Today is World Environment Day, which casts global spotlight on environment issues

A worker uses a rope to move through a pile of empty plastic bottles at a recycling workshop in Mumbai on June 5, 2014. According to the United Nations Environment Programme website, World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5 to raise glo
A worker uses a rope to move through a pile of empty plastic bottles at a recycling workshop in Mumbai on June 5, 2014. According to the United Nations Environment Programme website, World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5 to raise global awareness and motivate action for environmental protection. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Hands hugging trees are pictured as participants take part in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most number of people hugging trees for two minutes in Kathmandu on June 5, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Nepalese school children hug trees in a bid to set a new world record for the largest tree hug as they celebrate World Environment Day in the forest of Gokarna village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 5, 2014. -- PHOTO: AFP 
A young Indian girl holds a tree sapling during an event on World Environment Day at Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district of Assam state on June 5, 2014. World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. -- PHOTO: AFP
Workers empty a sack of plastic bottles at a recycling workshop in Mumbai on June 5, 2014. According to the United Nations Environment Programme website, World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5 to raise global awareness and motivate action for environmental protection. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Cambodian activists attend the 42nd World Environment day in Phnom Penh on June 5, 2014. Cambodian activists gathered to celebrate World Environment Day and show their concerns over environmental impact and deforestation issues in Cambodia. -- PHOTO: AFP
A boy catches fish in Xolotlan Lake in Managua on June 3, 2014. The lake, with a surface area of about 1,000 sq km, is polluted as it is where sewage from Managua has been dumped since 1920, according to local media. --PHOTO: REUTERS
An employee collects plastic bottles at a garbage recycling centre in Managua on June 3, 2014. According to local media, Nicaragua plans to export and sell about US$40 million worth of scrap, waste paper, plastic and glass to countries such as Taiwan, China, India and the United States, among others. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A boy swims in a polluted water channel to search for coins thrown by devotees as religious offerings near a temple in Kolkata on June 5, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A recycling worker holds wires which she collected from a dismantled microwave in the yard of her tenement house at Dongxiaokou village in Beijing on May 28, 2014. On the outskirts of Beijing lies Dongxiaokou village, a major centre for recycling old electronic goods, or e-waste. Discarded electrical and electronic products, from abandoned air-conditioners to refrigerators, are collected and recycled mostly by migrant workers who either repair them or sell them as scrap. Those in the business in Dongxiaokou grapple with poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities, in addition to dangers associated with handling e-waste. The village is now facing demolition to make way for an ambitious urbanisation plan, and residents are worried about losing their homes and work. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An excavator digs out waste, including discarded plastic packaging clogging a canal on the eve of World Environment Day in Bangalore on June 4, 2014. Some 265 million tonnes of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which 170 million are largely created to be disposed of after one use, according to an European trade association for plastics manufacturers. --PHOTO: AFP
A handout picture released by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on June 1, 2014, shows street children collecting disposable water for car washing in El Fasher, North Darfur. Environmental experts from the Government of Sudan warn that the frequent contact with standing water is dangerous to these children's health. -- PHOTO: AFP
A handout picture released by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on June 1, 2014, shows street children collecting disposable water for car washing in El Fasher, North Darfur. Environmental experts from the Government of Sudan warn that the frequent contact with standing water is dangerous to these children's health. -- PHOTO: AFP
Nepalese school children hold placards on their arrival to participate in a tree-hugging event, in a bid to set a new world record for the largest tree hug as they celebrate World Environment Day in the forest of Gokarna village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 5, 2014. -- PHOTO: AFP
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June 5, 2014 at 5:34 PM

Every June 5 is World Environment Day, an initiative by the United Nations to encourage worldwide awareness and action for the environment.

It calls on people around the world to organise events to benefit the environment, whether a clean-up drive or a social media campaign.

To celebrate World Environment Day, we compile a gallery of pictures highlighting issues related to the environment around the world.

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