Smoke and Pollution

Images capturing dramatic clouds of smoke from fires and industrial sources, highlighting environmental concerns against blue skies.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Cloud of smoke from large forest fire passing in front of sun. Montuejols, Aveyron, Cevennes, France, Europe

Cloud of smoke from large forest fire passing in front of sun. Montuejols, Aveyron, Cevennes, France, Europe

Steam of Water coming out of the Chimney of an Incinerator, Near Paris

White smoke against a blue sky

A large forest fire near Ellensburg in Kittitas county, Washington state, USA. Washington state, USA. 8/14/2012

Chimney

Raging mountain wildfire, rising smoke, northern Colorado, USA

Olive oil factory emissions.

Pollution. Smoke from an industry's chimney. Berli_n. Germany.

power station bellowing emitting smoke from chimneys

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-130. Hurricane Katrina

Air pollution, Smoking industrial chimney of a district heating power plant, Baden-Wuerttemberg

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-129. Hurricane Katrina

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-134. Hurricane Katrina

smoke from a fire in the forest. texture smoke from a fire in the forest. smoke texture. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OvchinnikovaxOlgax 9639739

Smoke

White smoke from the fire where wet boards and sawdust lie. White smoke from the fire where wet boards and sawdust lie Copyright: xZoonar.com/OvchinnikovaxOlgax 10861759

Bush fire in Masaï Mara reserve Kenya

Winter scener smoke coming out of chimney. France.

SMOKE IN THE AIR FROM A FIRE

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-133. Hurricane Katrina

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-126. Hurricane Katrina

Black and white smoke after explosion

pump station at geothermal power plant at Krafla volcano in Iceland

Smoke from a chimey in a beautiful sunset Smoke from a chimey in a beautiful sunset with industrial silhouettes Copyright: xZoonar.com/Polarpxx 18799296

Oman, Wahiba Sands, Sand throwing in the air

Wildfire Burning flame in an agricultural field Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 17542546

Energy generation - power plant two chimneys with huge steam cloud

Tagging Net for european storm petrels at dusk France

In-Situ Burn Chevron Pipeline - Empire, Louisiana - 26-HK-159-125. Hurricane Katrina

A thick smoke covering part of the sky over the rooftop

. Hurricane Katrina

France, Brittany, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, the 2020-12-25. Illustration of daily life in Brittany during the Christmas holidays in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, when France was emerging from confinement and a curfew was in force. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, le 2020-12-25. Illustration de vie quotidienne en Bretagne durant les fetes de Noel en pleine crise de la Covid-19 alors que la France sort du confinement et qu un couvre-feu est en vigueur. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Symbolic image, climate change, helicopter, helicopter spreading finely painted limestone and ash against acid rain, container, soil protection liming, forest liming, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Symbolic image, climate change, helicopter, helicopter spreading finely painted limestone and ash against acid rain, container, soil protection liming, forest liming, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Nutt, New Mexico, A rain storm at the Macho Springs Wind farm

Air pollution over coal power plant Mae Moh Lampang at morning with fog, Bird eye view.. air pollution

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - ASPECT Flight over Gulfport, Mississippi (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Water

Groundbreaking ceremony, at the Folsom Dam Overlook, Folsom, Californnia, launching construction of the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Brigadier General John McMahon, California Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressmen Dan Lungren and John Doolittle, Calfornia State Senators Darrell Steinberg and Dave Cox, and Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo among the dignitaries on hand to mark the start of the project representing a partnership among the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency

Air Pollution, British Columbia, Canada.

Billowing Chimneys Of Downtown Barrow Are Silhouetted By The Setting Sun, Barrow, Arctic Alaska, Winter

Billowing chimneys of downtown Barrow are silhouetted by the setting sun, Barrow, Arctic Alaska, Winter

Smoke and debris fly into the sky as a building was hit by an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestine.

Chimney

Smoke from field burning, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Gulf of Mexico (May 6, 2010) -- Dark clouds of smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies conducted the 'in situ burn' to aid in preventing the spread of oil following the April 20 explosion on Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit Deepwater Horizon.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Brownfields 2009 - Sustainable Communites Start Here , Environmental Protection Agency

Syria/Claritas Dust Storm

Photo taken during a helicopter flyover of the Hawaii Island, Monday, November 10, 2014.. Hawaii Puu Volcanic eruption and Lava Flow. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Huge Smokestacks and Foggy Cityscape at Night

Satellite - 26-HK-336-7. Eyewall Bands - 28 Aug (2). Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Boise National Forest, Idaho, to meet with Forest Service officials and firefighters, and to observe effects of the summer's Middle Fork Complex and Sheep Trail Fires

Helicopter in action over Coronado National Forest in vicinity of Mount Graham International Observatory, near Safford, Arizona. Secretary Gale Norton toured the Observatory, and discussed forest management issues relevant to the area, affected by the summer's massive Nuttall and Gibson forest fires

Power line with dust devil, sandstorm with lots of ash over burnt pampas, Patagonia, Argentina, South America

Smoking pipe Smoke of pipes pollutes atmosphere Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 15053547

FRA - QUOTIDIENVie quotidienne en France.FRA - DAILYDaily life in France.

England - Aerial view, Didcot Power Station, OxfordshireDidcot supplies electricity to the National Grid. The station can burn both coal and natural gas.

Wind Turbine Spinning

Aerial view of a vast landfill where a yellow excavator toils amidst the dark waste and rising smoke, creating a scene of stark contrast, Chattogram, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh.

Chimneys and dark smoke over factory at sunset

Symbolic image, climate change, helicopter, helicopter spreading finely painted limestone and ash against acid rain, container, soil protection liming, forest liming, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Burn-beating in autumn Vaucluse France

Flare stack at the site of an oil well, with a distant violent thunderstorm during a tornado watch, Colorado

Plumes of smoke trail past the smoke stack of a diesel burning factory used to produce electricity, San Carlos, Mexico, 2007.

Aerial view of Smoke Billowing from Power Plant Stacks, Victoria, Australia.

voltage lines and green agricultural landscape on a sunny day

Groundbreaking ceremony, at the Folsom Dam Overlook, Folsom, Californnia, launching construction of the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Brigadier General John McMahon, California Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressmen Dan Lungren and John Doolittle, Calfornia State Senators Darrell Steinberg and Dave Cox, and Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo among the dignitaries on hand to mark the start of the project representing a partnership among the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency

Aerial view, Scholven Power Station, vapor cloud over Herten and Westerholt, Herten, Herten, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Dust Storm

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - ASPECT Flight over Gulfport, Mississippi (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Views of Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in Nevada

France, Saint-Nazaire, 44, smoke during a demonstration against pension reform, 19/01/2023.

Pipe with smoke in winter sunrise time lapse Pipe with smoke in winter sunrise time lapse Copyright: xZoonar.com/AndreyxGuryanovx 1770802

Forest liming

Industrial air pollution at beautiful rural nature in winter. Climate change and global warming concept.

The Schwarze Pumpe coal-fired power plant stands out against the rising sun, photographed in Neupetershain, 06.01.2022. According to the federal government's roadmap for phasing out coal, the last unit of the power plant is to be shut down by the end of 2038. Along with Jaenschwalde and Boxberg, Schwarze Pumpe is one of three power plants in Lusatia whose economic infrastructure is largely dependent on coal production. Neupetershain, Germany, Europe

insects attracted to a flood light in Orbost, New South Wales, Australia.

Environmental pollution caused by heating chimney.

Construction Construction work on the construction of a residential building in the city of Samara Samara Samara region Russia Copyright: xSvetlanaxVozmilovax Vozmilova6555

England, Oxfordshire, Didcot. White smoke billowing from the cooling towers of Didcot Power Station into a clear blue sky.

May 2016 (off). Social movement against the Labour Act in Rennes. Mai 2016 (off). Mouvement social contre la Loi Travail à Rennes.

Chinese authorities shut down much of Harbin - a city of more than 10 million people - as unusually high levels of pollution shrouded the city and the surrounding region in mid-October, 2013. Measurements taken on October 20, 2013 scored the air quality index in the city at 500, the highest possible reading. Levels above 300 are considered hazardous to human health. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite acquired this true-color image of northeastern China on October 21. The brightest areas are fog, which is tinged with gray or yellow due to the air pollution. Other cloud-free areas have a pall of gray and brown smog that blots out the city and surrounding towns. Harbin lies under the Y-shaped patch of fog and smog in the south-central section of the image, completely obscured from view. Some neighborhoods experienced concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) as high as 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter. For comparison the U.S. Enviro

Nuclear Bomb Explosion

Multiple chemtrails streak across a clear blue sky, sparking environmental concerns.

Symbolic image, climate change, helicopter, helicopter spreading finely painted limestone and wood ash against acid rain, mixed forest, container, soil protection liming, forest liming, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - ASPECT Flight over Gulfport, Mississippi (BP Oil Spill) - USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Condensation trails in the sky caused by aircraft

High-voltage pylons, electricity pylons in front of water vapour cloud from Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Co2

Childs Glacier frequently calves. Copper River, Chugach National Forest near Cordova, Alaska

Miscellaneous - Katrina and Rita - 26-HK-431-28. Hurricane Katrina

Groundbreaking ceremony, at the Folsom Dam Overlook, Folsom, Californnia, launching construction of the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Brigadier General John McMahon, California Congresswoman Doris Matsui and Congressmen Dan Lungren and John Doolittle, Calfornia State Senators Darrell Steinberg and Dave Cox, and Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo among the dignitaries on hand to mark the start of the project representing a partnership among the Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engineers, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency

Germany, Bavaria, Cooling towers of nuclear power plant Gundremmingen, aerial view

Smoke from a forest fire under BC Hydro transmission lines near Lake Cowichan, British Columbia.

Iceland, Geothermal energy

Chimney Smoke

Germany, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Black Forest, wind turbines befogged

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