A little girl fills two jerrycans with water in the Korangi slum in Karachi. Fetching water is a duty that often falls on very young children. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
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The Sahara desert creeps up on a palm field. Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A Scientist Dreams Up A Plan To Stop The Sahara From Expanding
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Chris Junior Anaekwe, right, with three volunteers. They picked up trash in their city of Onitsha, Nigeria, for World Environment Day on June 5. Chris Junior Anaekwe hide caption
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The people of Rwanda are required to take part in the national cleanup day, Umuganda, on the last Saturday of every month. (Above) Getting grass under control in Kigali, the capital city. Forster/ullstein bild via Getty Images hide caption
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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
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A worker sorts plastic bottles at a recycling center in China. Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
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Baobab trees along a dirt road called the Avenue of the Baobabs in Morondava, Madagascar. Panoramic Images/Getty Images hide caption
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A Somali fisherman carries a fish to the market near the port in Mogadishu. One of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals calls for the world to "conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development." Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Portrait of a Nile crocodile. Matthijs Kuijpers/Getty Images hide caption
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The Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility, dug in the mid-1960s, allows scientists a three-dimensional look at frozen ground. Kate Ramsayer/NASA hide caption
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The Philippine eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi faces extinction from mining, pollution and poaching. Photographer Tim Flach used black backgrounds to create intimate portraits for his book. Tim Flach hide caption
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A woman wears a mask and filter as she walks to work during heavy pollution in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images hide caption
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Ghulam Siddique, a goat herder from Pakistan's Sindh province, has been forced to increase the price of his goats to offset the rising cost of the animals' feed. Amar Guriro for NPR hide caption
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One of the stray dogs that turned blue hangs out on a street in the Taloja industrial zone in Mumbai. AFP/Getty Images hide caption