Lesbos, Greece
A family from the Moria camp walk past the site of a fire that claimed the life of a woman and a child. Clashes between migrants and police followed the blaze on the island, where 12,000 remain trapped in squalid living conditions.
Para, Brazil
Seven-year-old Emilia Tembe stands with her toy bow and arrow on a fallen tree in the village of Ka ‘a kyr. “This was primary jungle. But the fire arrived and it cleared the land,” said Emidio, the village’s chieftain and Emilia’s grandfather.
Luciana Baroso lost her sight in a landmine explosion in 1994 while collecting potatoes in a field near her home in the village of Cabio, Angola. You can read her story here, and see more pictures from Antonio Olmos’s trip to Angola here.
Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday.
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