Braided River has released photographer Amy Gulick's latest ecosystem photo book, "Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska's Tongass Rain Forest." In the book, Gulick's images are partnered with essays and research from leading scientists, conservationists and journalists, who pose the question "How long can the biological riches of the Tongass withstand the global demands for timber, seafood, and minerals?" Contributors include...

Louie Psihoyos of Boulder, Colo., won a 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary for "The Cove," a film about efforts to save thousands of dolphins from being brutally slaughtered every year in Taiji, Japan. The film also spotlighted the region's practice of serving dolphin meat tainted with mercury to schoolchildren.

German photographer Florian Schulz's work has been featured as part of a visual campaign that celebrates the beauty of the Arctic while simultaneously warning of the threats of offshore oil development and industrialization. The campaign, titled "Visions of the Arctic," was launched in April and is comprised of a series of public presentations by Schulz. A traveling exhibit of the photos opened at the G2 Gallery in Los Angeles on May 7.

Landscape photographer Elizabeth Carmel has published her second book on California's Sierra Nevada region, titled "Changing Range of Light — Portraits of the Sierra Nevada." Created as a testament to previous generations who have helped preserve the Sierra Nevada, Carmel's book focuses on how climate change affects our natural landscapes. The book’s 136 pages include vignettes from...

Seattle photographer Daniel Beltra was named ABC News' Person of the Week in November 2009 for his conservation photography of endangered regions throughout the world. Focusing on the effects of climate change on the world's rainforests in the Amazon Basin, Congo, Borneo and Sumatra, Beltra's images were recently featured as part of the Prince's Rainforests Project (rainforestsos.org), an environmental organization founded by England's Prince Charles, with offices in London, Paris, Berlin and New York City.

The 2009 International League of Conservation Photographers League Award went to Boulder, Colo., photographer James Balog for his outstanding achievements in conservation photography. Balog's recent work includes his "Extreme Ice Survey," which documents the effects of climate change on glaciers around the world.

Writer and photographer James Martin has published "Planet Ice: A Climate for Change," a compilation of 120 color photos that capture an in-depth study of glaciers and ice fields and how they relate to our modern-day climate.

To create this book, Martin worked with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, polar bear expert Ian Stirling, ice scientist Richard Alley, glaciologist Gino Casassa, and noted writers Gretel Ehrlich, Nick Jans and Broughton Coburn.

His images were taken in more than...

The Sierra Club has bestowed wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski with its Ansel Adams Award for his "superlative use of still photography to further a conservation cause." He was presented with the award at the Sierra Club's national dinner on Sept. 20.

Kazlowski's images have appeared in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Newsweek and Canadian Geographic. His recent book, "The Last Polar Bear," published by Braided River, is an eye-opening look at the...

With ˜The Last Polar Bear," The Mountaineers Books has launched its new publishing venture, Braided River, with “The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World.”

The book contains nearly 200 color images by Steven Kazlowski, who has been following the creatures for the past eight years. Essays by conservationists, scientists and Alaskan natives supplement the photographs, including one by Theodore Roosevelt’s great-grandson. The Braided River imprint combines nature photography with...

Seattle photographer and Greenpeace freelancer Daniel Beltra recently received Pictures of the Year International's Global Vision Award, plus an Award of Excellence in the Nature Series category for his Greenpeace project, "Rainforest and the Antarctic," which documents the impact of global warming on the biodiverse polar region.

Beltra also took second place in the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism 2008 Awards in the Natural Habitat category for his photograph of...