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  1. A man with tattoos, sunglasses and a plaited beard, with one foot on a stone, and the Peak District hills behind him.

  2. A street scene with various shops on one side and industrial buildings on the other. Dominating the skyline is a tall chimney with a huge plume of white smoke coming out of it and stretching across the sky.

  3. Hannah Worker with long dark hair wearing a light-coloured T-shirt with lettering on the back and dark trousers. She is kneeling by a pond on which tall reeds and algae are visible.

  4. Ellie is looking at the camera and is wearing protective glasses. She is sitting behind a lump of peat and holding a yellow tape measure beside it. She is wearing blue protective gloves and a white lab coat. She has blonde hair tied back.

  5. A CGI image of a salmon swimming through the water. The fish's scales are a mixture of pale grey and blue colours. It has a singular dorsal fin and adipose fin on its back, two pectoral fins, and a tail. The water is a dark blue, turning black in the distant background and on the waterbed are a number of different sized and shaped brown rocks, with some greenery floating between the rocks.

  6. the site of an illegal dump sits surrounded by green fields and countryside. a number of dilapidated buildings are on the left, while minor roads run across the width of the site

  7. Steve Backshall is pictured smiling and wearing a light coloured T shirt

  8. A pile of coloured fishing nets, lines and ropes which has been collected at Hamilton Dock in Lowestoft.

  9. A hi-vis jacket with writing on from the rear.

  10. Dr Lindell is in a lab with windows behind her. She is smiling at the camera while wearing a white lab coat. She has long ginger hair and light blue/ green eyes.

  11. The River Bann has water that's bright green and the aerial image shows how similar the green is to the fields surrounding the river.

  12. Councillor Bhupinder Gakhal with grounds maintenance team Andrew Harrison Matthew Sheffield. Mr Gakhal is stood in a grey suit between Mr Harrison and Mr Sheffield who are on green quad bikes.

  13. Floating solar panels on a water reservoir of the Del-Co Water Company in Delware, USA. The panels were installed by Ciel & Terre, a French company that has built 300 floating solar projects around the world.

  14. About 20 dead trout and eels of different shapes and sizes have been lined up on a stone leading into the river along with a tape measure.

  15. Ric Cooper of The Cleddau Project ready to go for a swim in the Western Cleddau river. He's standing in front of the river wearing a black, sleeveless wetsuit. He has grey short hair and grey stubble.

  16. A ditch full of water on the Great Fen landscape in Cambridgeshire. Either side of the ditch is green fields. The sky is blue.

  17. Two fish are seen lying on the river bed in the St Austell River

  18. A group of about 13 swimmers, mostly women, standing and waving in the River Wensum. They are in shallow water and some have tow floats. There is some housing in the background.

  19. A light-coloured fish dead on the rocky bottom of a shallow, clear river. The fish is clearly visible and is surrounded by rocks and pebbles.

  20. A man is crouched on a cliffside while another man films him with a camera mounted on a tripod.

  21. Gill Thomas pictured holding a bag full of rubbish. She is looking at the camera and smiling.

  22. Students with nets looking through wildlife in a green field.

  23. A clear plastic bag floats underwater with fish swimming in the background and a coral reef below

  24. A blue packet of wet wipes.