Finalist: Photography Staff of Reuters
Nominated Work
A general view can be seen from a damaged movie theater after a devastating tornado ripped through Mayfield, Kentucky, U.S. on December 16, 2021. (Cheney Orr)
A man engulfed by a swarm of desert locusts stands on top of a hill near Nanyuki, Kenya, January 30, 2021. (Baz Ratner)
A group of volunteer divers, assisted by the Coastal Resources Research Center and Royal Thai Navy, lift abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area of Ko Losin, Thailand on June 19, 2021. (Jorge Silva)
Sea-surface-cleaning vessels and barrier-laying boats clean up sea snot, a thick slimy layer of the organic matter also known as marine mucilage, which spread through the Sea of Marmara threatening marine life and the fishing industry, in Istanbul, Turkey June 15, 2021. (Umit Bektas)
Vitoria Rocha, 81, holds a picture of her parents, which she found in the rubble of her residence of nearly 40 years, after it was destroyed by floods, in Itambe, State of Bahia, Brazil on December 28, 2021. (Amanda Perobelli)
Firefighters spray water from a fire train, designed to fight wildfires, on hot spots along the tracks over Rock Creek Bridge as the Dixie Fire grows in Plumas National Forest, California, U.S., July 15, 2021. (David Swanson)
A woman prays on the banks of the polluted river Yamuna on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, November 8, 2021. (Anushree Fadnavis)
The melting Sermeq glacier, located around 80 km south of Nuuk, is photographed in this aerial over Greenland, September 11, 2021. (Hannibal Hanschke)
A woman carrying a child and belongings wades through floodwaters following heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China July 23, 2021. (Aly Song)
A man watches the body of a dead humpback whale, measuring 15.70 meters long according to El Salvador's Ministry of Environment, after it washed ashore in Las Flores beach in La Libertad, El Salvador on November 5, 2021. (Jose Cabezas)
A home is reflected in floodwaters in the Yarrow neighborhood after rainstorms caused flooding and landslides in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada November 20, 2021. (Jesse Winter)
Theophilus Charles, 70, sits inside his house which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ida in Houma, Louisiana, U.S., August 30, 2021. (Adrees Latif)
Lava is seen through the window of a kitchen from El Paso following the eruption of a volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, September 28, 2021. (Jon Nazca)
Fishermen bring in their catch from a lake in front of a power plant of the State Development and Investment Corporation outside Tianjin, China, October 14, 2021. (Thomas Peter)
A polar bear rests after sparring with another bear near the Hudson Bay community of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada on November 20, 2021. (Carlos Osorio)