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                    |  |  |  | Fires Blaze through South-Central Chile 
 Hot, dry winds fanned the flames of widespread fires in Chile. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | A Dry Lake Hamun Means More Dust Storms 
 When the seasonal lake and wetlands in the Sistan Basin dry out, dust often fills the sky. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | Landslide Creeping Below an African City 
 A large, slow-moving landslide is accelerating in eastern Congo, putting a community at risk. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | Siling Lake 
 One of the largest water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau has been growing even larger in recent decades. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | Quirimbas Islands 
 Skirting the coastline of Mozambique, these 32 small islands are home to a diversity of corals and sea turtles. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | Ex-cell-ent Clouds off Chile's Coast 
 Satellites have exposed the impressive coverage of marine stratocumulus clouds as well as their compelling shapes and patterns. |  | 
                  
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                    |  |  |  | Sichuan's Smoggy Basin 
 The waters of an ancient lake once pooled in this basin in southwestern China. Now haze and air pollution do the same. |  |