Climate Change is the big environmental issue, but what are the effects, here in the UK it’s expected that our climate will become Mediterranean although looking at our last two summers that’s pretty hard to believe.
With his series “The Chinese Dust Bowl” Benoit Aquin, the winner of the first Prix Pictet, what is claimed as the world’s richest photographic prize, shows the brutal effects in northern China which is turning 400,000 square km of once-fertile farmland into desert.
Sanggen Dalai, Inner Mongolia, China, 2006
Gansu Province, China, 2006
Wuwei Region, Gansu, China, 2006
Wuwei Oasis, Gansu, China, 2006
Wuwei Oasis, Gansu, China, 2006
Hongsibao, Ningxia, China, 2007
Bayannur Region, Inner Mongolia, China, 2006
Xilinhot City, Inner Mongolia, China, 2006
Hongsibao, Ningxia, China, 2007
Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 2007
Source: BBC.