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Barely Hanging On
One of an endangered species

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Out of their Depth

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Brilliant Swarm
Thousands of fusulier fish

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Melting Away
The LeConte Glacier in southeast Alaska has retreated 2.5 miles since 1887.

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Bear Pause
Giant pandas eat at the China Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong, China.

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Shifting Sands
A worker carrying hay

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Smoke Signals
Exhaust from a factory in Thailand

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Hazy Future
An Indonesian man burns coconut shells to make charcoal.

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Dry Land


in northwest China'
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Visibility Decreasing


"Haboob" advances
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Piling Up
Garbage collectors at a dump in China

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High Tide
A Bangladeshi family wades through the flood

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Waiting for Rain
A dead tree

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Wise Eye
Beaulah the elephan

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Tomorrow's Riviera

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Caps Off
A NASA satellite image from September 16, 2007 shows Arctic summer sea ice at its lowest level, shattering a record set in 2005