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A photo published on Instagram shows Anzac Bridge in Sydney shrouded in smoke. Source: @jadeshantiwest

‘The sun was red’: Sydney chokes under layer of smoke from bushfires

Achour Aghroud and Imad Idjennadene are touring Algeria by bike. Image credit: L'Algérie à Vélo / Facebook.

Meet the two Algerians discovering their country by bike

Photo on the left from Twitter, photo on the right sent by our Observer.

Canadian gold mine in Turkey sparks environmental protests

Oil-slicked penguins were rescued after a spill off the coast of South Africa. (Courtesy of SANCCOB)

Penguins in South Africa rescued after 400 liters of oil spilled during refueling

Schoolchildren in Nord Kivu with their seedlings that they are going to plant.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Children plant trees to fight against deforestation in DR Congo

The Soli & Green collective began replanting trees in the Kesra Forest in March 2019. (Photo: Soli & Green)

The tree-planting campaign in a Tunisian forest devastated by wildfires

These images from the website Papuan Archive show the local population affected by the clashes between rebels and soldiers in Nguda.

'Cameras, not weapons': young Papuans denounce the exploitation of their homeland

Volunteers from Healing Himalayas.

As Indians take to the Himalayas, volunteers try to keep foothills clean

Menindee residents hold up dead Murray cod (left); dead fish litter the Darling River. Source: Facebook

Locals blame authorities for mass fish deaths in Australian river

In Cape Verde, rubbish from 25 countries found on one beach

A selection of screenshots from a Facebook Live filmed by a Sea Shepherd activist. Source: Sea Shepherd Faroe Islands Campaign

Sea of red: the Faroe Islands’ controversial whale-killing tradition

On the left, locals protest the Lydian Amulsar Gold Mine Project. On the right, a pond polluted by acid drainage caused by a gold mine.

Armenian activists fight to shut down gold mine, save their water

Women sort flowers discarded from temples.

Polluting flowers from India’s temples turned into organic products

On the left, the carbonised briquettes made from excrement; on the right, the briquette being used in a fire. Photo: Nakuru Water and Sanitation Services Company

Kenyans turn human waste into household fuel

Photo of rubbish and flying toilets piling up in the Nairobi river. Photo from Clean Up Kenya.

Ban on plastic bags could stop “flying toilets” in Kenya’s slums

Curious onlookers gaze at a bizarre oval-shaped fish that washed up on a beach in Port-Bouët on August 15. Many people wondered if they had stumbled across a new species. (Photo: Prince Camus/Facebook)

What was this strange fish that washed up in Ivory Coast?

The landfill looms on the edge of the town, obstructing the view from people's houses.

In Russia, locals rise up against stench of landfill

On the left, a stuffed bottle, and on the right, a wall made from eco-bricks in progress.

Plastic bottles turned into eco-bricks at Philippines hostels

The first Warka tower was built in 2015, in Ethiopia. Photo courtesy of Warka Water.

How a bamboo tower could bring drinking water to parched communities

‘Freedom Cove’, the eco-friendly island home of Canadian couple Catherine King and Wayne Adams. Photo published on Catherine King’s Facebook page.

Canadian couple live ‘off-grid’ in self-sustaining floating home

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In pictures: Oil spill devastates southern Israel

Eagle cams: An animal conservation project with a twist

Indigenous Canadians take on oil tankers with massive crochet chain

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