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At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., Vahagn Amiryan of Armenia prepares to carve an inscription on a block of wood that would sit atop the "mother pillar" inside a traditional house in his country. Paul Chisholm/NPR hide caption
A woman breastfeeds her child in a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Shennel E.P. Henries, a 19-year-old Liberian member of Girl Up, decided to become an activist when she was around 5, Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
Tens of thousands of people live in villages on the edge of the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor rainforest in Madagascar. A government policy now bans cutting down trees to get more land for farming. Mahesh Poudyal hide caption
Rohingya children carrying firewood into the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh. Refugees have stripped almost all the area vegetation to use in cooking fires. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
A laborer arranges sacks of rice at a market in Jakarta. Jewel Samad /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Mumbai's Juhu beach is strewn with trash at low tide during monsoon season. Floodwaters flush garbage out of the city and into the Arabian Sea. As tides ebb, beaches are blanketed in trash, much of it plastic. Lauren Frayer/NPR hide caption
Ville Fantome. This construction has the largest footprint of the artist's cityscape dioramas. The skyscrapers represent different countries. For instance, the gold-and-silver tower is emblazoned with USA. Mark Abramson for NPR hide caption
Elizabeth Nyakoda holds her 10-month-old daughter at a feeding center for children in South Sudan. Sam Mednick/AP hide caption
George Mwinnyaa on his visit to the slave castle at Cape Coast in his homeland of Ghana. The door leads to the cells where captives who were resistant were held prior to being sent over the ocean as slaves. Leslie Mwinnyaa hide caption
An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide would lead to a decrease in the nutritional content of many foods, such as rice, seen here growing in Malaysia. Nik Wheeler/Getty Images hide caption
Armenian artist Ruben Malayan stands in front of a poster at his booth at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. Malaka Gharib/NPR hide caption
Sudanese dockworkers unload bags of grain from a U.S. ship at Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Ashraf Shazly /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Chart of mosquito repellents in 2015 study. Katie Park/NPR hide caption
Natasha Houston and her mother at home in Zeelugt. In 2013, Houston's husband killed their two children, slashed her arm and hand, then died, apparently by suicide. William Rawlins for NPR hide caption
A worker sorts plastic bottles at a recycling center in China. Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
A mother holds her newborn twins at a Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, a public health facility in India. Paula Bronstein/The Verbatim Agency/Getty Images hide caption