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  1. Split-screen showing reporter Tessa Wong on the left and flooded town on the right

  2. Splitscreen showing reporter Tessa Wong on the left and flooded town on the right

  3. The image shows a rural landscape of fields, hedgerows and scattered trees beneath an expansive sky dominated by dramatic dark-grey storm clouds, with a bright break in the cloud cover near the horizon allowing golden sunlight to spill across the scene.

  4. A row of burnt-out semi-detached homes in Wennington in East London in 2022. The brown brickwork is charred, with no roof or windows. There are metal barriers in front.

  5. A brown haired man in a chequered shirt stands next to the wheel of a large blue tractor. He's standing on a freshly harvested field in the sun with a bright cloudy sky behind him.

  7. The grass around Clifton Observatory and Clifton Suspension Bridge is parched and dried out after a period of hot weather.

  8. Three people in breathing apparatus are surrounded by smoke while trying to put out a wildfire.

    • UK
    A dry, open park landscape with yellow-brown grass under a wide blue sky streaked with high altitude clouds. A small leafless tree stands in the foreground beside a large fallen pale tree trunk, while a few distant people walk across the field.

  10. A bunch of Rowan Berries, which are small red/orange berries, on a tree. The leaves around it are brown and dying.

  11. Jack Cripps is wearing glasses and a black zip-up fleece with the Suffolk Wildlife Trust logo. He is standing in a woodland and looking into the camera.

  12. Jamie Parsons poses for the camera with a glum expression. A wetlands with a very low water level is visible behind him.

  13. A young woman wearing a black T-shirt stands next to a line of trees in an apple orchard on a sunny day. The grass is dry and yellow and she has her right arm raised with her hand holding a branch which has small green apples on the end

  14. Two people walk through a park which is very yellow

  15. The Sun sets over an ocean. The sky is dark red and the silhouette of a ship sailing across the ocean in front of the Sun.

  16. The charred remains of a disposable barbecue left on Dartmoor with severe black burn marks on the parched grass beside it.

  17. A handout photograph of a small fluffy harrier chicks, with a curved yellow and black beak.

  18. A fruit and vegetable display in a British supermarket

  19. Image shows a white Volkswagen Polo in the centre. It is being washed. Either side of the car is a worker holding a jet wash. They are washing off the tyres. The worker on the left is wearing a black tracksuit and a blue high-vis. The worker on the right is wearing beige trousers and a white top. He is also wearing a blue high-vis. Behind the car are two grey buildings.

  20. Women shelter from the heat under a black umbrella at the Trocadero Fountain by the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, 20 June 2026. Other people are seated next to the river.

  21. Against a red and beige backdrop, a boy slumps forward with his face and arms on his school desk. The BBC InDepth logo is in the top left-hand corner.

  22. Smoke from a wildfire is blowing across a blackened mountainside with a few trees in the foreground which haven't been burnt.

  23. A terraced house with light grey brick walls, a series of windows on the upper floor, two windows and a yellow door on the ground. There is a garden path and bushes on the side

  24. A school-aged child is shown eating a school dinner of a red plate. Only the lower half of their face is visible.