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Published December 10, 2009, 12:00 AM

DECADE'S END: Canoeing through Nigerian slum (2009)


SEPT. 29, 2009: Residents travel in passenger canoes through Makoko, a slum neighborhood built on stilts over Lagos Lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria. Through 10 years of global boom and bust, of breakneck change around the planet, of terrorism, war and division, all people everywhere are facing one threat together: the buildup of greenhouse gases, the rise in temperatures, the danger of a shifting climate, of drought, weather extremes and encroaching seas, of untold damage to the world humanity has created for itself over millennia. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)




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