The detailed cracked bark of the Japanese Black Pine, Pinus thunbergii. Bath tub

The detailed cracked bark of the Japanese Black Pine, Pinus thunbergii. Bath tubThe detailed cracked bark of the Japanese Black Pine, Pinus thunbergii. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima, Honshu Island, Japan.

A sign mounted on a light pole directs to the local rubbish dump

A wildlife conservationist shows the beaks of a Couviers Toucan butchered by poachers and for sale

Nineteenth century steel lattice on the balcony of a terrace house

Ancient Montane Cloud Forest of Calophyllum and Syzygium species

Backlit grasses and reeds seeding on a windy alpine plain at sunset

Bright yellow tents in a blizzard lined-up on the Ross Ice Shelf during a survival training course

A mother nestles her newborn baby boy in a blanket against her chest

an animal almost extinct due to the cane toad

The tracks of a Vulnerable Green Turtle leading from it's egg nest back to the ocean

Moss and lichen covered tree branches on a Himalayan mountainside

A boy and his mother draw patterns in the sand on the beach

Smoke and steam pollution belch from chimneys in a paper mill