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Icebreaker Louis Saint Laurent in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Territory , Canada .
Worker resting on bales of cotton, Thonakaha, Korhogo , Ivory Coast . Cotton
crops occupy approximately 335,000 square klilometers worldwide, and use nearly
one quarter of all pesticides sold
Sand dune in the heart of vegetation on Fraser island, Queensland , Australia .
Fraser Island , named after Eliza Fraser, who was shipwrecked on the island in
1836, is the world's largest sand island. On top of this rather infertile
substratum, a humid tropical forest has developed in the midst of which wide
dunes intrude, moving with the wind. Fraser Island has important water
resources, including nearly 200 freshwater dune lakes, and has varied fauna
such as marsupials, birds, and reptiles. Welcoming 200,000 visitors a year
without damaging the local fauna and flora is a real challenge to sustainable
development on the island, which was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco
in 1992.
The Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix basilica in Yamoussoukro , Ivory Coast . In 1983,
Yamoussoukro replaced Abidjan as the official capital of Ivory Coast .
President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who died in 1993, made his native village
into a modern city with a grid of wide avenues - which are almost deserted -
and every modern facility: international airport, luxury hotels, golf course,
prestigious universities, and so forth. Yamoussoukro also boasts the world's
biggest basilica, Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix (Our Lady of Peace), consecrated by
Pope John Paul II in 1990. The former president, who donated this building to
the Vatican , insisted that he had financed the basilica's cost out of his own
personal fortune. This building was seen as a colossal waste by many Ivorians.
It was highly controversial in a country that lacks schools and hospitals and
has only nine doctors for every 100,000 inhabitants (compared to 413 in Norway )
Flock of sheep, Tierra del Fuego , Argentina . After the missionary period,
between gold fever and the first drillings for oil, sheep-raising became the
chief activity in the north of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del
Fuego. The local cabanas (sheep pastures) are huge sheep farms with 3..5 acres
of land per head of livestock.
Tree of life", Tsavo national park, Kenya . This acacia is a symbol of life in
the vast expanses of thorny savanna, where wild animals come to take advantage
of its leaves or its shade. Tsavo National Park in southeastern Kenya , crossed
by the Nairobi-Mombasa road and railway axis, is the country's largest
protected area (8,200 square miles, or 21,000 square kilometers) and was
declared a national park in 1948
Elephants in the Okavango Delta , Botswana . The Okavango Delta is the world's
largest inland delta, flooding seasonally, and is populated by five ethnic
groups of people, sharing it with hundreds of species of animals.
Iraqi tank graveyard in the desert near Al Jahrah, Kuwait . This graveyard of
tanks will bear witness for many years to the damage that war causes both to
the environment and to human health. In 1991, during the first Gulf War, a
million depleted uranium shells were fired at Iraqi forces, spreading toxic,
radioactive dust for miles around. Such dust is known to have lasting effects
on the environment and to cause various forms of cancer and other serious
illnesses among humans.
Village in the Rheris Valley , Er Rachidia region, High Atlas Mountains,
Morocco . Fortified villages are frequently seen along the valley of the
Rheris, as they are on most rivers of southern Morocco , inspired by the Berber
architecture built to protect against invaders. Today, with the threat of raids
now gone, the close clustering of dwellings, small windows, and roofs covering
houses and narrow streets serve the purpose of protecting occupants from heat
and dust. The flat, connecting roofs also provide a place for drying crops.
The Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta , Canada . These oil deposits make up the
largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world, and as recently as 2006,
produced over 1 million barrels of crude oil per day.
Road interrupted by a sand dune, Nile Valley , Egypt . Dunes cover nearly
one-third of the Sahara , and the highest, in linear form, can attain a height
of almost 1,000 feet (300 m). Barchans are mobile, crescent-shaped dunes that
move in the direction of the prevailing wind at rates as high as 33 feet (10 m)
per year, sometimes even covering infrastructures such as this road in the Nile
Valley
Tea cultivation in Corrientes province, Argentina . The fertility of the red
soil and the regular rains of the Corrientes region create the ideal conditions
for the cultivation of tea. In an effort to protect the soil against erosion,
tea is planted along curved terraces and protected from the wind by hedges.
Unlike Asian and African countries, where the young sprouts are handpicked, in
Argentina mechanical harvesting is the rule, done mainly with high-clearance
tractors that are driven along the straight rows of tea bushes.
Icebergs and an Adelie penguin, Adelie Land, Antarctica . Antarctica , the
sixth continent, is a unique observation point for atmospheric and climatic
phenomena; its ancient ice, which trapped air when it was formed, contains
evidence of the Earth's climate as it has changed and developed over the past
millions of years.
American cemetery north of Verdun , Meuse , France . Covering some 40 hectares
(100 acres) at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Verdun ,
the American cemetery was dedicated in 1935 by the American Battle Monuments
Commission. The commission was created in 1923 at the request of General
Pershing, who had taken part in the American offensive of 1918. Its aim was to
undertake architectural and landscape studies in order to restructure American
cemeteries and commemorative monuments in Europe . Whereas the French army
chose to build permanent cemeteries where temporary cemeteries had been made
during the hostilities, the American army opted to create a single cemetery.
Some 25,000 American tombs scattered around Verdun were then brought together
at Romagne where, after almost half the bodies were repatriated to American
soil, 14,246 soldiers have lain ever since.
Islet in the Sulu Archipelago , Philippines . More than 6,000 of the 7,100
Philippine Islands are uninhabited, like this islet in the Sulu Archipelago, a
set of 500 islands that separate the Celebes and the Sulu seas. Their
extraordinary biodiversity is under threat, not from distant industrial sites
but from the effects of global pollution. These islands, which barely rise
above the surface of the water, are among the first potential victims of global
warming and are certain to disappear when the sea level rises
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