A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her. While most children dream of a white Christmas, eight-year-old Lola Dyer, dreads the chilly days. The schoolgirl suffers from a condition called cold urticaria and being outside for just a few minutes leaves her with painful rashes all over her body. The allergy is so bad it has even landed her in hospital after she developed breathing difficulties.
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
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In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .