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EUROPE

SP A I N IT A L Y
Plastic harvest A new day dawns

A patchwork of plastic greenhouses Daybreak highlights the curvature
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covers more than 450km outside the of the Earth, as Italy slumbers in the
city of Almeria in Spain. With the foreground. Sicily lies at the bottom
highest density of greenhouses in the of the image, where Mount Etna’s fiery
world, this unconventional oasis makes glow can just be seen surrounded by a
it possible to cultivate land otherwise circle of darkness. The volcano is one
unsuitable for crops, and provides of the most active on the planet, with
more than half of Europe’s fruits and around 200 eruptions dating back as far
vegetables all year round. as 1500BC.
PHOTO: GETTY/DIGITAL GLOBE PHOTO: NASA

SPAIN ITALY
ITALY
SPAIN Corsica
Sicily
Almeria
Sardinia Mt Etna
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