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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

Six months of preparation are needed to display the space shuttle in a vertical position at the California Science Center

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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

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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

Spanning Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the glaciers of this little-studied mountain range may vanish this decade. These stunning photographs capture them before they disappear

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See the Hunterian Museum's weird and wonderful anatomical curiosities

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New book collates the pioneering photographs of Anna Atkins

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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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