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A river meanders through green jungle on the edge of a large city.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.
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A super cargo ship is tended to by cranes and trucks in a commercial terminal. Lights from the port brighten the dimming sky, with mountains and low clouds in the distance.
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SHansche via iStock
Curtailing overconsumption may be the easiest target for reducing the societal and environmental impacts of climate change.
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Sunlight streams down through the kelp forest canopy.
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UC Santa Barbara
Declines in water clarity are a pressing concern for coastal ecosystems.
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A pregnant woman is silhouetted by diffuse, warm sunlight.
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Kieferpix via iStock
The health of a woman and her future child may be at risk before she even knows she’s pregnant.
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A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.
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Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.
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A pair of divers use bongo nets to collect marine snow in dark, blue water.
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J. Morin/ NOAA
Much of the organic carbon sinking into the deep ocean is carried by tiny organic particles known as marine snow.