Esther Ngumbi, who now lives in Chicago, gets a taste of the big chill. She grew up in Kenya, where 60 degrees was about as cold as it got. Alex Mutiso hide caption
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A new study points to the connections between climate change, lack of proper nutrition and obesity. Rick Elkins, Josh Sommers, Chris Minihane/Getty Images hide caption
To tame your anger, it may help to take time to observe and name it. Ariel Davis for NPR hide caption
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A wild boar at at an enclosure set up by forest rangers in a northwestern district of Berlin in 2017. Denmark is building a $12 million fence in an effort to keep out wild boars from Germany. Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
To Keep African Swine Fever Out, Denmark Is Planning A Southern Boar(der) Fence
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Teenage sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen of Bali have received many honors for their efforts to ban plastic bags. Above: They accept the 2017 "Award for Our Earth" from Germany's Bambi Awards. Alexander Koerner/Getty Images hide caption
How Teenage Sisters Pushed Bali To Say 'Bye-Bye' To Plastic Bags
Friday
A poor resident of a village in Kenya checks his phone to confirm that a cash transfer has been made. Nichole Sobecki for NPR hide caption
The moms of newborn Finnish babies are given government-issued baby boxes—stocked with clothes, bedding and toys — and also doubling as a makeshift crib. The group Finnwatch wanted to know who manufactured the goods. Razvan Ciuca/Getty Images hide caption
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Access to water is increasingly entangled with conflict situations. (Above) A young girl fills a bottle at a pump station at a camp for internally displaced people in Ain Issa, Syria. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
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The group Handicap International (now known as Humanity & Inclusion) has provided aid in Burundi for 26 years. (Above) Thierry, age 9, was born without his left leg and received a prosthesis from the group, which is now pulling out of the country. Evrard Niyomwungere/Humanity & Inclusion hide caption
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The United Nations headquarters in New York City. The agency has released the results of a survey on sexual harassment experienced by employees, consultants and volunteers. Joseph Sohm/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
An image, from a scanning electron micrograph, of Heterorhabditis megidis nematode worms (colored blue). These parasitic worms harbor a bacteria that repels mosquitoes. Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source hide caption
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Kamal Hosen and Rahima Khartoum, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, hold a photograph of their 14-year-old son, Din Mohammad. A victim of human trafficking, he was eventually rescued from a camp in Thailand. Shazia Rahman/Getty Images hide caption
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A resident at the Mother Teresa of Calcutta senior home in Caracas. The people at the home were not reluctant to be photographed, says photojournalist Wil Riera: "They want to share their history, to have a voice." Wil Riera hide caption