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Winner, oceans: the bigger picture. Nursery meltdown, by Jennifer Hayes, US. Hayes records harp seals, seal pups and the blood of birth against melting sea ice. After a storm, it took hours of searching by helicopter to find this fractured sea ice used as a birthing platform by harp seals. “It was a pulse of life that took your breath away”, she says. Every autumn, harp seals migrate south from the Arctic to their breeding grounds, delaying births until the sea ice forms. Seals depend on the ice, which means population numbers are likely to be affected by the climate crisis. (Photo by Jennifer Hayes/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021)
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