The winning and finalist images for the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) awards have been announced. Nearly 20,000 images were entered by professional and amateur photographers representing 154 countries.
Coexisting among this brilliant yellow star coral is a silver mint goby photographed in the Caribbean Sea
Colorful kidney garden spiders crawl through tree branches, leaving a trail of spider webs
Early morning light paints the waves of the so-called Moravian Tuscany in South Moravia
Fireflies in a Japanese forest on a summer night look like Christmas lights
"El Cono Arita," a spectacular geological formation where erosion has shaped a near-perfect cone seemingly lost in the vast desert of Salar de Arizaro
Year after year, the same natural scene plays out on the Greenland ice cap. As summer approaches, large lakes of meltwater appear at the edges of the ice, drained into the sea by a network of streams, rivers and crevices.
Blue Planet Antarctica. Adelie penguin chicks find shelter in a complex system of tunnels dug into nearby icebergs. Using these passageways to avoid predators, they group together for safety.
Najin 33, one of the world's last two remaining northern white rhinos, rests in the hot afternoon sun with her friend and caretaker Zachary Mutai at Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
This photo was taken while scuba diving during a storm.
Tacande, La Palma, Spain: footage of a devastated mountainside with a single tree standing against lava flows during the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano
The mother polar bear and her cubs had not eaten for a long time because the ice was melting earlier than before. Due to starvation, their milk had long since dried up and two days after this photo was taken, it was reported that both bears had died. This image is a testament to the impact of climate change.































