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Earth Shots

A rare wildcat photographed by camera trap in the Doupov Mountains, Czech Republic (Credit: Vladimír Čech Jr)

Rare images of Europe's 'ghost cat'

By Sophie Hardach

The former president of the Maldives signs a document in scuba gear, underwater (Credit: Alamy)

The Maldives' dramatic underwater meeting

By Graihagh Jackson

A pink river dolphin with catfish in its jaws, snatched from a fishing net in the Amazon River (Credit: Thomas Peschak)

Why pink dolphins are the Amazon's 'great thieves'

By Sofia Moutinho

A brown hyena mother and cub walk through the desert in Namibia (Credit: Marie Lemerle)

The rare hyenas stalking a diamond ghost town

By Martha Henriques

Gamma, a desert lioness, guards a Cape fur seal carcass out of view on a pebbled beach along the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, as waves crash in the background (Credit: Griet Van Malderen)

The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Jane Goodall reaches out to Flint, a young chimp in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania (Credit: Hugo van Lawick)

The human-chimp bond captured in an iconic photo

By Anna Turns

A diver swims with a great white shark known as Haole Girl (Credit: Kimberly Jeffries)

The photos showing the softer side of great whites

By Josh Sims

A black-and-white image of a fire on the Cuyahoga River, Ohio, in 1952 (Credit: Getty Images)

The burning river that fuelled a US green movement

By Ally Hirschlag

The "Blue Marble" photograph of the whole Earth side-by-side with a new image taken 50 years later (Credit: Nasa)

The images showing 50 years of change on Earth

By Katherine Latham

A polar bear looks out of a window in an abandoned weather station on Kolyuchin Island, Russia (Credit: Dmitry Kokh)

The polar bears living on a Russian 'ghost' island

By Sophie Hardach

Seven husky dogs pulling a sled through meltwater – it looks as though they are walking on the water in northwest Greenland (Credit: Steffen Olsen_

The dramatic photo of huskies walking on water

By Isabelle Gerretsen

A man poses on a mountain of hundreds of bison skulls (Credit: Detroit Public Library)

The dark secret behind the 'bison skull mountain'

By Lucy Sherriff

The yacht Abel Tasman with its gennaker decorated with the climate stripes (Credit: Northwest Passage Ocean Science Expedition/Ramon Gonclaves)

A famous climate graphic is running out of red

By Carla Rosch

ALT TEXT: A Greenpeace zodiac dinghy with a man on it beside a large vessel, with a harpooner whale visible in the water (Credit: Rex Weyler)

The 'mind bombs' that changed the whaling industry

By Lucy Sherriff

First photograph of a coelacanth with a diver (Credit: Laurent Ballesta/Andromede Oceanologie)

The photographer at the bottom of the ocean

By Katherine Latham

The famous Earthrise picture captured by Apollo astronauts has helped to inspire awe by giving us perspective of humanity's place in the Universe (Credit: Nasa)

The 1968 photo that changed the world

By Isabelle Gerretsen