Mark Carwardine / California sealions (Zalophus californianus), one in water with other sitting on rock, Baja California, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico

Floris van Breugel / Autumn colors along the shores of Pharaoh Lake in Adirondacks park, New York, USA. October

Jack Dykinga / Shore Acres State Park with sandstone bluffs being pounded by tidal shifting surf, creating waterfalls over concretions in the stone. Oregon

Floris van Breugel / Lines adorn the fractured sandstone rocks along the Barnacle (Cirripedia) and Sea snail inhabitated shores of Palos Verdes peninsula, California, USA

Floris van Breugel / Early summer morning, clearing mist reveals Mt. Rainier, with summer alpine blooms on the shores of lake, Rainier National Park, Washington, USA, June 2008.

Gerrit Vyn / Flock of oiled Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) on a beach behind an oil covered containment boom. This nesting colony is the largest in Louisiana and was heavily contaminated by the BP Deepwat...

Nick Garbutt / Adult Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) at sunset on tundra vegetation on shores of Hudson Bay, Canada (late Sept). Digitally Modified.

Aflo / Y-11106 Double rainbow over sea with waves breaking on shoreline

Nick Garbutt / Adult Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) at sunset, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September, digitally modified

Igor Shpilenok / The cold waters of the Pacific ocean wash the shores of Kamchatka, above which fiery volcanic ridges rise, Kronotsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka, Far East Russia

Nick Garbutt / Polar Bear Cub (7-8 months) (Ursus maritimus) investigating photographer through wire fence. Lodge on the shores of Hudson Bay, Canada (Sept).

Nick Garbutt / Polar Bear Cubs (7-8 months) (Ursus maritimus) investigating photographer through wire fence. Lodge on the shores of Hudson Bay, Canada (Sept).

Anup Shah / Flamingos on shores of Lake Logipi, Great Rift Valley, Northern Kenya

Jabruson / African offshore petroleum reserves, with petroleum tanker and gas burning off, oil discovery in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Central Africa

Jabruson / African offshore petroleum reserves, with petroleum tanker and gas burning off, oil discovery in the Atlantic Ocean off the shores of Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon, Central Africa

Oriol Alamany / Hiker with dog on the shores of Estany de Filia  alpine lake in Vall Fosca, Pyrenees, Pallars Jussa, Catalonia, Spain. Model released

Benoit Stichelbaut / Castle on the shores of Saint Malo, Brittany, France

Oriol Alamany / Sunrise clouds over Pehoe Lake shores, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile

Joe Cornish / 2020VISION / Stac Pollaidh from the shores of Loch Lurgain, Coigach / Assynt SWT, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland, UK, June 2011

Charlie Summers / Franklin's Gulls (Leucophaeus pipixcan) posturing as they communicate. West Beach, Gulf Shores, Alabama, April.

Konstantin Mikhailov / Kembrian stony poles and towers on the shores of River Lena, LenskieStolby nature reserve, Yakutia-Sakha, East Siberia, Russia, August 2005

Eric Baccega / Stormy sky at outgoing tide and sunset, Bay of Fundy shores at Alma, New Brunswick, Canada, September 2010

Eric Baccega / Upper Salmon river at outgoing tide, Bay of Fundy shores at Alma, New Brunswick, Canada, September 2010

Charlie Summers / Pair of Franklin's Gulls (Leucophaeus pipixcan) beak knocking, Guls Shores, Alabama, USA, April

Philippe Clement / The Glenfinnan Monument on the shores of Loch Shiel, erected in 1815 at the site where Prince Charles Edward Stuart / Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard at the beginning of the 1745 Jacobite Ri...

Philippe Clement / The Glenfinnan Monument on the shores of Loch Shiel, erected in 1815 at the site where Prince Charles Edward Stuart / Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard at the beginning of the 1745 Jacobite Ri...

Oriol Alamany / Los Cuernos mountain hut on the shores of Nordenskjold lake on the W Trek, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile, January 2006

Gerrit Vyn / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) juvenile heavily oiled as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting in mangoves. Raccoon Island, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, USA...

Gerrit Vyn / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) juvenile heavily oiled as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting in mangoves. Raccoon Island, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, USA...

Gerrit Vyn / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) lightly oiled juvenile on shoreline. Hundreds of these birds from the largest Louisiana nesting colony on Raccoon Island, were badly oiled as a result of the BP...

Gerrit Vyn / Oiled beach, contaminated by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Baldwin County, Alabama, USA, June 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / Waves washing oil ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Baldwin County, Alabama, USA, June 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / Black oil washing ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Baldwin County, Alabama, USA, June 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / A plastic bottle covered in oil on a beach. This beach was repeatedly contaminated with oil by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Baldwin County, Alabama, USA June 2010.

Gerrit Vyn / Houses and oiled beach from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Baldwin County, Alabama. USA, June 2010.

Nick Garbutt / Adult Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) at sunset on tundra vegetation on shores of Hudson Bay, Canada (late Sept). Digitally Modified.

Pete Oxford / Gentoo Penguin nest colony (Pygoscelis papua) on coastal shores, West Falkland. Falkland Islands

Pete Oxford / Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) taking off from coastal shores of Sea Lion Island. South of mainland east Falkland Island. Falkland Islands

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Male Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) on water, Iceland, June

David Woodfall / Flat Holm island seen from Somerset. Severn Estuary. England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Shellfish / Flatfish fisherman checking nets / long lines near Hinkley Point nuclear power station. Severn Estuary. England , August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Ancient peat forest, covered in seaweed, with Hinkleypoint Nuclear power station. Bridgewater Bay NNR, Severn estuary, Somerset, England, August 2009

David Woodfall / Sea couch grass (Agropyrons repens) washed up by high tide, Somerset, England , August 2009

Philip Dalton / Fishing village on the shores of Lake Victoria with swarm of Lake flies (Chironomid sp) Uganda

Philip Dalton / Lake flies (Chironomid sp) swarming on the shores of Lake Victoria over a flock of Egrets, Uganda

Philip Dalton / Lake flies (Chironomid sp) swarming on the shores of Lake Victoria over a flock of Egrets, Uganda

Philip Dalton / Lake flies (Chironomid sp) swarming on the shores of Lake Victoria over a flock of Egrets, Uganda

Sven Zacek / Ripples of waves on the shoreline, north coast of Tenerife

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Painted parakeet (Pyrrhura perlata / rhodogaster) perched in Amazon Rainforest on the shores of Cristalino River, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso State, Brazil

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) browsing on Bristly wild gooseberries (Ribes oxyacanthoides) amongst tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Fruits of Bristly wild / Canadia gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides) Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) lying in water at low tide to cool off, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) drinking from stream on shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) close-up of rear foot pad Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Fox-tail Grass (Alopecurus sp) in flower, blowing in the breeze, Shores of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) grazing in tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) grazing out side the perimeter fence at Nanuk Lodge, shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, being filmed by cameraman, John Aitchison, for the BBC NHU for series "Frozen Planet", S...

Nick Garbutt / Grey / Timber wolf (Canis lupus) tracks in mud, Shores of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) at sunset, shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September, digitally modified

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) resting in tundra vegetation, Shores of Hudson Bay, Canada, late September

Nick Garbutt / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) being filmed by BBC NHU for series "Frozen Planet" with producer Miles Barton and cameraman Adam Ravetch, near Nanuk Lodge, shores of Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, late Se...

David Tipling / Geothermal power plant on shores of Salton Sea, California, USA, April 2009

Konstantin Mikhailov / Shores of an inlet of the White Sea, Karelia, N Russia, September 2007

Konstantin Mikhailov / Mountain Bearberry bushes {Arctous alpinus} on the shores of the White Sea, Karelia, N Russia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Mountain Bearberry bushes {Arctous alpinus} on the shores of the White Sea, Karelia, N Russia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Shores of a inlet of the White Sea, Karelia, N Russia, September 2007

Oriol Alamany / Heather (Calluna vulgaris) flowering at the shores of Pica Palomera alpine lake, with Tuc de Mauberme in the background, Aran Valley, Pyrenees, Spain.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of red algae (?) near the shores of Lake Guachuna during the flood season, in the region of the great lakes of the Northern Beni Department of Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Rogaguado Lake with its shores covered by "buriti" palm trees (Mauritia flexuosa), in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Rogaguado Lake with its shores covered by "buriti" palm trees (Mauritia flexuosa), in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Jerry Monkman / Snowshoeing along the shores of Second Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, USA

Jerry Monkman / Snowshoeing along the shores of Second Connecticut Lake, Pittsburg, New Hampshire, USA

Francis Abbott / The arid mountains of the Sinai reach the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. It is mid August and the dust filled air is at 50 degrees centigrade.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Papaya tree (Carica papaya) on the shores of Lake Malawi, Malawi, Africa

Jack Dykinga / The frozen shores of Grey Lake, with icebergs, against a backdrop of storm shrouded peaks in the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

Eric Baccega / Kermod / Spirit bear cub (Ursus americanus kermodei), white morph of black bear, the shores of Princess Royal Island, British Columbia, Canada

Eric Baccega / Kermode / Spirit bear cubs (Ursus americanus kermodei), white morph of black bear, looking for mussels on the shores of Princess Royal Island, British Columbia, Canada

Eric Baccega / Kermode / Spirit bear mother and cubs (Ursus americanus kermodei), A black mother with her white cubs, white morph of the black bear, looking for mussels on the shores of Princess Royal Island, Britis...

Eric Baccega / Kermode / Spirit bear mother and cubs (Ursus americanus kermodei), A black mother with her white cubs, white morph of the black bear, looking for mussels on the shores of Princess Royal Island, BC, Ca...

Eric Baccega / Two Kermode / Spirit bear cubs (Ursus americanus kermodei), white morph of the black bear, looking for mussels on the shores of Princess Royal Island, British Columbia, Canada

Eric Baccega / Taiga forest with spruce trees on the shores of the frozen Great Slave Lake, in the Northwest Territories, Canada, Winter March 2007

Owen Newman / Young Lesser flamingoes {Phoeniconaias minor} drinking freshwater on the shores of Lake Natron, Tanzania. Lesser flamingoes are threatened in East Africa and Lake Natron (their only breeding site) is...

Philippe Clement / Coconut washed ashore on beach of Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Konstantin Mikhailov / Larch forest of E Siberia with Dahurian Larch (Larix gemelinii) on the shores of Baikal Lake, Siberia, Russia

Anup Shah / Aerial view of volcano on the shores of Lake Turkana, Great Rift Valley, Northern Kenya

DAVID TIPLING / Vado town, on shores of Varanger fjord, Norway

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / On the shores of Tsomoris Lake (salt lake), Ladakh, North East India

Nick Garbutt / Boats and slum huts on the shores of River Ganges, Garnmuktesar, Uttar Pradesh, India

Peter Blackwell / Lesser flamingoes on shores of Lake Bogoria, Kenya {Phoeniconaias minor}

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Copacabana village on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia

Daniel Gomez / Stilt houses on shores of Amazonas River in the dry season. Brazil.