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• Mexico anxiously awaits fate of 12-year-old schoolgirl after deadly earthquake September 21, 2017
  MEXICO CITY — A sprawling earthquake recovery effort spanning several states turned intensely personal Thursday as Mexicans were riveted by an effort to save a 12-year-old girl who was pinned in the rubble of her elementary school.
• A stunned Puerto Rico seeks to rebuild after Hurricane Maria September 21, 2017
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that crushed concrete balconies, twisted metal gates and paralyzed the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slowly rebuild amid an economic crisis as rescue crews fanned out across the U.S. territory Thursday.
• Cloudy, cool August restrains melt of Arctic sea ice September 21, 2017
  WASHINGTON — Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record, new federal data show. That’s far below average, but considerably above the record low set five years ago.
• Sea turtles appear to be bouncing back around the world September 20, 2017
  On this planet, so many plants and animals are disappearing that scientists worry we’re experiencing a sixth mass extinction. Many of these organisms are taking hits from a variety of angles — habitat loss, climate change and more — that it’s hard to get a grasp on how to stop their declines. Conservation success stories […]
• 2017’s hurricanes got really intense, really quickly September 20, 2017
  “Maria is developing the dreaded pinhole eye,” wrote National Hurricane Center forecaster Jack Beven on Monday evening, as the storm reached Category 4 intensity.