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Photo galleryClimate

The elements: mountains, forests and wild water

The landscapes behind our climate and environment coverage.

3 photographs · 20 Oct 2026
Mount Everest, seen from a Drukair flight over the Himalayas.
01Mount Everest, seen from a Drukair flight over the Himalayas. Photo: Flickr user 37047767@N00, edited by Papa Lima Whiskey 2 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The Agasthyamalai range of the Western Ghats, with the drier rain-shadow plains of Tirunelveli beyond.
02The Agasthyamalai range of the Western Ghats, with the drier rain-shadow plains of Tirunelveli beyond. Photo: PlaneMad / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)
The “Blue Marble”: Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew on 7 December 1972.
03The “Blue Marble”: Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew on 7 December 1972. Photo: NASA (public domain)

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