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Oct 1, 2012Planet Earth 02

More pictures of the beautiful, painful and delicate place we call planet earth.

Smoke rises out of factories in Thailand's Chonburi province. Sukree Sukplang/REUTERS

Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell sunbathe on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen. Francois Lenoir/REUTERS


Nineteen month-old Lilly picks daffodils in St James's Park in central London. Andrew Winning/REUTERS

A member of an emergency services special unit fires a shell towards the upper slopes to clear snow buildup above the Transcaucasian highway. Kazbek Basayev/REUTERS

A sign reads No Evacuation Possible on a building in Newbury. Brian Snyder/REUTERS

Wind patterns are left in the ice pack that covers the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Lucas Jackson/REUTERS

A worker looks at a photographer from a door of a factory manufacturing screws and nuts next to a polluted river in Jiaxing. Stringer China/REUTERS

Dead fish lies on cracked earth of La Sorrueda reservoir at Spain's Canary island of Gran Canaria. BORJA SUAREZ/REUTERS

A sheepdog sits among ruins of the village of Esco near the Yesa reservoir in Aragon. Vincent West/REUTERS

Worker picks giant tecolote ranunculus flowers by hand at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California. Mike Blake/REUTERS

An Albanian boy walks next to the shore of the beach in the city of Durres. Arben Celi/REUTERS

A leaf of unidentified plant is seen in Lviv. Gleb Garanich/REUTERS

An aerial view of the Isiboro Secure indigenous territory and national park (TIPNIS) in Beni. David Mercado/REUTERS

People visit the public swimming pool Schoenbrunner Bad in Vienna. Lisi Niesner/REUTERS

A dead Guanay Cormorant bird lies on Cerro Azul beach in Canete, Lima. Mariana Bazo/REUTERS

Popocatepetl volcano spews a cloud of ash and steam high into the air in Puebla. STRINGER Mexico/REUTERS

An annular solar eclipse is seen at Hirai Daini Elementary School in Tokyo. Issei Kato/REUTERS

A helicopter makes an approach to a base in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies dropped by parachute in the Arctic Ocean. NASA NASA/REUTERS

A rainbow arches over Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Bobby Yip/REUTERS

A man takes a picture of the city skyline after a rain storm in Toronto. Mark Blinch/REUTERS

Mount Etna spews volcanic ash during an eruption on the southern Italian island of Sicily. STRINGER Italy/REUTERS

A frozen river is seen next to a group of houses located on the outskirts of the Mongolian capital city of Ulan Bator. David Gray/REUTERS

A bee collects pollen from a red rose at a public park in Amman. Ali Jarekji/REUTERS

Handout photo shows trees in the DuPont State Recreational Forest in North Carolina. Handout ./REUTERS

An abandoned building stands in the middle of ploughed fields on the outskirts of Venice. David Gray/REUTERS

A view of an illegal oil refinery is seen along the Ekulama creek outside the oil hub city Port Harcourt in Nigeria's Delta region. Akintunde Akinleye/REUTERS

Rain clouds gather over the city of Sao Paulo. STRINGER Brazil/REUTERS

Officials from the local Water Conservancy Bureau in Minqin County. Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
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