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Earth Shots

A juvenile wunderpus octopus is surrounded by plankton on a black background (Credit: Jialing Cai/ Ocean Photographer of the Year)

When deep sea creatures rise to the surface

By Katherine Latham

A polar bear attacks a herd of walruses in a shot from the Planet Earth documentary series (Credit: BBC/ Planet Earth)

The moment one polar bear took on a walrus herd

By Claudia Posada

A rare wildcat photographed by camera trap in the Doupov Mountains, Czech Republic (Credit: Vladimír Čech Jr)

Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat'

By Sophie Hardach

The former president of the Maldives signs a document in scuba gear, underwater (Credit: Alamy)

The Maldives' dramatic underwater meeting

By Graihagh Jackson

A pink river dolphin with catfish in its jaws, snatched from a fishing net in the Amazon River (Credit: Thomas Peschak)

Why pink dolphins are the Amazon's 'great thieves'

By Sofia Moutinho

A brown hyena mother and cub walk through the desert in Namibia (Credit: Marie Lemerle)

The rare hyenas stalking a diamond ghost town

By Martha Henriques

Gamma, a desert lioness, guards a Cape fur seal carcass out of view on a pebbled beach along the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, as waves crash in the background (Credit: Griet Van Malderen)

The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Jane Goodall reaches out to Flint, a young chimp in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania (Credit: Hugo van Lawick)

The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo

By Anna Turns

A diver swims with a great white shark known as Haole Girl (Credit: Kimberly Jeffries)

The photos showing the softer side of great whites

By Josh Sims

A black-and-white image of a fire on the Cuyahoga River, Ohio, in 1952 (Credit: Getty Images)

The burning river that fuelled a US green movement

By Ally Hirschlag

The "Blue Marble" photograph of the whole Earth side-by-side with a new image taken 50 years later (Credit: Nasa)

The images showing 50 years of change on Earth

By Katherine Latham

A polar bear looks out of a window in an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island, Russia (Credit: Dmitry Kokh)

The polar bears living on a Russian 'ghost' island

By Sophie Hardach

Seven husky dogs pulling a sled through meltwater – it looks as though they are walking on the water in northwest Greenland (Credit: Steffen Olsen_

The dramatic photo of huskies walking on water

By Isabelle Gerretsen

A man poses on a mountain of hundreds of bison skulls (Credit: Detroit Public Library)

The dark secret behind the 'bison skull mountain'

By Lucy Sherriff

The yacht Abel Tasman with its gennaker decorated with the climate stripes (Credit: Northwest Passage Ocean Science Expedition/Ramon Gonclaves)

A famous climate graphic is running out of red

By Carla Rosch

ALT TEXT: A Greenpeace zodiac dinghy with a man on it beside a large vessel, with a harpooner whale visible in the water (Credit: Rex Weyler)

The 'mind bombs' that changed the whaling industry

By Lucy Sherriff