David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, future Glasdir estate, Ruthin, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted area...

David Woodfall / Destruction of countryside in green belt close to market town, for building of houses in flood plain, Vale of Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales, UK. This is a highlighted areas in UK at risk of flooding and...

Steven David Miller / Small flock of Magpie geese (Anseranas semipalmata) foraging for food on the South Alligator floodplains, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Rogaguado Lake with its shores covered by "buriti" palm trees (Mauritia flexuosa), in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Rogaguado Lake with its shores covered by "buriti" palm trees (Mauritia flexuosa), in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Ginebra Lake in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerials view of Ginebra Lake (on the background) and part of Ãgua Clara Lagoon (foreground) in the region of the great lakes of the Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Giant Water Lilies (Victoria cruziana) in the main stream of the flooded Mamoré River, near Santa Ana del Yacuma, in the region Beni floodplains, Beni Department, Northeastern Bolivia....

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of Cattle ranch isolated by the great 2008 flood of the Mamoré River in the floodplains of the Beni Department of Eastern Bolivia, 2008

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Aerial view of the Beni floodplains during the 2008 great flood of the Mamoré River, Beni Department, Eastern Bolivia.

Pete Oxford / Termite islands in the Delta. These small islands start by termites raising patches of land above the flatness of the land at the same time enriching the soil. Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Afric...