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Life in Color: Brown

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Photo: Dry channels crisscrossing a salt flat
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Stretching toward a blue salt lake, dry waterways crisscross the brown expanse of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat.
Photograph by Robert B. Haas

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