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‘The Renewables Project is a unique photographic vision of the hydroelectric landscapes of Scotland mid-winter. Nocturnal icy vistas combine with brutalist structures in this award-winning series of large-format images.’ Toby Smith will be showing more from this project, and also images from Light After Dark, at The Hospital Club in London this weekend. Read more on the Getty Images blog.

‘The Renewables Project is a unique photographic vision of the hydroelectric landscapes of Scotland mid-winter. Nocturnal icy vistas combine with brutalist structures in this award-winning series of large-format images.’

Toby Smith will be showing more from this project, and also images from Light After Dark, at The Hospital Club in London this weekend. Read more on the Getty Images blog.

Oil has often brought tumultuous change to the region under which it is discovered. Geologists and oil companies have long known that the Bakken oil field under North Dakota existed, but, until the development of efficient fracking technology, there was no cost-effective way of extracting it. That has changed, and so has Williston, ND. The deluge of oil workers arriving in town has caused a spike in crime and a severe housing shortage. Rental prices rival those in Manhattan, and workers sleep in their cars or in the local church. Despite this, the lure of high-paying jobs will likely continue to draw hordes to Williston.

See more from Charles Ommanney’s ‘The Promised Land’ here.

NIGER - Tuareg Nomad women dance at a baptism in the desert. This group has been in the region for the rainy season, taking advantage of easy water and good grasses for the animals. MNJ rebels are fighting the Niger government because they feel that the traditional grazing lands and water rights of the Tuareg are threatened by the Uranium industry. KENYA:Pokot tribesman attacked a Samburu village in a dispute over cattle grazing rights at a time of drought in the region. 50 cattle were shot and over 300 died later from lack of grazing access

Today is World Water Day

The world’s most abundant resource is also one of its most problematic. Climate change has brought a noticeable rise in drought and desertification. 258 million people in African have no access to clean water, and what is available often introduces a wide spectrum of disease or conflict into communities.

These problems bring with them a host of political, tribal, and gender issues. Community-based solutions exist; what is lacking are solutions at a global level.

See more from Brent Stirton’s ‘Water is Personal’ here.

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LAS CHUNAS, CHACO, ARGENTINA: Juan Carlos Cardoso, 23, has suffered from Cerebral Palsy and a type of Spina Bifida since birth; his mother Carmen takes care of him. In Argentina, there is no national law regulating herbicides, and fumigations in the agricultural fields have been denounced as the cause of an increasing number of birth defects and a 30% spike in cancer cases. Chaco native Katherina Pardo, 21, recalls that when she was a student and a plane passed overhead, some of the children would pass out. “We just took it as something normal, at a certain time of the year, at the time of the fumigations. People would begin to feel sick; there would be headaches and fainting. I always blamed the drinking water.”  From Stories of a Wounded Land, by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala.

LAS CHUNAS, CHACO, ARGENTINA: Juan Carlos Cardoso, 23, has suffered from Cerebral Palsy and a type of Spina Bifida since birth; his mother Carmen takes care of him. In Argentina, there is no national law regulating herbicides, and fumigations in the agricultural fields have been denounced as the cause of an increasing number of birth defects and a 30% spike in cancer cases.

Chaco native Katherina Pardo, 21, recalls that when she was a student and a plane passed overhead, some of the children would pass out. “We just took it as something normal, at a certain time of the year, at the time of the fumigations. People would begin to feel sick; there would be headaches and fainting. I always blamed the drinking water.” 

From Stories of a Wounded Land, by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala.

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OWANDO, REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MAY 12, 2011: A local volunteer with the Congolese Red Cross prepares cassava cuttings tolerant to mosaic disease, a plant virus which limits production of the important food crop, that will be distributed to the local population. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images for ICRC) Jonathan Torgovnik has been named a Canon Explorer.

OWANDO, REPUBLIC OF CONGO - MAY 12, 2011: A local volunteer with the Congolese Red Cross prepares cassava cuttings tolerant to mosaic disease, a plant virus which limits production of the important food crop, that will be distributed to the local population. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik/Reportage by Getty Images for ICRC)

Jonathan Torgovnik has been named a Canon Explorer.

In 1989 the world voted to create a global ban on the ivory trade. Since then, tens of millions of dollars in illegal ivory has been smuggled and hundreds of thousands of elephants have been slaughtered.  No single ivory trafficking kingpin has ever been identified and sent to prison.

The most common use of high-end ivory is for the carving of religious icons. This is a centuries-old trade that continues unabated today. Buddhist monks, Catholic priests, Taoist leaders and Hindu believers bless ivory carvings. These blessings add exponentially to the value of the carvings. High-end pieces can sell for up to $500,000.

From the feature God’s Ivory, by Brent Stirton

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The latest cover of Time, ‘Lessons from the Storm,’ was shot with an iPhone by Ben Lowy.  

The latest cover of Time, ‘Lessons from the Storm,’ was shot with an iPhone by Ben Lowy.  

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gettyimages: Hurricane Sandy Bears Down On U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coastline Resident Kim Johnson inspects the area around her apartment building, which flooded and destroyed large sections of an old boardwalk, on October 30, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Johnson fled the area when the water began to rise yesterday. The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard. US President Barack Obama has declared the situation a ‘major disaster’ for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Hurricane Sandy Bears Down On U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coastline

Resident Kim Johnson inspects the area around her apartment building, which flooded and destroyed large sections of an old boardwalk, on October 30, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Johnson fled the area when the water began to rise yesterday. The storm has claimed at least 16 lives in the United States, and has caused massive flooding across much of the Atlantic seaboard.

US President Barack Obama has declared the situation a ‘major disaster’ for large areas of the US East Coast including New York City.

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images

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As reported by the BBC, two park rangers and a soldier have been killed by the Mai Mai militia group in Virunga National Park.  Over half of the 790 remaining mountain gorillas on earth live in Virunga; the rangers are charged with protecting them from land disputes, resource depletion, and several armed rebel groups. Image: Men from a ranger patrol make their way up the mountain towards the gorilla sector in Virunga National park, March 2008. From Gorillas of the Congo, by Brent Stirton

As reported by the BBC, two park rangers and a soldier have been killed by the Mai Mai militia group in Virunga National Park.  Over half of the 790 remaining mountain gorillas on earth live in Virunga; the rangers are charged with protecting them from land disputes, resource depletion, and several armed rebel groups.

Image: Men from a ranger patrol make their way up the mountain towards the gorilla sector in Virunga National park, March 2008.

From Gorillas of the Congo, by Brent Stirton

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‘Currently one rhinoceros is killed by poachers every 16 hours in South Africa. Over the last three years, more than a thousand of the animals have been slaughtered. In response, police gunned down 22 poachers and arrested more than 200 last year. At the bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino’s horn, a prized ingredient in traditional Asian medicines. Though black market prices vary widely, as of last fall dealers in Vietnam quoted prices ranging from $33 to $133 a gram, which at the top end is double the price of gold and can exceed the price of cocaine.’ - Peter Gwin, National Geographic The BBC reported yesterday that the number of rhinos killed this year has already hit 445 (448 total were killed in 2011). Image from Rhino Wars, by Brent Stirton Update: Rhino poaching in South Africa was up almost 50% in 2012 over 2011.

‘Currently one rhinoceros is killed by poachers every 16 hours in South Africa. Over the last three years, more than a thousand of the animals have been slaughtered. In response, police gunned down 22 poachers and arrested more than 200 last year. At the bloody heart of this conflict is the rhino’s horn, a prized ingredient in traditional Asian medicines. Though black market prices vary widely, as of last fall dealers in Vietnam quoted prices ranging from $33 to $133 a gram, which at the top end is double the price of gold and can exceed the price of cocaine.’ - Peter Gwin, National Geographic

The BBC reported yesterday that the number of rhinos killed this year has already hit 445 (448 total were killed in 2011).

Image from Rhino Wars, by Brent Stirton

Update: Rhino poaching in South Africa was up almost 50% in 2012 over 2011.

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