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  1. Two images side by side. On the left an image of a wild fire and on the right one of a woman mopping her brow

  2. Indonesian firefighters, from Indonesian Disaster Management, try to extinguish a wildfire on September 14, 2023. Forest and land fires engulfed many parts of the country due to the El Nino-induced dry season.

  3. EPC paper

  4. The brick boiler house in front of a large tower against a blue sky

  5. Presenter Josie Peters holding a large bottle labelled particles

  6. An image captured by a drone shows a river winding through arable farmland. The river has burst its banks in places and much of the neighbouring field is underwater.

  7. The flooded Somerset landscape. Many fields are underwater. Patches of green can be seen in places were the water has not reached. Trees and hedges can been seen poking above the water.

    8. Grace Han at work in her lab

    • David Attenborough sits in a landrover, looking out of the passenger seat window. A Kenyan driver is behind him, with his hands on the wheel.

    • Sir David Attenborough wearing a blue raincoat standing on a coastline. The ocean and white cliffs can be seen behind him.

      • BBC World Service

    • An icy expanse of sea runs through a narrow passage between mountains. Much of the steep sides of the mountains are stripped of green vegetation revealing grey scarred rock. The tops of the mountains are scattered with snow and ice glitters in the fjord below.

    • Orange smoke rising from the top of a mountain.

    • An aerial image of a victim of ash dieback disease

    • Nigel Hester is standing in the middle of the salt marsh wearing a black fleece. The are is quite bare with some grass and a bare tree.

    • A small orange-coloured shore crab - Carcinus maenas - sat on a blade of seagrass in one of the research sites off the Orkney Islands in Scotland.

    • An aerial photo of Pontypridd

    • Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State, Brazil on August 20, 2024.

    • James Crowhurst standing on the beach at Thorpeness. He has short light brown hair and is squinting slightly in the sun, wearing a maroon fleece over a maroon shirt. Behind him is a wooden barrier and behind that sheet metal piling, installed in a zig zag pattern. Rising up from it is a shallow leafy cliff.

      • A large fishing vessel in Kiribati's Exclusive Economic Zone

      • The River Wye winds its way though through lush green countryside.

      • Two men with leaf blowers surrounded by smoke on the side of a hill

      • Concept image of Bristol Airport with a new mass transit system. The terminal can be seen behind a platform/stop for a green light rail link. There is a plane in the sky above the terminal and people are walking around the entrance of the building.

      • Jangbu Sherpa of the Chhukung Village with mountains in the Everest region on the background