In order to raise awareness of the issues threatening life as we know it, the Foundation for Deep Ecology and Population Media Centre have released a collection of sobering pictures, showing the widespread destruction of land, skies and seas.

Mexico city, population 20 million, sprawls over hills and landscapes destroying any nature in its path.

Los Angeles is home to over 15 million people and some of the worst air pollution in North America.

albatross, dead from ingesting too much plastic, decays on the beach; sadly, this is a common sight on Midway Island.

A farmer by the yellow river in China can not stand the smell.

Huge mining operations in the tar sand regions of Alberta, Canada.

Basketball star, Yao Ming, comes face to face with a poached elephant in Kenya.

Cattle graze amongst burning Amazon jungle. 150 acres of pristine forest are destroyed every second of every day. It’s a truly shocking statistic.

Siberian tiger skins is recovered from poaches in Siberia, Russia.

The moment one of the most destructive natural disasters in history U.S history, Hurricane Katrina, hit land in 2005.

Glasshouses for as far as the eye can see in Almeria, Spain.

Former forest completely levelled for reservoir development in Oregon.

Aerial view of the tar sands region, where mining operations and tailings ponds are so vast they can be seen from outer space; Alberta, Canada.

Brick kilns and litter dominate this Bangladeshi landscape.

More frequent and intense wildfires are a direct consequence of global warming.

Aerial view of New Delhi, India, population 22 million, density 30,000 per square mile.

It’s the end of the road for these tires after they were dumped in the desert in Nevada.

Aggressive bargain hunters fight through the front doors of this shop in Idaho.

This area of Norway is usually totally ice-covered in winter months. This bear headed north, looking for suitable sea ice to hunt on. Finding none, it eventually collapsed and died.

A 2011 tsunami prompted a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Station in Japan.

The Mir Mine in Russia is the world’s largest diamond mine.

Canada has not been kind to its native forests.

Massive quantities of waste from obsolete electronic devices are often shipped to the third world for sorting and disposal, this photo was taken in Accra, Ghana.

One of Earth’s most vulnerable islands, The Maldives, are severely threatened by rising sea levels.

Depleting oil fields are a sign of our over-reliance on fossil fuels.

In both the Arctic and Antarctic, ice is retreating.

Harder and harder to breath: a coal burning plant in the UK.

Dede Surinaya catches a wave in a rubbish-covered bay on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island.