みごたえのある 空中の images show how modern society has transformed the 惑星, leaving parts looking like an 外国人 landscape, from Arizona to Australia

RICE TERRACES, WESTERN YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA, 2012: 'This 維持できる farming method has been practised in 中国 for over a thousand years,' the 調書をとる／予約する 明らかにする／漏らすs. 'If done 適切に, it 妨げるs 腐食, 保持するs moisture, and can support the biodiversity that keeps 国／地域s 自然に fertile'

DESERT SPIRALS, VERNEUKPAN, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA: 'These whimsical patterns, reminiscent of the abstract 示す-making of primaeval artists, have a practical 目的,' 明らかにする／漏らすs the 調書をとる／予約する, 'to 変える 砂漠 into arable land. Also known as swales, they were ploughed in the 乾燥した，日照りの season to 逮捕（する） water during the infrequent 降雨, 罠（にかける） 勝利，勝つd-borne seeds and 妨げる 腐食'

SALINAS, CADIZ, SPAIN: Pictured above are salt 沼s 近づく the?大西洋 port city of Cadiz, with 'briny streams of turquoise seawater running through them'. The 調書をとる／予約する 追加するs: 'Looking like cloisonn? [coloured glass] jewellery, the multicoloured 山の尾根s that 安全な・保証する the 沼 were built long ago to create salt pans, but the small-規模 （手先の）技術 産業 has since died out'

NICKEL TAILINGS, SUDBURY, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1996: This 'hellish picture' was taken outside the northern Ontario city of Sudbury in central Canada, which is famous for its nickel deposits. The 調書をとる／予約する 明らかにする／漏らすs that the image shows what looks like molten 溶岩, but is in fact oxidized, water-borne waste, 追加するing: 'It is 現実に an illusion of 規模. We are not looking at a river, but at a small creek, just over a metre wide that can be easily jumped over'

THJORSA RIVER, SOUTHERN REGION, ICELAND: This incredible picture shows the result of 現在のs in the Thjorsa river eroding silt into 'wispy patterns', with the tome 追加するing: '火山の minerals are 責任がある the surreal colours of [アイスランド's] famous lakes and rivers'

戦力兵器制限交渉 PONDS, NEAR FATICK, ATLANTIC COAST, SENEGAL:?This 素晴らしい picture shows a patchwork of 手渡す-dug 不景気s, the result of artisanal salt 収穫ing. The colour variations are 原因（となる）d by salt-抵抗力のある microorganisms and 変化させるing 率s of evaporation, the 調書をとる／予約する explains

戦力兵器制限交渉 PONDS, NEAR NAGLOU SAM SAM, SENEGAL: There are three photographs in the 展示 of salt 収穫ing in Senegal and each is 正式に different, attesting to different 収穫ing styles from 地域 to 地域, the 調書をとる／予約する 明らかにする／漏らすs

PENGAH WALL, KOMODO NATIONAL PARK, INDONESIA, 2017: 'Here’s what a healthy 珊瑚 環境 looks like,' says the 調書をとる／予約する, 'a 暴動 of colour teeming with life and reminiscent of a 中央の-century "all-over" abstraction ? la Jackson Pollock. A challenging photograph to create, the 支配する is in a remote and dark 場所, at a depth of 65 feet off the coast of Indonesia and somewhat 保護するd by its UNESCO Natural World 遺産 任命. A team of 12 divers was 要求するd to 遂行する this mural, which is made up of 多重の images electronically stitched together. Alarmingly, this みごたえのある 珊瑚 塀で囲む is の中で the 拒絶する／低下するing 生存者s of 全世界の warming and ocean acidification. Such habitats are 落ちるing 犠牲者 to rising ocean 気温s, 産業の 汚染, dynamite fishing, and to 都市の 開発'

SATELLITE CAPTURE, PIVOT IRRIGATION NEAR BURAYDAH, SAUDI ARABIA: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'Pivot irrigation produces the 広大な stretches of green 刈る circles that we see when 飛行機で行くing over arid 地域s such as Saudi Arabia and the American 南西. Water is pumped up from aquifers 深い 地下組織の and 分配するd along 非常に長い motorised 麻薬を吸うs. Sprinkler and 列／漕ぐ／騒動 irrigation systems are much いっそう少なく efficient than pivot and drip irrigation because the evaporation 率 is high in arid 地域s. Although the practice has 劇的な 増加するd food 生産／産物, it is not 維持できる; "化石 water" is 限られた／立憲的な and takes centuries to 補充する. Many pivot-irrigated farms どこかよそで have run 乾燥した，日照りの as 証拠d by the fading c ircles in this image'

PIVOT IRRIGATION, HIGH PLAINS, TEXAS PANHANDLE, USA: Burtynsky used a ‘gyro’ to stabilise his camera to get this perfectly squared image, which was 発射 through a 穴を開ける in the 床に打ち倒す of a 直す／買収する，八百長をするd-wing airplane

EROSION CONTROL, YESILHISAR, CENTRAL ANATOLIA, TURKIYE, 2022: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'T?rkiye’s landscapes are 終始一貫して at 危険 of topsoil 腐食 and desertification. Ambitious terracing programs such as this 逮捕（する） water and 刺激する reforestation, thus 首尾よく 妨げるing erosive flooding'

BAY OF CADIZ, SPAIN, 2013: 'The fantastic vermiculation [wavy lines 削減（する） into 石／投石する] of this 湿地帯 is a natural occurrence,' the 調書をとる／予約する says. 'Nearby are old, 大部分は abandoned salt pans that 課す a more convenient geometry on the natural pattern. Like most salt 沼s, this one has a rich biodiversity'

TAILINGS POND, WESSELTON DIAMOND MINE, KIMBERLEY, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA: 'This boldly elegant 熟考する／考慮する in shades of grey is kimberlite, the waste 構成要素 from diamond 採掘,' the tome explains. 'A conveyor belt, which looks here like the 茎・取り除く of a chrysanthemum, brings tailings to 注ぐ 負かす／撃墜する in long petals into the waste pond'

URALKALI POTASH MINE, BEREZNIKI, RUSS IA: The 調書をとる／予約する explains: 'About 350 metres below the ロシアの city of Berezniki is a 3,000-kilometre-long tunnel system created by potash 採掘. The variegated rosette patterns are the bore 示すs of 巨大（な） tunnelling machines that chew up the stratified mineral. The red colour is the sediment of 古代の sea life, the 効果的な 成分 in this powerful fertiliser'

CERRO PRIETO GEOTHERMAL STATION, SONORA, MEXICO: The 調書をとる／予約するs says: 'Cerro Prieto is a 火山 south of Mexicali 近づく the Colorado River delta. Since 1973, electricity has been 生成するd here by harnessing the heat from the molten magma beneath the Earth’s crust. Geothermal electricity is a 比較して clean renewable energy. In this 事例／患者, however, the steam produced by pumping water into boreholes 演習d into geothermal hotspots 活動させる／戦時編成するs turbines to 生成する electricity also produces hot, mineral-rich water. The 人工的な lakes seen here 許す the minerals to settle so that the water may be 再生利用するd. In 最近の years, the area has seen an 増加する in health （民事の）告訴s from people ingesting the briny vapours'

戦力兵器制限交渉 LAKES, BIRD TRACKS, YARISLI LAKE, BURDUR PROVINCE, TURKIYE: The 調書をとる／予約する explains: 'This turquoise 塩の lake in southwestern T?rkiye attracts about 140 different 種類 of 移住する birds, 含むing large flocks of flamingos. They come to 料金d on the nutrient-rich alkaline water and leave behind the erratic filigree [delicate] patterns of their steps that we see here. These will be washed away when the 天候 begins to 冷静な／正味の and the lake is 補充するd'

CANOLA FIELDS, LUOPING, YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA, 2011: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'Here we see a surreal scene of storybook mountains and monochromatic monoculture, 産業の farming... that leads to high 産する／生じるs at the cost of 国／地域 degradation, 減ずるd biodiversity and a 激しい 依存 on 汚染するing 化学製品s'

SUPER PIT, KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 2007: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'The Fimiston open 炭坑，オーケストラ席, known 地元で as "最高の 炭坑，オーケストラ席", is a 600-metre-深い gold 地雷. It was the largest in Australia until it was より勝るd in 2016. にもかかわらず, it remains a popular 地元の tourist attraction with a 警戒／見張り over the 操作／手術. Sightseers come to 見解（をとる） these 深い 穴掘りs, also known as open cast or open 削減（する） 炭坑，オーケストラ席s, to behold the （危険などに）さらす of millions of years of geologic time'

PIVOT IRRIGATION / SUBURB, SOUTH OF YUMA, ARIZONA, USA: 'Looking like a diagram on parchment, this sparse 郊外 on the 辛勝する／優位 of Yuma 株 an arid plain with 隣人ing 農地,' the 調書をとる／予約する says

LITHIUM PROCESSING PLANTS, ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE, 2017: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'Lithium can be 設立する in 激しく揺する or in ocean brine, such as in the aquifer beneath the scorching Atacama 砂漠, where the 集中 of the ultra-light metal is 特に high. The driest 非，不，無-polar place on Earth, the Salar de Atacama is challenging to reach because of the hard, かみそり-sharp, tire-lacerating salt 水晶s that cover it. 高度に volatile and flammable, lithium is a 危険な 構成要素 that must be 扱うd with 広大な／多数の／重要な care. It is 輸送（する）d in liquid form from here to the coast for その上の 過程ing, then shipped to its 殺到するing world markets. A bi-製品 of the lithium extraction 過程 is fertiliser, seen here covered in blue tarps. The 赤みを帯びた section is a higher-質 fertiliser'

COAL MINE, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA, GERMANY: 'This German lignite, or "brown coal" 操作／手術, is an extreme example of （土地などの）細長い一片 採掘,' the tome 明らかにする／漏らすs. 'In the distance, the world’s largest 自治権のある 乗り物 chews up the landscape to 明らかにする／漏らす the cheap, but dirty, 燃料 that keeps the powerplants of central Europe humming and its people warm in winter. Whole villages and 主要道路s have been lost to the search for low-cost coal. Last year, the 政府 of North Rhein-Westphalia 発表するd that it will 段階 out the use of coal by 2030'

CLEARCUT, PALM OIL PLANTATION, BORNEO, MALAYSIA, 2016: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'The fabled rainforests of Borneo, the third-largest island in the world, are 縮むing 急速な／放蕩な. Admin istratively divided between three countries - Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia - Borneo is a major 生産者 of 熱帯の 板材, which is （疑いを）晴らす 削減（する） and 取って代わるd with oil palm 農園s. 高度に versatile, palm oil is used in everything from 過程d foods to lipstick. Anyone in the world who 定期的に reads 成分 labels will know it 井戸／弁護士席. 森林伐採, such as we see here, is a major 原因（となる） of 全世界の warming, 国／地域 degradation and 種類 絶滅'

SAW MILLS, LAGOS, NIGERIA: 'Makoko is the informal 解決／入植地 we see here at the east end of Lagos,' says the 調書をとる／予約する, 'the largest city in Africa. A third of Makoko is built on stilts 井戸／弁護士席 into the city’s eponymous Lagoon, the most 汚染するd ecosystem on the continent. Nigeria’s lowland forests are disappearing 急速な／放蕩な to 違法な logging, much of which ends up in Makoko’s sawmills. The 森林伐採 that 続いて起こるs enables the 拡大 of 農業 to 料金d the industrialised and 石油に恵まれた国’s にわか景気ing 全住民'

CHUQUICAMATA COPPER MINE OVERBURDEN, CALAMA, CHILE: 'This is the largest open-炭坑，オーケストラ席 巡査 地雷 by 容積／容量 in the world, and the second deepest,' the 調書をとる／予約する 明らかにする／漏らすs. 'Accounting for 29 per cent of the world’s 巡査 生産／産物, Chile is the largest 輸出業者 of this 極端に useful metal'

ROCK OF AGES, ACTIVE SECTION, E.L. SMITH QUARRY, BARRE, VERMONT, USA, 1992: The 調書をとる／予約する says: '設立するd in 1880, 激しく揺する of Ages is the world’s largest "深い 穴を開ける" granite quarry. The dimension 石／投石する 地雷d here is known as "Barre Gray" granite for nearby Barre, Vermont. Used まず第一に／本来 for funerary monuments, its 罰金 穀物 is also popular の中で sculptors'

GREENHOUSES, ALMERIA PENINSULA, SPAIN: The 調書をとる／予約する says: 'A large 割合 of Europe’s off-season fruits and vegetables come from this 半島 on the Mediterranean coast of southern Spain. 以前は arid scrubland, since the 1960s it has 徐々に become the world’s large st 集中 of 温室s. It relies on an 豊富 of sunlight, a dwindling aquifer and plenty of 化学製品s for its remarkable 産する／生じるs'

POLDERS, GROOTSCHERMER, THE NETHERLANDS, 2011: Explains the 調書をとる／予約する: 'Over a ４半期/4分の1 of the Netherlands is below sea level. Were it not for 中世 engineers, 65 per cent of the country would be underwater at high tide. Polders, such as these erratically str iped islands, are 埋め立てるd 湿地帯 separated from the sea by a system of seawalls, dykes and sluices. The country’s famous windmills were 築くd to pump water 支援する out to sea'

PUNTA GORDA, CHARLOTTE COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA, 2012: The 調書をとる／予約するs says: 'This is a 詳細（に述べる） of Charlotte Park, a neighbourhood of Punta Gorda, Spanish for "fat point". The neighbourhood juts out into an estuary on the west coast of Florida. The 湾 of Mexico 地域 is famously 傾向がある to ハリケーンs, but this community is somewhat 保護するd from 殺到するing 嵐／襲撃する water by a 厚い mangrove forest whose 深い roots stabilise the coastline. Over the last century, however, this estuary has lost up to 60 パーセント of its 決定的な mangrove forests to 都市の 開発. The vermicular street 計画（する） was designed to maximise water frontage for as many homes as possible'

Edward Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction is published by?Steidl and 小売s at £38?or $56.87. It showcases a 目録 of Edward Burtynsky's 作品, on 陳列する，発揮する at Saatchi Gallery London, until May 6, 2024.?Burtynsky's photos are also on 陳列する，発揮する at Flowers Gallery on Cork Street, London, in an 展示 する権利を与えるd New 作品