Sergio Hanquet / Scientists performing Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) calf necropsy on beach to determine cause of death, whale found drifting at sea. Tenerife, Canary Islands. 2010.

Nigel Cattlin / Technician in experimental greenhouse with Rice (Oryza sativa) experiments including genetic modification. International Rice Research Institute, Luzon, Philippines.

Juergen Freund / Scientific experiment to see how rainforest plants cope under drought conditions. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Australia. December 2015

Juergen Freund / Scientific experiment to see how rainforest plants cope under drought conditions, with photograph on tablet showing what a wet healthy forest looks like. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Australia. De...

Juergen Freund / Scientific experiment to see how rainforest plants cope under drought conditions, with photograph on tablet showing what a wet healthy forest looks like. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Australia. De...

Juergen Freund / Scientific experiment to see how rainforest plants cope under drought conditions, with photograph on tablet showing what a wet healthy forest looks like. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Australia. De...

Juergen Freund / Leader of the Drought Experiment Dr. Susan Laurance and Dr. Yoko Ishida downloading data from the trees carrying scientific instruments at the Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Queensland, Australia. D...

Juergen Freund / Drought stressed plant at scientific experiment to see how rainforest plants cope under drought conditions. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Australia. December 2015

Juergen Freund / Dr. Yoko Ishida at the Daintree Drought Experiment downloads data from the trees carrying her scientific instruments. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Queensland, Australia. September 2015

Juergen Freund / Dr. Yoko Ishida at the Daintree Drought Experiment downloads data from the trees carrying her scientific instruments. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Queensland, Australia. September 2015

Juergen Freund / Dr. Yoko Ishida at the Daintree Drought Experiment downloads data from the trees carrying her scientific instruments. Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Queensland, Australia. September 2015

Ashley Cooper / Scientific experiment by scientists from Sydney University, Australia, in the Snowy mountains. The study is monitoring C02 exchange between the atmosphere and the soil on a grassland plot. February 20...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Veterinarian from The Royal Zoological Society Scotland / RZSS with blood sample from Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia). To be used for genetic testing. Inside RZSS mobile vet unit, Strathsp...

Thomas Marent / Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) male with scientific marking on nose, Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, China

Nigel Cattlin / Scientist working in large greehouse containing cultivated, pot grown plants used for research studies of herbicides, pesticides and other agro-chemicals, Oxfordshire, UK.

Edwin Giesbers / Researchers examining Raptor pellets to identify eaten prey. Part of a 60 year long-term study led by Fred Koning to monitor raptors and their nests in a 3,400 hectare area of coastal dunes. Near Amst...

Edwin Giesbers / Raptor pellet in hand, researcher dissecting pellet to discover prey eaten by bird. Part of a 60 year long-term study led by Fred Koning to monitor raptors and their nests in a 3,400 hectare area of c...

Edwin Giesbers / Ecotoxicologist conducting research into impact of thiacloprid, a neonicotinoid, on aquatic organisms. Organisms found to be 2500 times more sensitive to the insecticide in the natural environment tha...

Edwin Giesbers / Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) being swabbed with a cotton swab to check for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus DNA, Hallerbos, Belgium. October 2014.

Edwin Giesbers / Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) being swabbed with a cotton swab to check for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus DNA, Hallerbos, Belgium. October 2014.