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MexicoDead monarch butterflies carpet a snowy forest floor in Michoacán state. At least nine million, over 40 percent of this colony, died after an unusually intense spring storm—possibly due to climate change—hit their mountain sanctuary.
Photograph by JAIME ROJO
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