Cyril Ruoso / Terraced rice fields, Bali, Indonesia.

Claudio Contreras / Canal between chinampas, a wetland agricultural system, at dawn, Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, November

Ernie Janes / Irrigation on potato field, Norfolk, UK, July

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / Wood ants (Formica rufa), Arne RSPB reserve, Dorset, England, UK, September. 2020VISION Book Plate. Did you know? Wood ants are ecologically important, protecting trees from parasites and recycling nu...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) standing on ice feeding on fish bought by visitors from supermarket, Reddish Vale Country Park, Greater Manchester, UK. Photographer quote: "It's great to see herons in loca...

Aflo / Y-11404 View of Planet Earth above Moon

Doug Gimesy / Drone, operated bya member of the Victorian Police Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (Police Air Wing, Specialist Response Division) hovers near a koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). This drone is being use...

Doug Gimesy / Member of the Victorian Police Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (Police Air Wing, Specialist Response Division) looking at a screen which is displaying an image sent via a drone of a koala (Phascolarct...

Doug Gimesy / Drone, operated by a member of the Victorian Police Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (Police Air Wing, Specialist Response Division) hovers near a koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). This drone is being us...

Doug Gimesy / Drone, operated by a member of the Victorian Police Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (Police Air Wing, Specialist Response Division) hovers near a koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). This drone is being us...

Doug Gimesy / Member of the Victorian Police Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (Police Air Wing, Specialist Response Division) looking at a screen which is displaying an infra red image, sent via a drone, of a Koala...

Andy Sands / European larch (Larix decidua) male and female flowers on same twig a good example of a monoecious tree, Hertfordshire, England, UK, April - Focus Stacked

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suburb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

Ashley Cooper / Sun city a suberb of Heerhugowaard in the Netherlands that has develped as a solar hot spot, with the majority of the houses powered by solar panels and is the largest CO2-neutral residential area in...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Ancient Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) showing complex branch systems, Abernethy Forest, Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, October.

Pete Oxford / Hope canal, an irrigation canal in East Demerara Water Conservancy (for sugar cane and rice production) coastal area of Guyana, South America

Brent Stephenson / New Zealand fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) flower showing the blue pollen present on hermaphroditic plants, Boundary Stream, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, November.

Michel Roggo / Wadi Al Arbiyeen, with Falai channel as part of an ancient irrigation system. Muscat Governorate, Sultanate of Oman.February 2015. Photographed for The Freshwater Project.

Terry Whittaker / Louise Allen of Kent Wildlife Trust 'Water Vole Recovery Project' surveying for signs of Water voles (Arvicola amphibius). North Kent Marshes, UK, June.

Terry Whittaker / Louise Allen of Kent Wildlife Trust 'Water Vole Recovery Project' surveying for signs of Water voles (Arvicola amphibius). North Kent Marshes, UK, June.

Terry Whittaker / Louise Allen of Kent Wildlife Trust 'Water Vole Recovery Project' surveying for signs of Water voles (Arvicola amphibius). North Kent Marshes, UK, June.

Terry Whittaker / Louise Allen of Kent Wildlife Trust 'Water Vole Recovery Project' surveying for signs of Water voles (Arvicola amphibius), using GPS to record data. North Kent Marshes, UK, June.

David Woodfall / Radar designed to track bees and monitor flight around important food plants by Dr Stephan Wolf of Queens Mary College London. Research done at Rothampsted Agricultural Research station, Hertfordshire...

David Woodfall / Radar designed to track bees and monitor flight around important food plants by Dr Stephan Wolf of Queens Mary College London. Research done at Rothampsted Agricultural Research station, Hertfordshire...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Men cutting down the dried stalks of harvested baby Corn (Zea mays) for cattle fodder, irrigation system visible in the background. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. September 2011. Model releas...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Pivot irrigation on a field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), the lower slopes of Mount Meru and a field of maize visible beyond. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Orange (Citrus sp) orchard irrigation on Suikerbossie farm, Koue Bokkeveld / Cedarberg region, Western Cape, South Africa. The water comes from rainwater, mountain run-off and the Twee River, which fl...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Orange (Citrus sp) orchard irrigation on Suikerbossie farm, Koue Bokkeveld / Cedarberg region, Western Cape, South Africa. The water comes from rainwater, mountain run-off and the Twee River, which fl...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Aerial photograph of the Olifants River and the intensive irrigation / canal system used along its course, a threat to the endemic fish species found here. Citrusdal and Clanwilliam area, Western Cape...

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) with pivot irrigation, Mount Meru visible beyond. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) with pivot irrigation, Mount Meru visible beyond. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) with pivot irrigation, field of dried maize behind. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) with pivot irrigation, field of dried maize behind. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Pivot irrigation on a field of Green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), Mount Meru visible beyond. Commercial farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Dogon irrigated farmland, Bandiagara, Mali, 2005-2006.

Ernie Janes / Tulips irrigated during dry spring weather. Swaffham, Norfolk, UK, April.

Ernie Janes / Tulips (Tulipa sp.) being irrigated during dry Spring weather. Swaffham, Norfolk, April 2014.

Ernie Janes / Tulips (Tulipa sp.) being irrigated during dry Spring weather. Swaffham, Norfolk, April 2014.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Fog surrounding a gas drilling derrick at dusk, near the South Tambey Gas Field, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. February 2014.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Jakov Vanuito, a Nenets reindeer herder, checks his GPS during a snowmobile journey across the tundra in the South Tambey Gas Field, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. February 2014.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Snow covered power lines lead to a gas drilling derrick near Sabetta, South Tambey Gas field, Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. February 2014.

David Tipling / Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) gathering prior to roosting, Buckenham, Norfolk, February.

Martin Gabriel / Green-breasted Mango (Anthracothorax prevostii) in its nest, built amidst power and telephone cables, Costa Rica,

Mark MacEwen / Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) female portrait, Tanjung Puting reserve, Camp Leakey, Central Kalimantan, Borneo.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Beetle cam, remote controlled camera buggy set up on tree roots.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Beetle cam, remote controlled camera buggy set up, Katavi National Park, Tanzania, October 2009.

Christophe Courteau / Radar Station, Ny-Alesund International Research Village, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2012.

Jeff Rotman / Computer tracking seagoing information aboard commercial fishing trawler. Stellwagen Banks, New England, United States, North Atlantic Ocean

Sven Zacek / Icicles formed from water running from woodland over exposed tree roots systems. Northern coast of the Baltic Sea in Estonia. February 2013.

Jabruson / Black and white colobus (Colobus guereza) visiting rainforest clearing. Like many forest species, these primates visit these forest clearings in order to partake of minerals exposed by elephants excav...

Jabruson / Black and white colobus (Colobus guereza) visiting rainforest clearing. Like many forest species, these primates visit these forest clearings in order to partake of minerals exposed by elephants excav...

Nick Garbutt / Skull of giant extinct sloth lemur (Palaeopropithecus kelyus). Recovered from underground coastal cave systems near Anjajavy. Photographed on leaf-litter in dry deciduous forest near Anjavavy, north w...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Atao Audio Systems yacht passing Vieille lighthouse in heavy seas, Round Brittany Race, 2005

Rick Tomlinson / Dropping the spinnaker on "Drilling Systems", Cowes Week, August 2009.

Rick Tomlinson / Dropping the spinnaker on "Drilling Systems", Cowes Week, August 2009.

Juergen Freund / Erik Koti dives underwater to clean his farmed Giant clams (Tridacna maxima and Tridacna derasa) Onma Lodge, Kolombangara, Western Province, Solomon Islands, July 2010. Adult clams, often collected fr...

Christophe Courteau / Kalahari bushmen, family group eating Springhare cooked on the fire in the bush, rainy season, the children eat separately, the adults give them the intestines in order to boost their immune systems a...

Nick Garbutt / Endemic Blind Cave Fish (Typhleotris madagascariensis) in the hand. Only found in the cave systems near Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south west Madagascar.

Aflo / Y-11806 View from Space of eye of Hurricane above Earth

Aflo / Y-11904 Andromeda galaxy, otherwise known as M31, the nearest galaxy to our own - the Milky Way

Aflo / Y-11903 Milky Way galaxy, the brightest part extending from Scutum to Scorpio, through Sagittarius

Kevin Schafer / Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS), the largest solar power facility in the world, Mojave Desert, California

Norbert Wu / Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) pair struggling up river to spawn, the left individual has parasites due to the weakening of its immune systems, British Columbia, Canada

Barry Mansell / Hobb's Cave Amphipod (Crangonyx hobbsi) a blind cave amphipod found only in underground water systems of Florida, USA

WILLIAM OSBORN / Green tree frog on lavatory pan {Litoria caerulea} enters homes through drainage systems, Queensland, Australia

Roland Seitre / Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) running along cable, Thailand.

Daniel Heuclin / Prevost's Squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia

Daniel Heuclin / Prevost's Squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) running along cable, Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia

Rick Tomlinson / Main and mizzen sails on 180ft Superyacht "Adele" are furled via traditional slab reefing systems with “Park Avenue” booms, lazy jacks from boom to mast and full length battens in both sails. The main...

Yashpal Rathore / Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) walking across a bridge over the Sharda canal system, one of the biggest and oldest irrigation systems of Uttar Pradesh. Pilibhit Tiger reserve, Terai region, In...

Yashpal Rathore / Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) walking across a bridge over the Sharda canal system, one of the biggest and oldest irrigation systems of Uttar Pradesh. Pilibhit Tiger reserve, Terai region, In...

Lewis Jefferies / Technician collecting European lobster (Homarus gammarus) hatchlings from the recirculating aquaculture systems ready to transfer to the Aqua Hive's, before release in to the wild. National Lobst...

John Waters / Deciduous woodland and moss covered rocks in an area rich in geological formations, caves, gullies and pits known as Scowles, which were formed millions of years ago by the uplift and erosion of cave...

Ashley Cooper / A half moon over Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. July, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / A nearly full moon over Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. July, 2021.

Ashley Cooper / Half moon over pine trees, Ambleside, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK. September, 2021.

Lorraine Bennery / Endemic Blind Cave Fish (Typhleotris madagascariensis). Only found in the cave systems near Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, south west Madagascar.

Nigel Cattlin / Perfect, fluffy, open cotton boll at picking time against a blue Louisiana sky, USA, October.

Kirkendall-Spring / Woman navigating with the aid of GPS on a mobile phone, Boulder River Wilderness, Mount Baker-Snoqualime National Forest, Washington, USA. August 2014. Model released.