An extraction crew and police exhume seven bodies from makeshift graves in a forest outside the village of Vorzel, about 10km from Bucha. Russian forces have been accused of carrying out systematic ex...

Sulphur, used to make sulphuric acid for the nickel extraction process, stored in front of the Prony Resources nickel mine processing plant.

Sulphur, used to make sulphuric acid for the nickel extraction process, stored in front of the Prony Resources nickel mine processing plant.

Oil extraction well next to a junkyard near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Oil extraction well next to a junkyard near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Oil extraction well next to a junkyard near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Wooden bridge which carries the road BR 307 over the Ya Mirim creek in the Balaio Indigenous Territory, near Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the w...

Oil extraction well amidst wind turbines near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Indigenous man Andre Sampaio Veloso walks along the trail that leads to Morro dos Seis Lagos, in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves...

Oil extraction well amidst wind turbines near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Oil extraction well amidst wind turbines near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

View of Lago Verde in Morro dos Seis Lagos area, in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is located inside three prot...

Oil extraction well amidst wind turbines near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Fog covers the Dragao Lake in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area, in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is located insid...

Rock formations on the banks of the Dragao Lake in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is located inside three protected lands, the...

Oil extraction well next to a junkyard near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Pick up trucks travel along the road BR 307 on the stretch that connects Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira to the Ya Mirim community within the Balaio Indigenous Territory. The road is the only access to sever...

Oil extraction well next to a junkyard near the city of Odessa, Texas. This region of Texas, called the Permian Basin, is responsible for around a third of all oil production in the United States.

Pumps used for oil extraction abandoned in a junkyard in McCamey, which calls itself 'the wind capital of Texas', although the city is still economically dependent on oil extraction.

Pick up trucks travel along the road BR 307 on the stretch that connects Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira to the Ya Mirim community within the Balaio Indigenous Territory. The road is the only access to sever...

Pumps used for oil extraction abandoned in a junkyard in McCamey, which calls itself 'the wind capital of Texas', although the city is still economically dependent on oil extraction.

Indigenous people from the Ya Mirim community bathe in a river in the Balaio Indigenous Territory, in the region of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. The community is the closest one to Morro dos Seis Lagos,...

Aerial view of Jussara lake, located in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is loca...

Aerial view of Dragao lake, located in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is locat...

Aerial view of Dragao lake, located in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is locat...

Deserted streets in the town of McCamey, which calls itself 'the wind capital of Texas' but is still economically dependent on oil extraction.

Deserted streets in the town of McCamey, which calls itself 'the wind capital of Texas' but is still economically dependent on oil extraction.

Deserted streets in the town of McCamey, which calls itself 'the wind capital of Texas' but is still economically dependent on oil extraction.

Aerial view of the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas State. In the photo, from left to right, Jussara and Niobium lakes. This region contains one of t...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Aerial view of Dragao lake, located in the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is locat...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Aerial view of the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas State. This region contains one of the largest niobium reserves in the world and is located insid...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Aerial view of the Morro dos Seis Lagos area in the municipality of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas State. In the photo, from left to right, the Dragao, Jussara and Niobium lakes. This region conta...

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in Amazonas state, cuts the veg...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in Amazonas state, cuts the veg...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in Amazonas state, cuts the veg...

Solar energy farm near the town of McCamey, a town that calls itself 'the wind energy capital of Texas', but is economically dependent on oil extraction.

Boats on the Purus river, in front of the Maracaju I community, within the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in...

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in Amazonas state, cuts the veg...

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, land designated for traditional sustainable and non commercial extraction of forest resources in Amazonas state, on his canoe...

Large tree trunks lie on railway carriages in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a controlled hub for the extraction of timber on a sustainable basis. All timber is traced. Gabon is looking to refocus i...

Staff members at AEGOS, a satellite monitoring agency that works in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a controlled hub for the extraction of timber on a sustainable basis, monitor screens, looking for...

A forklift places large tree trunks onto a railway carriage in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a controlled hub for the extraction of timber on a sustainable basis. All timber is traced. Gabon is loo...

Large tree trunks lie on railway carriages in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a controlled hub for the extraction of timber on a sustainable basis. All timber is traced. Gabon is looking to refocus i...

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...

Dredges used for illegal gold extraction on the Madeira River.

Children at play in a sand extraction site on the Xingu River that is used by Altamira inhabitants as an improvised weekend beach.

Equipment used in the extraction process of cannabis oil for medicinal use in a laboratory at the pharmaceutical company Panaxia.

Equipment used in the extraction process of cannabis oil for medicinal use in a laboratory at the pharmaceutical company Panaxia.

Salt extraction in the Salar de Uyuni.

The line cuts through the boreal forest leading towards the glowing horizon produced by lights at a Shell oil sands extraction facility. Canada's Oil Sands are the largest and most environmentally des...

The abandoned oil sands extraction facility at Bitumont which ceased operations in 1955. According to the government of Alberta, 'Industry is legally obligated to reclaim all disturbed land to a produ...

A temporary water intake pipe, leads from the Athabasca River to an oil sands extraction facility. The process of separating crude from raw oil sands bitumen consumes three barrels of fresh water for...

Workers use pitchforks and shovels to stir fermented grain ahead of the alcohol extraction process at a baijiu production facility that is part of the Shuijingfang museum which is operated by Sichuan...

Workers use pitchforks and shovels to stir fermented grain ahead of the alcohol extraction process at a baijiu production facility that is part of the Shuijingfang museum which is operated by Sichuan...

Workers use pitchforks and shovels to stir fermented grain ahead of the alcohol extraction process at a baijiu production facility that is part of the Shuijingfang museum which is operated by Sichuan...

A road under construction in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve. In 2000, the Chinese government recognised that an environmental crisis was underway and created the Sanjiangyuan National Natur...

In 2000, the Chinese government recognised that an environmental crisis was underway and created the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, stretching for more than 140 square miles over China’s Tibe...

A government-licensed jade mine. A 1994 ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and the Burmese military brought most of the jade producing areas back under government control. Since then, larg...

People searching for jade on a landslide formed of debris displaced from a commercial mine. People take great risks searching among the soil for jade rocks that may have been missed after the original...

A group of illegal jade miners swim across the water as they try to escape an arrest by police and the military at a jade mine. Military officials say the miners are illegal and endangering a school l...

Stacey Haney sits with her 11 year old daughter Paige and 14 year old son Harley. Haney leased her land for shale gas extraction last year and problems have arisen ever since. First, local roads were...

A water well near the Donana National Park. The World Wildlife Fund says excessive water extraction is putting the park, one of Europe's most celebrated conservation wetlands, at grave risk.

A sign that reads: 'Agua Ya' (Water Now!) on a fence at a berry farm near the Donana National Park. The World Wildlife Fund says excessive water extraction is putting the park, one of Europe's most c...

A man welds parts in a metal shop that repairs winches and generators used for oil extraction at Nga Naung Mone, Myanmar's largest unregulated oil field.

Dump trucks carry waste from the Kyaing International jade mine. According to a 2015 report on jade by London-based NGO Global Witness, Kyaing International is owned by the family of former military d...

A man wrapped in a Belgian flag stands beside a similarly attired statue of a lion at the impromptu shrine to victims of the 22 March terrorist attacks that has grown up in front of the Bourse (the St...

Two people, Belgian flags hanging over their shoulders, at the impromptu shrine to victims of the 22 March terrorist attacks that has grown up in front of the Bourse (the Stock Exchange) building. On...

A soldier talks with a Muslim woman who has come to pay her respect to the victims of the 22 March terrorist attack at an impromptu shrine in front of the Bourse (the Stock Exchange) building.On 22 Ma...

A young man in tears as he stands at the impromptu shrine to victims of the 22 March terrorist attacks that has grown up in front of the Bourse (the Stock Exchange) building. On 22 March 2016 two terr...

Sonia, 33 and her two children Alessia, 10 and Matteo, 7 mourn the victims of the terrorist attacks of 22nd March 2016 in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels. On 22 March 2016 tw...

People gather in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity. Tributes and flowers have been...

A girls draws a tribute in chalk on the ground in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) to those killed in the Brussels terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide attacks - at Brussels'...

People gather in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity. Tributes and flowers have been...

A man lights a candle next to a chalk drawing on the square in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels on the day after the terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide...

People gather in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity. Tributes and flowers have been...

Candles and written tributes at the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in Brussels commemorating the ones who died in the terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide attacks - at Brussels' Zavente...

Armed Belgian soldiers guard the international railway station at Brussels South (Bruxelles Midi) as passengers arrive to board their train. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide attacks - at Brusse...

A girls draws a tribute in chalk on the ground in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) to those killed in the Brussels terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide attacks - at Brussels'...

Yusuf (right) plays cricket on the main square in the Moolenbeek district of Brussels with his friends on the day after the terrorist attacks in Brussels. Molenbeek has been linked to both the Paris a...

Armed soldiers patrol the Central Square (Grande Place) in Brussels following the Brussels terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist suicide attacks - at Brussels' Zaventem airport and at the...

Belgian soldiers and police search the luggage of people arriving at Bruxelles Midi (Brussels South) international railway station on the day after the terrorist attacks. On 22 March 2016 two terrori...

People gather in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity. Tributes and flowers have been...

A girls crouches amongst tributes and flowers in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity....

Sonia, 33 and her two children Alessia, 10 and Matteo, 7 mourn the victims of the terrorist attacks of 22nd March 2016 in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels. On 22 March 2016 tw...

People gather in front of the Bourse (Stock Exchange) in central Brussels to pay their respects to the victims of the Brussels terrorist attacks and to show solidarity. On 22 March 2016 two terrorist...