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A Ukrainian holds her pet cat above flood from burst Kakhovka dam (Credit: Getty Images)
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How nature became part of Ukraine's resistance

By Darya Tsymbalyuk

The depave movement in Portland, Oregon has inspired a wave of cities to pull up their asphalt and concrete (Credit: Elle Hygge)
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The quest to depave the world's cities

By Chris Baraniuk
Amada Caicedo stands in waist-deep waters (Credit: Johis Alarcón/Cimarrona with the support of National Geographic Society)
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The indigenous women saving a beloved blue crab

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Diego, the tortoise who almost single handedly saved his own species
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The giant tortoises rebuilding a Galápagos island

By Kevin Gepford
Antonio Lancellotta stands among citrus trees (Credit: Agostino Petroni)
A skywell courtyard in the Wuyuan Skywells Hotel in Jiangxi province, China
The repository in Onkalo, Finland (Credit: Getty Images)
American male bison on prairie track (Credit: Getty Images)
A man walks past wind turbines in Indonesia at dusk (Credit: Getty Images)
A woman looks at the train times displayed on screens in a station (Credit: Getty Images)

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The Power of Mama, Borneo's women volunteer firefighters (Credit: Victor Fidelis Sentosa)
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Borneo's all-women firefighting squad

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Hannah Ritchie, Oxford data scientist (Credit: Angela Catlin)
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The paradox of the 'gentle protest'

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Can tree planting solve a water crisis?

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A hurricane-damaged home on Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana (Credit: Lucy Sherriff)
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Scientist Taryn Foster places trays of artificial coral skeletons (Credit: Coral Maker)
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The last male northern white rhino Sudan at the Ol Pejeta conservancy Kenya (Getty Images)
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Artists impression of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Credit: Shutterstock)
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A beaver stands on top its dam in Wyoming, USA (Getty Images)
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