s annual beach clean-up at seaside locations from Orkney to the Channel Islands on one weekend in September 2016. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
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  • A heap of dumped, fly-tipped rubbish on a countryside footpath, on 27th August 2017, near Cobham, Kent, England.
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  • A heap of dumped, fly-tipped rubbish on a countryside footpath, on 27th August 2017, near Cobham, Kent, England.
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  • Countryside ramblers walk past a heap of dumped and burned fly-tipped rubbish on a footpath, on 27th August 2017, near Cobham, Kent, England.
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  • Countryside ramblers walk past a heap of dumped and burned fly-tipped rubbish on a footpath, on 27th August 2017, near Cobham, Kent, England.
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