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  • Street style, Imran Amed arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Didem Celebi arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Didem Celebi arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Didem Celebi arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Alice Barbier (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Didem Celebi arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Didem Celebi arriving at Ludovic de Saint Sernin Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, on Ocotber 3rd, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, close up at Manish Arora spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Pavillon Ledoyen, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, arriving at Manish Arora spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Pavillon Ledoyen, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Yoyo Lu arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques and Alice Barbier arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques and Alice Barbier (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques and Alice Barbier (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, JS Roques (jaimetoutcheztoi) arriving at Acne Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Bercy Popb, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Dylan Sad and Claire Laffut arriving at Kenzo Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Maison de la Mutualite, in Paris, France, on June 24th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Claire Laffut arriving at Kenzo Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Maison de la Mutualite, in Paris, France, on June 24th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, arriving at Off White Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Charlotte Groeneveld arriving at Off White spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Passage Saint Pierre Amelot, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, arriving at Manish Arora spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Pavillon Ledoyen, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, arriving at Manish Arora spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Pavillon Ledoyen, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Yoyo Lu arriving at Off White Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, arriving at Off White Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Dylan Sad and Claire Laffut arriving at Kenzo Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Maison de la Mutualite, in Paris, France, on June 24th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Claire Laffut arriving at Kenzo Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Maison de la Mutualite, in Paris, France, on June 24th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Thora Valdimars arriving at Paco Rabanne spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Grand Palais, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, close up at Chloe spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Maison de la Radio, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Aleali May arriving at Valentino Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Aleali May arriving at Valentino Spring-Summer 2019 menswear show held at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, in Paris, France, on June 20th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Madelyn Cline arriving at Giambattista Valli Spring Summer 2022 show, held at Musee Art Moderne, Paris, France, on October 4, 2021. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Charlotte Groeneveld arriving at Off White spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Passage Saint Pierre Amelot, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • Street style, Charlotte Groeneveld arriving at Off White spring summer 2019 ready-to-wear show, held at Passage Saint Pierre Amelot, in Paris, France, on September 27th, 2018. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • (FILE) Kobe Bryant Dies At 41. BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - MARCH 04: Vanessa Laine Bryant and husband/American basketball player Kobe Bryant arrive at the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. 05 Mar 2018 Pictured: Vanessa Laine Bryant, Kobe Bryant. Photo credit: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Young Buddhist monk standing inside temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Young Buddhist monk sitting at temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • March 2, 2016 - ''LNG or liquid natural gas tanker entering Rotterdam harbour, to dock at a the new LNG terminal' (Credit Image: © Cultura via ZUMA Press)
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  • February 10, 2016 - Woman practising yoga by lake at sunset (Credit Image: © Image Source via ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Young buddhist monk standing outside temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Senior and young monk meditating in temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Young Buddhist monk praying outside temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • March 2, 2016 - ''LNG or liquid natural gas tanker entering Rotterdam harbour, to dock at a the new LNG terminal' (Credit Image: © Cultura via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 2, 2016 - ''LNG or liquid natural gas tanker entering Rotterdam harbour, to dock at a the new LNG terminal' (Credit Image: © Cultura via ZUMA Press)
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  • Aug. 2, 2013 - Young Buddhist monk praying inside temple in Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Credit Image: © Gary  Latham/Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Jun. 20, 2009 - A sun setting against an orange sky. Not Released (NR) (Credit Image: © Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Jun. 20, 2009 - A sun setting against an orange sky. Not Released (NR) (Credit Image: © Cultura/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 21, 2016 - heart drawn with chalk on asphalt (Credit Image: © Igor Goiovniov/ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 24, 2017 - Thermal photograph of skyscrapers and construction crane, London, UK (Credit Image: © Image Source via ZUMA Press)
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  • April 24, 2017 - Thermal photograph of skyscrapers and construction cranes, London, UK (Credit Image: © Image Source via ZUMA Press)
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  • April 24, 2017 - Thermal photograph of skyscraper and Lambeth Bridge, London, UK (Credit Image: © Image Source via ZUMA Press)
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  • September 2, 2017 - Breda, Netherlands - September 2nd, Breda. Every year thousands of natural redheads gather in the small Dutch town of Breda to celebrate International Redhead Day. The event, known as “Roodharigendag” in Dutch, occurs every September. It currently holds the world record for the largest number of natural redheads in one place. Nearly 2,000. And it attracts redheads from over eighty countries, with representatives spanning from the US and Canada throughout Europe and as far reaching as Syria and South Africa. (Credit Image: © Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • September 2, 2017 - Breda, Netherlands - September 2nd, Breda. Every year thousands of natural redheads gather in the small Dutch town of Breda to celebrate International Redhead Day. The event, known as “Roodharigendag” in Dutch, occurs every September. It currently holds the world record for the largest number of natural redheads in one place. Nearly 2,000. And it attracts redheads from over eighty countries, with representatives spanning from the US and Canada throughout Europe and as far reaching as Syria and South Africa. (Credit Image: © Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • July 8, 2018 - Greece - Drone images of faded lifejackets, rubber rings an pieces of the rubber dinghies left by refugees are making a mountain pile in Molyvos village, near Eftalou beach, arrival or landing spot of boats full of refugees from Turkey. There was an estimation about 500.000 life jackets in that place. Lesvos has been a hot spot for refugees. July 13, 2018 - Lesvos island, Greece  (Credit Image: © Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • Dec. 14, 2012 - Woman reading at breakfast (Credit Image: © Image Source/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • July 21, 2019 - Clonee Lake, County Kerry, Ireland (Credit Image: © Peter Zoeller/Design Pics via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Portrait of motel owner (Credit Image: © Axiom/ZUMApress.com)
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  • October 7, 2018 - Richmond Hill, ONTARIO, Canada - Gourds and pumpkins displayed during Pumpkinfest in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, on October 7, 2018. Pumpkinfest took place during the Thanksgiving weekend and hundreds of people attended to celebrate the Autumn season. (Credit Image: © Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press)
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  • , Australia - 3/10/2012 - (Photo by Shannon Wild/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • , South Africa - 5/31/2015 - Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)(Photo by Shannon Wild/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • , Kenya - 5/11/2016 - (Photo by Shannon Wild/VWPics) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field *** *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***
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  • January 5, 2020, Auckland, New Zealand: People play beach volleyball at Mission Bay under an orange-colored sky as heavy smoke from devastating Australian bushfires cloaked Auckland, turning the city's skyline into eerie orange color. (Credit Image: © Li Qiaoqiao/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Jennifer Lopez arriving at the CFDA Fashion Awards in New York City - June 3, 2019 - Photo: Runway Manhattan
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  • June 5, 2017 - Folly Beach, SC, United States of America - Dawn breaks over the Folly Beach Pier on a cloudy morning June 5, 2017 in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Folly Beach is a quirky beach community outside Charleston known to locals as the Edge of America. (Credit Image: © Richard Ellis via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 3, 2017 - Detroit, Michigan, U.S. - Detroit, Michigan USA - 3 June 2017 - Members of Moms Demand Action march to end gun violence. Participants chose orange as their color, adopted from the safety orange worn by hunters. (Credit Image: © Jim West via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 29, 2017 - Huntington Beach, CA, USA - With the Huntington Beach Pier behind them, the Huntington Beach High School Color Guard performs to the music at the start of the annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the the Huntington Beach Pier Plaza..Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer (Credit Image: © Steven Georges/The Orange County Register via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Aug 14, 2017 - Space - NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn's moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy nature of the moon's atmosphere. During its long mission at Saturn, Cassini has frequently observed Titan at viewing angles like this, where the atmosphere is backlit by the Sun, in order to make visible the structure of the hazes. Titan's high-altitude haze layer appears blue here, whereas the main atmospheric haze is orange. The difference in color could be due to particle sizes in the haze. The blue haze likely consists of smaller particles than the orange haze. (Credit Image: © JPL-Caltech/SSI/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • View Image Comparison<br />
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In the 1980s, the landscape around Al<br />
Ain - a small city in the United Arab Emirates - was dominated by the colors of the Arabian desert: tan, orange, and brown. Three decades later, green is the color that is difficult to ignore.<br />
The Thematic Mapper on Landsat 5 acquired the top image on April 29, 1984. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired the lower image on July 24, 2015. Turn on the image comparison tool to slide between the two images.<br />
In 1984, green areas were mostly limited to the large oasis in the historic center of the city. By 2015, several new parks, farms, nature preserves, and palace gardens had emerged, particularly to the south and west of the city. As noted in one recent study, the city now contains 12 million square meters of green space - an average of 32 square meters (344 square feet) per resident, more than any other city in the Arab world. The population has expanded rapidly as well, rising from about 50,000 people in 1975 to more than 630,000 in 2012. The expansion of urban areas - gray in the images - has primarily proceeded westward from the city center due to an abundance of open space and the presence of transportation, water, and power infrastructure.<br />
Green Mubazzarah is one of the most noticeable new green spaces. Located south of the city, at the base of a 1,200-meter mountain called Jebel Hafeet, the park is irrigated by underwater springs. Several other sprawling expanses of green have grown up along the outskirts of the city, including the Al Rawdha and Al Maqam palaces and several farms. One of the largest farms in the city, operated by Al Foah, produces dates on 1,320 hectares.<br />
Although Al Ain's climate is quite arid, the presence of a large oasis along the eastern edge of the city has made greening the city possible. While most cities in the United Arab Emirates have seen water tables fall significantly as consumption increases, groundwater levels have instead risen in some
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  • September 6, 2017 - San Clemente, California, USA - Surfers walk past a colorful wall as the the top women surfers in the world surf at the Swatch Pro held at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente on Wednesday, August 6, 2017. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) (Credit Image: © Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 6, 2017 - San Clemente, California, USA - Surfers walk past a colorful wall as the the top women surfers in the world surf at the Swatch Pro held at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Beach south of San Clemente on Wednesday, August 6, 2017. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) (Credit Image: © Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register via ZUMA Wire)
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  • December 17, 2019 - Australia - View from Terra of the difficult fire season in Australia in southern hemisphere spring. The image at the top of the page comes from Terra's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), which observes Earth in 36 different wavelengths. Acquired on December 17, 2019, the false-color image combines visible and infrared light (bands 7-2-1) to distinguish fire burn scars (orange to brown) from healthy vegetation (green) in New South Wales. Red pixels represent areas where Terra detected heat signatures indicative of active fire. (Credit Image: © NASA Earth/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • August 3, 2017: Changchun, Jilin, China - A pedestrian and a car wade through a water-logged road in Changchun. Heavy rain has battered Jilin Province since Wednesday evening. Water resources department and metrological service of Jilin issued a yellow alert for flood. China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue. (Credit Image: © Lin Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Aug. 3, 2017- Changchun, China -  A motorcycle and a car wade through a waterlogged road in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province. Heavy rain has battered Jilin Province since Wednesday evening. Water resources department and meteorological service of Jilin issued a yellow alert for flood. China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.   (Credit Image: © Lin Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 28, 2017 - Roseburg, OREGON, U.S - Smoke from nearby wildfires colors the setting sun orange and red as seen from near Roseburg in southwestern Oregon. The National Weather Service has issued an Air Quality Alert for most of western Oregon due to wildfires burning in the region. Air quality levels are predicted to fluctuate and could be at unhealthy levels. (Credit Image: © Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire)
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  • August 28, 2017 - Roseburg, OREGON, U.S - Smoke from nearby wildfires colors the setting sun orange and red as a spider sits in its web near Roseburg in southwestern Oregon. The National Weather Service has issued an Air Quality Alert for most of western Oregon due to wildfires burning in the region. Air quality levels are predicted to fluctuate and could be at unhealthy levels. (Credit Image: © Robin Loznak via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 19, 2017 - Space - NASA's Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. The spacecraft was over 65.9 degrees south latitude, with a lovely view of the south polar region of the planet. This image was processed to enhance color differences, showing the amazing variety in Jupiter's stormy atmosphere. Four of the white oval storms known as the "String of Pearls" are visible near the top of the image. Interestingly, one orange-colored storm can be seen at the belt-zone boundary, while other storms are more of a cream color. (Credit Image: © JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/NASA via ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • If a volcano erupts and there is no one there to see it, did it really erupt? Before the advent of satellites and seismic monitoring, volcanic eruptions in distant places would mostly go unnoticed unless they were absolutely extraordinary. Today, scientists can pick up signatures of events occurring far from any human observers.<br />
That was the case in late April and early May 2016 when satellite sensors detected signs of a volcanic eruption in the far South Atlantic Ocean between South America and Antarctica. Mount Sourabaya, a stratovolcano on Bristol Island, appeared to be erupting for the first time in 60 years. There are no human residents of the island, which is almost always covered in glacial ice and snow.<br />
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired these two false-color images on April 24 and May 1, 2016. The images were built from a combination of shortwave-infrared, near-infrared, and red light (Landsat bands 6-5-4) that helps detect the heat signatures of an eruption. Both images show the heat signatures (red-orange) of what is likely hot lava, while white plumes trail away from the crater. The band combination makes the ice cover of the island appear bright blue-green.<br />
With a roughly rectangular shape that is 12 kilometers by 14 kilometers (7 by 8.5 miles), Bristol Island is one of the largest in the South Sandwich Islands chain. The highest peak on the island stands 1100 meters (3,609 feet) above sea level. Due to the remote location and the lack of landing sites amidst its ice cap, the stratovolcano is one of the least studied in the world. The last known eruption on Bristol Island was reported in 1956.<br />
References<br />
Culture Volcan (2016, May 3) Possible activité éruptive sur le volcan Bristol Island. Accessed May 9, 2016.<br />
Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program (2016) Bristol Volcano. Accessed May 9, 2016.<br />
South Sandwich Islands Volcano Monitoring Blog (2016, May 2) Eruption on Bristol Island. Accessed May 9, 2016.<br />
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The dam failure released about 60 million cubic meters - the equivalent of 25,000 Olympic swimming pools or 187 oil tankers - of contaminated material. Floods killed at least 13 people in Bento Rodrigues and displaced several hundred people in towns and cities downstream.<br />
Contaminated water first moved northeast through the Rio do Carmo until that river meets the Rio Piranga and becomes the Rio Doce. From there, it continued flowing northeast until the city of Governador Valadares, where the Rio Doce makes a turn to the east and heads toward Linhares and the Atlantic Ocean. As heavy mud passed Governador Valadares, a city of 280,000 people, authorities shut off the municipal water supply.<br />
Seventeen days after the dam failed, orange-brown water reached the Atlantic Ocean. Contaminated water continued to flow into the Atlantic on November 30, 2015, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image. A muddy plume of water extended several kilometers into the Atlantic Ocean.<br />
According to news reports, the contaminated water contains high levels of mercury, arsenic, chromium, and manganese. Some scientists have expressed concern that toxins - along with a reduction in oxygen available in the water caused by the influx of silt and clay - will cause widespread harm to the river's ecosystems.<br />
Samarco, the company that owns the iron mine, has deployed floating barriers along parts of the Rio Doce in an effort to limit ecosystem damage. The company has also dredged the river's mouth to encourage contaminated mud to flow swiftly into the sea rather than settling at its mouth.<br />
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  • As world leaders converged on Paris for a United Nations conference on climate change, residents of Beijing and other cities in eastern China faced the most severe air pollution the nation has seen in 2015. Chinese authorities issued an "orange" air pollution alert, the second highest level on a four-tiered warning scale. They advised millions of people to stay indoors, halted construction at some sites, and ordered factories to close, according to news reports.<br />
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this natural-color image of northeastern China on November 30, 2015. The image shows extensive haze, low clouds, and fog over the region. The brightest areas are clouds or fog, which have tinges of gray or yellow because of the air pollution. Other cloud-free areas have a pall of gray haze that mostly blots out the cities below. In areas where the ground is visible, some of the landscape is covered with snow. The haze extended southwest from Beijing for hundreds of kilometers and was particularly dense in low-lying areas in the Guanzhong Plain.<br />
On the day VIIRS acquired the image, PM2.5 measurements peaked at 666 micrograms per cubic meter of air, according to ground-based sensors at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Fine, airborne particulate matter (PM) that is smaller than 2.5 microns (about one thirtieth the width of a human hair) is considered dangerous because it is small enough to enter human lungs. Most PM2.5 aerosol particles result from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass (wood fires and agricultural burning). The World Health Organization considers PM2.5 levels to be safe when they are below 25.<br />
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  • acquired September 20, 2015<br />
Devastation of the sort that the fast-moving Valley Fire unleashed rarely has a single cause. Long before the blaze started burning through Boggs Mountain State Forest, decades of aggressive firefighting - and too few prescribed fires - left the woodlands overloaded with brush and other fuel. Meanwhile, extreme drought over the past four years has sucked the forests dry of moisture, leaving the trees unusually combustible. An army of destructive bark beetles also has made the pine forests vulnerable.<br />
So when a weather system delivered abnormally hot temperatures and gusty winds to Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties in northern California, the forests were primed to burn intensely. The first spark likely came from a shed fire in the town of Cobb on September 12, 2015. Once it had escaped the shed, the fire spread with such speed and intensity that firefighters could do little to slow it. Within 48 hours, the inferno had burned an area twice as large as Manhattan as it raced southeast along ridges in Boggs Mountain State Forest toward the communities of Harbin Springs, Anderson Springs, and Middletown.<br />
As flames pushed toward these towns, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes with little warming. In all, authorities report that 1,910 structures were destroyed, including many at a popular hot springs resort in Harbin Springs. At least three civilians lost their lives; four firefighters were injured. The Valley Fire has already become one of California's most damaging fires. Only two other blazes - the Cedar fire in 2003 and the Tunnel Fire in 1991 - destroyed more structures.<br />
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured false-color view of the charred landscape on September 20, 2015. The image is a composite based on data OLI collected with its short-wave infrared and near-infrared bands. Newly burned land has a strong signal in short-wave infrared bands, visible as dark red-orange areas. Unburned forests appear gray. B
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