the real costs of a booming economy...??

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NPPA's The Best of Photojournalism 2010 Awards

1st Prize in the Environmental Picture Story Category

by Lu Guang / Contact Press Images



Many defective babies are abandoned in Shanxi Province every year. Kong Zhenlan, from Qi County, who makes her living scavenging, fosters every abandoned baby she finds. She now takes care of 25 children. April 14, 2009

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march of the soldiers...

Earth Day 2010

ghost ships of s.hithadhoo...

similar wrecks line up the eastern shoreline of the island...



it's a beautiful, beautiful sight alright... but one could hardly stand the stench of raw sewage in this area... quite a few pipes from nearby households and neighborhoods can be seen emptying into the lagoon... a lot of this SHIT, literally, is then washed back on to the beach...



- hithadhoo 2009

the pillars of our economy...

yes, quite literally...



where construction of economy = destruction of environment

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maldivian children ought to be taught to be kind to animals... but it won't happen unless we, as adults, lead them by example... in one island i've seen grown men amusing little kids with their key-tags of live, newly hatched chicks... even in Male' we're increasingly seeing rare, exotic birds being kept as pets... chained for most of the day, and often caged... i personally know of a few cases where the birds ended up dying after a few days/weeks, mostly due to bad care or treatment....

keeping these birds in such conditions and claiming to love them, in my opinion, is like bombing for peace... or having sex for virginity....

environmental refugees....

... are we to become?



... and is it gonna be like this??

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350 - the most important number in the planet...

350 ppm carbon dioxide is the most we can have in the atmosphere if we wish to retain the planet similar to the one on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted....

in other words, 350 parts per million is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. it is the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change...


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we're now at 387 ppm.... are we too late? is the planet doomed?

to find out please visit 350.org

genetic mutation...

...in our backyard?

the italians have dumped tons of nuclear waste in the indian ocean, maldivians are increasingly aware of family planning technology... i guess the ingredients and conditions are just right for something like this to happen in our lagoons...


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Danger: Biohazard....

on villigili beach...

the message simply cannot get any simpler....

pollution..... solution?

who, when and how can we bring an end to this madness??



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