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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

This photo of Tungurahua, a volcano exploding in the Ecuadorian night, comes from an illustrated book to accompany a TV series about Earth’s deep history

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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

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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker LAS Edition, Digital Render, Pollinator Vision ? 2023

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Stunning photos show how an AI algorithm could help insect pollinators

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Aklima Parvin (19) keeps har face covered as she stands in a boat stranded on a mud flat. She faces discrimination due to her skin discolouration and pigmentation. She stopped going to college and spends her days alone since many of her friends are now married and have left the area.

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

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Sir Maurice Youge, Internationally renowned marine zoologist (1899-1986). His hybrid form is based on the local murex shell

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

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A shoulder of Alexandra Peak, the second heighest peak in the Rwenzori range, as seen from Margherita Peak. In the valley between the two peaks lies Stanley Glacier. The glacier was once so high that guides could lead clients across it on a gentle walk between the peaks. Today the face of the mountain is exposed as the glacier dies.

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See the magnificent but melting glaciers of the Rwenzori mountains

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$P525 - Human femur, with a severe fracture united by new bone, prepared by John Hunter between 1760 and 1793$

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See the Hunterian Museum's weird and wonderful anatomical curiosities

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Lastrea focnisecii; Anna Atkins (British, 1799 - 1871), and Anne Dixon (British, 1799 - 1877); 1853; Cyanotype; 25.4 ?? 19.4 cm (10 ?? 7 5/8 in.); 84.XO.227.24; No Copyright - United States (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/)

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New book collates the pioneering photographs of Anna Atkins

The 19th-century British botanist used an early photographic technique to document plants and algae, and in 1843 released the first ever book illustrated with photographs

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See a prize-winning photograph of mating golden-tabbed robber flies

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Space debris problem highlighted in new series of photographs

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Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before

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See our pick of the entries for the Sony World Photography Awards

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