From gravel workmen struggling to see in Bangladesh to trawling through rubbish at the Taj Mahal: Stunning pictures for world's top environmental photography competition

Photographer Faisal Azim captured the moment three gravel workmen look through a window which is covered in sand in Chittagong, Bangladesh

A man can be seen searching through rubbish while carrying two huge sacks at sunrise from behind the famous Taj Mahal in Agra, India

Two workers stand in a furnace - which belches out thick smoke - to make fertiliser and fish feed in Kasba, Kolkata, West Bengal

An Indonesian military use swim goggles on forest burned area at Rimbo Panjang Village, Kampar, Riau, Indonesia, on September 5, 2015. During Indonesia's annual dry season, hundreds of fires are often illegally ignited to clear forests in the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan. The heavy smoke can shroud neighbouring Singapore and Malaysian cities with smog and haze

Photographer Steve Morgan captured the moment the Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, was completely covered by water on Boxing Day in 2015. Flood sirens echoed around the Valley at 7.30am alerting sleeping residents to the rising waters about to engulf the town

A man dresses up for the La Vijanera festival in Cantabria, north Spain. The festival has been declared as the Fiesta of National Tourist Interest. Characters represent nature and the environment

Christian Aslund's photograph taken in the Arctic Ocean at the Greenland Underwater split shows a seismic blasting operation taking place.The process involves firing airguns that emit 259-decibel blasts towards the seabed in order to identify possible oil and gas reservoirs

A baby on a camel and his family decided to move their camp 10 kilometers to be closer to a river where there is some water left in Ethiopia. The African country is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years

Buddhist monks play basketball on a court in their mountainside monastery in Tibet, China. Despite the light covering of snow, the monks report increasingly warmer winter temperatures each year and a general reduction in quantities of fresh water on the Tibetan plateau

Villagers trap fish using cone-shaped baskets and solar light in Odisha, India. Roughly 1.1 billion people in the world live without access to electricity, and close to a quarter of them are in India

A man tries to get his pet to shelter due to bad weather but the animal seems to put up a fight in West Bengal, India

Myanmar Ko Maw Gyi, a former miner, holds up his x-ray to show the lung infection he has suffered for two years after working in Mandalay Region in Myanmar

Malaysian Borneo Seaweed farming has been heavily promoted to be an alternative, stable and sustainable income for fisherman in the Semporna region, taking pressure off the overfished reefs

An iconic building in Qatar commonly known as Burj Qatar is almost covered by thick fog which is a result of the change in season from summer to winter or winter to summer

In 2004, Athens in Greece was hosting the Olympic Summer Games. However, in 2016, the stadiums are derelict due to the current financial situation of the country

Youngsters in Mumbai, India, decided to try and swim through the waterlogged streets on June 20, 2015, while others climbed onto a public bus in order to stay afloat

A young couple, Kelly Lu and Yanding Li, hold hands during a walk through Beijing's Olympic Park in China. Li said: 'I'm pretty sad about this. It's worse and worse. I think the pollution is bad for our health'

A family moves their cattle from their home in Fatima, Portugal, to Las Navas de San Juan in Spain. They embark on the long 200km journey with more than 550 sheep to look for the best grass during winter

Photographer Stuart Gleave took an aerial pictures of a huge solar panel farm located on Tenerife's southern coast

In the past century, 95 per cent of Ethiopia's Afromontane forest has been lost through land grabs and exploding population growth