Land cleared to plant a stand of fast-growing trees for fuel wood.

Women selling charcoal beside a highway. Over 90 percent of the nation's households are dependent on wood or charcoal for cooking. Together with a demand for agricultural land driven by one of the wor...

Afsatou Irokou Worou at her cooking fires in the village of Kikele. This homestead happens to belong to a forest guard who protects a small 13.4ha sacred forest on the edge of the village that is home...

A pot on a cooking fire in the village of Kikele. This fireplace happens to be at the home of a forest guard who protects a small 13.4ha sacred forest on the edge of the village that is home to a troo...

A man sleeping underneath a broken-down pick-up heavily laden with charcoal on a highway in the Oueme Province. Over 90 percent of the nation's households are dependent on wood or charcoal for cooking...

Annalena Baerbock (4th left) and environmental activists from the Green Party carry a banner with an anti-coal-based power message during a rally against the energy policy of the German government.

People walking dogs on a beach with the turbines of the offshore windfarm at Seaton Carew rising from the sea beyond. Hartlepool has always voted Labour, including in the last General Election, when...

Water crashes against the Santo Antonio Hydroelectric Power Plant's dam built over the Madeira River.

An aerial view of the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. More than 80% of the river's waters has been diverted from its natural course, making it one of the biggest man-made interv...

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

The Duvha coal powered station near Witbank.

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

A worker signals to the operator in a front end loader atan open cast mine.

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

A truck moves coal at the Arthur Taylor Colliery, while a Dragline, which is the huge crane like machine, workings in the background.

A power line worker installs power cables on a pylon to supply electricity to a new township outside Johannesburg.

A petrol station that has closed earlier than its normal operating hours. Where they are open, most petrol stations are only selling a limited amount of fuel to each customer.

A petrol station that has closed earlier than its normal operating hours. Where they are open, most petrol stations are only selling a limited amount of fuel to each customer.

Tin shacks with power stations' smoke stacks beyond.

A construction site near the train station, where new houses are being built only four km from the nuclear plant. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nu...

A private home abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents were perm...

A children's play park, abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents...

Security staff at the entrance to a restricted area of the town where decontamination work is in progress. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the...

The area of the town around the train station. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres away. Residents were...

A beer vending machine abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open t...

A shop damaged by the earthquake and abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....

A notice board in Futaba town hall, abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town ha...

An advertising board for a construction company aiming to build the foundations for the future new town. The catch phrase reads: 'From the first steps to the future'. The entire population of Futaba...

A public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 201...

An abandoned vehicle and private home empty since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....

A pile of bicycles left outside an abandoned high school that has been disused since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the...

Machinery in a farm abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only...

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...

A house abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the to...

Cattle belonging to farmer Masami Yoshizawa graze on fodder in fields. They have been there since the nuclear disaster and are contaminated so cannot be eaten. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to...

Cattle belonging to farmer Masami Yoshizawa graze on fodder in fields. They have been there since the nuclear disaster and are contaminated so cannot be eaten. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to...

A dental clinic abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% o...

A child's play park and houses abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since...

Farmer Masami Yoshizawa with a picture his cattle that died following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The authorities ordered Mr Yoshizawa to slaughter the cows that survived and leave h...

A children's play park abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, on...

A trap for wild boar near houses abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Sinc...

A books and video store damaged by the 2011 earthquake and abandoned since March that year due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima...

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....

The sports ground of a secondary school abandoned since March 2011. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the nuclear plant is just four Kilometres a...

An abandoned farm. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to visitors and residents, who ar...

New houses, built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, ready for returnees to the town. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuc...

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...

New houses, built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, ready for returnees to the town. Okuma was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuc...

Mr Hideo Endo and Mrs Kazuko Endo in their new house built only seven kilometres away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. One of several houses in an estate built for returnees to the town...

The swimming pool of a school abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2...

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...

A children's play park abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, on...

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...

A construction site in the town of Futaba which has been abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiich...

A public housing estate abandoned since March 2011 because of elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 201...

A greenhouse abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to visitors...

A group of school children and their teacher listen to a lecture about the 2011 tsunami at The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum. The entire population of Futaba was ev...

A petrol station abandoned since March 2011. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Since 2013, only 4% of the town has been open to v...

The main doorway of a Buddhist temple destroyed by the earthquake and abandoned since March 2011 due to elevated radiation levels. The entire population of Futaba was evacuated en masse after the Fuk...

The view towards Enfield Power station from Albany Park

A CCTV surveillance camera among the cables on an electricity pylon.

A tangle of electrical cables strung around a pylon on a street.

Travellers at a bus stop in Elephant and Castle, during the 2021 COVID-19 lockdown, where a digital display carries an advertisement for a domestic energy supplier.

A mas of power cables on a city centre street.

Mobile phones belonging to a group of Algerian transit migrants who are camped in a decrepit abandoned factory building, are being charged from an illegal link to a high voltage cable. The migrants ar...

Peat in the Kinder Estate in the Peak District.

Peat in the Kinder Estate in the Peak District.

Peat in the Kinder Estate in the Peak District.

A Tradex petrol station.

Children collect fire wood from the bush around the Gourounkoum camp for internally displaced persons.

RIG 292, at the Kome 5, oil well, operated by American company Esso.

Two workers from Weatherford International (in red), an Esso contractor, and a worker from Schlumberger (in blue) during the installation of underground water pumps on RIG 292 at the Kome 5 oil well....

A worker from Weatherford International, an Esso contractor, during the installation of underground water pumps on RIG 292 at the Kome 5 oil well. Chadian oil is heavy, and at low pressure so cannot s...

A worker of Weatherford International, an Esso contractor, dismantles the drill from RIG 292 in the Kome 5 oil well.

STEE (Chadian National Electric Company) employees passing between fuel reservoirs during an inspection tour at the Farcha power station.

A STEE employee (Chadian National Electric Company) inspects the machinery at what is the capital city's most modern power station.

In the Lulana Communal Environmentalist group's backyard workshop, a member shapes briquettes, made from recycled or waste cardboard and used for cooking fuel as an alternative to charcoal or wood, in...

A worker at Green Bio Energy, where they produce fuel briquettes based on agricultural residues and leftover coal, adds coal dust during the manufacturing process. The briquettes they make have combus...

A worker at Green Bio Energy where they produce fuel briquettes based on agricultural residues and leftover coal, its combustion up to twice as slow as traditional fuels, allowing savings of 40 to 50%...

In the backyard of a house Roger and Prosse members of Lulana Communal Environmentalist group, take part in the process of manufacturing briquettes, used for cooking fuel as an alternative to charcoal...

A worker at Green Bio Energy, where they produce fuel briquettes based on agricultural residues and leftover coal, shovels coal dust into a container for use in their manufacturing process. The brique...

A worker collects fuel briquettes produced by Green Bio Energy based on agricultural residues and leftover coal, its combustion up to twice as slow as traditional fuels, allowing savings of 40 to 50%...

A woman's home illuminated by a lamp made using a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. A hole is made in the tin roof and the bottl...

A man fits a lamp made from a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. It is fitted through a hole cut in a tin roof. The sun's rays di...

A member of the Lulana Communal Environmentalist group holds a sample of the briquettes, made from recycled or waste cardboard and used for cooking fuel as an alternative to charcoal or wood, that the...

In a backyard workshop, members of the Lulana Communal Environmentalist group mix a binder for the briquettes, used as cooking fuel, an alternative to charcoal or wood, they manufacture from recycled...

A man fits a lamp made from a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. It is fitted through a hole cut in a tin roof. The sun's rays di...

Women make lamps using a plastic soft drinks bottle filled with water and a few drops of bleach and fitted with a metal reflector. They then make a hole in the tin roof of their homes and fit the bott...

In the backyard of a house Roger, a member of Lulana Communal Environmentalist group, begins the process of manufacturing briquettes, used for cooking fuel as an alternative to charcoal or wood, filli...