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Infographic: Managing the world’s solid waste in the 21st century.

The challenge of managing the world’s waste in the 21st century.

Plastic waste by the ocean

Galactic trash orbiting Earth.

A poignant scene of a recently burned forest, captured at sunset.

a close-up of a material with microplastics embedded in it

a destoryed city with birds flying and smoke rising

A man in the desert looks at the city after the effects of global warming.

A satellite image of a large hurricane over the Southeastern United States

A satellite photo of a giant iceberg next to an island with hundreds of smaller icebergs surrounding the pair

A photo of Lake Chala

A blue house surrounded by flood water in North Beach, Maryland.

a large ocean wave

Sunrise above Michigan�s Lake of the Clouds. We see a ridge of basalt in the foreground.

Infographic: The layers and functions of the human skin.

science budgets for federal government

infographic of nuclear power plant

Fukushima fuel rod infographic

infographic of human body sweat

Today�s GoFIgure looks at phobias, defined as irrational fears of things which are not likely to be dangerous.

two ants on a branch lift part of a plant