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Climate change and activism through 2019: Powerful images that defined the year in 'climate emergency'

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One-horned rhinoceros take shelter on a higher-land in the flood affected area of Kaziranga National Park in the northeastern Indian state of Assam on July 18, 2019. (Photo by Biju BORO / AFP) (Photo credit should read BIJU BORO/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt make US Paris climate agreement statement in the Rose Garden of the White House June 01, 2017. ( Official Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
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TOPSHOT - Aerial picture showing smoke from a two-kilometre-long stretch of fire billowing from the Amazon rainforest about 65 km from Porto Velho, in the state of Rondonia, in northern Brazil, on August 23, 2019. - Bolsonaro said Friday he is considering deploying the army to help combat fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, after news about the fires have sparked protests around the world. The latest official figures show 76,720 forest fires were recorded in Brazil so far this year -- the highest number for any year since 2013. More than half are in the Amazon. (Photo by Carl DE SOUZA / AFP) (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 25: Actors Jane Fonda and Ted Danson are arrested during the "Fire Drill Friday" Climate Change Protest on October 25, 2019 in Washington, DC . Protesters demand Immediate Action for a Green New Deal. Clean renewable energy by 2030, and no new exploration or drilling for Fossil Fuels. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT - Passengers walk on waterlogged rail tracks at Ernakulam Junction station in Kochi in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala on October 21, 2019. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
CHENNAI, INDIA - JUNE 29: Residents of housing board complex in Chennai city stand in line and fill water from common tab on June 29, 2019. The locals mentioned they get water every alternate day and for only two hours in the morning. All the four major reservoirs supplying water to Chennai has dried up. The only hope for the city to tide over the water crisis is the water in Veeranam lake and the two desalination plants supplying 200 million litres of day (MLD) water to the city besides the groundwater. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)
A Netherlands-based non-governmental organization with a focus on environmental engineering and technology, The Ocean Cleanup, is working on extracting plastic from the oceans. After years of testing, they deployed their first full-scale prototype to rake up the 80,000 metric tons of plastic in the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch. There are an estimated 1.8 trillion plastic pieces in the patch, which the Ocean Cleanup technology aims to clean up at the rate of 50 percent every 5 years. Image: Screengrab from YouTube/Ocean Cleanup
TOPSHOT - Young ethiopian girls take part in a national tree-planting drive in the capital Addis Ababa, on July 28, 2019. - Ethiopia plans to plant a mind-boggling four billion trees by October 2019, as part of a global movement to restore forests to help fight climate change and protect resources. The country says it has planted nearly three billion trees already since May. (Photo by MICHAEL TEWELDE / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP via Getty Images)
A young protester takes part in a rally against climate change in Mumbai on 24 May 2019. Image: Getty
Refugees and the local host community fish together at a stream formed by intense flooding in Maban, South Sudan in November 2019. Large areas of eastern South Sudan have been affected by heavy rains in the past months, leaving an estimated 4,20,000 people displaced from their homes. Currently, there's no way to tell or track where climate refugees will go, which is an added pressure on a steadily–worsening situation. Image: Getty 
The women pictured are among 20 million people who have been forced to migrate due to extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. Around 80 percent of them are in Asia. Image: Palani Kumar.


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