A man tends a fire as a group of children, illuminated by the flames stand beside him.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

A face mask on the Thames foreshore at Battersea.

A face mask on the Thames foreshore at Battersea.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

Refuse and the remnants of a rubbish fire surround a sign on the edge of a sacred forest in Kikele indicating that fires, the felling of trees, traps, guns, crop fields, open defecation, livestock gra...

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

Wet wipes on the Thames foreshore at Battersea. These are regularly discharged along with raw sewage into the Thames. Hundreds of thousands of toilet wipes accumulate on its banks where it bends.

The Venator Chemical Plant. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Election, when many neighbouring areas in Labour's so-called 'Red Wall' switched to the Conservatives fo...

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the lorries which would normally take it to Turkey are still held up by the new Brexit paperwork.

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley with high rise towers in Canary Wharf containing the headquarters of Barclays and Citigroup rising behind. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the...

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley with high rise towers in Canary Wharf containing the headquarters of Barclays and Citigroup rising behind. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the...

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the lorries which would normally take it to Turkey are still held up by the new Brexit paperwork.

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the lorries which would normally take it to Turkey are still held up by the new Brexit paperwork.

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the lorries which would normally take it to Turkey are still held up by the new Brexit paperwork.

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the lorries which would normally take it to Turkey are still held up by the new Brexit paperwork.

Plastic pollution in the River Lea.

Plastic pollution in the River Lea.

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley with high rise towers in Canary Wharf containing the headquarters of Barclays and Citigroup rising behind. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the...

A scrap metal yard in the Lea Valley with high rise towers in Canary Wharf containing the headquarters of Barclays and Citigroup rising behind. The huge mound of ferrous scrap was growing because the...

Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which is one of the largest gold producing areas in Brazil. Part of the extraction activity is illegal and even those legalised d...

Indigenous Indian men participate in the 'Quarup', a funeral ceremony, in Yawalapiti village amid smoke from forest fires. With the warming temperature, caused by the climate change, the number of for...

An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke from bush fires in the Xingu Indigenous Park. With rising temperatures, caused by climate change, the number of forest fires...

Dredges used for illegal gold extraction on the Madeira River.

An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke from bush fires in the Xingu Indigenous Park. With rising temperatures, caused by climate change, the number of forest fires...

A girl waits to get into a canoe on the rubbish strewn banks of the Xingu River which is lined by stilt-houses and a wooden pier.

An area degraded by gold mining, located on the banks of the Peixoto de Azevedo River in northern Mato Grosso. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rain forest but has been cleared to make...

Accumulated rubbish floats on the surface of the Xingu River.

The cooling tower at Kendal station, a coal-fired power station.

The Highveld Steel plant.

The Duvha coal powered station near Witbank.

The Duvhu Power Station with pylons carrying power cables across nearby fields.

A dragline scoops coal in the Middelburg Mine with the Duvha Power station behind.

Tin shacks with power stations' smoke stacks beyond.

Boys sort through electrical cables at a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy carries electrical cables to a burning site at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-wa...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

Monitor casings and other plastics burn along the edge of Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of...

A boy burns cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over t...

Plastic from e-waste is piled high at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here...

A boy holds an old laptop at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every mo...

A woman sells packets of water as people burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electro...

Men and children burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over...

Goats graze around the Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the developed world. Hundreds of tons of e-waste end up here every month. I...

Boys burn cables from computers and other electronic equipment in order to retrieve copper, at Agbogbloshie dump, which has become a dumping ground for computers and electronic waste from all over the...

Near the city trucks loaded with soil residue containing gold that has been treated with mercury are brought to a site near the city. These residues are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold con...

A youth prepares sodium cyanide at a site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue containing gold that has been treated with mercury are brought. These residues are treated with sodium cya...

Men working at a site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

A man working at a site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

Men working at a site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

Men working at a site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

A barrel that once contained sodium cyanide but is now full of zinc both used in the process to treat gold bearing soil residue to release gold contained in them.

A site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

A site near the city where trucks loaded with soil residue, containing gold, that has been treated with mercury are treated with sodium cyanide to release gold contained in them.

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored near a public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse afte...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stacked in front of the abandoned Tsushima primary school. The town of Namie, located about 9 km north of the nuclear plant, was evacuated as a result of th...

Gold residues immersed in sulfuric acid, which gives off red fumes, at a workshop where gold bearing rock and earth is treated with chemicals to release the gold ore.

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a field. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away....

A solar powered radioactivity monitoring station installed in an abandoned car park. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, o...

Decontamination work in progress, trees are cut down and a house dismantled. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4...

Plastic bags containing contaminated waste stored in a paddy field. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the to...

Discoloured water in a polluted ditch running through Hornchuch Country Park.

Hidden deep in undergrowth in the Dollis Valley, Barnet a den for illicit drinking is uninhabited during the day.

An abandoned copy of the Sunday Sport, a British tabloid newspaper.

A abandoned partly submerged dinghy in the River Crane, Hanworth.

Market stalls beside a hole in the street excavated to access water pipes.

Travellers at a bus stop in Elephant and Castle, during the 2021 COVID-19 lockdown, where a digital display carries a poster warning that the ULEZ (ultra Low Emissions Zone) is to be widened.

White vapour contrails from high flying aircraft over Kinder Scout in the Peak District.

People cleaning-up flotsam from a beach containing defensive infrastructure on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's n...

A pair of hand basins (sinks) dumped on a street in the Paquis district, beside a sign from the city authorities threatening fines for illegal fly tipping.

White vapour contrails from high flying aircraft over the Peak District.

The distinctive red cliffs of the beach (depicted in a painting displayed at the nearby Guningtou Battle Museum) where part of the Battle of Guningtou took place in 1949. At top left are a huge bank o...

A clean up work team fill a container with rubbish, mostly from the fishing industry, collected on a beach in the Beishan district.

A clean up work team haul up a container filled with rubbish, mostly from the fishing industry, from a beach in the Beishan district.

A discarded face mask.

Discarded surgical gloves.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

Anti-face mask graffiti.

A face mask graffiti.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.

A discarded face mask.