The winning and finalist photos for the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) award have been announced. Nearly 20,000 photos were submitted by professional and amateur photographers representing 154 countries.
Coexisting among these vibrant yellow star corals is a mint goby, photographed in the Caribbean Sea.
Colorful garden spiders crawl through tree branches, leaving trails of spiderwebs behind.
The early morning light paints the waves of what is known as 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 nearly perfect cone seemingly lost in the vast desert of Salar de Arizaro.
Year after year, the same natural spectacle unfolds on the Greenland ice sheet. As summer approaches, large meltwater pools appear at the edges of the ice, draining into the sea by a network of springs, rivers, and fissures.
The blue planet in Antarctica. Adelie penguin chicks seek shelter in an intricate system of tunnels dug into nearby icebergs. Using these passageways to avoid predators, they huddle together for safety.
Najin 33, one of the last two northern white rhinos in the world, is resting in the harsh afternoon sun with his friend and caretaker, Zachary Mutai, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy.
This photo was taken while scuba diving during a storm.
Tacande, La Palma, Spain: footage of a devastated hillside with a single tree struggling against the lava flow during the eruption of Cumbre Vieja volcano.
The mother polar bear and her cubs had gone without food for a long time because the ice was melting faster than usual. Due to starvation, their mother's milk had long since dried up, and two days after this photo was taken, it was reported that both cubs had died. This image is a testament to the impact of climate change.

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