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Earth is ‘really quite sick now,’ threatening human well-being

Study says Earth is past safety limits for climate, air pollution, phosphorus and nitrogen contamination, groundwater supplies, and more.

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Saito Ene Ruka, right, who said he has lost 100 cows due to drought, and his neighbour Kesoi Ole Tingoe, left, who said she lost 40 cows, walk past animal carcasses at Ilangeruani village, near Lake Magadi, in Kenya, on Nov. 9, 2022.
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A woman bathes her daughter in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution as the skyline is enveloped in toxic smog, in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 17, 2021.
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Villagers gather during a visit by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths, in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya on May 12, 2022.
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Dead fish float in a lake at Krishnarajapuram, on the outskirts of Bangalore, India, on May 15, 2005.
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A swan stands between dumped plastic bottles and waste at the Danube river in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 18, 2022.
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Charred trees stand as a forest fire sweeps through the Vila Nova Samuel region, along the road to the Jacunda National Forest near the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, on Aug. 25, 2019.
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A Samburu man stands near a donkey carcass as he patrols to protect livestock from theft in Samburu County, Kenya, on Oct. 15, 2022.
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This is aerial photo shows plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other garbage clogging the Drina river near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, Bosnia, on Jan. 5, 2021.

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