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India
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e6.gifRam Singh (L) and his relatives, dressed in traditional Hindu saffron-coloured clothes, walk on a rubbish-strewn beach in Bombay on World Environment Day, June 5th, 2012. According to the United Nations, World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5th to raise global awareness and motivate action for environmental protection. Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters
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France
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e1.gifMasses of seaweed are cleared away along the French coastline at Saint Michel-en-Greve, northern Brittany. The mysterious death of 36 wild boars on France's northwestern coast baffled authorities after tests suggested large amounts of rotting seaweed strewn across beaches may not be to blame. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
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India
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e2.gifA man swims in the polluted waters of a pond next to his buffalo on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Photograph: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
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Indonesia
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e3.gifA child stands on foam from a polluted river at the Marunda flood canal in Jakarta. Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters
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Haiti
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e4.gifA woman discards waste into a canal in the slum area of Cite de Dieu, just outside Port-au-Prince. Photograph: Swoan Parker/Haiti
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Belarus
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e5.gifBelarussian workers walk at a used pesticides burial site in a forest near the village of Savichi, some 160km southwest of Minsk. About 950 tons of pesticides were extracted from the ground, loaded in plastic barrels and prepared for transportation for utilisation in Germany, according to participants. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
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Nicaragua
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e7.gifA dead tortoise is seen near the shores of Lake Xolotlan, also known as Lake Managua, which has an area of approximately 1000sq km and has been receiving raw sewage from Managua's one million residents since 1920. Photograph: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters
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India
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/06/e8.gifRagpickers collect recyclables as they are silhouetted against the setting sun at a dump yard in New Delhi. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
