Big picture
Startling and inspiring images from the natural world and technological solutions to environmental problems
Activists target Europe’s biggest source of carbon emissions, in Germany – big picture
Over 1,000 activists brought the vast machines at the Rhineland coalfields to a halt to protest against the fossil fuels that cause climate change
This is what $6m of ivory looks like – big picture
Authorities in Singapore made the biggest seizure in a decade of ivory and other exotic animal parts, hidden among tea leaves in two containers shipped from Kenya for Vietnam
Painting lawns green in California's drought - big picture
Grass painting company sees a sharp rise in business as homeowners and business colour rather than water their lawns
Trackside solar farm at the Indy 500 – big picture
Operators of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are trying to offset racing emissions with a 39,312-solar module farm
How temperatures in America have changed – big picture
A new Nasa map shows how temperatures have risen from state to state between 1991 and 2012
Red dust trail from North Africa to Europe - big picture
This satellite image shows the weather system that brought red dust to the UK from the Sahara desert
Air pollution in Paris – big picture
Air pollution has turned Paris skies a murky yellow, prompting the government to make public transportation free for the next three days as an incentive for people to give up using cars
Yao Ming delivers ivory petition to Chinese political conference - big picture
Former NBA star Yao Ming delivers a petition to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, calling on China's government to ban sales of ivory
UK floods flush out silt plumes into the sea – big picture
Plumes of silt from estuaries in England and Wales captured in a satellite image on 16 February
Drought in California worsens - big picture
The California drought, now into its 13th month, grows more devastating with each passing day and there is no sign of significant relief
Columbus crab crosses the Atlantic – big picture
A tiny crab from Bermuda washes up on Dorset beach after an epic voyage hitching a ride on marine litter carried by the Gulf Stream
Aerial view of gas wells in Texas - big picture
During a flight over Texas, the artist Amy Youngs noticed the landscape has been transformed by new rectangular marks etched in the earth, made not by farming but by drilling for gas
Vancouver's six-acre rooftop garden – big picture
Picture, 18 October 2013: Morning fog drifts across downtown Vancouver as landscaper Graham Reid cuts the grass on top of the Vancouver Convention Centre's living roof
Small-scale gold mining in Peru's Amazon - big picture
A study of mercury contamination from rampant informal gold mining found levels above acceptable limits in the Madre de Dios region
A first glimpse of Aurora, the world's largest polar bear - big picture
On 15 September Greenpeace will haul a giant people-powered polar bear through central London
London’s largest living wall unveiled - big picture
Huge edifice containing 10,000 plants and designed to reduce urban flooding opens on side of hotel in Victoria
The polar bear who died of climate change - big picture
A lack of sea ice, caused by global warming, meant the bear was unable to hunt seals and starved, according to an expert who had been monitoring the animal
Installing the dome on nuclear reactor's building at Flamanville – big picture
A 154-meter high hoist is used to install a dome on the reactor building at the site of the third generation European Pressurised Water Reactor in Flamanville, France
Map of the rivers of the United States of America - big picture
A breathtakingly beautiful and still evolving map of all rivers in the US
Koala rescued from deforestation in Australia - big picture
Workers from a pine plantation helped the animal group Wires to relocate several koalas into new habitat after logging activities displaced them
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