Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Industry

Photo: Oil exploration facility inside Murchison Falls National Park.

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Oil exploration facility inside Murchison Falls National Park.

Photo: Saltworks in a crater lake in the Lake Edward region of the Albertine Rift.

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Saltworks in a crater lake in the Lake Edward region of the Albertine Rift.

Photo: Workers in hard hats and uniforms walk among shipping containers at the port of Salvador, Brazil.

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Workers in hard hats and uniforms walk among shipping containers at the port of Salvador, Brazil.

Photo: Aerial of the marshlands that have literally been cut to pieces by pipeline canals and shipping channels that have been put in by the oil industry over the years.

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Aerial of the marshlands that have literally been cut to pieces by pipeline canals and shipping channels that have been put in by the oil industry over the years. Such huge canals have allowed saltwater to intrude, killing off the marsh and eliminating its resistance to catastrophic events in the Gulf such as storms, and now, oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon.

Photo: Workers observe water spilling from a gas well in Wyoming.

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Workers observe water spilling from a gas well in Wyoming.

Photo: A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

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A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

Photo: A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

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A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

Photo: Water and drilling mud spill from a rig near Buffalo, WY. At this site, the fluid is recirculated after it settles in the pond shown here.

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Water and drilling mud spill from a rig near Buffalo, WY. At this site, the fluid is recirculated after it settles in the pond shown here.

Photo: A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

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A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.

Photo: A horse and a dog on a ranch near a gas drilling area near Aztec, NM.

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A horse and a dog on a ranch near a gas drilling area near Aztec, NM.

Photo: A rancher and his cattle among polluting gas drilling equipment near Aztec, NM.

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A rancher and his cattle among polluting gas drilling equipment near Aztec, NM.

Photo: A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia's coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee.

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A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.

Photo: A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia's coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee.

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A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.

Photo: Aerial view of clear-cut logging in Idaho's Salmon National Forest.

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Aerial view of clear-cut logging in Idaho’s Salmon National Forest.

Photo: An aerial showing the massive impact of the oil industry in the Galveston Bay area of Texas.

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An aerial showing the massive impact of the oil industry in the Galveston Bay area of Texas.

Photo: An aerial showing the massive impact of the oil industry in the Galveston Bay area of Texas.

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An aerial showing the massive impact of the oil industry in the Galveston Bay area of Texas.

Photo: At Lake Ogallala, a hydroelectric plant keeps stunned bait fish in supply all through the winter, attracting bald eagles and water fowl.

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At Lake Ogallala, a hydroelectric plant keeps stunned bait fish in supply all through the winter, attracting bald eagles and water fowl.

Photo: A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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A Tanqueray Resources, Ltd. drilling shack at a diamond-mining site in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

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Prospecting for diamonds in the water-soaked tundra north of Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

Photo: Grizzly bear in the Arctic (on the Beaufort Sea in the Prudhoe Bay area.)

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Grizzly bear in the Arctic (on the Beaufort Sea in the Prudhoe Bay area.)

Photo: Mother grizzly and cubs in the Arctic (on the Beaufort Sea in Prudhoe Bay.)

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Mother grizzly and cubs in the Arctic (on the Beaufort Sea in Prudhoe Bay.)

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