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  1. 10 chickens with brown feathers in a field

  2. Rows of solar panels in a field forming a solar panel.

  3. Smoke rising from an area of forest as a fire burns. Some of the forest has already been lost, with bare patches of land mixed in with green trees.

  4. A large gate is seen closing off a huge verdant field with shrubbery to each side. A sign reads Bartinney Nature Reserve

  5. A large lorry with Irish flags attached to the front is parked in a busy street. There are men gathered around. Behind it are Garda (Irish police) cars.

  6. An archaeology site which has brown-reddish coloured earth. There are little blue flags and small parts which have been dug up. Two people wearing orange fluorescent overalls work on the site.

  7. A mountain bongo in a wooden enclosure

  8. An archway made of the jawbones of a whale stands in a garden. There are purple, pink, yellow and white Tulips in front of the archway. Trees are behind the bones which have steel supports to keep them standing. There is a wooden pergola to the left of the arch.

  9. An abstract image of different colours and shapes in overlapping curves and contours, with a bright golden light breaking through at the top

  10. A smart electricity meter sitting on a kitchen countertop.

  11. Three men in hi-viz clothing pose for a picture in front of a large food waste collection vehicle. The men are all raising their right thumb for the photo.

  12. A man stands outdoors in front of parked electric vehicles marked with the EVIe logo, wearing a brown padded vest over a light‑coloured shirt. Residential buildings, trees, and a street are visible in the background.

  13. A herring gull in Eyemouth looks into the camera while standing on a pillar in front of a blurred coastal scene

  14. A beautiful spoonbill is sat in a tree amongst branches covered in green leaves. The white bird has a long black beak with a yellow tip. On the back of the head it has longer white feathers in a plume.

  15. A small rural croft with crops being grown inside a compound next to a whitewashed house.

  16. A tiny dormouse is held in hands. It sits on the 2/3 of three fingers of someone wearing surgical gloves. The dormouse has its eyes closed

  17. Robot seen carrying elderly woman in Ukraine

  18. A bee extracting nectar from a pink flower.

  19. A generic image of waste water flowing out of a pipe and splashing on the open ground.

  20. A close-up shot showing someone with tattoos on both arms holding up a white pigeon in their cupped hands. Behind the bird is a red Royal Mail postal van with a crown emblem.

  21. Sir David Attenborough alongside a gorilla

  22. The Glenlee Power Station - a tall modernist building - with the words The Galloway Water Power Scheme above the name of the station. It is underneath a cloudy sky.

  23. A road is seen running alongside a bank with trees on top. One side of the road is closed.

  24. A computer-generated view of a battery energy storage system development with dozens of white block shaped units on a site in a very rural landscape next to a sub-station