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A Port-au-Prince girl tries to sneak into a line for water. Fifty-eight percent of Haitians do not have access to safe drinking water.

James Dujour, two months old, gasps for air in St. Catherine's Hospital. 'This child has chronic diarrhea from bad water … very preventable,' says an exhausted physician. 'This is the greatest human-rights violation in [Haiti].'

A malnourished baby is force-fed liquids at a hospital. In Haiti, 400,000 children under age 5 are underfed.

An Infant cries as he wits for food at St. Catherine's Hospital in Cite Soleil, Haiti.

A sifaka leaps between the treetops of a Madagascar nature reserve.

A Marovay villager tends to her ducks outside her hut on the banks of the Betsiboka River. Eroding soil, a result of deforestation, has turned the river blood red.

An Egyptian boy outside the tomb where he and his family live in Cairo's City of the Dead.

Francesca Casillas, 74, almost blind and barely able to lift her arms, sits by the bedside of her 52-year-old daughter. In a two-block area of their neighborhood in Catano, Puerto Rico, six residents have birth deformities. Industrial pollution is…

Alexander Rakotomandimby, serving a seven-year sentence for burning trees to clear land, hides his anguish in the Antanimora prison in Madagascar. He cleared the land to plant rice for his family of ten. Eighty-five percent of the country is…

The distended abdomen of a child in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, shows the effects of chronic malnutrition. While millions of dollars went towards researching lemurs and preserving forests, one hundred people died each day of starvation during a…