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Intensive farming, greenhouse gases, drying up of the Sahararegion, melting of the ice caps, endemic déforestation, massive firesin the south of Europe and the United States, lowering of waterressources, volcanic eruptions…Thoses disasters have an obviousimpact on climate change of our planet. Furthermore whilepolluting, humans also act directly on those phenomenons while atthe same time using their knowledge and science in the fight againstthem. Hemis proposes an insight on those issues through a selectionof strong and genuine images.

HEMIS_335503 : France, Yvelines, chimneys of the Porcheville Power Station, Thermal Power station (aerial view)

HEMIS_227973United-States, Alaska, Walrus cows and bulls and calves hauled out on pack icebetween Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (aerial view)

HEMIS_321702Italy, Sicily, Etna, eruption in 2001, window on a lava tube with the Mount Ritmanerupting lava sand in the background

HEMIS_328732Kenya, Masai Mara National Reserve, Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)dead because of dryness

HEMIS_228699United States, Alaska, Kenai Peninsula, Anchor Pt, Mt Augustine eruption clouds,summer scenic

HEMIS_314741Vietnam, Ninh Binh Province, Hoa Lu, monsoon rain, farmer on the old Ho ChiMinh trail

HEMIS_327765Australia, Queensland, Whitsunday Coast, Great Barrier Reef, listed as WorldHeritage by UNESCO, Heart (Shaped) Reef

HEMIS_220099United States, Oregon, Deschutes National forest, forest Fire

HEMIS_262844Laos, Oudomsai Province, alongside the Mekong river, the forest is set on fire inorder to practice the slash and burn agriculture, the Laos mainly grow rice and haveone harvest

HEMIS_079913Argentina, Santa Cruz province, Patagonia, Glaciers National Park listed as WorldHeritage by UNESCO, Perito Moreno Glacier

HEMIS_228029Antarctica, Shetland Islands, Chinstrap Penguins jumping off an iceberg along theSouth Shetland Islands Southern Ocean Antarctica

HEMIS_227750United-States, Alaska, Harbor Seal on ice Tracy Arm Fords Terror Wilderness AKsummer scenic SE

HEMIS_227910Canada, Manitoba, Churchill, Polar Bears Sunset Frozen Lk Churchill ManitobaCanada Pair Adult Walking

HEMIS_227753United-States, Alaska, aerial of ringed seals outside their breathing holes on multilayer ice water pans Arctic Alaska

HEMIS_227919United States, Alaska, Polar Bear Sow and Cub on multi-layer ice pans along Arcticcoast where Chukchi & Bering seas meet (aerial view)

HEMIS_227925United States, Alaska, Polar Bear mother and cub standing on small iceberg in theBeaufort Sea 90 miles off the coast from Barrow Alaska Arctic Summer

HEMIS_227936United States, Alaska, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Polar Bear Leaps intoBeaufort Sea from Ice ANWR AK AR Winter

HEMIS_227970United States, Alaska, Group of Walrus on Ice Pack Bering Sea WE AK Spring

HEMIS_227978United States, Alaska, Walrus cows and bulls and calves hauled out on pack icebetweek Chukchi and Beaufort Seas (aerial view)

HEMIS_228629United States, Alaska, Icebergs in Melt Pond on Mendenhall Glacier SE AK

HEMIS_228637United States, Alaska, Childs Glacier Calves In Copper River SC AK SummerChugach NF Copper River Delta

HEMIS_228645United States, Alaska, Close up of Face of Sawyer Glacier Tracy Arm SE AK SummerFords-Terror Wilderness Area

HEMIS_228655United States, Alaska, Chunk of ice the size of a ten story building calves from theface of LeConte Glacier LeConte Bay Southeast Alaska Tongass National Forestcomposite

HEMIS_228656United States, Alaska, Hubbard Glacier calving Disenchantment Bay SE AK summerscenic

HEMIS_228691Antarctica, iceberg floating in front of a tidewater glacier off the Western AntarcticPeninsula in the Southern Ocean Antarctica

HEMIS_227937 : United States, Alaska, Polar Bear on giant iceberg in the frozen eastern Chukchi Sea Arctic Alaska

HEMIS_228692Canada, Year Old Ice Along Coast of Ellesmere Is Canada Autumn Hell's Gate

HEMIS_228867United States, Alaska, National Petroleum Reserve, multi-layer ice and fresh waterpans formed as salt squeezed from ice National Petroleum Reserve (aerial view)

HEMIS_354448France, Haute-Savoie, Chamonix, crevasse on ice sea

HEMIS_227362United-States, Alaska, Two Hikers Drift on Iceberg in Melt Pond Composite AK SESummer

HEMIS_228701United States, Alaska, National Petroleum Reserve, Polygons formed in Arctic tundrafrom freeze/thaw of permafrost (aerial view)

HEMIS_313443Algeria, Sahara, Tassili of Hoggar (Ahaggar Mountains), a flower has grown in theclay of a waterless wadi

HEMIS_306016Sudan, Libyan Desert, camel skeleton along the Skeleton Road

HEMIS_026616Libya, region of the desert, the Fezzan (Sahara), Tuareg at the edge of a well of thesmall oasis of Takioumet

HEMIS_094254Tunisia, Southern Tunisia, sandstorm near El Faouar

HEMIS_239191Yemen, Northern Yemen, Tihama desert coastal plain, sandstorm

HEMIS_120043Mali, Timbuktu Province, back from the well in Hombori Mounts

HEMIS_120070Mali, province of Timbuktu, water supply duty close to the Hand of Fatima in theHombori Mounts

HEMIS_143328Algeria, Tadrart, digging a well

HEMIS_185081Egypt, Libyan Desert, Dakhla Oasis, cart during a sand wind (khamsin)

HEMIS_198098Morocco, South Morocco, Laayoune area, desert and laguna, dunes protection system(former Spanish Sahara)

HEMIS_206944Mauritania, Adrar Region, Chinguetti area, Leguerara, sand dune

HEMIS_282518Namibia, Kunene Region, Skeleton Coast National Park (aerial view)

HEMIS_282539Namibia, Hardap Region, Namib Naukluft Park, Sossusvlei, Sand dunes, Dead Vlei

HEMIS_200019California, El Mirage, Tree snag and cracked mud in dry lake bed

HEMIS_335756Namibia, Hardap Region, Namib desert, Namib Naukluft National Park, sand duneamong the tallest in the world

HEMIS_321872Kenya, North, dried up Milgis River

HEMIS_208482Mauritania, Adrar, Chinguetti area, Leguerara, drilled water well

HEMIS_309513Mauritania, Ouad Naga, nomadic people coming to the well of Aguilal Faye to givewater to their dromedaries in the desert of Tamachanet

HEMIS_210516Spain, Canary Islands, Lanzarote Island, Biosphere reserve

HEMIS_313402 : Algeria, Sahara, Tassili of Hoggar (Ahaggar Mountains), two puzzled camel drivers, last year there was still water for theiranimals at this spot, this year all is left is clay

HEMIS_229335India, Gujarat, tribes of the Kutch, The little Rann of Kutch salty desert

HEMIS_217481India, Rajasthan State, Jaisalmer area, gathering of women at the well

HEMIS_262840Laos, Oudomsai Province, near Pak Beng, a village with the Laos of the Mountains,the installation of a water pomp has changed the nature of the chores

HEMIS_345034India, Rajasthan State, Thar Desert, Khuri village, women going and getting water tothe well

HEMIS_327763Australia, Queensland, Whitsunday Coast, Great Barrier Reef, listed as WorldHeritage by UNESCO

HEMIS_123335Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef near Cairns (aerial view)

HEMIS_196685Stormy ocean wave curling over with whitewash and a barrel forming

HEMIS_249443France, Bouches du Rhone, Cassis, Labbe wind, south west wind on the Cassislighthouse

HEMIS_042617France, Finistere, Ouessant island, lighthouse in a raging sea

HEMIS_257485Thailand, Krabi Province, evacuation road in case of tsunamis at Phokeethra

HEMIS_161759India, West Bengal, Calcutta (Kolkata), monsoon

HEMIS_130882Italy, Veneto, Venice, acqua alta in 16th November 2002

HEMIS_130886Italy, Veneto, Venice, acqua alta in 16th November 2002

HEMIS_243725Panama, Panama and Colon Provinces, Chagres National Park, Parque NacionalChagres, Indigenous, Embera Indian Village, football

HEMIS_251834Burkina Faso, Oudalan Province, Sahel, Saouga, ATV vehicle crossing water on thetrack of Saouga to Gorom Gorom during the rainy season

HEMIS_314690Vietnam, Hanoi, traffic in the flooded city

HEMIS_090575Vietnam, Thua Thien Hue Province, city of Hue, tricycle under the monsoon

HEMIS_264651France, Bouches du Rhone, Camargue, flooding nearby Saliers (aerial view)

HEMIS_189256France, Indre et Loire, flooded field by Indre River flood near Rigny Usse

HEMIS_198878Benin, Atlantic County, Ganvie lake village on Nokoue Lake (aerial view)

HEMIS_199609United States, Hawaii, Maui, Stormy raining and wind, flooding view from carinterior

HEMIS_321716Italy, Sicily, Pedara, Etna, Eruption 2001, villages around Etna, including Catania,were covered by a blanket of black lava sand creating huge problems for airport,traffic, roofs and people breathing, here one street of Pedara

HEMIS_196766Hawaii, Hawaii Island (Big Island), Kalapana, flowing lava consumes road atKalapana

HEMIS_199367United States, Hawaii, Big Island, Pu'u O'o eruption, pahoehoe lava in foreground,fountain background A27F

HEMIS_264635 : France, Bouches du Rhone, flooding in Camargue (aerial view)

HEMIS_256122Italy, Sicily, 2002 eruption at the North face of the Etna

HEMIS_228696United States, Alaska, DOF Employee '97 Simels Fire Innoko Natl Wildlife RefugeInterior AK summer scenic

HEMIS_275759France, Bouches du Rhone, Pays d'Aix, fire in the Montagne Sainte Victoire,Protection Civile, casting off

HEMIS_255312France, Var, vineyards after a fire near La Motte (aerial view)

HEMIS_228694United States, Alaska, fire in the forest, summer scenic

HEMIS_228698United States, Alaska, smoke plume from forest fire near Tustumena Lake KenaiNational Wildlife Refuge Kenai Peninsula (aerial view)

HEMIS_301073France, Val d'Oise, Roissy en France, pollution due to an industrial fire

HEMIS_315340South Africa, Free State Province, Road near Ficksburg, Burning

HEMIS_329768Australia, Northern Territory, Kakadu National Park, listed as World Heritage byUNESCO, Controlled burn, fire in the bush

HEMIS_335549France, Moselle, Basse-Ham, world Biennial paramotor 2006, nuclear power stationof Cattenon in the background (aerial view)

HEMIS_304240Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Volcanoes Turvururu and Vulcan (aerial view)

HEMIS_354454New Zealand, North Island, Bay of Plenty, White Island, White Island, volcaniceruption

HEMIS_353094Ethiopia, Afar region, Danakil depression, Dallol, Sulfuric acid pond Dallol is avolcanic explosion crater which was formed during a phreatic eruption in 1926

HEMIS_042131France, Correze, forest wiped out by the tempest

HEMIS_360335France, Maine et Loire, Loire Valley listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Souzay,vine pruning at Souzay, vineyard of Saumur Champigny under the frost of November

HEMIS_357026Morocco, Tafilalet Region, Merzouga, RN13 Road during the rain

HEMIS_352355Canada, Quebec Province, Duplessis Region, Whales Route, pollution in the borealforest along the Northern Coast of St Lawrence River

HEMIS_249574France, Haute Loire, Taulhac, Le Puy en Velay, garbage dump

HEMIS_168030India, Rajasthan State, Jaisalmer, Maharajas' cenotaphs

HEMIS_335266France, Eure et Loir, Levesville la Chenard, windmill, Chemin d'Ablis wind farm inthe background (aerial view)

HEMIS_193691India, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Tchanspa, solar panel of a baking oven

HEMIS_348975Germany, Bavaria, near Munich, cyclist in front of a solar energy collection station

HEMIS_266097India, Arunachal Pradesh State, traditional deforestation for slash and burnagriculture

HEMIS_269287Cracked soil in drought

HEMIS_331738 : India, Gujarat State, Ahmedabad, Manek Chowk (the old bazaar), pollution

HEMIS_300587France, Vaucluse, Bollene, industrial site of Tricastin

HEMIS_158494France, Paris, traffic jam on Grande Armee avenue

HEMIS_224047Grenada, Lady walking over yachts in the marina near Grand Anse, after being hit byHurricane Ivan

HEMIS_221214Canada, Quebec Province, Quebec City, Levis, Saint Romuald oil refinery and road