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A bird flies past an tabular iceberg in the Ross Sea off of Antarctica, Feb. 18, 2007.

Placid waters in the Ross Sea reveal the size of an iceberg beneath the surface, Feb. 22, 2007.

A massive iceberg floats near pack ice through the Ross Sea in the Southern Ocean, Feb. 14, 2007.

Pack ice expands through the Ross Sea of the Southern Ocean off of Antacrtica in late summer on Feb. 19, 2007.

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Four isolated trees stand in the middle of a soy field as a reminder of what once was rainforest near Itaituba in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2007.

An island of rainforest has been spared from destruction in the middle of a soy field near Itaituba in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2007.

The remains of some of the 700,000 square kilometers of rainforest land which has been deforested in the Amazon basin since 1970, according the the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil, lie next to some farm buildings near Alta Floresta in…

A view of burnt Amazon Rainforest near Alta Floresta in Para State, Brazil, set ablaze during the burning season when large sections of it are torched by farmers, to clear it for soy farming or cattle grazing, Sept. 18, 2007. By 2006 the Amazon…

A farm sits amidst burnt rainforest land which awaits clearing near Cuiaba in Para State, Brazil, Aug. 25, 2007.