A pelican stands at the side of the lake as people enjoy the spring weather from a bench in a park in Essen, Germany, Thursday, March 24.

A man rows with a kayak on the lake in Annecy on Feb. 10, eastern France.

Seen in this two picture combo, at left taken on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 are cars abandoned during the beginning of the this week's blizzard on north bound lanes of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, while photo at right taken on Thursday, Feb. 3, more than 28 hours later, shows traffic flowing freely. City officials took criticism for keeping Lake Shore Drive open at the beginning of this week's blizzard. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley spoke publicly for the first time to defend his city's handling of the storm, which stranded hundreds of motorists in whiteout conditions on the famous Lake Shore Drive.

Tourists take a boat ride amid heavy fog at Sukhana Lake on a cold day in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on January 10, 2011.

Montpelier firefighters Galen Thereault, right, and Danny Ruggles hold a dog named Emma just after she was rescued from the North Branch of the Winooski River in Montpelier, Vt., on Wednesday, Jan. 5. Emma was in the water for about 40 minutes after falling through the ice.

A ship sails on the Danube on a foggy morning in Bazias, western Romania, Saturday, Oct. 9. Red sludge contaminated Danube waters on Thursday threatening a half dozen nations along one of Europe's key waterways. In Hungary, the population of Kolontar was evacuated early this morning, and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a new sludge deluge. Authorities asked residents to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation.

Sea Gulls feed amongst tens of thousands of dead Sea Urchins washed up on Malibu beach, which is closed to swimmers after recent rains caused the water to be contaiminated, before the dedication ceremony for the iconic Malibu Surfrider Beach to become the first "World Surfing Reserve" (WSR), in Malibu on Oct. 9. Malibu is California's definitive pointbreak and one of the world's first "perfect waves", but has struggled with water quality issues in recent years. The WSR program, inspired by UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, helps the surfing community to identify and preserve it's surfing heritage, raise environmental awareness and issues at important surf breaks.

A petrochemical factory is seen near a polluted river with its water turned black due to many factories dumping industrial sewage into it, in Qingdao, China, on Oct. 9, 2010. China is expected to achieve its target of a 20 percent cut in energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in the five years to 2010 as planned also with the aim to cut the industrial pollution to protect environment, according to state media reports.