April 22 Photo Brief: Earth Day, earthquakes, protests and pollution
The world celebrates Earth Day, rampant pollution takes the spotlight in places like India and Afghanistan, the Sichuan province in China struggles to recover from Saturday’s earthquake and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Aquatic birds search for food at the Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad during World Earth Day. (Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian youth searches through mud for coins and other items of value in the polluted banks of the River Ganges at Sangam in Allahabad during World Earth Day. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian youth digs digs a hole through caked up mud, in search for coins and other items of value, from the polluted banks of the River Ganges at Sangam in Allahabad during World Earth Day. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian ragpicker walks among heaps of rubbish at a municipal waste dump in Dimapur on World Earth Day. (STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian youth dressed as a tree looks on during an awareness event commemorating Earth Day in Allahabad. (Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indonesian demonstrators carry an effigy of the earth as they parade in a rally in Surabaya in Indonesia’s eastern Java island to mark the World Earth Day. (Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A rescuer looks on as excavators clean up a road which is blocked by a landslide after Saturday’s earthquake, in Baoxing county, Sichuan province. The death toll has risen to at least 188, with more than 11,000 others injured, after an earthquake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan on Saturday, Xinhua News Agency reported. (China Daily/Reuters)
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- An elderly man holds a sign asking for help outside his destroyed home in Longmen village after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Lushan, Sichuan Province, (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian youths play cricket near polluted salt pans near an industrial area in Mumbai. Environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation as April 22, 2013 marks World Earth Day. (Puni Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indians are seen reflected in a polluted salt pan in Mumbai. Environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation as April 22, 2013 marks World Earth Day. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Afghan child carries water from a well in Kabul during World Earth Day. Environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation as April 22, 2013 marks World Earth Day. (Massoud Hossanini/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A duck swims among trash thrown into a dam in Kabul during World Earth Day. Environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation as April 22, 2013 marks World Earth Day. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Candidates of the annual Miss Philippines-Earth 2013 pageant hold placards as they pose for photos at the poolside during a media presentation at a hotel in Taguig city, metro Manila. About 48 candidates will compete to showcase beauty and raise awareness of environmental issues. (Romeo Ranoco. Reuters)
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- Candidates of the annual Miss Philippines-Earth 2013 pageant splash water at the poolside during a media presentation at a hotel in Taguig city, metro Manila. The new Miss Philippine Earth will go on to represent the country in the Miss Earth pageant later in the year. (Romeo Ranoco. Reuters)
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- Protestors face riot gendarmes at the end of a demonstration called “La Manif Pour Tous” (Demonstration for all!) which gathered tens of thousands of opponents of a gay marriage bill on April 21, 2013 in Paris. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian child poses with a placard as demonstrators take part in a protest against the rape of a five-year old girl, in Kolkata. Indian police arrested a second man over the kidnap and rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, but officers faced protests and a hail of criticism over their insensitive handling of the case. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A dog looks on amid trash as polluted waters flow down a canal on the outskirts of Ahmedabad during World Earth Day on April 22, 2013. World Earth Day is observed each April 22, during which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A dog looks on amid trash as polluted waters flow down a canal on the outskirts of Ahmedabad during World Earth Day on April 22, 2013. World Earth Day is observed each April 22, during which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Boys collect recyclables from the pile of smouldering garbage dump on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
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- Tania Akhter, 10, lies on a bed at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital from splinter injuries after a crude bomb blast in Dhaka. Tania found the crude bomb near her residence and it exploded in her hand, according to the police, who also said the crude bomb was made by pro-strike activists. The activists, who are part of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 18-party alliance, called for a 36-hour countrywide shutdown from Tuesday to protest against a Dhaka court’s decision to deny bail to seven of their top leaders in different cases, local media reported. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- People gather in front of a burnt bus after pro-strike activists set fire to it, in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 18-party alliance called for a 36-hour countrywide shutdown from Tuesday to protest against a Dhaka court’s decision to deny bail to seven of their top leaders in different cases, local media reported. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters)
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- An endangered six month old male baby orangutan, rescued from a pet owner, learns to climb a tree while undergoing rehabilitation at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program quarantine area in Sibolangit village located in Indonesia’s Sumatra island on April 8, 2013. According to environmentalists, poachers kill or maim mother orangutans to take their babies. Experts believe there are about 50,000 to 60,000 of the two species of orangutans left in the wild, 80 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in Malaysia. They are faced with extinction from poaching and the rapid destruction of their forest habitat, mainly to create palm oil plantations. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Earthquake victims sleep in a stadium in the city of Ya’an, southwest China’s Sichuan province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A girl (C) looks out from a makeshift tent during rainy weather as she sleeps with her family after Saturday’s earthquake, in Lingguan town in Baoxing county, Sichuan province. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya’an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 quake hit in May 2008, killing 70,000. (Stringer/Reuters)
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- Freshly shorn alpacas are pictured on a meadow in the village of Winklarn near Regensburg. The alpacas are always shorn in spring, to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months and to collect the expensive and well known alpaca wool. (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
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- A man with face covered with mud looks up at his friends while constructing a well at Khokana, Lalitpur. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- A view of a tulip field in full bloom at the Tanto Tulip Festival in Toyooka, Hyogo, Japan. Hundreds of thousands of tulips in three hundred varieties are displayed at the popular Spring flower festival at Tanto Tulip field in Hyogo Prefecture. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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