Ashley Cooper / Gentoo house builder's Hutton Rise housing development in Sunderland, UK. All of the houses have either solar thermal water heating or solar electric panels, some have both. December 2011

Ashley Cooper / Hutton Rise housing development in Sunderland, UK. All of the houses have either solar thermal water heating or solar electric panels, some have both. December 2011

Ashley Cooper / Hutton Rise housing development in Sunderland, UK. All of the houses have either solar thermal water heating or solar electric panels, some have both. December 2011

Ashley Cooper / Hutton Rise housing development in Sunderland, UK. All of the houses have either solar thermal water heating or solar electric panels, some have both. December 2011

Ashley Cooper / Solar panels in Death Valley. Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest place in the USA, with an average annual rainfall of around 2 inches, some years it does not receive any rain at all. October...

Ashley Cooper / Solar panels at the Furnace Creek Visitor Centre in Death Valley. Death Valley is the lowest, hottest, driest place in the USA, with an average annual rainfall of around 2 inches, some years it does n...

Ashley Cooper / Solar panels amongst Badland scenery in Death Valley which is the lowest, hottest, driest place in the USA, with an average annual rainfall of around 2 inches, some years it does not receive any rain...

Eladio Fernandez / View from one of the fortresses windows into the backyard where all the cannon and mortar balls are stored. La Citadelle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Haiti, August 2016.

Ashley Cooper / The Isle of Eigg off Scotland's west coast, shows the way forward to a renewable future. in 1997 the island was purchased from its fuedal landlord by the Eigg Heritage Trust, a partnership between the...

Ashley Cooper / The Isle of Eigg off Scotland's west coast, shows the way forward to a renewable future. in 1997 the island was purchased from its fuedal landlord by the Eigg Heritage Trust, a partnership between the...

Ashley Cooper / Montbretia, a garden escape, flowering all along the banks of the River Barle, below Simonsbath, Exmoor, England, UK. September 2011

Ashley Cooper / Wind turbines beneath An Sgurr, Isle of Eigg. Isle of Eigg produces all the energy the island needs from renewable energy. Eigg, Scotland, UK, May.

Ashley Cooper / Four wind turbines beneath An Sgurr, Isle of Eigg. Isle of Eigg produces all the energy the island needs from renewable energy. Eigg, Scotland, UK, May.

Ashley Cooper / Tourists on beach with Mountain peaks on Joinville Island, Antarctic Peninsula.

Ashley Cooper / A woman subsistence farmer cooking on a traditional clay oven, using rice stalks as biofuel in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. All parts of the rice crop are used, and the villager's life is ver...

Ashley Cooper / Dead and dying Almond trees in Almond groves in Wasco in the Central Valley of California after the irrigation water ran out following the four year long drought in the Western USA. 80% of the world's...

Ashley Cooper / Dead and dying Almond trees in Almond groves in Wasco in the Central Valley of California after the irrigation water ran out following the four year long drought in the Western USA. 80% of the world's...

Ashley Cooper / Flood gate which is part of the new flood defences in Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK. Janaury 2013. Built after the disastrous 2009 floods that inundated large parts of the town. They were all overtopped...

Ashley Cooper / Meltwater on the Langjokull ice cap in Iceland disappearing into a moulin. Like all of Icelands glaciers it is retreating rapidly due to climate change and is predicted to disappear in the next 100 ye...

Ashley Cooper / Peak of Chacaltaya (5,395m), in the Bolivian Andes, which until 2009 had a glacier supporting the world's highest ski lift at over 17,000 feet. The glacier finally disappeared completely in 2009 due t...

Ashley Cooper / Bus in Delhi, India, December 2012. All of Delhi's buses run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), it is the worlds largest eco friendly bus fleet, and has helped to improve Delhi's air quality.

David Fleetham / Alconarian coral, starfish, crinoids and a feather dust worm all compete for space in this Indonesian reef scene off Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia.

David Fleetham / Although rarely seen, the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) is likely the most numerous of all shark species found in Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Hard and soft coral, schooling anthias and manta rays all come together in this Indonesian reef scene. Several images were digitally combined for this panorama.

Jen Guyton / Great egret (Ardea alba), yellow-billed storks (Mycteria ibis), a marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumenifer), and a little egret (Egretta garzetta) all share a small patch of hunting ground during dry sea...

Eric Baccega / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) silverback male 'Humba' with ants all over his arm, leaving Driver ant (Dorylus sp) nest he was feeding on, a socially acquired and transmitted taste, Viru...

Eric Baccega / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) silverback male 'Humba' with ants all over his arm, leaving Driver ant (Dorylus sp) nest he was feeding on, a socially acquired and transmitted taste, Viru...

Eric Baccega / 'In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous',with this quote from Aristotle, Brigitte Macron, wife of the French president, dedicates a panel at the closure of the naming ceremony of...

Nick Upton / Common swift (Apus apus) flying to its nest in a Swift nest box in the belfry of All Saints Church, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July.

Nick Upton / All Saints Church which has over 40 swift nestboxes in the belfry and a thriving colony of breeding Common swifts (Apus apus), Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Screaming party of Common swifts (Apus apus) flying around a church bell tower at dusk, where a large colony breeds in nestboxes behind the window louvres, All Saints Church, Worlington, Suffolk, UK,...

Nick Upton / Screaming party of Common swifts (Apus apus) flying around a church bell tower at dusk, where a large colony breeds in nestboxes behind the window louvres, All Saints Church, Worlington, Suffolk, UK,...

Doug Perrine / Cusk eel larva (Brotulotaenia nielseni) in surface waters of deep open ocean at night, Kona, Hawaii, August. The larval stage of this fish is translucent and has elaborated fin rays and an external g...

Staffan Widstrand / Dead Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) with ants crawling all over it. Lowland rainforest, Karawawi River, Kumawa Peninsula, mainland New Guinea, Western Papua

Phil Savoie / Milky way seen through ruined archway of Llanthony Priory. Brecon Beacons National Park, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, August 2017. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. ALL OTHER USES MUST BE CLEARED.

Pal Hermansen / Woman cleaning of eider down, from Common eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) all small particles must be removed to ensure long duration of the down product. Lanan Island, Vegoyan UNESCO World Heritag...

Sue Daly / Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris), Sark, British Channel Islands, July.

Nick Upton / Simon Evans taking a Common swift chick (Apus apus) from a nest box in All Saints Church belfry briefly to ring it, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July. Model released.

Nick Upton / Man ringing Common swift chick (Apus apus) removed briefly from a nest box in All Saints Church, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July. Model released.

Nick Upton / Two Common swift chicks (Apus apus), close to fledging from a nest box in All Saints Church belfry, inspected during a ringing study, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Simon Evans ringing a Common swift chick (Apus apus) removed briefly from a nest box in All Saints Church belfry with over 40 swift nestboxes, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July. Model released. Winner of...

Nick Upton / Swifts (Apus apus) flying and calling around All Saints Church bell tower at dusk, where a large colony breeds in nestboxes behind the window louvres, Worlington, Suffolk, July.

Nick Upton / Simon Evans ringing a Common swift chick (Apus apus) removed briefly from a nest box in All Saints Church belfry, Worlington, Suffolk, UK, July. Model released.

Orsolya Haarberg / Calf marking of domestic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) nearby Laddejakka. Every summer the Sami collect all their reindeer, move the herd inside a fenced area, catch the new calves with a snare and mar...

Tony Wu / Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) group of females moving slowly. Closed eye of the whale in the foreground, and the relaxed body language of all the animals indicates they are relaxing. Sri Lan...

Frederique Olivier / Panning shot of an Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chick following an adult and begging for food, with dead chicks all around, Adelie Land, Antarctica, January.

Nick Upton / Three juvenile Goldfinches (Carduelis) pecking at grasses and old plant stems along the edge of a suburban park before they all fly off, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, June.

Ingo Arndt / Helicopter transporting "CTD" (instrument for collecting water samples from all water depths) to research site 50 km away from the ice floe base. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 fr...

Ingo Arndt / "CTD" (instrument for collecting water samples from all water depth) at work from icebreaker Polarstern. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute; Bremerhaven...

Ingo Arndt / "CTD" (instrument for collecting water samples from all water depth) at work 50 km from the ice floe base. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute; Bremerhave...

Pat Tuson / Brompton Bike Dock, lockers holding Brompton folding bicycles for hire outside the Whittington Hospital. The solar panels above provide all the energy needed to power the Dock. Islington, England, UK,...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Common toad (Bufo bufo) standing on fallen tree over river, Atlantic rainforest, Glen Nant, Scotland, UK, September.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) on all fours in upland habitat with forest and mountain in background, Deeside, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, March 2016.

Mark Taylor / English Oak (Quercus robur) in arable field with wheat, composite image showing all four seasons, Surrey, England, UK.

Jen Guyton / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) tuskless female, leading her group in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The park experienced heavy poaching during the Mozambican Civil War, and elephants were...

Jen Guyton / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) tuskless adult female in woodland at sunset, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The park experienced heavy poaching during the Mozambican Civil War, and elepha...

Solvin Zankl / Mostly in the night, when the sand cooles down the hatchlings (Hawksbill) struggle to the surface of the sand and rush to the sea all at once. Here you can see the depression where they came out and t...

Andy Sands / Self heal (Prunella vulgaris) Close up of flower, Oxfordshire, England, UK, June - Focus Stacked Image

Julian Hume / Scaled illustration of all the historically known Mohoidae. The entire family is now extinct. Clockwise from top: Moloka'i O'o (Moho bishopi) (Extinct 1904); Kioea (Chaetoptila angustipluma) (Extinct...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mare aux Songes, 4,000 years ago. All of the animals in this image, apart from the Echo Parakeet (Psittacula echo), Pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus) an...

Charlie Summers / Transit of Mercury in front of the sun as seen from Denver, Colorado at 07:09 on 9 May 2016 Mercury is the dot in the lower portion of the sun, all other dots are sun spots.

Laurent Geslin / Sign for Ile aux Aigrettes Nature Reserve, explaining that all visitors must have permission to visit the island. Mauritus, July 2012.

Colin Varndell / Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris) in flower. Dorset, UK, June.

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

Tony Wu / Nudibranch (Gymnodoris aurita) devouring (Marionia sp) nudibranch, it took 50 mins to eat it all, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) adult female splashing lots of sea water and spray in all directions with her fluke and peduncle, Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) executing a powerful tail slap, sending water flying in all directions, South Africa.

Pascal Kobeh / Aerial view of the tourist resorts and cenotes - freshwater holes - located all over the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Pascal Kobeh / Aerial view of a cenote, a freshwater hole; they occur all over the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Pascal Kobeh / Aerial view of the cenotes, freshwater holes located all over the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Pascal Kobeh / Aerial view of the cenotes, freshwater holes located all over the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Sea Hares from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. During the middle ages all manner of land animals were thought to have their o...

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. Shows an apothecary removing a toad stone bezoar from a large toad's 'third eye'. Toad s...

Cyril Ruoso / Humorous sign in Cedar Creek Corrections Center 'Frog parking only - all others will be toad'. Prisoners in this facility are raising endangered Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) for release in the...

Cyril Ruoso / Humorous sign in Cedar Creek Corrections Center 'Frog parking only - all others will be toad'. Prisoners in this facility are raising endangered Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) for release in the...

Tony Heald / Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare) with porcupine quills stuck all over face, Pantanal, Brazil

Will Watson / Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum) pollinating Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris) in garden lawn, Hererfordshire, England, UK, July.

Erlend Haarberg / Woman sitting outside tent on the edge of the Ovre Pikhaugvatnet lake, Saltfjellet-Svartisen National Park, Norway, August 2015.

Constantinos Petrinos / Rubbish dump. Garbage disposal and recycling, is a major issue in all Greek islands. Mykonos island, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean, Greece, August 2007.

Constantinos Petrinos / Rubbish dump on Mykonos Island. Garbage disposal and recycling is a major issue in all Greek islands. Mykonos island, Cyclades, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean, Greece, August 2007.

Constantinos Petrinos / The Holy Monastery of Varlaam. This is the second largest monastery in the Meteora complex. It was built in 1541 and embellished in 1548. The old refectory is used as a museum. It is among the 6 out o...

Constantinos Petrinos / The Holy Monastery of Varlaam. This is the second largest monastery in the Meteora complex. It was built in 1541 and embellished in 1548. The old refectory is used as a museum. It is among the 6 out o...

Constantinos Petrinos / Two Greek Orthodox rock Monasteries in Meteora. The Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron (on the right - erected in the mid-14th century) The building serves as the main museum for tourists. The Holy Mon...

Constantinos Petrinos / Two Greek Orthodox rock Monasteries in Meteora. The Holy Monastery of Rousanou/St. Barbara (foreground right) which was founded in the middle of 16th century and in the background the Holy Monastery...

Chris Mattison / Barrel cacti (Copiapoa columna alba) all orientated to the north to minimise damage by the midday sun. Pan de Azucar National Park, Chile.

Chris Mattison / Barrel cacti (Copiapoa columna alba) all orientated to the north to minimise damage by the midday sun. Pan de Azucar National Park, Chile.

Chris Mattison / Barrel cacti (Copiapoa columna alba) all orientated to the north to minimise damage by the midday sun. Pan de Azucar National Park, Chile.

Chris Mattison / Barrel cacti (Copiapoa columna alba) all orientated to the north to minimise damage by the midday sun. Pan de Azucar National Park, Chile.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Castrated Zebu bulls which will be used in the Hamer Jumping of the bulls ceremony. This Hamer ceremony is a a right of passage into manhood for all young Hamer. Each naked boy taking part must leap d...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Scars on back of woman whipped during Hamer Jumping of the Bulls ceremony. This Hamer ceremony is a a right of passage into manhood for all young Hamer. Each naked boy taking part must leap down the l...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Jumping of the bulls Hamer ceremony. This Hamer ceremony is a a right of passage into manhood for all young Hamer. Each naked boy taking part must leap down the line of bulls, jumping on the animals f...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Jumping of the bulls Hamer ceremony. This Hamer ceremony is a a right of passage into manhood for all young Hamer. Each naked boy taking part must leap down the line of bulls, jumping on the animals f...

Christophe Courteau / Fishing vessel coming in to Guilvinec Port at sunset, Finistere, Brittany, France. December. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Onne van der Wal / Three classic 6 Meters yachts, racing during the Classic Yacht Regatta in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, August 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Onne van der Wal / 'Spartan', a 72 foot Herreschoff built in 1913, and her crew racing during the Classic Yacht Regatta, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, August 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individual...

Onne van der Wal / Start of the Classic Yacht Regatta, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, August 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.