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Good afternoon, and welcome to Globe Climate, a newsletter about climate change, environment and resources in Canada.
 
 

As promised, we’ve got winners of 2025’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest on display in today’s visual newsletter.

 
 

Now, let’s take a look at other news.
 
 
 

 
 
 
  1. Policy: Canada’s carbon tax is dead. But it’s not dearly departed
  2. Photo essay: In Cape Breton, a fight to protect the land
  3. Policy: Electric-vehicle companies urge Ottawa to maintain EV sales mandate
  4. World: Indonesian nickel industry harming local communities, environment, report says
  5. Mining: Trump’s investments in Canadian critical minerals could push Ottawa to follow suit, industry players say
  6. Animals: Meet Beef, an Alberta farmer’s steer who is Guinness-certified as the tallest in the world
  7. Travel: My trip to the Georgian Bay, where an Anishinaabe maple syrup operation carries on a sweet tradition
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

For this week’s deeper dive, a closer look at winners of the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

 
 

The images from this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest blur the lines between wilderness and the spaces we live.

 
 

The annual event, which tells the story of a planet under pressure, is organized by the Natural History Museum in London; each year it receives tens of thousands of submissions. The organizers hope the power of photography can advance scientific knowledge, spread awareness of important issues and (like this newsletter aims to), nurture a love for nature.
 
 

An exhibit of the winning photos opened last week in London, and arrives at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum on Nov. 8. According to the ROM’s website, the contest is the world’s longest-running and most prestigious nature photography competition. Here are some highlights.
 
 
 
 
 
Wim van den Heever of South Africa photographed this haunting scene of a brown hyena among the skeletal remains of a long-abandoned diamond mining town. Wim van den Heever/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
 
 
  • Taken by Wim van den Heever in Kolmanskop, Namibia
  • Adult Grand Title Winner
  • “It took me 10 years to finally get this one single image,” the South African says. Jury chair Kathy Moran praised van den Heever’s shot for challenging ideas of what is urban and what is wild: Kolmanskop is “still a town – it would seem that way to me – just no longer ours.”
 
 
 
 
 
Shane Gross of Canada witnessed a peppered moray eel very much in its element hunting for carrion at low tide. Shane Gross/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
 
 
  • Taken by Shane Gross in D’Arros Island, Seychelles
  • Winner of the Animals in their Environment category
  • Canadian Shane Gross tried over several weeks to see the animals forage for dead fish in the intertidal zone before capturing this shot. Through his work, Shane wants to shine a light on the impact, both positive and negative, people are having on the oceans and on freshwater ecosystems.
 
 
 
 
 
Simone Baumeister of Germany captured an orb weaver spider on its web on a pedestrian bridge, silhouetted by lights from the cars below. Simone Baumeister/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
 
 
  • Taken by Simone Baumeister in Ibbenbuuren, Germany
  • Winner in the Natural Artistry category
  • Spiders tend to build webs around artificial light sources, but the ones in this photo are farther away than they appear. There are cars far below the pedestrian bridge where the orb weaver spider sits – removing part of the lens has distorted them, but not the spider. To achieve this kaleidoscopic effect, Simone reversed one of the six glass elements in an analogue lens.
 
 
 
 
 
Alexey Kharitonov (of Israel and Russia) finds art in unexpected perspectives across Russia’s northern swamps. Alexey Kharitonov/Wildlife Photographer of the Year
 
 
  • Taken by Alexey Kharitonov across Russia’s northern swamps
  • Winner of the Portfolio Award