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Capture today: week six
From the thousands of superb images submitted to our photo competition, Capture Today, we bring you our five group of 20.
The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers is the Fiddler crab with the beady stare taken by David Comont.
Capture today: week five
From the thousands of superb images submitted to our photo competition, Capture Today, we bring you our five group of 20.
The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers is the garden pond frog snapped by Caroline Cooper.
Capture today: week four
From the thousands of superb images submitted to our photo competition, Capture Today, we bring you our fourth group of 20.
The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers was the entitled 'envy' shot of a Puffin by Philippe Sainte-laudy.
Capture today: week three
From the thousands of superb images submitted to our photo competition, Capture Today, we bring you our third group of 20.
The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers was the entitled 'envy' shot of a Puffin by Pat Condon.
Capture today: week two
From the thousands of superb images submitted to our photo competition, Capture Today, we bring you our second top 20.
The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers was the impressive image of an Alligator in Cuba submitted by Jenna Trakins.
Capture Today: week one
From thousands of superb entries into our photo competition Capture Today, we bring you the first of our top 20. The winning entry this week, who will recieve a planet earth DVD boxset and lonely planet vouchers was the stunning image of an orange star flower submitted by Julia Spence.
Earth Day
NASA JPL, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Celebrate Earth Day - 22 April - by viewing the earth from space, via a series of stunning satellite images representing the theme of earth, fire, water and air.
Earth Day: animals that symbolise America
Photograph: Jeff Foott, NPL
See photographs of the land animals that have helped define a nation.
The rarest sea creature of all?
Fishermen have been slow to take up vaquita-safe fishing gear
Unless more is done to save it, the vaquita may become extinct just 50 years after its discovery.
Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007
Take a tour through some of the winning photos from the 2007 competition...
Heat of the day
See spectacular desert landscapes, and some of the animals that live in them...
Meet some penguin chicks
Those fluffy little penguin chicks can endure freezing conditions - see our amazing images.
Life in the snow
See amazing photos of animals that survive in the coldest conditions imaginable.
Life in water
From the deepest caverns to the highest mountains, water is essential for life. Take a look at how animals use water...
An Earthwatch expedition
Life aboard the Earthwatch research vessel, the Toftevaag, spotting pilot whales and tagging Alboran the loggerhead turtle.
Young animals
From an elephant's wobbly first steps to a wallaby hitching a ride in its mother's pouch, take a look at the first few months of life.
Collaring and tracking elephants
Exactly how do you tag and track an elephant? Take a look at the hard
work that goes on behind the scenes of an Elephants Without Borders
tagging expedition.
Fire: a force of nature
Fire is one of the fundamental forces of nature that shapes the landscape.
Planet Earth - Oceans
Take a look at life through a lens from oceans around the world.
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