Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj (72) fights with Ottawa Senators forward Mark Kastelic (47) during the first period at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Eric Bolte/USA TODAY Sports)

From Tibetan monks playing basket ball with ice thawing high up in the Himalayas, to the pollution that hides behind the Taj Mahal, here’s pick from 60 exceptional environmental photographs, by photographers and filmmakers from 70 countries, that will go on show at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 29 June to 21 August. The winners will be announced on 28 June. Here: Gravel Workmen of Chittagong, Bangladesh, by Faisal Azim. Gravel workmen look through a glass window at a gravel-crushing yard in Chittagong. Full of dust and sand, it is an extremely unhealthy environment for working, but still hundreds of people work here for their livelihoods. (Photo by Faisal Azim/2016 Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year)

Global wildlife populations will decline by 67% by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to reduce human impact on species and ecosystems, warns the biennial Living Planet Index report from WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and ZSL (Zoological Society of London). From elephants to eels, here are some of the wildlife populations most affected by human activity. Here: The maned wolf is among the large mammals in the Brazilian Cerrado that are threatened by the increasing conversion of grasslands into farmland for grazing and growing crops. (Photo by Ben Cranke/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

Sophie Turner (L) attends HBO's Official 2019 Emmy After Party on September 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)

A woman watches the rain from inside a stranded vehicle on a flooded street in Mianyang, Sichuan, China on July 11, 2018. (Photo by China News Service via Reuters)

Derrick Campana kneels beside Angel Marie, a three legged mini horse who wears a prosthetic leg made by Campana, at Animal Ortho Care in Sterling, Virginia, U.S., March 27, 2017. (Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Sunrise over St Mary's lighthouse north of Whitley Bay on the coast of north east England on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)

Mr Lordi aka Tomi Petteri Putaansuu of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi gets the second jab of his Covid-19 vaccination from nurse Paula Ylitalo (R) in Rovaniemi, Finland, on August 1, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jouni Porsanger/Lehtikuva/AFP Photo)