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First Place
James Whitlow Delano
Redux

"Scorched Earth: China's Wounded Environment"

Second Place
Katalin Darnay
Világgazdaság

"The red mud catastrophe in Hungary"

Third Place
Preston Gannaway
The Virginian-Pilot

"Field to Feast"

Director's Choice
Joel Sartore
National Geographic Magazine

"Great Migrations"

Director's Choice
Joel Sartore
National Geographic Magazine


"GREAT MIGRATIONS"

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Though pronghorn antelope are excellent runners, reaching speeds over 60 mph, they rarely jump fences. Long fence lines like this one near Medicine Hat, Alberta, represent a pinch point -- literally and figuratively -- in the species' migration. Some area ranchers plan a simple solution: making the lowest strand of wire smooth, not barbed, and keeping it 18 inches or more off the ground.

 
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