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A | 由伦敦自然历史博物馆举办的年度野生动物摄影师大赛涵盖了19个不同类别，包括城市野生动物、湿地、动物肖像和无脊椎动物行为等。今年的比赛吸引了来自93个国家的摄影师提交的近40,000件作品。 The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。年度最佳摄影师奖由美国摄影师Karine Aigner获得，他拍摄的雄性仙人掌蜜蜂蜂拥在“交配球”中心的一只雌性仙人掌蜜蜂上，令人惊叹。这并不是Aigner在2022年第一次获奖。几个月前，由加州科学院举办的BigPicture自然摄影大赛也授予了“交配球”图像年度照片。评审团主席Rosamund Kidman Cox说道：“振翅欲飞，来势汹汹的雄蜂对着直接滚入画面的嗡嗡作响的蜜蜂球发起冲击。在蜜蜂级别的放大镜下，运动感和强度被展现出来并将小仙人掌蜜蜂转化为争夺一只雌蜂的大竞争者。”今年的另一个亮点作品来自于城市野生动物类别的获奖者。这张照片的特点是一对北极熊居住在一个已经被遗弃多时的定居点的房子里。这幅不可思议的图片是由摄影师Dmitry Kokh拍摄，他在俄罗斯楚科奇海的一个孤岛上发现了这些北极熊。

B | Kokh将一架低噪音的无人机送上岛以拍摄一系列惊人的图片，它们展示了一些生活在这个定居点的北极熊。自然历史博物馆馆长Doug Gurr说道：“野生动物摄影师为我们提供了进入野生物种生活的难忘一瞥，分享了看不见的细节、迷人的行为及关于气候和生物多样性危机的一线报道。这些图片展示了他们对自然界的敬畏和欣赏以及采取行动保护自然界的迫切需要。