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Boreal forest in Alaska

Aerial view of patchwork farmland and fields bordering the Connecticut River near Sunderland, Massachusetts, with distant hills under a partly cloudy sky.

logging in San Juan National Forest

Large open-pit mine with drilling equipment and vehicles positioned in a grid pattern on the quarry floor for lithium and spodumene extraction in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia.

Exposed wall of a coal pit near Haybro, Colorado, showing distinct dark coal seams layered with lighter rock under a clear sky.

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Julia Carabias Lillo

Mexican ecologist and environmentalist