A stray polar bear is seen outside Oktyabrsky mine on the outskirts of the Russian industrial city of Norilsk on June 17, 2019. – A hungry polar bear has been spotted on the outskirts of Norilsk, hundreds of miles from its natural habitat, authorities said on June 18, 2019. (Photo by Irina YARINSKAYA / Zapolyarnaya pravda newspaper / AFP)
A child collects fire woods, at one of the largest disposal sites in north-east India, ahead of the ‘World Environment Day’ in Boragaon area of Guwahati on June 4, 2018. – World Environment Day is marked annually on June 5, and aims at promoting awareness and action to protect the environment. (Photo by Biju BORO / AFP)
The first group of displaced ethnic Dinka, mostly women and children, arrived at Lologo near Juba, the regional capital, 01 December 2005. The returning Dinkas, from Sudan’s largest tribe, are among four million southern Sudanese who fled their villages during the 21-year war many of whom now going back to their homes after the January 9 peace agreement. The war, in which some 1.5 million were killed, pitted the Muslim-dominated government in Khartoum against the mainly Christian and anamist south.
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An Indian Sadhu — Hindu holy man — walks past plastic trash and garbage spewed back by the sea during high-tide in Mumbai on July 13, 2018. – The United Nations warned in June that the world could be awash with 12 billion tonnes of plastic trash by the middle of the century if use is maintained at current levels. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)
Cars drive along a street on a polluted day in Beijing on July 24, 2015. Air pollution levels in China’s cities improved in the first six months of this year, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said July 22, but remained far worse than global and domestic standards. AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)
A woman and child sit together in an enclosure made from fabrics at a make-shift camp for displaced Yemenis in the northern Hajjah province on December 16, 2019. (Photo by ESSA AHMED / AFP)
This photograph taken on January 30, 2018, shows a woman and child walking through heavy smog in the town of Obiliq on the outskirts of Pristina. – Every winter morning workers wrap scarves around their faces and emerge from the pea soup fog that engulfs their town of Obiliq, stuck between two coal-fired power stations on the outskirts of Kosovo’s capital. (Photo by Armend NIMANI / AFP)
A picture taken on October 31, 2018 shows polar bears feeding at a garbage dump near the village of Belushya Guba, on the remote Russian northern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, a tightly-controlled military area where a village declared a state of emergency in February after dozens of bears were seen entering homes and public buildings. – Scientists say conflicts with ice-dependent polar bears will increase in the future due to Arctic ice melting and a rise of human presence in the area as Moscow bolsters economic and military activity in the Arctic. An “invasion” of aggressive polar bears in inhabited areas of Arctic Russia occured for around ten days in February 2019 after the animals came to the area looking for food. Polar bears are affected by global warming with melting Arctic ice forcing them to spend more time on land where they compete for food. (Photo by Alexander GRIR / AFP)
An Indian boy plays in the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi on March 22, 2018. – World Water Day is observed on March 22 and focuses on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
People queue up to collect drinking water from taps that are fed by a spring in Newlands on May 15, 2017, in Cape Town. – South Africa’s Western Cape region which includes Cape Town declared a drought disaster on May 22 as the province battled its worst water shortages for 113 years. This dam is the main water source for the city of Cape Town, and there is only 10% of it’s usual capacity left for human consumption, at the last 10% is not useable, due to the silt content. (Photo by Rodger BOSCH / AFP)