2. A group of women weave a fishing net in
the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, in
preparation for the annual flooding of
the river and its tributaries. Fishing
communities rely on this flooding to
bring an influx of fish and shrimp to the
region. With climate change worsening,
flood levels are becoming more
inconsistent, which has important
consequences for the livelihood of locals.
In 2012, lower than average flood levels
saw fish yields decrease by 40%
compared to previous year.
Fishing net making in Mekong Delta, 2012, by Tuyet Trinh Do
(Vietnam)
3.
4. People living in Sundarban, West Bengal,
India, face regular shortages of water.
The tropical climate has resulted in
different physical effects from climate
change, including increased temperature
and precipitation, increased salinity and
extreme weather events such as floods,
cyclones and droughts.
5.
6. ‘Wrapping a surviving tree’ - Central
Cardamom Protected Forest (CCPF),
Southwest Cambodia
Luke Duggleby shows Cambodian
Buddhist monks and local villagers
blessing one of the remaining large trees
in an area destroyed to make way for a
banana plantation.
7.
8. ‘Solar 4’ – Feuntes de Andalucia, Seville,
Spain
The Gemasolar solar tower power plant,
featured in this image by Steve Morgan,
is a commercial scale solar plant which is
paving the way for new thermosolar
electrical generation technology.
9.
10. Above, photographer Kevin McElvaney’s
picture shows Agbogbloshie in Accra,
Ghana. The area is at the end of illegal
electronic waste trading routes, where
young people aged between 10 and 25
attempt to collect metals and extract
copper from old monitors.
11.
12. ’Bohpal: Facing 30 Portrait’ – Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh, India
Francesca Moore’s picture is part of a
project looking at people and their
environment thirty years after the 1984
Bhopal disaster.
13.
14. Photographer description: The flooding
on the Somerset Levels at Burrowbridge.
Numerous properties in the rural areas
of Thorney, Muchelney and
Burrowbridge in Somerset were hit with
up to four feet of water when the
nearby River Parrett burst its banks in
January 2014.
by Matilda Temperley (UK)/EPOTY 2014
15.
16. ‘Indigenous Munduruku men fight
construction of the Belo Monte
Megadam 2’ – Altamira, Brazil
Taylor Weidman's photo shows an
indigenous Munduruku man and a member
of the Brazilian Federal Police arguing
during an occupation of the Belo Monte
Dam - the first of a series of dams
planned across the Amazon.
17.
18. ‘On the shore of a vanishing island’ –
Ghoramara Island, West Bengal, India
Daesung Lee shows Ghoramora Island,
West Bengal, India, which has been
gradually eroded due to the impact of
climate change since 1960. Currently,
two out of three households have moved
out and less than 50 percent of its land
is left.
19.
20. In this image by TJ Watt, a woman
stands among the charred remains of an
old-growth logging clearcut in the
Klanawa Valley.
21.
22. ‘Digging Bulgaria’ – Krumovgrad, Bulgaria
Australian photographer Alethia Casey
shows a man in the village of
Krumovgrad, Bulgaria, which is home to a
controversial open-pit gold mine.
23.
24. ‘Shangri-La 1’ – Shanghai, China
Alnis Stakle’s image shows a suburb of
Shanghai where old buildings are partly
cleared to build new skyscrapers.
25.
26. A collapsed coastal road between
Skipsea and Ulrome on Yorkshire's east
coast. The coast is composed of soft
boulder clays which are very vulnerable
to coastal erosion. This section of coast
has been eroding since Roman times,
with many villages having disappeared
into the sea and is the fastest eroding
coast in Europe. Climate change is
speeding up the erosion, with rising sea
levels rising, frequent storms and heavy
rainfall all playing their part.
Coastal erosion near Hornsea, 2013, by Ashley Cooper (UK)
27.
28. The small seaside resort of Swakopmund
lies on the coast of Namibia. It was
established in 1892 as the main harbour
for Namibia’s German colonisers, and
still bears the marks of those years of
German rule. For much of the year,
Swakopmund lies silently shrouded in
fog. But in the summer, the fog lifts, and
the tourists flock, drawn to the grand
hotels, the moody beach and the bustling
cafes. The population is a colourful mix
of retired Germans, young natives living
in housing projects just outside the main
village, and the Himba tribes people who
trek down from the north, dressed in
traditional garb and sell self-made
jewellery crafted from found objects.
Supermarket, Himba, 2012, by Toufic Beyhum (UK
29.
30. ‘Camp of Shame’ – Campania, Italy
Antonio Busiello shows Roma children in
Campania, Italy. Although the location of
this photo is one of the most polluted in
the western world, it has recently
become home to a large Roma camp. It is
now the most densely populated region
of Italy with over 5.8 million people
living in a 5,247 square mile (13,590
square kilometer) area.
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