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2021 Environment
First Place
Herny Lenayasa, a Samburu man and chief of the settlement of Archers Post tries to scare away a massive swarm of desert locust ravaging a grazing area next to Archers Post, Samburu County, Kenya on April 24, 2020. Desert locusts are the most destructive migratory pests in the world. The Horn of Africa faced in 2020 the worst desert locust crisis in over 25 years, and the most serious in 70 years forÊKenya. COVID-19 restrictions have significantly slowed efforts to fight the infestation. The desert locust upsurge could have devastating consequences in already vulnerable regions. Extreme weather anomalies linked to climate-change-driven events have created ideal conditions for locust breeding and turned the region into a buffet for locusts with historic proportions. Billions of locusts have been feeding throughout East Africa, devouring in their path, posing an unprecedented serious threat to the food supply and livelihoods of millions of people.
Second Place
A firefighting airplane flies away from a pyrocumulus ash plume after making a retardant drop on a ridge as firefighters continue to battle the Apple fire near Banning, California on August 01, 2020.
Third Place
A lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) heads out to hunt over grassland on a clear night on 9 September 2020 on an organic farm in Devon, England. Meadow and woodland habitats have been decimated by intensive agriculture and development, leaving the lesser horseshoe bat rare and in decline in Britain. To show this relationship between the bat and its habitat, and to avoid causing disturbance to the bat, the photographer used red filters on low powered lights to expose the image and worked under the guidance of The Bat Conservation Trust.
Honorable Mention
A road divides the Cerro Lagoon, where the water at right is colored and the Waltrading S.A. tannery stands on the bank, top right, in Limpio, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. According to Francisco Ferreira, a technician at the National University Multidisciplinary Lab. who is taking water samples at the site on Wednesday, the color of the water is due to the presence of heavy metals like chromium, commonly used in the tannery process.
Honorable Mention
A bolt of lightning streaks toward the remaining vestiges of a rainbow over Lewiston, Idaho as a thunderstorm rolls through the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley on Wednesday, April 29, 2020.
Honorable Mention
Arroyo Grande Hotshots are silhouetted as they watch a backfire at Carter Street and Bears Den Ranch Road in Yucaipa on Sunday, September 6, 2020.