When you swim with humpback whales it’s not their size that overwhelms you but their beauty. You want to stay in that moment forever. These three humpbacks came over to me to check me out. They put on a beautiful dancing display that makes your heart stop and you wish for the moment to never end. When they were done ten minutes later they took off but left me with amazing memories. Tahiti, French Polynesia.
A drill pad built on top of fragile wetlands probes for new oil reserves. Technology imported from the West is helping Russia’s oil industry modernize, but Soviet-era spills and pipeline breaks have contaminated much of the region.
Simon Booth remembers when he grazed 250 head of cattle on his ranch in southeastern Australia—a sight his children Ryan and Claire may never see. A seven-year drought has the region, and its people, in its grips.