Earth Day 2009

Today is Earth Day, a day set aside for awarenesss and appreciation of the Earth's environment, and our roles within it - this year marking the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. As a way to help appreciate and observe our environment, I've collected 40 images below, each a glimpse into some aspect of the world around us, how it affects and sustains us, and how we affect it. Happy Earth Day everyone. (40 photos total)

This view of Earth, featuring North, Central and South America was taken by the NASA probe called Messenger, while conducting a fly-by of our planet in order to pick up a gravity-assist boost on its way toward Mercury. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington)

A farmer tends to his blooming rape seed field in the hills above Burford in the Cotswolds on April 21, 2009 in Burford, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) #

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows Iron oxides staining the snout of the Taylor Glacier, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, forming a feature commonly referred to as Blood Falls. The iron originates from ancient subglacial brine that episodically discharges to the surface. Outflow collected at Blood Falls provides access to a unique subglacial ecosystem that harbors a microbial consortium which actively cycles iron, sulfur and carbon for growth. (AP Photo/ Science, Benjamin Urmston) #

Sprinklers water a field at sunset on April 16, 2009 north of Buttonwillow, California. Central Valley farmers and farm workers are suffering through the third year of the worsening California drought with extreme water shortages and job losses. (David McNew/Getty Images) #

Local miner Cesar Abac uses a wooden bowl and mercury to pan for gold near at the village of Las Cristinas, southern Bolivar State, Venezuela on January 30, 2009. Four centuries after the lure of Venezuelan gold brought ruin to English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, the riches at one giant mine some say is cursed still haunt treasure hunters from across the globe. But the Las Cristinas saga, involving a ghost town, environmental devastation and fist-sized nuggets, underlines the risks of business in Venezuela, where the draw of natural wealth has been dulled by rule changes and economic turmoil. (REUTERS/Henry Romero) #

This photo from 1997, released by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows the robotic arm of a three-person submersible aquatic vehicle reaching toward a hydrothermal vent in the east Pacific Ocean far off the coast of Chile. New technology and worldwide demand for metals have combined to make deep ocean mining of the mineral-laden liquid spewed from these vents a possibility. (AP Photo/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Pat Hickey) #

A humpback whale raises its tail as it prepares for a deep dive in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of Oxnard, Calif. on Sunday afternoon, April 19, 2009. The offshore oil platform "Gail" is seen in the background. (AP Photo/The Santa Barbara News-Press, Mike Eliason) #

Ferid Sinan, a 40-year-old Bosnian man, carries a bag of coal out of an illegal coal mine, where he lives and works, near the central Bosnian town of Kakanj,30 kms north of Sarajevo, on Friday, March 13, 2009 . Sinan lives and works in the improvised mine which he dug himself, collecting low quality coal with his hands and primitive tools to make a living earning less than 5 euros per bag. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) #

Sunrise in windy Langdon, North Dakota, where the Langdon Wind Energy Center can be found. The center produces 159 megawatts with over 100 turbines. (Essdras M Suarez/Globe staff) #

Workers stand by to mount a propeller as a crane lifts it to the top of a power-generating windmill turbine in the northern German city of Hamburg on March 20, 2009. This single turbine can produce 6 megawatts of energy and is the first of two new power-generating windmills, built in the harbour area of Hamburg. (REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen) #

A silhouette of a single snow goose is seen as it flies beneath the moon at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area in Kleinefeltersville, Pa. Snow geese are on their spring migration north to their nesting habitats in arctic tundra regions. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) #

Analyzing a variety of samples from the atmosphere above the Amazon, Ilan Koren and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, show in the journal Science that smoke and other so-called "aerosol" particles can encourage or discourage cloud formation, depending on the conditions, and a their new scientific model shows how these two processes produce a joint effect on climate. (Science/AAAS) #

An Afghan man mines rock to make sand for use in construction in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 13, 2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) #

Snow-covered pine trees sit in flood water March 31, 2009 near Moorhead, Minnesota. A snowstorm had slowed recovery efforts as residents of Moorhead and neighboring Fargo, North Dakota returned to their homes as the Red River slowly receded. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

A North Dakota Air National Guard helicopter carries six 1,000-pound sandbags to the edge of the Clausen Springs dam Wednesday, April 15, 2009, as an attempt was being made to control the erosion of the emergency spillway. (AP Photo/ The Forum, Dave Wallis ) #

This undated photo provided by BrightSource Energy shows their Luz Power Tower in Israel's Negev Desert (mirrors concentrate sunlight on the tower at center). BrightSource has proposed building three solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif. A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the Mojave's most abundant resource - sunshine - is clashing with efforts to protect species like the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise. (AP Photo/BrightSource, Eilon Paz) #

Solar panels stand in a field of flowers at Acciona SA's solar power station in Amareleja, Portugal, on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. The 46-megawatt facility, has a production capacity of 93 million kilowatt-hours a year, and is the world's biggest photovoltaic electricity plant. (Mario Proenca/Bloomberg News) #

An enormous iceberg, right, breaks off the Knox Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory on Jan. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Torsten Blackwood, Pool) #

An aerial photograph shows a wall being built by Rio de Janeiro city hall to limit the expansion of the Santa Marta slum and stop encroaching on the neighboring forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 28, 2009. (REUTERS/Bruno Domingos) #

Stars in the night sky rotate above the distinctive chimney stack on the top of Cape Cornwall near St. Just on April 12, 2009 in Cornwall, England. The landmark, orginally built for the Cape Cornwall Mine in 1850 and was recently damaged when it was struck by lightning, was bought, along with the rest of Cape Cornwall, for the nation by Heinz in 1987 and given to the National Trust to mark Heinz's centenary. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) #

Minnows are deposited through a tube from a tanker truck into Lake Delton as area officials take the first steps in restocking the lake, Monday, April 20, 2009, in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. The minnows will serve as food for larger game fish to be stocked in June. A section of the manmade lake's shore washed away during thunderstorms last June, and the entire lake drained through the opening. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) #

A Kenyan fisherman holds a fish that had escaped from his fishing net, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009 in the waters of Diani on the Kenyan south coast. Plastic fishing nets, some bought for poor fishermen with American aid money, are tangling up whales and turtles on Diani, one of Africa's most popular beaches. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) #

A plant stands in front of piles of waste paper being shipped to mainland China for recycling, at a collection site in Hong Kong on Earth Day April 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) #

A bird flies past dumped plastic bottles and other garbage on the bank of the river Sava in Belgrade, Serbia on April 22, 2009. (ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images) #

The Llaima volcano spews smoke and lava some 850 km (528 miles) south of Santiago, Chile in this January 2, 2008 photo. (REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra/File) #

Residents walk in debris after a dam burst in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, March 29, 2009. Attention shifted to caring for homeless and hungry survivors after the dam burst outside the Indonesian capital, sending a wall of water crashing into homes and killing at least 91 people, and leaving more than 100 others missing.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) #

A red-tailed hawk uses its talons to to grab a meal of Brazilian free-tailed bat as a cloud of the bats emerges from Frio Cave near Uvalde, Texas, during an evening hunt for insects. (Mark Wilson/Globe Staff) #

Work is underway at a new oil well seen Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in the Sakhir, Bahrain, desert oil fields of the Persian Gulf. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) #

Lebanese workers use water pressure to clean-up the oil spill which polluted Rabbit Island, offshore the Nothern Lebanese city of Tripoli, on March 31, 2009. The oil spill was caused by the explosion of fuel reservoirs stationed in the southern coastal town of Jiyyeh during the Israeli offensive on Lebanon in July 2006. (Georges Haddad/AFP/Getty Images) #

A farmer works on a drought-hit paddy field on the outskirts of Chongqing municipality March 24, 2009. China is unlikely to need significant wheat imports this year as the domestic harvest has thus far escaped damage from a major drought, Nie Zhenbang, director of the State Grain Administration, said. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

Tropical Cyclone Billy, off the coast of Western Australia on December 25, 2008. (NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center) #

Dead carp are seen in the "Las Tres Pascualas" lagoon in Concepcion city, some 322 miles (519 km) south of Santiago, Chile on March 30, 2009. Environmentalists say a clandestine dumping of sewage in the lagoon led to the waters being polluted and caused the high rate of fish mortality, local authorities said. Picture taken March 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra) #

Russian Emergency Ministry staff watch a blast ripping through the ice covering the Kan river in the town of Kansk some 220 km (136.7 miles) from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk April 4, 2009. Explosive experts used dynamite to break the ice cover to ease pressure that could cause floods as melting snow increases the river's water volume. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

People watch a salamander cross a roadway in New Haven, Vt., Sunday, March 22, 2009. They volunteered on a recent night to carry salamanders, frogs and newts across the road during their annual migration to mate. On rainy nights in early spring, roads between forests and vernal pools are hopping and crawling with activity. On some nights, hundreds of amphibians cross small stretches of roads to mate, but many do not make it, being run over by cars. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett) #

Rescuers work to keep alive one of the 17 long-finned pilot whales that were being battered by rough seas after they were beached in Hamelin Bay, Western Australia on Monday, March 23, 2009. About 80 whales and dolphins were stranded on the remote southwest Australian beach where authorities tried to truck the few survivors to a protected bay before attempting to launch them back to sea. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell) #

A Polish seasonal worker takes part in the asparagus harvest in a field near the eastern German town of Klaistow on April 13, 2009. Hundreds of seasonal workers travel to Germany every year from eastern European countries to help out with the asparagus harvest. (MICHAEL URBAN/AFP/Getty Images) #

Green glass bottles are piled up high over an area estimated to be the size of a soccer field, near a recycling plant in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham, Israel, Wednesday, March 25, 2009. The green bottles are from all types of bottles and are separated for recycle purposes near to the processing plant.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) #

A male Asian Longhorned beetle, held up to the camera. A recent infestation of the Asian Longhorned beetle in central Massachusetts has mobilized forestry officials and lawmakers to rein it in. The beetles are wood-boring insects that attack a variety of native hardwood species, their larvae tunnel through the heartwood of a host tree until fully grown, then they burrow out of the trunk as an adult, weakening the wood. (Jennifer Forman Orth/Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources) #

Elang, an Indonesian student, swims in foamy, polluted waters after school, at the Pluit Dam in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Beawiharta) #

A wolf walks on an empty road in a forest inside the 30 km (18 mile) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin, Belarus, some 370 km (217 miles) southeast of Minsk, February 2, 2009. Still inhospitable to humans, the Chernobyl "exclusion zone" is now a nature reserve and teems with wolves, moose, bison, wild boars and bears. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko) #

More links and information

Earth Day - Official site

Obama to talk up wind power on Earth Day in Iowa - Boston.com 4/22

Earth Day - Wikipedia entry

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JUST WOW .....

Posted by Anne Teubert April 23, 09 04:56 AM

Number 36: Thermokipio agreliwn!! (Cypriots will understand:)
Great pics all the way, thanx.

Posted by Constantinos April 23, 09 05:19 AM

Simply awesome.

Posted by Mark Essel April 23, 09 05:37 AM

I wish I could be there and see these with my own eyes... I love the volcanos especially

Posted by Ghanashyam Master April 23, 09 06:02 AM

Where World GO?

Posted by Slavko April 23, 09 07:44 AM

Merveilleux, contrastes tr�s fort.

Posted by lou April 23, 09 10:05 AM

thats it. I'm moving to australia and making like a beached whale.

LOVE the pictures. always.

Posted by Anna April 23, 09 11:04 AM

What the hell are you guys talking about. There is so much pollution and crap going on in the world. Not many people care or are doing anything about it. All you guys are focusing on are the good pictures. You guys are the reason the world is so polluted. "Amazing! Our planet is a truly wonderous place! " Umm...OK. Oil spills, polluted waters, droughts, Excellent!

Posted by Cesar April 23, 09 11:59 AM

Amazing shots!

Posted by Courtney April 23, 09 12:00 PM

@23...I felt the same as the others about the Aussie hunk in #35, but I think there is more to it. These photos can in part be viewed as an exhibit of nature's splendor, and a gorgeous, shirtless Australian who is in the process of helping save the life of another of Earth's creatures is a prime example of the beauty -- inner and outer -- that exists on this planet.

Posted by Em April 23, 09 12:13 PM

Gorgeous images. Thank you!

Posted by Leigh Spencer April 23, 09 12:19 PM

Truely breath taking work. You forget how beautiful, dangerous and vulnerable the world can be!

Amazing. Its hard to pick which are my favourites!

Posted by chris snook April 23, 09 12:21 PM

Realmente heredamos un hermoso planeta...... creado de manera impresionante perfecta y nuestra presencia en esta tierra lo afecta; a lo mejor unos cuantos corazones perversos y malos no lo afectamos; pero realmente somos muchos corazones perversos y malos..... �quien podria cambiar este craz�n perverso y malo en uno bueno?..... o �seria necesario no tener cuerpo para no hacerle da�o, a este precioso planeta?....... creo que alguien ya hace mucho, mucho tiempo as� lo entendio y quiso que lo entendieramos pero no................no lo hemos entendido...... �� s�?.

Posted by Ad�n Ruiz Siller April 23, 09 02:35 PM

splendid pictures
i never get tired of coming back and watch your collections

Posted by herrpedro April 23, 09 04:09 PM

Amazing stories through pictures! Thanks!

Posted by kp April 23, 09 04:18 PM

Nice to see trained people helping amphibians, mammals, etc.
The world needs scientists to invent new processes decomposing or recycling waste materials. Not just that government should take some serious steps to implement the same.
Corporate world should add "nature responsibilty" as one of its yearly goals.
Thanks to Dell, Wipro, etc taking steps on this.

Pollution is nothing but an/a ill/side effect of industrialization.

Posted by Sunil April 23, 09 04:21 PM

Wow, you have a great talent with the camera. Makes everything so beautiful - thanks for sharing this with us.

Posted by Lauren April 23, 09 04:56 PM

Spectacular selection!

Posted by Pedro April 23, 09 05:08 PM

OH!

Posted by Andr� April 23, 09 05:18 PM

Simply amazing pics of our only home planet!!

Posted by wadi April 23, 09 07:50 PM

Those photoes give me my memory back, last year there was an exhibition in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
There always show a lot of photo from different part of the globe.

Posted by H.S. Lau April 23, 09 08:14 PM

Es un documento para guardar, para recordar, y tratar de mejorar, cada uno desde su lugar, Elina, desde Rosario, Argentina

Posted by elina maria April 23, 09 09:06 PM

Grand hommage � la terre
Merci

#36 particuli�rement lumineuse BRAVO

Posted by Marie April 23, 09 09:38 PM

Wonderful! ...and very touching...
Great work, as always!!

Posted by Romain (France) April 23, 09 11:05 PM

"Ferid Sinan, a 40-year-old Bosnian man, carries a bag of coal out of an illegal coal mine, where he lives and works, near the central Bosnian town of Kakanj,30 kms north of Sarajevo, on Friday, March 13, 2009 . Sinan lives and works in the improvised mine which he dug himself, collecting low quality coal with his hands and primitive tools to make a living earning less than 5 euros per bag."

Gee.... What a way to rat the poor man out. I'm with #45 Jon. A little less info would be better...

Posted by Hero April 24, 09 12:08 AM

The earth is beautiful, but man made a mess of it. These photo's are superb.

Posted by Ronald April 24, 09 03:37 AM

Thank you for such nice photographs. Hope these will act as an eye-opener to all those who are destroying our earth

Posted by dotcompals April 24, 09 03:42 AM

really horibble,,,, heart touching pics,,, hats of to those who u hav collected these,,

Posted by Rakesh.A April 24, 09 04:18 AM

#40 says it all. Taking it to the extreme, one can say that Earth needs to be cured from the human disease in order to get back its beauty and balance.

If we indeed are are the superior species on Earth, we have to stop anthropocentrism and accept the fact that there should not be 10 billion people on Earth if we want to share if with the other species. Unless we limit our population, one day we won't have anything else to observe, enjoy... and eat than ourselves.

Posted by Titon April 24, 09 06:20 AM

I never usually comment, but I am always amazed by your pictures. Great job

Posted by blairio April 24, 09 06:24 AM

Beautiful pictures as always!

Posted by Lanceloot (Belgium) April 24, 09 06:31 AM

Awesome planet pictured marvellously :)
Thanks again, Big Pic!

Posted by Galina April 24, 09 08:13 AM

great work

Posted by afsha April 24, 09 09:06 AM

sobering and thought provoking; not at all the collection of landscapes, lightning bolts, etc that I expected to see. This truly underscores the need for Earth Day, and every other effort we can make to raise awareness, educate, reevaluate our alternatives, and reverse the damage we have caused to the Mother

Posted by Skyfeather April 24, 09 10:12 AM

What amazing and emotional pictures, thank you for sharing them. I will be sharing these with my students as we embark on an environmental studies/ awareness unit at school.

Posted by Sarah April 24, 09 10:35 AM

Everyone says they love the Earth and all the plants and animals on it, but very few are actually willing to give up even a modicum of comfort or convenience to protect it. On the bright side, the Earth will continue on long after mankind has gone the way of the dinosaurs.

Posted by Jimbo April 24, 09 10:43 AM

Great Photos an Information.

Just absolutely Amazing!!!!

Posted by jamey April 24, 09 12:16 PM

BOSNA!
i kakanj hagen :)

Posted by mirza April 24, 09 12:52 PM

I Enjoyed This Indonesian Kid Looks Like My Friend :)

Posted by Jose Martinez April 24, 09 02:51 PM

Nice work! Every Images has its own feelings

Posted by Saleban April 24, 09 03:03 PM

Breathtaking!

Posted by Bonnie Forsyth April 24, 09 04:52 PM

seems to be that America is a pretty clean country. Most of the garbage is from other areas

Posted by Pat April 24, 09 05:19 PM

I love the pics

Posted by haily April 24, 09 11:31 PM

EXELENTES FOTOGRAFIAS OJALA ALGUN DIA APRECIEMOS DE LO QUE TENEMOS EN EL MUNDO...in english: exelent fotographics, maybe hope someday we're apreciate of wich we have the world.

Posted by DIEGO April 25, 09 01:00 AM

greats fotos maybe we have learn this world

Posted by diego April 25, 09 01:04 AM

Me gustaron las fotos tremendas....

Posted by Jose April 25, 09 01:13 AM

Save The Earth!

Posted by Adam Sundana April 25, 09 01:30 AM

From photo 16 - "A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the Mojave's most abundant resource - sunshine - is clashing with efforts to protect species like the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise."

This is why "environmentalists" will never have my support or respect. You can't even put up solar panels in the middle of the freaking desert without "environmentalists" crying foul.

Posted by Ken April 25, 09 01:55 AM

The pictures are truely spectacular, honest...
We think of it as somebody else chore to help fight pollution... not true
It is very easy to start at home with recycling, using bathwater to water the plants,
"cant be bothered" can not be a part of our vocabulary any more.
MAKE AN EFFORT IT BECOMES PART OF HOME LIFE AFTER THE FIRST DAY

Posted by DEBI April 25, 09 04:53 AM

La grandeza de Dios es espectacular, que pena que muchas personas, no sepan apreciarla. Las preguntas sin respuestas, en su debido tiempo se daran a conocer. Mientras, debemos hacer lo posible por proteger lo que nos queda para las futauras generaciones, eso se llama desarrollo sustentable.

Posted by Anonymous April 25, 09 10:19 AM

Awesome in every inpossible way... .
Pictures speak more than a thousand words........

Thank you for spreading those important words. Not much time is left to save this unique place we all call Earth/home. The only place we humans can actually live on/in....

Posted by els langeslag April 25, 09 12:39 PM

This is really interesting

Posted by Anonymous April 25, 09 01:41 PM

What have you learn from these photos beside saying great.

Posted by fjinnw April 25, 09 02:47 PM

perfeitas!!!

Posted by leandro givisiez April 25, 09 09:44 PM

Great work!I must say.

Posted by wang jun April 25, 09 09:44 PM

belle foto!

Posted by Adelaide April 25, 09 10:32 PM

I think that this site is wonderful

Posted by Jorden April 26, 09 01:54 AM

wow wonderful, amazing, more pic.. save the earth.
good. ....

Posted by babylyn abasula April 26, 09 03:47 AM

Subhanalloh..
amazing..thanx

Posted by taufik April 26, 09 05:05 AM

OK, I no klonger drink from plastic bottles. I bought a filtered water pitcher and two fo the travel bottles to refill and reuse. It is a crime that we are so ignorant when it comes to this planet. Shame on all of us for our indifference.

Posted by Carolyn April 26, 09 09:32 AM

What a fantastic but mind boggling pictures . Lets stop now disturbing mother Earth. Thanks for nice collection.

Posted by Mohan Chnadra Pargaien April 26, 09 10:26 AM

lets hope this enlightens us all- to treasure what we have, & protect our 'homes' people, creatures & environment , for safety & longevity.

Posted by J. Chase April 26, 09 06:28 PM

Nature makes no mistakes, what ever happens, what ever we do as a species what ever thought or action however selfish , loving, desctructive or caring. Our destruction or longentivity is up to us. What ever happens weather it be good or bad, it was what nature intended to happen

Posted by The Therapist April 26, 09 11:39 PM

Mmmmmm .... BAT! Gotta get me some of dat .... #27 .... awesome ....

Posted by Vasiliki April 26, 09 11:59 PM

Awesome pictures! thanks

Posted by Juddzz April 27, 09 02:57 AM

Thanks for very beautiful pictures

Posted by shabnam April 27, 09 09:18 AM

THese pics are so cool!!

Just remember DO NOT LITTER!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by sarah April 27, 09 07:08 PM

very nice

Posted by reza April 27, 09 11:49 PM

ITS AWESOME GREA PICTURES

Posted by Anonymous April 28, 09 05:56 AM

so great !!!!

Posted by asad April 28, 09 08:46 AM

excellent pictures! hats off to the photographers!!

Posted by Raj Tej April 29, 09 12:44 AM

very beautiful pictures...The Supreme Reality of Our Time is�the Vulnerability of our Planet . John F. Kennedy

Posted by raluca April 29, 09 08:10 AM

iLOVEEEEEEEE DIGG!!!
EXCELLENT PICTURES GUYZ !!!
Nature makes no mistakes, what ever happens, what ever we do as a species what ever thought or action however selfish , loving, desctructive or caring. Our destruction or longentivity is up to us. What ever happens weather it be good or bad, it was what nature intended to happen HATS OFF TO RAJ FOR COOL COMMENT!!

Posted by Raj Tej April 30, 09 05:30 AM

Thank you for showing us the other side of the world,the beauty and the hard side of life of others. It is really a eye opener. Keep up the work.

Posted by Bern April 30, 09 12:57 PM

Thank you from my heart for giving me this opportunity to know such things in the world which I least know it for the past 23 years

Posted by Francis Xavier May 2, 09 08:13 AM

I feel high honor for my internship project - green related!

Posted by Wang Gaoke May 3, 09 08:45 AM

Number 4, so beautiful

Posted by miranda Miller age 10 May 4, 09 04:03 PM

Please people, stop making a mess!
My Planet rocks!

Posted by Chris From The Netherlands May 5, 09 01:09 PM

Lol @ Raj Tej.

And he's right. We are the Planet and the Planet is us. When we kill the Planet we'll kill ourselves. The NativeAmericans also told me and taught me a lot.

Posted by Chris From The Netherlands May 5, 09 02:36 PM

atleast one should be aware of this , what is happening on our beutyful earth

Posted by neelu May 12, 09 04:33 AM

wow!!!

Posted by jsdd May 13, 09 03:16 PM

it is really amazing pics.i heartly thanks

Posted by sanju May 15, 09 12:15 PM

I like to see the failure of developed countries of the convensi�n Tokyo, not only to underdeveloped countries

Posted by Juan Vicente ( Venezuela ) May 15, 09 01:43 PM

Everyone, everywhere should do what they can individually and corporately to reduce, re-use, recycle and not litter. Each of us need to take responsibility.

Be at peace with the world... Are you doing your part moment by moment?

Posted by Ann Sparks May 17, 09 03:02 AM

Amazing photos - stunning eye candy!

Posted by Shirley Murray May 17, 09 06:47 AM

wow , good job , i think picture number 23 has more meaning for earth day

Posted by nazmi May 19, 09 01:31 AM

keep it going great photos

Posted by khalid May 20, 09 03:21 PM

when we will start thinking seriously to save this earth.

Posted by Dr.Mohit K. Tiwari May 22, 09 02:06 PM

I have never seen these pics before!Crazy pics.

Posted by xu May 25, 09 11:15 AM

Awesome !!!
Havent seen such a great collection !!
CONGRATS!!!

Posted by Krishnachandran U May 26, 09 10:11 PM

Earth is such a beautiful planet. Let's help it out a bit

Posted by Tanzie May 27, 09 11:13 AM

heeeey guys!! ;)
,my friend is that hawk!! :)

Posted by leah June 1, 09 09:07 AM

wickedddddd sick

Posted by Monique Webbstah June 3, 09 10:32 AM

we have a wonderful world don,t end it now

Posted by Anonymous June 10, 09 10:24 PM

I loved all of these pics they were beautiful (some of them)

Posted by whitney b. July 4, 09 07:18 PM

what a nice picture, now Im aware, all about the destruction of the global warming.thank you.,I learn a lot base of what i have seen in the picture.

Posted by Raz Geverola July 16, 09 08:45 AM

They 're so amazing!!!

Posted by Anonymous August 1, 09 04:32 AM

good work

Posted by harish October 17, 09 01:47 AM

wow

Posted by t October 26, 09 07:27 PM

Very very good pictures. Our earth needs urgent help

Posted by Jean-Claude Rappe November 15, 09 06:20 PM