David Pattyn / Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) males licking salt at the edge of a road, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso national park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

David Pattyn / Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) males licking salt at the edge of a road, Valsavarenche, Gran Paradiso national park, Aosta Valley, Italy, May

Ashley Cooper / Kayakers in the flood waters on the road at Storth, Kent Estuary in Cumbria, UK, during the January 2014 storm surge and high tides. January 2014

Ashley Cooper / Man holding onto post during severe storm with hurricane force winds, Blackpool, England, UK, November 2007.

Ashley Cooper / Blackpool battered by storms on 18 January 2007. The storms that day killed 13 people across the UK in hurricane force winds. January 2007

Ashley Cooper / Snow plough on Dunmail Raise, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Salt on the summit road of the Struggle to the top of Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District, England, UK. January 2016

Ashley Cooper / Victorian promenade shelter destroyed by severe storm, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. January 2014

Ashley Cooper / Victorian promenade shelter destroyed by severe storm, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. January 2014

Ashley Cooper / Paving slabs which have been ripped up and tossed 30 feet across the street after severe storm, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. January 2014

Ashley Cooper / Whitehaven harbour during the January 2014 period of storm surge, high tides and storm force winds. The coastline took a battering, damaging the harbour wall and eroding a large section of coastal cli...

Ashley Cooper / Whitehaven harbour during the January 2014 period of storm surge, high tides and storm force winds. The coastline took a battering, damaging the harbour wall and eroding a large section of coastal cli...

Ashley Cooper / Whitehaven harbour during the January 2014 period of storm surge, high tides and storm force winds. The coastline took a battering, damaging the harbour wall and eroding a large section of coastal cli...

Ashley Cooper / Whitehaven harbour during the January 2014 period of storm surge, high tides and storm force winds. The coastline took a battering, damaging the harbour wall and eroding a large section of coastal cli...

Merryn Thomas / Man in vehicle, photographing Salar de Uyuni salt flats, Atacama Desert, Bolivia. February 2014.

Eric Baccega / Photographer Eric Baccega in salt desert with military escort required to travel in this region. Danakil Depression. Ethiopia, March 2015.

David Tipling / Northern lights (Aurora borealis), looking north west along drain from Beach Road at Salthouse, North Norfolk, UK, February 2014.

David Tipling / Northern lights (Aurora borealis), looking north west along drain from Beach Road at Salthouse, North Norfolk, UK, February 2014.

Nick Upton / View from Barrow Mump of extensively flooded Lower Salt Moor and North Moor, cutting off the A361 road between Burrowbridge in the foreground and East Lyng after weeks of heavy rain, Somerset Levels,...

Adrian Davies / Danish scurvy grass (Cochlearia danica) growing on the embankment of a road. Scurvy grass is normally limited to coastal habitats and has extended its range recently, Surrey, England, UK, April.

Patricio Robles Gil / Stone sheep (Ovis dalli stonei) female licking salt off road, with lamb nearby, Stone Mountain, British Columbia, Canada

Tim Fitzharris / Globemallow (Sphaeralcea sp) clusters and dirt road, Salt Valley, Arches National Park, Utah

Sumio Harada / Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) pair licking road salt off of tourist's car, Glacier National Park, Montana

Sumio Harada / Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) herd blocking traffic and licking salt off of highway, Rocky Mountains, North America

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Road through Salar de Atacama, Atacama desert, Chile, South America

Peter Mather / Dall's Sheep (Ovis dalli) females licking salt off road, Alaska Highway, Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada

Milan Radisics / Service road crossing an abandoned pond used for the disposal and stacking of phosphogypsum with crystallised patterns and shallow, but highly toxic radioactive green water in Huelva, Southern Spain....