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A woman and her child stand in front of a landscape denuded by gold mining in the southern Peruvian jungle in the Madre de Dios region. This picture is from 2015. Today, there's an effort to plant saplings to revive the forest. Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images ..read more
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Reading glasses are easy to come by in Western countries. But getting a pair in the Global South can be a challenge. A new study shows the surprising benefits that a pair of specs can bring ..read more
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Police break into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024 ..read more
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Elon Musk appears at an event in London, on Nov. 2, 2023. A Brazilian Supreme Court justice included Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation late April 7, into the executive for alleged obstruction ..read more
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Members of the Texas National Guard placing barber wire on a fence at the border between Mexico and the US. HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images ..read more
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A a man pedals carrying a girl during a scheduled power outage in Bauta, Cuba, Monday, March 18. The island is facing an energy crisis, with waves of blackouts worsening in recent weeks ..read more
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Rod Augustin, measures dimensions for solar panel installation at a local bar in Limonade, Haiti, on March 17, 2024. Octavio Jones for NPR ..read more
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In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme. Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto ..read more
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Police guard outside President Dina Boluarte's house during a raid ordered by the Attorney General's Office aimed at seizing luxury watches as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged illicit enrichment in Lima, Peru, Saturday, March 30, 2024 ..read more
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Spectators wait for the start of a bullfight at the Plaza México, in Mexico City, Jan. 28. Bullfighting returned to Mexico City after the Supreme Court of Justice overturned a 2022 ban that prevented these events from taking place in the capital ..read more