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Mangrove and human activity in South Bimini, Bahamas Mangroves of the Bimini Islands, in the Bahamas, represent the only mangrove ecosystem located on the entire Northwest Bahama Bank. They are critically important to local and regional fisheries, through their role as nur...

By Matthew Potenski (Marine Photobank)

Mangrove forest near Everglades City, USA Mangrove habitat is reported to cover over 430,000 acres of the Florida coastline. Mangroves provide many important ecological services. They support fisheries through serving as nurseries and habitat for economically vi...

By Riandi (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia The search for minerals and the subsequent road constructions are often the first steps for major deforestation as is occurring here in the province of Riau/Sumatra, Indonesia.

By Peter Prokosch

Paper mill, Sumatra The forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are witnessing some of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world. Over the last decade, dozens of pulp and paper companies have established themselves on the island c...

By Peter Prokosch

Paper-mill, Sumatra Large amounts of Sumatran rainforests are vanishing into the paper-mill.

By Peter Prokosch

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

By Peter Prokosch

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

By Riccardo Pravettoni

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

Taimyr Coastline The Taimyr Autominous Area occupies 800,000 sq km, an area the size of England, France and the Netherlands combined. Only 3% of the subsurface here has been studied but there are believed to be healthy reserves of coal, ...

By Peter Prokosch

Geyser at Geysir, Iceland Geysers are named after this site, Geysir, a famous tourism attraction in Iceland. They are a type of hot spring and occur only under specific conditions where water boiling deep down in a series of tubes in the ground c...

By Peter Prokosch

Former Stalin Camp at the Pyassina River Delta, Taimyr The Pyasina River is a 800km long river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia which flows into the Kara Sea and freezes over between October and June. It runs through the Great Arctic Nature Reserve. In the past the waters were a ...

By Peter Prokosch

Local meatmarket offering porpoise flesh for sale, Nuuk, Greenland The main threat to porpoise is being caught in nets, though porpoise flesh is hunted consumed by Greenlanders and is attributed to the low incidence of cardiovascular disease in Greenland <a href='http://www.highnorth.no...

By Peter Prokosch

Rotorua, New Zealand The geysers around the Rotorua area have value for potential scientific study, as tourist attractions and as energy sources. Of the 5 major geyser fields existing here 110 years ago, only 1 remains, at Rotorua, a resul...

By Yannick Beaudoin

Mining Machinery Mining is a global industry that underpins industrial development in many regions. It is a key sector not only because it is the source of essential raw materials, but also because it potentially leads to economic and so...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mining Machinery Mining activities can cause severe environmental degradation because of its location (almost all conceivable places, often with insufficient infrastructure), size and timescale. Potential negative impacts of mining opera...

By Lawrence Hislop

Channels in the sand, Seychelles The idyllic Seychelles employ about 30% of the workforce in the tourism industry, which also generates approximately 70% of the country's hard currency. Development on the islands is concentrated on narrow coastal zones ...

By Lawrence Hislop

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