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Various species of sharks — some of which are endangered, while others are listed as vulnerable — are hauled on shore at dawn at the Tanjung Luar port on June 9, 2025, in East Lombok, Indonesia. Tanjung Luar is one of the largest shark markets in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, from where shark fins are exported to other Asian markets — primarily Hong Kong and China — and their bones are used in cosmetic products also sold to China.
Nicole Tung
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Fondation Carmignac
Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
Nicole Tung
A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.
Former NPR President Kevin Klose.
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NPR
Opinion: Remembering Kevin Klose, former NPR president and broadcasting icon
Scott Simon
An electric vehicle is seen at NIO battery swap station on March 9, 2025 in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.
Tang Ke/VCG via Getty Images
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Visual China Group
Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? One Chinese company has a novel solution
John Ruwitch
MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp weaves the bottom of a burial tray. Brokopp enlisted her friends to weave her tray after a cancer diagnosis.
Nic Neves
She invited her friends to come together to make her casket
Nic M. Neves
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