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Baliem Valley festival in Wamena, Indonesia.
Gallery (10 pictures):12 Aug 2010
The Dani, Yali and Lani tribes gather at this annual festival dressed in distinctive attire to stage mock battles, perform traditional music and dance, and celebrate with a pig roast
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The break-up of the Petermann Glacier
Gallery (12 pictures):11 Aug 2010
Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half a century last week when the momentous break-up of the Petermann Glacier set a 100 sq mile chunk of ice drifting into the North Strait between Greenland and Canada
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Census of the deep maps the world's sea creatures
Gallery (16 pictures):2 Aug 2010
Census of Marine Life scientists have drawn up an inventory of the world's underwater citizens – and warned of mass extinctions
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Ship discovered at World Trade Centre site
Gallery (10 pictures):16 Jul 2010
The decayed hull of a centuries-old ship has been unearthed 20 feet below street level at the World Trade Centre construction site
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Solar eclipse
Gallery (8 pictures):12 Jul 2010
A total solar eclipse began its 11,000km arc over the Pacific on Sunday, passing over Easter Island and Chile and ending over Argentina
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Mummies of the World exhibition
Gallery (17 pictures):11 Jul 2010
A previously unseen collection of 150 mummified humans, animals and burial artefacts have gone on display in the US
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Marine scientists emerge from the deep with 10 newly discovered species
Gallery (10 pictures):8 Jul 2010
A six-week voyage into the deep seas of the Atlantic Ocean has yielded 10 possible new species which have revolutionised thinking about deep-sea life
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First Britons faced mammoths and sabre-toothed cats
Gallery (8 pictures):7 Jul 2010
Stone tools and fossils found on a Norfolk beach show that the first Britons lived alongside mammoths and sabre-toothed cats
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Life through a giant lens
Gallery (8 pictures):30 Jun 2010
A microscope with a giant lens known as the Mesolens is on display at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition
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Satellite eye on Earth: June 2010
Gallery (18 pictures):1 Jul 2010
Space station sunsets, desert lakes in Mongolia and cloud formations over the Canaries were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites during June
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Book review: Botanic Gardens, Modern-Day Arks
Gallery (22 pictures):28 Jun 2010
Sara Oldfield's book documents the role that botanic gardens around the world are playing in the fight to save plant species
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Endangered UK species wallchart
Gallery (21 pictures):28 Jun 2010
Images from a wallchart published in the Guardian marking the launch of our Name a species competition
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Cracking the human code | Human Genome Project
Gallery (16 pictures):26 Jun 2010
Ten years ago, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair announced the first draft of the DNA blueprint for Homo sapiens
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Satellite Eye on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Gallery (13 pictures):18 Jun 2010
Photo-like satellite images and aircraft and shipboard observations are being combined with weather and ocean current models to predict the spread of oil
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The week in wildlife
Gallery (18 pictures):17 Jun 2010
From resplendent poppy fields in Worcestershire to endangered seals snapped in flagrante delicto, here's the pick of this week's wildlife images
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