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The pandemic has forced many people to explore life in the open air.

For some, it has been the only place to socialise or escape our own four walls.

In January, a London art gallery used an augmented reality app to curate an unseen art exhibition along the city's Southbank.

It's felt that this approach could have long-term consequences.

Meanwhile, unusually wintery weather brought a warm atmosphere to Madrid.

People under lockdown flocked outside to mess about in the city's first heavy snowfall in half a century.

The weather brought transport to a standstill and snowmen and skis onto the streets.

However, the white stuff was a welcome release from the day to day pressures of the pandemic.

It's nice, really."

People were heading outdoors with a purpose in Antwerp in Belgium to help citizen science project "Clean air for everyone".

Concerned volunteers assisted researchers by pushing a buggy containing baby Claire and scientific sensors.

Bonaers: "I have a child myself and I worry that she has to grow up in a very polluted city."

However, holidaymakers with few travel choices due to Covid-19 restrictions descended on Hong Kong's Grass Island.

Their arrival caused a double environmental disaster by trampling its green pastures which the resident cows rely on.

Ho Loy: "Many of the cow you can see that they have like a strange, swollen stomach, which mean they have a certain amount of plastic in their, in their digestion system already."

Animal shelters were helping save lives in South Africa, nursing thousands of cormorant chicks back to health.

These had been abandoned by their parents, likely due to a lack of fish in the ocean.

They're going to either stop breeding or if they do breed, they're going to just abandon if they're not finding enough food."

And finally, an animal shelter in the Australian outback has given one bleating customer the haircut of his life.

Named Baarack by his rescuers, the wayward sheep hadn't been sheared in five years, and the 35 kilogramme fleece was putting his life in danger.

When a video of Baarack's woolly rescue and his new life was shared online, this lucky lamb became a TikTok sensation.

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