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  1. A French firefighter battles a wildfire in Marcheprime, near the south-western city of Bordeaux. Photo: 26 July 2026

  2. A woman looking at the camera with a Ferne Animal Sanctuary logo on her t shirt.

  3. A man looking at the camera with glasses on.

  4. a small yellow airplane flies over flames.

  5. The River Wye, with pebbles in front of its shore, and trees behind. The sky is blue and cloudy.

  6. White tiger with dark grey stripe markings stands on grass looking to camera with his mouth open slightly.

  7. A man and a woman in waterproof overalls sift through plastic pellets inside a metal trailer on the shore in North Tyneside. The man holds an orange shovel and the woman holds a long blue tube. Another man stands in knee-high water looking on. All three are wearing protective equipment.

  8. Charles Goadby is wearing a red-and-white check shirt. He is bald with short stubble on face.

  9. A person holds a small, light brown die with carved spiral shapes in the palm of their hand.

  10. A close-up of a tap turned on with water spilling out of it.

  11. An aerial view at sunrise of the Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank. Its huge white dish, taller than a house, is tilted upright on a steel cradle that sits on a circular track. Behind it, flat Cheshire farmland stretches to the horizon under a soft pink sky.

  12. A bag of brown crabs of varying sizes

  13. A drone view showing the Sainte-Helene commune in France with smoke rising in the background during a wildfire in a forest area in Saumos

  14. There is a man in a red polo shirt. He has black framed glasses with a dark tint on them. He has a shaved head. Behind him is a workshop with ropes of all different colours hung up on the wall.

  15. 82 purple cylinder-shaped canisters on the grass. They are surrounded by green and blue plastic bags full of rubbish.

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    A close-up picture of a hen harrier with a yellow beak with a black tip and brown and white plumage

  17. A man with short grey hair, wearing a grey jumper. There are plants behind him

  18. A small brown insect with a glowing abdomen sits on some vegetation.

  19. A man wearing an orange high visibility jacket in front of a hedge. He is smiling straight at the camera and wearing glasses.

  20. Two women are inside lab sorting through grass cuttings on a table in front of them while consulting an open book

  21. Photo shows a firefighter battling flames from a wildfire spreading in Ares, south-western France, 25 July 2026.

  22. A firefighter holds a hose as he looks at burning vegetation

  23. tango on the left and ripple on the right. Two capybaras in their enclosure

  24. A black and white picture of Stirling Moss in a car speeding round the circuit at Charterhall