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See this award-winning shot of a reef manta ray taken by a drone

Lewis Burnett's powerful photographs of a saltwater crocodile, Risso's dolphins and a reef manta ray are part of a collection that won him the Portfolio prize in the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition

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Train cars at terminal loaded with coal

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Even rail trucks full of coal look beautiful in a J Henry Fair photo

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These ancient sand drawings could be a fifth type of palaeoart

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Angela Stevenson, 39, a marine scientist for GEOMAR, dives with a bunch of flowering seagrass she has collected, in Laboe, Germany July 10, 2023. The group of scientists collect seeds for research into planting the seeds and breeding a more heat resistant seagrass for the SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

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Photos capture mission to rescue seagrass meadows in the the Baltic

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The Global Winner The global winning image was taken by Laurent Formery (USA). Nervous system of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) about 1 cm wide. Labeled with an antibody against acetylated tubulin after optical clearing, and captured using a color-coded Z-projection.

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Time for your close-up: vivid images of nature loom larger than life

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Aft Skirt Being Lowered into the Shuttle Gallery. From July 20, 2023 Space Shuttle Endeavour

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See the tricky logistics behind displaying the shuttle Endeavour

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View on deforested land in the northeast of department Santa Cruz, where a single tree is left. After Brazil and DR Congo, Bolivia has the third highest deforestation rate of primary tropical forests.??From 1976 to 2021, it lost 8,6 million hectares, fourteen percent of its forests according to Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza NGO. This is??an area as big as the size of Austria. The country ranks 12th among all countries in biodiversity, but it's rapidly losing its animal and plant species.?? Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia 2022

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Striking photo of lone tree is stark warning about Bolivia’s future

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Long Exposure Of Tungurahua Volcano Exploding In The Night Of 29 11 2011 Ecuador Shot With Canon Eos Mark Iv Converted From Raw Large Amount Of Noise Visible At Full Size; Shutterstock ID 109905245; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Stunning image of erupting volcano reminds us of Earth’s violent past

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Engineer Jason Lyon poses as he views Loo Garden, a temporary subterranean garden designed to represent a future healthier River Thames, in a section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel - commonly known as the 'Super Sewer' - a 25 kilometre tunnel being built across London under and along the River Thames to deal with combined sewer overflows currently polluting the river, in London, Britain, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC22T1ANLLXT

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See the garden blooming in a 'super sewer' deep below London

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Solar Flare X1 from AR2994 in ?Motion? ? Miguel Claro Photograph of the Sun taken from a 27-minute timelapse of a solar, flare which took place on 30 April 2022. Taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit ED120 telescope, Daystar Quark Chromosphere filter, Sky-Watcher EQ6 mount, Player One Apollo M-Max Solar camera, 840 mm, 900 frames at 9.1 ms per frame (recorded as video at 109 FPS) Location: Dark Sky Alqueva region, ?vora district, Portugal

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See the remarkable photos up for Astronomy Photographer of the Year

From a solar flare to the Jellyfish Nebula, these are some of the photographs in the running for the annual competition organised by the Royal Observatory in London, UK

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Life

Stunning photos show how an AI algorithm could help insect pollinators

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Revealing images from the front line of climate change in Bangladesh

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See some of the images up for the Earth Photo 2023 competition

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

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