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Central-European beech forest, Germany Central-European beech forest, Odenwald, Germany

By Peter Prokosch

Burning rainforest, Indonesia. Burning rainforest to make space for palm oil plantages in Sumatra, Indonesia.

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic vegetation Arctic vegetation lies dormant for around 9 months under a blanket of snow. When the Summer temperatures melt the top layer of permafrost (frozen earth) this creates a wetland environment where plants can thrive. The roo...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Cottongrass Cottongrass is so named for its soft and fluffy appearance and it is an important food source for migrating Snow Geese and Caribou.It is to be found throughout Northern parts of Asia, Europe and North America and is part...

By Lawrence Hislop

Xingu National Park, Brazil The Amazon River Basin contains the largest rainforest on Earth. Nearly 50% of South America is blanketed by the Amazon Rainforest. When the South American tectonic plate and the Nazca plate collided 15 million years ago...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Geometrical scars on the land, Brazil Here in Mato Grosso, the Amazon has been exploited in the name of agriculture, with little regard for the environmental impacts. Sugar cane and soybean plantations have replaced hectare after hectare of jungle. Since 1...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Aerial view of the Amazon Jungle August 2009, flying over the Mato Grosso region in Brazil, there is evidence of dramatic change. The entire ecosystem is threatened by the impacts of agriculture, along with the indigenous populations who make this their...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Cleared land in the Amazon Jungle, Brazil Deforestation in the Amazon area is driven mainly by industry and agriculture. Mato Grosso means ‘’Thick Woods’’ and is the name of an inland state of central Brazil, where widespread forest clearing has had a dramatic i...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Moss on the ground in Setesdal, Norway in Autumn The diet of the Lemming consists of moss, grass, small insects and plants and they are found in abundance in Arctic tundra zones and meadows, where a layer of permafrost creates a unique ecological environment. The brown...

By Peter Prokosch

Autumn in Setesdal, Norway Arctic tundra and open meadows are ideal habitats for Lemmings, whose diet consists of grass, moss, small shrubs and insects. In the Winter, they dig into the soft snow to search for food on the ground. The Norwegian L...

By Peter Prokosch

Autumn colors of the Sedges, Setesdal, Norway Sedge is the common name for a family of mostly perennial grass or rush-like herbs found in abundance in the marshes of subarctic and temperate zones. There are around 5,500 different species and they have solid stems th...

By Peter Prokosch

Lemming roads in the earth, Setesdalheia, Southern Norway Lemmings shelter in Winter under the snow, digging tunnels down to the earth. Here, warm pockets of air provide shelter and melt surrounding snow, providing access to food sources on the ground, such as moss and grass.

By Peter Prokosch

Burning rainforest on Sumatra to make space for palm oil plantations, Indonesia Large areas of Indonesia's rainforests have been converted to oil palm plantations, driven by rising global demand for the cheap vegetable oil popular with food manufacturers and as a renewable fuel (biofuel). Palm oil a...

By Peter Prokosch

Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, Georgia Located in central Georgia and part of the lesser Caucasus, the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park is one of the largest in Europe. It covers more than 85,000 hectares of native forest and sub-alpine and alpine meadows, an...

By Peter Prokosch

Boreal pine and spruce forest, south-east Norway Boreal species in Norway typically include the Norway spruce and pine. Norway's South Boreal zone is dominated by spruce, which covers 12% of Norway's land surface area.

By Peter Prokosch

Birch Trees in autumn colors in Southern Norway The autumn season in Norway sees the leaves of trees transforming from green to a diversity of yellow, orange and red. The brilliance of the colours that develop in an autumn season are related to weather conditions, wit...

By Peter Prokosch

Autumn colors at the northern tree line on the Varanger Peninsular, Norway The Varanger Peninsula is situated in Finnmark, north-eastern Norway. The treeline in Norway mainly comprises mountain birch, a sub-species of downy birch.

By Peter Prokosch

Swedish Cornel, Cornus suecica at the northern tree line on the Varanger Peninsular, Norway Cornus suecica (Swedish Cornel or Bunchberry) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cornus (dogwoods), native to cool temperate and subarctic regions of Europe and Asia.

By Peter Prokosch

Beach on the Varanger Peninsula, Norway Varanger Peninsula has an Arctic climate and borders the Barents Sea - the marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. The coastline attracts many species of migratory birds, which nest along the coast in the spring and summer se...

By Peter Prokosch

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