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Tree roots cling tightly to the rock, providing both physical support and access to scarce resources. Beyond anchoring the tree, roots explore the substrate for water and nutrients, allowing vegetation to survive even in challenging environments. — Holding on to the rock Antonio Jordán

False-colour radar image of steep mountain terrain, with ridges and branching valleys outlined in bands of magenta, yellow, green and cyan, and grey glacier tongues. — Among the Artefacts of Atmosphere Gwendolyn Dasser

Outcrop of grey and white gypsum built of many thin wavy layers, weathered into ribbed ledges, with a rock hammer with a blue handle leaning against it. — Tiny layered Gypsum outcrops Francisco Geraldo Longo

Colourful hydrothermal pools and mineral deposits in the Dallol geothermal area of the Danakil Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia. The vivid yellow, orange, red and green surfaces reflect the unusual mineral-rich hydrothermal environment created by geother — Colourful hydrothermal pools at Dallol, Ethiopia Alex Coleman

Burnt slopes of grey ground and bare black trees crossed by pale dirt tracks, with a band of scorched orange-brown trees on the hillside. — All this land is burned Antonio Jordán

Wide field of sand dunes with curved crests and long shadows, scattered with small tufts of dry grass. A tiny tent, an umbrella and a person sit in the hollow between the dunes, with tracks crossing the sand. — Desert life and landforms in the Gobi desert Jana Eichel

Close-up of a crumbly reddish-brown clay soil horizon broken into blocky lumps, dotted with white chalky nodules filling cracks and holes. — Calcium carbonate concretions in a soil horizon Antonio Jordán

Ptygmatic fold: a pale orange-pink vein twisting in tight snake-like loops across a dark, finely banded grey-brown rock face dotted with lichen. — Ptygmatic fold in paragneisses Sophie Graul

View down a mountain valley floor covered in pale boulders and flood debris surrounding a cluster of buildings, with steep grey slopes, a grassy rock in the foreground and a date stamp reading 2014 06 20 13 35. — Aftermath caused by Cloud Burst and Flood in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India Rahul Dixit

Shiny black chunks of obsidian with glassy curved surfaces on a rocky slope, with an orange and yellow mountain under a deep blue sky. — Obsidian rocks, Landmannalaugar, Iceland Ragnar Sigurdsson (arctic-images.com)

Snow-covered mountain range with rocky ridges and soft blue shadows under a deep blue sky, seen across a smooth snowfield in the foreground. — The silence of the snow Anita Raimondi

Narrow slot canyon with smooth, wavy orange rock walls in fine layers, opening to a bright white sky above and a sandy floor with sunlit puddles. — Las Grietas: Miniature Canyons of Lanzarote Harald Crepaz

Green mountain valley with a pale river winding past a dark conifer forest and a rocky grey cliff on the right, with a road cut into the hillside and layered blue ridges in the distance. — Altai region, river valley Ekaterina Kulakova

Wall of bright orange flames rising behind rows of tall thin dark conifer trunks in a forest, with low green vegetation in the foreground. — Boreal forest fire in Canada Stefan Doerr

Forested hillside in autumn colours of orange, red, yellow and green above a sloping green meadow, under a blue sky with white clouds and a contrail. — Temperate deciduous forest in the Swiss Jura mountains Yann Vitasse

Dense conifer and birch forest seen from above, stretching to a flat horizon, with a small dark river pool reflecting clouds and a pale bare sandy slope at the top right. — Siberian taiga Lyudmila Lebedeva

Wide churning river pouring over a dark basalt edge into a misty canyon, with a few people in red jackets standing on the rocks close to the brink. — Dettifoss Waterfall, Northeast Iceland Ragnar Sigurdsson (arctic-images.com)

Glacier front of tall, sculpted white ice ridges and pinnacles rising above a brown gravel plain, with bare brown hills and white clouds behind. — Purog Kangri Glacier Terminus Ping Zhao

Sunset over Seville with pink, violet and reddish tones caused by smoke from the Niebla wildfire, about 60 km away. — Purple haze over the city Antonio Jordán

Two people working beside a geyser jetting white steam on a barren brown plain, with equipment and a cable reel on the ground and snow-dusted hills behind. — Revealing geyser dynamics at The Three Vicuñas Wouter Deleersnyder

Screenshot of Google Earth with Persian menus showing a satellite image of a round, ribbed desert landform with curved ridges, shaped like a trilobite fossil. — This Earth from space looks like a trilobite fossil Ali Akbar Shayan Yeganeh

Person in a purple shirt with arms raised in a V beneath a wedge-shaped dropped block in a cliff of red-brown and cream layers, the layers offset along two faults that meet below. — A typical graben and horst Mohammad Goudarzi

Freshly tilled pale brown field below a slope of bare trees and a blossoming tree, with a dark damp patch spreading across the soil from the forest edge, under a blue sky. — Interflow on a dry day at the edge of a forest Vincent Felde

Ptygmatic fold in a dark grey boulder: pale pink veins twist through the rock in tight, irregular zigzag loops, with a black pen for scale and sand at the base. — The ptygmatic fold in nature, South Sinai, Egypt Metwally Hamza

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