There is not much time left. The call for immediate talks at the 2007 climate conference in Manilla in the Philippines still stands. (EPA/Francins R. Malasig)
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The lungs of the earth absorb huge quantities of CO2. Rain clouds over the rain forest in Gabon, Central Africa. (AP/Saurabh Das)
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The ice is melting fast. A blue-green iceberg swims in a Greenland fjord. (Reuters/Bob Strong)
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How can the complex processes causing climate change be stopped? It's a massive balancing act between individual and collective needs. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
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The climate is reacting in more and more extreme ways. Victims of a mudslide are carried for burial by rescue teams in West Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)
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Some places have too much, others have too little water. A Pakistani woman walks over a dry lake bed. (AP/Jerome Delay)
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Destruction of the world's largest forest: Protests against the continuous deforestation of the the rain forest in Mato Grosso, Brazil. (Reuters/Bruno Domingos)
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Smog in Kuala Lumpur. (AP/Mark Fallander)
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The largest circumference of the ozone hole in summer 2006, as observed by a Nasa monitoring instrument. It is roughly equal in size to North America. (Keystone/NASA)
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Save the green Earth! Protest against the construction of a new coal-fired power station in Sydney, Australia. (Reuters/Tim Wimborne)
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The clearing of new urban living space in the Chinese city of Chongqing: The Chinese drink tea in the dried up riverbed of the Yangtze river. (AP/Str)
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An Indonesian vegetable farmer waters his field in Bekasi, West Java. (Reuters/Beawiharta Bea)
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Global warming and heavy rain: The algae in Chao Lake, Hefei in China multiply. (Reuters/Jiana Yu)
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Workers measure radioactivity after an explosion in the reactor of a nuclear and heating oil company in Tokaimura, Japan. (AP/Kyodo)
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The last drops - and then what? The social consequences of climate change are difficult to estimate. (EPA/Gerry Penny)
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China is one of the major players at the Copenhagen conference. It is the leading emerging economy among other large nations such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. (AP/Ng Han Guan)
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Green light for the climate conference. (AP/Eckehard Schulz)
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The then Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger watering a tree near Nairobi as part of the 2006 climate conference. (Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)
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Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets on two wheels on Earth Day 2008 in Budapest. (EPA/Zsolt Szigetvary)
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Warning signs at the 2007 climate conference in Bali. (Reuters/Yusuf Ahmed Tawil)
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A workshop in the Swiss village of Aeschi bei Spiez teaches children the global connection between atmosphere, climate and water. (Keystone/Peter Schneider)
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