Roland Seitre / Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) mother and young on cement with city in background, Gibraltar, United Kingdom

Nick Garbutt / Sheep grazing in front of Cemex Cement Works and Limestone Crushing Plant with Lowther Valley and eastern Lake District behind. Shap Fell, Cumbria, UK. January 2009.

Yashpal Rathore / Workers turning coffee beans in process called raking, to ensure uniformity of beans' exposure to sun. Cement drying yards ensure uniform and quick drying. Usually drying takes about 10-12 days. C...

Matthew Maran / Delacour's langurs (Trachypithecus delacouri) habitat showing the impact of karst limestone mining for cement to fuel growing development in Vietnam, Kim Bang, Vietnam

Matthew Maran / Delacour's langurs (Trachypithecus delacouri) habitat showing the impact of karst limestone mining for cement to fuel growing development in Vietnam, Kim Bang, Vietnam

Ashley Cooper / Castle Cement Quarry in Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK Cement production is responsible for 3% of human C02 output globally

Ashley Cooper / Castle Cement Quarry in Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK. February 2008

Ashley Cooper / Cement being pumped into the foundations in initial groundworks for 3 wind turbines, Kirkstone Pass, Lake District, England, UK. February 2012.

Ashley Cooper / Coal fired cement factory billows smoke in Inner Mongolia, China. March 2009.

Ashley Cooper / Coal fired cement factory billows smoke, Tongshuan, Shanxi Province, China. March 2009. In 2008 China officially became the worlds largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Ashley Cooper / Cement works at Tehachapi Pass California, USA, September 2014. During drought drought killed trees in the foreground. Cement production is one of the most carbon hungry industries on the planet, driv...

Ashley Cooper / Limestone quarry to produce cement. Clitheroe Lancashire, England, UK, March 2009.

Ashley Cooper / Limestone quarry to produce cement. Clitheroe Lancashire, England, UK, March 2009.

Ashley Cooper / A cement works at Tehachapi Pass California, USA, Cement production is one of the most carbon hungry industries on the planet. September 2014.

Ashley Cooper / A cement works at Tehachapi Pass California, USA, Cement production is one of the most carbon hungry industries on the planet. September 2014.

Ashley Cooper / A cement works at Tehachapi Pass California, USA, Cement production is one of the most carbon hungry industries on the planet. September 2014.

Ashley Cooper / A cement works at Tehachapi Pass California, USA, Cement production is one of the most carbon hungry industries on the planet. September 2014.

John Cancalosi / Septarian concretion or (septarian nodules) from Morocco. Dense mass formed by precipitation of mineral cement in sedimentary rock or soil which is later cracked and filled with other material, in th...

John Cancalosi / Hertfordshire Puddingstone, a conglomerate of well rounded flint pebbles, embedded in a matrix of fine pale coloured sand, all bound together by hard natural silica cement, Hertfordshire, england

Georgette Douwma / Mixture of Soldierfish (Myripristis) over cement pipes in artifical reef, Mabul, Malaysia.

Pete Oxford / Tabby house, Cannon's Point, St Simon's Island, Barrier Islands, Georgia, USA.

Alex Hyde / Tunstead limestone quarry, used for cement products, Buxton. Derbyshire, UK. April 2013.

Alex Hyde / Tunstead Quarry, this site produces cement products from quarried limestone. Buxton, Derbyshire, UK. April

Roland Seitre / Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) on cement with city in background, Gibraltar

Roland Seitre / Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) on cement with city in background, Gibraltar, United Kingdom

Suzi Eszterhas / Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) licking cement wall for salt , Berenty Private Reserve, Madagascar

Shibai Xiao / Mangrove seedling with cement plant in the background, Guangxi Province, China, April 2012.

Nick Garbutt / Shap Fell, eastern Lake District fells and Cemex cement works and limestone crushing plant, Cumbria, UK. January 2009

Nick Garbutt / Cemex cement works and limestone crushing plant. Shap Fell, Cumbria, UK. December 2008.

Nick Garbutt / Shap Fell, eastern Lake District fells and Cemex cement works and limestone crushing plant, Cumbria, UK. January 2009

Nick Garbutt / Sheep grazing in front of Cemex Cement Works and Limestone Crushing Plant with Lowther Valley and eastern Lake District behind. Shap Fell, Cumbria, UK. January 2009.

Nick Garbutt / Cemex Cement Works and Limestone Crushing Plant. Shap Fell, Cumbria, UK. December 2008.

Nick Garbutt / Shap Fell, eastern Lake District fells, M6 motorway and Cemex Cement Works and Limestone Crushing Plant, Cumbria, UK. January 2009

Solvin Zankl / Solitary Leafcutter bee {Megachile parietina} in nest hole in ground, Germany

Pete Oxford / White-fronted Capuchin (Cebus albifrons) resting on cement, Puerto Misahualli, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Tony Phelps / Threat to habitat of Albany adder {Bitis albanica} from cement mining operations, Grassy Ridge, nr Port Elizabth, South Africa.

David Kjaer / Smoke from chimney of Westbury Cement Works, Wiltshire, UK

Kim Taylor / Male Three spined stickleback {Gasterosteus aculeatus} uses sticky secretion to cement nest, Sequence 9/16

Ashley Cooper / Emissions from cement works billowing out over village, Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK. November, 2021.

David Perpinan / Male Crested lark (Galerida cristata) singing on a gravel pit, Cuenca, Spain, June.

Shane Gross / Cement waste left in a mangrove creek after construction of a road through the creek, The Bahamas. September 2015.

Shane Gross / Cement seawall during a lightning storm, The Bahamas. Seawalls that replace mangroves do a worse job at protecting islands, are far more expensive, and don't offer the ecological benefits of mangr...