Robert Harding

Environment

What are we doing to our evironment? Look at some of the worst examples of mans ignorance of nature and all its wonders.
Train at speed, Coal-fired power station, Nottinghamshire, England - 817-3310
Soda Can Floating Underwater In The Ocean Near Coral Reef - 857-93700
Fire in waste dump with car tires - smoke emission Spain - 832-376581
Rubbish on seashore at the beach of Pisa Tuscany Italy - 832-376029
BP Chemicals' Petrochemicals Plant, Grangemouth, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK - 485-8413
BRAZIL Mato Grosso Peixoto de Azevedo A garimpo gold mine on former Panara territory showing garimpeiro gold workings deforestation and serious pollution of whole environment - 797-3960
Children and pigs foraging on a rubbish strewn beach, Dominican Republic, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America - 526-1708
Drax coal fired power station, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 485-8420
Scholven coal-fired power station, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315277
Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315853
Wind turbines in motion - 817-1413
Pollution in the River Thames, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 834-1615
Alaba Market, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from Asia, the USA or Europe for reuse. The small shop dealers buy electronics from the containers and are very good at repairing the goods for sale. When material has no value is it sent to nearby dumps, and young men look for parts or wire that they recycle the metals. However, much toxic material ends up in these dumps in Nigeria. - 857-66715
At CRT Recycling in Brockton, Massachusetts, workers look over electronics collected locally to determine what is valuable to recycle in house and what is sent overseas. - 857-66629
Taicang Port Imported Recyclable Resources Processing Zone, near Shanghai, China. This is a development project of the government to encourage business in recycling of metals and plastics, some of which comes from electronics. - 857-66644
Oil pollution in Lyme Regis harbour, probably from a fishing vessel, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 911-8434
Young mute swan (Cygnus olor) amongst floating litter in river Avon, Bristol, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 976-229
Trucks transporting timber from the Amazon rainforest, deforestation, illegal logging, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America - 832-179922
Home electronics collection day in Stamford, Connecticut is sponsored by Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA). Local residents can bring in old electronics for free collection. The equipment is sent to Amandi who pays about 20 cents a pound to recycle the electronics. - 857-66624
Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315871
Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315883
Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315882
Natural gas is flared off as oil is pumped in the Bakken shale formation; the gas is burned because no pipelines have been built to transport it to market, Watford City, North Dakota, United States, North America - 832-378281
Hazy view of the Thyssen-Krupp steelworks at Hamborn, Schwelgern at sunset, near Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315566
Excavator in kaolin pit, mining of kaolin, Gebenbach, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - 832-378472
Bucket-wheel excavators, Garzweiler lignite mining, near Jüchen, Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-378382
At the Taizhou Tongtian Electrical Appliance Co. Ltd., Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China workers are sorting out scrap metals. - 857-66657
Aerial photo, Prosper coking plant, Ruhr Coal, Evonik, night exposure, blue illumination, Extraschicht 2008 festival, Bottrop, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-244290
At ElectroniCycle, a recycling company in Gardner, Massachusetts CRT monitors are being broken to be recycled for glass-to-glass recycling. - 857-66640
Oil clean up, West Angle Bay, Sea Empress oil spill - 915-104
Emissions at dawn from Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant, Detroit, Michigan, USA - 832-23937
The tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, North America - 911-8799
Overflowing rubbish collection bins, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 834-5080
Freckled driftfish (Psenes cyanophrys) next to drifting net in open ocean, Kailua-Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific - 920-60
A protest banner against fracking at a farm site at Little Plumpton near Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, where the council for the first time in the UK, has granted planning permission for commercial fracking fro shale gas, by Cuadrilla. - 911-10459
Fish carcasses in lake during drought, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA - 832-372932
The Computer village at Ikeja neighborhood, Lagos Nigeria. Many of the computers here are second hand and shipped from USA or Europe for reuse. - 857-66696
Air pollution from Skookumchuck Pulp Mill, British Columbia, Canada - 817-118966
Floating barrier to stop pollution from the fuel spilled by the Prestige Tanker ecological disaster, Bahia de Santander, Cantabria, Spain - 817-65605
Bangladesh, Dhaka, Gulshan Lake Fish dead on surface of polluted inner city lake. - 797-10880
Fly tipping in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 911-9470
Chocolate biscuits washed overboard from the Riverdance which washed ashore off Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 911-1655
The tar sands are the largest industrial project on the planet, Alberta, Canada, North America - 911-8711
Plastic bags concealed in an old landfill rubbish dump are revealed as the edge of Walney Island off Barrow in Furness is eroded away, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 911-1930
A protest t shirt against tar sands pipelines, Alberta, Canada, North America - 911-8778
The worlds largest solar furnace or Four Solaire at Odeillo in the Pyrenees-Orientales in France - 817-232612
Petrochemical works on Teesside, England, United Kingdom, Europe - 911-7542
Rubbish dumped on the tundra outside Ilulissat in Greenland with icebergs behind from the Sermeq Kujalleq (Ilulissat Ice fjord), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Greenland, Polar Regions - 911-292
A hand full of tar sand, Alberta, Canada, North America - 911-8713
rubbish along the nesa stream, nese, italy - 746-80153
Coal plant Kraftwerk Duisburg-Walsum in front of the Rhine, backlit, cloud of smoke, emissions, Ruhr district, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-378605
Smoke from factory - 1178-19707
Smoke stacks - 1178-19946
A National Guardsman wears a Nuclear radiation suit during training at an air base in South Dakota. - 857-86776
Plastic bottles, compressed into a large bale and ready for recycling - 832-376915
Plastic recycling, PET bottles and plastic rubbish are shredded and pressed, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe - 832-315852
Robert Harding