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  1. A black-and-yellow wasp spider hangs in the centre of its web. Its long orange-and-black legs stretch across the web. Tall grass fills the blurred background.

  2. Protestors with placards and banners outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

  3. An aerial view of destroyed homes after the Stourbridge wildfire on August 21,

  4. Man wearing a baseball cap is bending over picking kale from rows of vegetables. Some of the lines are covered in a mesh to keep butterflies and caterpillars off the greens. There is a polytunnel in the background

  5. Kupup Lake, also known as Bitan Cho or Elephant Lake, is a high-altitude glacial lake near Jelep La Pass in East Sikkim, India, on April 17, 2026. The lake, situated at approximately 13,066 feet, is part of the Old Silk Route loop near the India-China border and is often frozen from winter through mid-May. I

  6. The remains of three homes destroyed by the wildfires, with charred gardens and near a railway line.

  7. A mountain fire in north Wales - there is green shrubbery in the foreground and large flames can be seen on the hillside, along with plumes of smoke

  8. Bottles of champagne

  9. Sarah smiles in the background are the rolling hills of the Isle of Man

  10. A glutinous snail in a tank in Dudley Zoo. The small, brown mollusc, flecked with spots of gold slithers across a surface covered in green algae.

  11. Aerial view of flooding from Storm Chandra in the hamlet of Weycroft on January 27, 2026 in Axminster, England

  12. A long shot of Corfe Castle from a drone

  13. A green valley in Eryri national park. It has steep sides and is dotted with trees, a winding stream and a small stone cottage

  14. A woman drinks a bottle of watcher with a hand fan in her left hand.

    15. A woman stands in the sun and holds a fan up to shade her face. She is wearing a short sleeve blue top with gold symbols. The background is blurred but the outlines of other people can be seen

    • View through tall trees in the foreground with Kielder Water in the background, surrounded by a dense green forest. Beyond the far bank there are rolling hills under an overcast sky with grey clouds.

    • Sir Tim Smit is wearing a short-sleeved blue and white shirt and Steve Backshall is in a navy T-shirt with a yellow square with a black image of a spider on it. There are blurred images of children sitting on the ground behind them. There are green trees in the background.

    • A spiny seahorse rests on the sandy seabed hidden amongst a forest of green seagrass

    • An onshore windfarm, with a number of turbines visible over a wooded landscape, with hills in the background.

    • Parched yellow grass with a bare tree

    • A man in red firefighting uniform patched with Indonesia's flag, and with a yellow and green neck gaiter pulled over his face, stands in a forest and looks into the camera

    • Lisa Comfort of Jazzy Rose Flowers, Chipperfield, leans forward behind a flower stall, surrounded by pink, white and deep red blooms, with market stalls and a courtyard visible in the background.

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    • A treated image in segments showing a plane in flight and a sky full of lightning