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Life in Color: Green

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Photo: River meandering through green grazing lands
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A bird's-eye view captures the serpentine course of a river in Peru’s mountainous Chachapoya region. Herds of grazing cattle can be seen as tiny specks on the vast, green landscape.

Photograph by Bobby Haas

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