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First Place
James Whitlow Delano
Redux

"Scorched Earth: China's Wounded Environment"

Second Place
Katalin Darnay
Világgazdaság

"The red mud catastrophe in Hungary"

Third Place
Preston Gannaway
The Virginian-Pilot

"Field to Feast"

Director's Choice
Joel Sartore
National Geographic Magazine

"Great Migrations"

First Place
James Whitlow Delano
Redux


"Scorched Earth: China's Wounded Environment"

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There seems to be a desire to develop in China at any cost. Nothing will stand in its way, no man, no woman or Mother Earth herself. Nature is sacrificed with hardly a second thought given. It is a scorched earth development strategy.

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Disfigured landscape: Utility poles left standing when all the earth around them has been removed, dry river bed along national hwy 110, Inner Mongolia, China.

 
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