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Stuart Robinson with Cyclone Research Group gets a look at the seawall as winds and rain from Hurricane Ike blew on Galveston Island, Saturday morning, Sept. 13, 2008.

© Greenpeace/ Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2008

A child from Omati village, wearing a shell necklace, stands in front of the remains of a limestone hill (a sacred site for the villagers) which has been logged and then mined for limestone (for use as road surfacing) by loggers, in the rainforests of the ‘Turama extension’ logging concession, near the village of Omati, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 3, 2008.