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Black-and-white cow standing on a winding coastal road with a guardrail, beside a grey beach with breaking surf and dark rocky mountains under heavy overcast. — The coastline of São Vicente Dimitra Kouklaki

Pale blue sky with wispy cloud, scattered with many small fragments of black, blue, white and coloured plastic floating high in the air. — Air plastic pollution Sanoussi Abdou Amadou

View from golden grassy hills with scattered houses over a shining sea to distant hazy islands, with a pale band of haze low over the water and a clear blue sky above. — A veil of sea salt in the boundary layer Marius Schulz

Aerial view of a green volcanic island slope crossed by dark streaks of lava flows, below a high reddish escarpment and a steep dark summit cone half wrapped in white clouds. A small village sits on the left. — Cape Verde | Island of Fogo with Pico do Fogo Martin Mergili

Lush green hills and deep valleys with a winding road, scattered villages and an eroded cone-shaped hill in the centre, under heavy grey clouds with jagged peaks on the horizon. — Cape Verde | Rainy season at Santiago Island Martin Mergili

Small stream tumbling over mossy dark boulders in dense green rainforest, with little waterfalls and a fallen branch across the rocks. — The beauty of the tropical rainforest landscape Chima Iheaturu

Black-and-white view over a dark coastline and a bay with surf, across the sea to the faint outline of a volcanic peak on the horizon, beneath streaky clouds. — The imminent dangers Carlos Melo

Field of dark, rough, ropy lava blocks in front of a large cone-shaped volcano and smaller hills under a pale blue sky. — Eruption of Fogo volcano Maryam Mirzaloo

Painted wooden fishing boat with colourful patterns and numbers jutting out over a concrete sea wall, which runs along a narrow sandy beach as waves break under a grey sky. — Climate change and costal Erosion in Saint Louis, Senegal Djiby Sambou

Stepped rows of wire mesh cages filled with dark stones laid along a sandy beach, with concrete houses, a few people and the sea in the background. — Climate change and costal Erosion in Saint Louis, Senegal Djiby Sambou

Collapsed concrete slabs and rubble from broken buildings piled on a sandy beach where waves wash in, with houses, laundry and a long sea wall behind. — Climate change and costal Erosion in Saint Louis, Senegal Djiby Sambou

Dark grey ropy lava field with a collapsed hollow opening into a small cave, tufts of dry pale grass between the rocks and hazy mountains in the background. — Cape Verde near the CVAO Observatory Rolf Sander

Video of the bow of a ship pushing through a dark blue, choppy sea, white spray bursting up on both sides of a mast fitted with instruments at the front. — Acid test of the eddy covariance mast Katharina Gerdel

Flock of seabirds silhouetted against a dawn sky, flying beside a ship whose dark superstructure and deck crane frame the right side, with the sun low on the sea horizon. — Flying into the sunrise Katharina Gerdel

Several terns perched along a white metal lattice mast against a blue sky, the mast carrying a white instrument box and a sensor arm sticking out to the right. — Taking a welcome rest Katharina Gerdel

Short rainbow fragment glowing above a grey sea beneath dark rain clouds, beside a tall instrument mast held by guy wires on a stony, scrubby headland. — Sunlit ARM site at Ascension Island Martin de Graaf

White tern with all-white feathers and dark eyes flying towards the camera with wings and tail spread, in front of a blurred brown hillside and pale sky. — Common white stern flaring Martin de Graaf

Two teal cylindrical instruments full of glass tubes and red valves on a metal rack above a rocky shore, with the sun setting behind mountains over the sea. — Mist chamber measurements at São Vicente Rolf Sander

Large group of people standing in a row on a newly built check dam of stone-filled wire cages across a dry gully, some waving and one leaning on a shovel, with trees and a pool behind. — Acting against soil erosion Irene Angeluccetti

People building a low wall of reddish-brown rocks along a taut blue string line, one bending to set a stone while others carry rocks on their heads, with trees behind. — Conserving the future Irene Angeluccetti

Two people hauling ropes to lift a yellow bucket from a well while two mud-covered children stand by and a donkey waits, all in a thick orange haze of blowing sand. — Eventually water Velio Coviello

Aerial view of a mud-walled farm courtyard with round granaries topped by conical thatched roofs, surrounded by ploughed furrowed fields, scattered trees and a few cattle. — Zooming in community Velio Coviello

Aerial view through an aircraft window of orange desert sand with a long, wavy dune ridge, the curved edge of the window frame visible in the corner. — Flying over the Saharan Cauldron III Carolina Cavazos-Guerra

Aerial view through an aircraft window of a vast orange sand desert with low dunes fading into a dusty haze, the underside of a dark wing with a pale instrument pod in the upper right. — Flying over the Saharan Cauldron II Carolina Cavazos-Guerra

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