AP Photos: Earth Day observed around the world

Apr 22, 2012, 7:18 PM

BY KTAR NEWSROOM
KTAR.com

(AP) – An Indian boy plays in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. Women wearing leaves and flowers ready for a celebration in Barcelona. A girl holds a poster calling for water conservation amid a rain storm in Washington.

The 42nd Earth Day is being marked all over the world today and AP photographers were there to capture it.

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