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  1. Potato crops in rows in a field on a sunny day. The crop is low with densely packed small green leaves sprouting from mounds of earth in rows

  2. A signpost which reads 'Household waste recycling centre' and features the green recycling logo. Some trees are behind it.

  3. A still from The Dig. Edith Pretty is in the foreground standing in an excavated section of mound feeling the exposed earth with her right hand. Basil Brown looks on from a few yards away.

  4. Jenny Stafford wearing a blue T-shirt and Gillian Stafford wearing a green T-shirt. They are standing together behind and in front of row of flowers and plants. Jenny is smiling while looking at Gillian. Gillian is smiling while looking just past the camera.

  5. The charred remains of a wicker round structure and scorched earth, with trees in the background.

  6. Flooding at West Quay Road, Poole, in 2008. A road sign saying "One Way" is in the middle of water. Two garages are in the background.

  7. A stock photo of solar farm panels in a field.

  8. A close up shot of one peregrine falcon, no longer a chick, perched on a ledge with its claws gripping the edge. Both of its wings are raised up high as if it is about to launch. Its fathers are black and pale grey, and its body is mottled brown and black.

  9. A small yellow hammer bird, with a yellow head, yellow breast, brown mottled wings, and small black eyes sat on the end of a branch on a tree. The rest of the tree in the background is out of focus against a clear blue sky.

  10. A black cow with a patch of white on its forehead and yellow ear tags sticks its head up in the middle of a herd of white cows.

  11. A dead and decaying Stingray in neon green water

  12. Dirty sewage brown water is gushing into a river from a stormwater overflow that is a large round hole with thin metal poles across it in a concrete pipe

  13. Martha Marshall-Clack, Zoe Woodward and Janet Shephard are grouped around a mobile phone held by Ms Marshall-Clack. She is pointing to the screen which shows a map of water pollution alerts around the UK. They are standing on sand and there are cars parked some distance behind them.

  14. An aerial picture taken with a drone shows the Thames Water Mogden Sewage Treatment Works in London

  15. Dr Nik Cole bent down holding a jar of gecko eggs surrounded by greenery, another man and the sea in the background. The sunset is shining through behind Nik.

  16. Two swimmers wearing wetsuits and swim hats and towing floats in a river with a grassy area behind them.

  17. Rubbish in a blue clear bag on the kerbside. There are black bags around it with a green litter bin in the background.

  18. A handwritten sign on the beach at Hythe reads "Save our seas" as part of a protest organised by Surfers Against Sewage on 18 May 2024

  19. A bird standing upright in water and reeds. The bittern has a long beak and has a mixture of brown, white and black feathers. It is quite tall and very well camouflaged against the reeds.

  20. Water flows out of a pipe. The pipe is a circle in a concrete wall, which is coloured brown and green.

  21. Two men standing next to a fossilised tree stump in Markeaton Park, Derby.

  22. Actors Miranda Richardson and Maggie Service are wearing black and green matching swimming costumes that cover their arms. They are standing in front of a river.

  23. Henry Moreton looking at the camera. He is pulling a straight face, and is wearing green and blue farming overalls. Behind him is a green John Deere tractor, and a red combine harvester.

  24. A man with dark hair and sunglasses on his head, wearing a checked shirt. In the background is a cow