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The False Scorpion

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Looking somewhere in between a spider, a lobster and a roach, the pseudoscorpion is the stuff of nightmares.

Fragments of Heaven

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The breathtaking beauty of ancient mosaics is as unique as it is stunning. Not only does a mosaic make for a grand overall picture, look closely and you will find that each tile is a miniature work of art in itself – some no bigger than a few millimetres across.

Powder Blizzard

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Earth’s dust dynamics are a complex and poorly understood part of our natural world, and dust storms are merely the most noticeable phenomena.

Avalanche

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Avalanche victims are more likely to perish than survive. If a glacier is a frozen river, then an avalanche is a flooding torrent that blankets the slopes.

Landslides: Inevitable Gravity

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What goes up must come down. All of the massed materials in and on the hills and mountains of our planet are constantly yearning to give way.

Nature’s Lightning Shows

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A photographer from Darwin sets off on a mission to record the beautiful and frightening spectacle of dramatic thunderstorms in all their glory.

The Great Flood

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Legends and stories of waters rising high and deluging the lands are recorded and passed down through the generations by a number of cultures across Asia.

No One’s Fault (and Everyone’s)

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Kashmir's worst earthquake claimed 87,350: sub-standard construction, less than rigorous disaster planning and stalled rescue attempts all took a fatal toll.