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  • Colored chips of plastic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River. Families wash shredded plastic for profit organizing it by color for recycling in Bangladesh’s informal plastic waste industry. Their hand labor is more accurate than highly industrialized recycling in the USA and the labor costs $2-$4 a day.  Blue bottle caps are sorted from red bottle caps and they are sorted from the green bottle caps. A huge overburden of plastic is thrown away landing in the river and washing out into the Bay of Bengal.
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  • An alert, young foal with interesting markings and roan colors is part of a herd of approximately 120 wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. <br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.<br />
The herd range is in the high meadows down through rugged juniper-covered foothills to colorful desert-like badlands that border the green fields of Crooked Creek Valley. Bureau of Land Management's Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in Wyoming.
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  • Colorful lights play over patrons at a dance club.
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  • Blurred motion of a surgeonfish in colorful reef off of Komodo Island.
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  • Colored chips of plastic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Most of the recycling is done on public river banks and landings or under bridges. The plastic that is saved for recycling in this process is better than anything that can be automated in the USA. But the overburden - the unwanted plastic trash - that comes to this riverbank, invariably ends up in the Buringanga River watershed and eventually in the ocean.
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  • Detail of the main on a colorful wild horse rescued from the Sheldon Wildlife Refuge.
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  • A BBoy dance group shows the influence of their indigenous background through colorful knitted masks. The Ecuadorian teens work out dance moves and perform on the streets in Quito.
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  • Man standing under a colorful umbrellas.
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  • A photographer takes images inside the Ocean Park Aquarium.
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  • A mirror image of El Capitan framed with fall leaves is reflected in water pooled along the Merced River in Yosemite National Park. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the spectacular granite landscape was formed over millions of years by forces of nature. Volcanic uplifts transformed into glacial valleys, canyons, domes, rivers and amazing waterfalls, with habitat supporting rare species of plants including ancient Giant Sequoia trees.<br />
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During a stint managing California gold mines, Frederick Law Olmsted, was inspired by nature while in Yosemite. He was America’s first landscape designer and is best known for his plans for New York Central Park. He became enthralled with Yosemite Valley and its “placid pools which reflect the wondrous heights.”<br />
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Advocating for its protection, he planted the seeds for the National Park System 25 years before it was designated. He suggested the road on the valley floor travel around the perimeter-not down the middle along the Merced River-which would have spoiled the view. He also planned the route that tourists travel today from the valley floor to the giant sequoia trees in the Mariposa Grove. Olmsted was appointed chairman of the Yosemite commission by the governor of California, and proposed that the valley floor and sequoia grove be set aside as a park—protected from development and left open for public enjoyment.
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  • Vine maple leaves display bright autumn colors.
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  • Maple leaves in autumn colors.
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  • Bonobo ape looking at images at a language research center.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • Jellyfish lit by colored lights float in an aquarium in a hotel lobby.
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  • A wary foal stands with his mother near other mares in the herd as they graze together.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Profile of a curious, young, fuzzy mustang foal.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. They typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age, however, and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Vine maple leaves display bright autumn colors.
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  • Workers at a balloon factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, dip boards with sticks into a mix of colorful polymers leaving them in the sun.  As they begin to dry, they are rolled up and the material forms the end of a blow-up balloon.   These are “home-made” and  artisanal, but still “single-use-plastic.”
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A photographer takes aerial images of Lake Turkana.
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  • A photographer takes images of an Indian festival, Vaisakhi, in Barcelona's Rambla de Catalunya area.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • A photographer take images of workers at a jellyfish fishery.
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  • Ghanaian woman with colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • A Kiger mustang stallion watches guard of the herd. Kiger mustangs possess a demeanor and coloration of the original Spanish mustang.
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  • Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages baby horses from predators. They typically shed their fuzzy foal coat, however, and at three or four months of age evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • A frisky mustang foal romps in a meadow.<br />
Foals are often born with a pale shade of their adult color. In the wild, the dull colored coat camouflages babies from predators. However, they typically shed their fuzzy foal coat at three or four months of age and evolve into their adult coloration.
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  • Sunlight highlights aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, as their colors turn golden in the autumn. "Quaking aspen" is Colorado's signature tree in the high altitude of the San Juan mountains near Silverton. Aspens grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling. They spread by root suckers and new starts may pop up 100–130 ft from the parent tree. Each tree may live for 40–150 years, but the root system of the colony can be thousands of years old sending up new trunks as the older trees die off above ground.
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  • Flags and statuary decorate a colorful roadside altar in a desolate region of northern Chile. Shrines or  animitas are a common tradition of memorials that mark the site where someone died. People who are not related to the person who was killed can offer a prayer at the animita; in this way, animitas can take the roles of popular saints in the Catholic religion.
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  • Colored chips of plastic, collected, washed and sorted by hand to dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Ghanaian woman with a colorful umbrella walking through her village.
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  • Animal figures as well as geometric shapes are part of the mysterious Nazca lines best seen from the air in the Peruvian desert.  The figures--as well as triangles, rectangles and straight lines--run for several kilometers across the dry barren land. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form animal and geometric figures seen from the air.  A hummingbird shape as well as perfect geometric designs like triangles, rectangles and straight lines run for several kilometers across the desert. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below.
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  • This Mexican photographer has been selling Polaroid instant color photographs to tourists at the base of Cascada Cola de Caballo, Horsetail Falls, for 50 of his 73 years. The waterfall makes a dramatic 75-foot drop through Cumbres de Monterrey in Las Cumbres National Park south of Monterrey.  The falls and surrounding park are a draw for Mexican families for picnics.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Ears pointed forward, a wild Palomino canters blurring at a fast pace through grasslands and prairie. Palominos are recognized by the color of horse distinguished by their cream, yellow, or gold coat and white or silver mane and tail. The Palomino horse is said to have originated in Spain around 1519, at the beginning of the Spanish New World and Cortez's reign. Although the exact development of these horses is unknown, their origin is rooted in Spain. Ears tipped forward indicate excitement or interest.
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  • Shadows and sun sets on the arid plateau and rock face creating stunning colors of the Vermillion Cliffs.  From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • Harsh winds blow snow across the craggy peaks of the South Chilkat Mountains, illuminating intense, orange colors of a winter sunset.<br />
The Coastal Range is directly across the Lynn Canal and the Juneau Icefield in southeast Alaska.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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  • Harsh winds blow snow across the craggy ridges and peaks of the South Chilkat Mountains illuminating intense, orange colors of a winter sunset.<br />
The Coastal Range is directly across the Lynn Canal and the Juneau Icefield in southeast Alaska.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A family removes labels from plastic bottles, sorting green from clear ones to sell to a scrap dealer. A woman works sorting while her daughter wades through a sea of plastic under the Buriganga Bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. They are part of informal plastic waste industry and set up their operation working long hours to eke out of living looking for recyclable materials.  It may appear a chaotic, tangled heap but the workers make order finding like colors and types in the waste that is in the shadows of Burigonga Bridge Road that goes over a backwater to the Buriganga River.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave located in the Coyote Buttes section of the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail is limited to hikers with permits from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • Plastic that is sorted in the Dharavi Slums goes to China comes back as colorful artificial flowers in a market outside of Mumbai. This woman is shopping in the Dharavi slum through the rich array of colors for flowers for her wedding.<br />
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The slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era, and grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from the migration of poor rural Indians into urban Mumbai. For this reason, Dharavi is currently a highly multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and diverse settlement. Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of the slum residents leather, textiles and pottery products are among the goods made inside Dharavi. The total annual turnover has been estimated at over US$1 billion.
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  • A herd of colorful mustangs including Paints and Palominos graze through sagebrush as evening approaches. After stopping at the waterhole, they headed toward salt licks and to roll taking dust baths in Oregon's high desert.
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  • A Palomino mustang mare with a blue eye has distinctive, unusual coloration.
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  • Mustangs gallop in a tight pack as hired contractors herd large numbers of horses into a trap chasing them with helicopters. Nearly panicked, they are tricked to follow a tame “Judas” horse let loose in the confusion. The trained horse runs along the jute fence and into a corral expecting food and the wild horses that follow are captured.<br />
The Jackson Mountain Herd consists of mostly brown and dun colored horses. Most were dehydrated and hungry from drought conditions on Bureau of Land Management public lands in Nevada.
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  • Two stallions battle for dominance in a war dance of wild horses showing typical fighting behavior in a herd. Many mustang studs have missing ears, and their bodies are battle-scarred from bite marks and strikes from front hooves. <br />
The mustangs' primitive markings are consistent with ancient coloration of horses brought to North America by the Spanish Conquistadors in the 1600s.
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  • A colorful entrance to a Native Alaskan clan house greets visitors at Totem Bight State Historical Park. It is a replica of a community house representing of those in early nineteen-century native villages of Southeast Alaska. Tlingit or Haida chieftain’s dwelling also housed several families.
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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • A spectacular formation of vibrant colors in swirls of fragile sandstone is known as The Wave and is located in the Coyote Buttes section of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. An unmarked wilderness trail limits hikers and requiries a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.
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  • A sculptural Japanese cutleaf maple, Acer palmatum dissectum, brings drama with twisted branches adorned with brilliant colors of fall foliage.
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  • Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park is cloaked in brilliant autumn colors of oak and maple trees. The stone of the 65-foot waterfall is composed of Berea Sandstone at the top and Bedford and Cleveland shales and soft rock below from mud found on the sea floor that covered the region 400 million years ago.
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  • A dress shop owner in Old Town, the historical district of Quito. Colorful dresses are not to be touched unless a shopper wants to buy.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form strange two-footed animal figures in the desert of Peru. Many creatures as well as geometric shapes run for miles and are best seen from the air. They were made by exposing lighter colored soil when sun-baked stones were moved and piled up. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700
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  • Chilean cowboys in traditional Andalusian sombreros watch as huasos wearing colorful ponchos line up their horses under a flag in the ring. They are competing in a rodeo in ranch country north of Santiago by pinning a steer and trying to beat the clock.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • These are workers' villas in wealthy Huaxi village in 2008. Some of the industries of Huaxi Village (Farmers Village) are in the background. This co-op has been a model farm for 45 years. They were capitalists before it was legal in China. They started factories, but worked in them with no windows in secret. When government officials came to inspect, they sent all the workers out to the fields and disguised the factories. Huaxi became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. This model farm became so successful they started selling shares in the 60's. They sold the shares "underground" The residents now buy shares... or work for shares to purchase these homes.  When shares were first offered, they went for 2000RMB, now they go for 30,000 RMB. In 2008, 30,000 officials visited this place to see how it runs effectively. There are not many model farms left in China, and none with this wealth. The model farm runs about 80 factories and In 2008, Huaxi was held up by the government as the most successful transition from farmer to the socialist/capitalist world. But more recently, in the face of economic pressures, Huaxi Village has gone bankrupt.
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  • At the A Fun Ti Carnival Restaurant, ethnic dancers, wait staff, performers are all from Xinjiang Province in North West China.
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  • Wildebeests and wattled starlings begin their migration on the Serengeti in Tanzania.
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  • An alligator walks on the muddy bottom of the Saint Marys River.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood.
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  • Villagers gathering and carrying firewood.
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  • Villagers carrying firewood outside Millenium Village - an experimental village run by the UN.  The UN tried to find a cluster of villages that lacked food security, and then tried to solve some of the problems in a controlled environment.  This village has been going for one year, and they just gathered benchmark data for the first six months.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • Close up of an arrowhead-shaped leafed plant with thorns.
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  • Clinic director readies to examine a child burned by scalding water.
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  • A woman swoons at a religious ceremony.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Schoolgirls at a ceremony celebrating the opening of a new clinic.
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  • Young children cry after receiving shots at a clinic.
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  • The hands of a midwife and a newborn baby girl at a rural clinic.
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  • Setting up a health clinic and way station for supplies in Kasoa.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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  • A woman during life-threatening childbirth.
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  • Kurilskoe Lake Preserve is a world heritage site and had serious poaching. But now, two or three wardens are always out on enforcement and they pack out for a month at a time. The official salary for wardens is $200 a month, but the WWF came in and supplemented salaries and bought them the equipment they need to do the job. WWF decided one of the gems of the reserve system that exists in all of Russia should be poaching free.
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  • Steens Loop Road passes through winter sun that warms grasses on the high desert in Oregon's Steens Mountain.
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  • A rancher on horseback accompanied by his dog drives a herd a sheep through the open range and grasses of the high desert in Oregon's Steens Mountain.
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  • Land yachts race the wind and each other across the Alvord Desert playa’s flat, dusty terrain. Fans of the sport flock to the ancient lake bed in search of speeds beyond most posted interstate highway limits. The world record stands above 116 mph. Sports enthusiasts race in high temperatures when the playa is dry enough to drive on.<br />
The desert lies to the east of Oregon's Steens Mountain, and Steen's Mountain Wilderness which is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.”  It abruptly falls to the dry Alvord Desert 6,000 feet below.
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  • Fog rises from the base of the Straight Cliffs that rise up to the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The protected Bureau of Land Management monument spans across nearly 1.87 million acres of public land from the cliffs and terraces to geologic treasures of slot canyons, natural bridges and arches. It’s remote location and rugged landscape make it an extraordinary unspoiled natural area valued by biologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians and those who love quiet creation and solitude. Grand Staircase was named the first national monument in 1996.
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  • The Paria Rivers snakes through the sandstone landscape north of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. Narrow slot canyons form along it from the waters that originate in the north side of the 112,500-acre Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area at the Utah/Arizona border. The aerial view helps explain erosion through geologic time.
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  • The arid plateau north of the Grand Canyon is viewed from Navajo sandstone rocks of Coyote Buttes. From a 3,000-foot-high escarpment to a canyon 2,500 feet deep, Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs National Monument encloses a host of geological wonders.
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  • Cowboys and cowgirls drink morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. Her son ranches with her and works to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowboy drives a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the sky glows as the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • At sunset, a cowgirl drives her pick up back to the ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In morning light, the cowgirl works to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowgirl brands a calf while ranch hands pin others in the corral to be castrated. Cowboys on horseback sort cattle in the spring near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is worked but ranchers are respectful of the land for preservation.
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