Through Photos: How modern life is altering the natural world

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New Delhi/ 12 January 2017. Nowadays every part of modern life is touched by technology following the vast expansion of technology in the 20th century and the following 21st century. From then man has been exploiting Earth's elements, namely with industrial beasts that could tear apart landscapes with terrific volume and speed.

The photographs are the imprint that photographer Edward Burtynsky felt compelled to capture in his latest book, Essential Elements, the work of more than a dozen trips and assignments over the past 15 years.

Here are the photographs showing the indelible footprint of change, even if that change is usually negative.

Morenci Mine- Clifton, Arizona

Abandoned shrimp farms, Sonora, Mexico- Colorado River Delta

Pivot Irrigation/Suburb.- South of Yuma, Arizona

Xiaolangdi Dam Yellow River-  Henan Province, China

Salinas- Cadiz, Spain

(National Geographic)