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Lake Nasser, Egypt, February 2013 The Aswan High Dam, built in the 1960s, created major change in one of the world’s largest and most famous rivers. The dam stopped the annual flooding that pro- vided new fertile soil each year, the basis for agriculture...

By Peter Prokosch

Road through the Egyptian Desert, near Lake Nasser Egypt's aridity and shortage of arable land are critical issues. Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4%...

By Peter Prokosch

Irrigation plots between Lake Nasser and Toshka Lakes, Egypt Egypt's aridity and shortage of arable land are critical issues. Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4%...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Toshka Lakes, Southern Egypt, February 2013 In Egypt, some of the water from Lake Nassar, the great reservoir formed by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile, is being pumped 320 kilometres northwest out of the Nile Valley into natural geological depressions in the Great...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Replanting potatoes, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal After protected Himalaya Tahrs went through a potato field, local villagers are replanting. Local traditions and the management of the national park lead to examples where people live in harmony with nature. Including...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20 Poster At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) on its breeding site, Meinypyl'gino, Chukotka, Northeast Siberia This charismatic species is listed as Critically Endangered because it has an extremely small population which is undergoing an extremely rapid population reduction. This is because of a number of factors, including habi...

By Christoph Zöckler

Rice fields North of the embanked Seamangeum estuary, South Korea Formerly embanked areas have been turned into intensive rice fields.

By Peter Prokosch

Saemangeum embanked tidal flats to be converted into agriculture and other use, South Korea The Saemangeum Seawall, located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, is the world's longest man-made dyke, measuring 33 kilometres. It runs between two headlands, and separates the Yellow Sea and the former Sa...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Embanked Tidal Flats South of Incheon International Airport, South Korea The Incheon International Airport, the largest airport in South Korea and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, and its surrounding was build on the costs of huge space of internationally important tidal ...

By Peter Prokosch

Urban development in China Urbanization and Industrialization is developing at maximum speed around the Yellow Sea in China and South Korea, much on the cost of natural habitats.

By Peter Prokosch

Reclamation of tidal flats at East Coast of China On the East Coast of China internationally valuable tidal flats are reclaimed and embanked at a high speed due to rapid industrial, agriculture and harbor development.

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Incheon International Airport, South Korea The Incheon International Airport is the largest airport in South Korea and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. For seven years in a row (2005-2012), it was rated the best airport worldwide by Airports...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

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