Earth's very important rivers captured in gorgeous drone and satellite tv for pc photographs

DRAMATIC, highly effective and entrancing, these photographs give a chicken’s-eye view of one in every of humanity’s most beneficial sources. They're taken from River, a brand new nature documentary directed by Jennifer Peedom. The film contains drone footage and attracts on fashionable filming strategies, equivalent to the usage of satellites, to seize the dimensions and intricacy of rivers in 39 nations throughout six continents.

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Glacial outflows in Iceland

Chris Burkard

Although rivers make up solely about 1 per cent of the world’s floor freshwater, they're vital sources of consuming water and meals for numerous folks. Rivers are additionally biodiverse ecosystems that play very important roles in distributing vitamins and draining floor water. But they're more and more in danger from air pollution, damming and biodiversity loss, making the necessity to defend them all of the extra pressing.

A Cucap??s (person of the river) fishing boat sits abandoned in delta mudflats where ancestral fishing once supported 20,000 Native Americans. Now, 1,500 Kwapa (Cucap? and Cocopah) on either side of the border depend on casinos, farming, and odd jobs for employment. Fishing is now illegal in the protected ocean water of the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, but many test their luck with the law.

An deserted fishing boat sitting within the mudflats of the Colorado river delta, an space underneath menace from drought and local weather change

Peter McBride

The pictures present: North America’s Susquehanna river because it cuts by way of agricultural land in Pennsylvania, taken from the Worldwide House Station; glacial outflows in Iceland captured by photographer Chris Burkard; an deserted fishing boat sitting within the mudflats of the Colorado river delta, an space underneath menace from drought and local weather change; and, lastly, a double meander of the Colorado river in Canyonlands Nationwide Park, Utah.

???The Loop??? is located six miles above the Green River confluence in Canyonlands National Park, 50 miles downstream of Moab, Utah. The river follows an anticline atop 300-million-year-old salt beds buckling against the weight of more recent rock sediments. In 1964, President Johnson created Canyonlands National Park, as uranium prices fell and allowed him to work around numerous mining claims in the area.

A double meander of the Colorado river in Canyonlands Nationwide Park, Uta

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North America’s Susquehanna river

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River is screening in chosen cinemas and obtainable to observe on demand at river.movie.

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