Earth Shots

The photo shaped the world's perception of the existential threat climate change poses to low-lying island nations.

Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

In 1964, Jane Goodall's husband Hugo van Lawick took a photo of her and an infant chimp reaching out to each other. Decades later, it continues to impact how we view chimpanzees.

Fifty years since the release of Jaws, these photographers are showing a different, less frightening view of great white sharks.

The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it regularly went up in flames. Images of one dramatic blaze in 1952 shaped the US's nascent environmental movement, long after the flames went out.

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface.

A photographer's iconic shots of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shine a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour.