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  1. An image of a mature man, with longish white hair and a white beard, smiling as he stands beside a palm tree in side a big glass house.

  2. A man crouches in a mixed crop field beside a drooping sunflower, with rows of other plants stretching into the distance beneath a cloudy sky. The rural landscape is softly blurred, drawing attention to the foreground plants and agricultural setting.

  3. Rachel Millward looking directly at the camera. She is smiling broadly and has brown, slightly wavy hair falling over her shoulders. She is wearing a navy blue jacket and large hoop earrings. She is sitting inside, next to a window on the right of frame and some foliage behind.

  4. An adult male pallid harrier in flight against a clear blue sky

  5. Smiling teenage boy with blond hair next to a black calf

  6. A pile of electrical waste.

  7. Rachel Millward is smiling against a dark backdrop. She has brown hair and has large hoop earrings and a dark jacket and blouse.

  8. Prince William, who has a bald head and grey facial hair and is wearing a grey suit, pale blue shirt and dark tie. He is stood outside a house.

  9. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is seen taking off.

  10. A black and white cow looking at the camera standing in a field with cows, hills, trees and sky in the backgroud.

  11. A traffic light on red cropped in a composite format alongside a large brown slug with black spots on its back.

  12. The three scientists are standing in a flat landscape of rocks and grass. They are wearing caps and smiling as they hold up sample bags containing rock samples.

  13. Vera, a 74-year-old wearing glasses and a blue cardigan with a dragonfly brooch, rests her hand on Robert the robot's head

  14. A Bog Grass Moth sits on a leaf. It's a brown moth, with its antennae in the air.

  15. A man. He has a beard, glasses and medium-length brown hair.

  16. The front of a glacier, where a large channel - which looks a bit like a cave or an arch - has eaten away at the ice. A river of meltwater now meanders out of the front of the glacier. There are also chunks of ice on the ground having broken off the glacier. A man, dressed in mountaineering clothing, stands in front of the glacier for scale, which shows how big the channel or cave is.

  17. A moment from the video which won the contest. It is a cilia - which looks like lots of long green cells waving around while attached to a red surface. It's almost like seaweed floating on the ocean surface.

    18. Harvested blueberries pour into a blue container at a farm in Harrington, Maine.

    • A chihuahua wearing military helmet and sunglasses.

    • A damaged house is swept away by a landslide following heavy rains in Dhapakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal

    • A picture of a van from South West Water traveling down a road. It is white, red and green in colour.

    • Michael Sheen looks at the camera. He is wearing a green scarf and a plaid red shirt and a coat over the top. Behind him is a waste site which is fenced off.

    • Aerial view of Marshland Primary School showing a number of solar panels on its white roof

    • KRE UK's operational Edintore Wind Farm. There are six turbines spread across fields. An orange sunset is over the horizon.