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20 stunning microscopic photos from the Nikon Small World 2020 competition

The crossover point: Amount of human-made items on Earth will soon outweigh all living biomass © Getty Images

Amount of human-made items on Earth will soon outweigh all living biomass

Rivers carry plastic waste thousands of kilometres in just a few months © Sara Hylton/NGS

Sea spreads plastic waste thousands of kilometres from source in just months

Mountain Hare Lepus timidus
A confiding adult, high in the Cairngorms mountains, forms the shape of a ball as it grooms
Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK

Wildlife Photographer of the Year launches People’s Choice Award

An aggregation of mobula rays wins Ocean Photography Awards 2020 © Nadia Aly

A mob of mobula rays wins Ocean Photography Awards 2020

Love Heart of Nature

A shark with a heart wins Drone Photo Awards 2020

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Blizzard in Brooklyn wins Royal Met’s top photography prize

Win a copy of Sapiens: A Graphic History © Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave

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A graphic introduction to human history © Getty Images

A graphic introduction to human history from Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

High Angle View Of Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine

The hole wide world: 14 images of the Earth’s broken landscape

G4J6G3 Poisonous Blue Ring Octopus, Hapalochlaena lunulata, Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia

Pretty deadly The world’s most beautiful but dangerous creatures

Does the Sun make a sound? © Getty

Will increased Sun activity make climate change worse?

Emerald cockroach wasp emerging from dead body

Nature's Nightmares scary animals so ghoulish they deserve their own horror movie

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Like a bolt from the blue The weirdest and rarest weather phenomena from around the world

How do thunderstorms form? © Getty Images

How do thunderstorms form?