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PICTURES OF THE DAY

CHRONOLOGICAL NEWS REVIEW – SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023

ARAPAIMA GIGAS - MARCO RACCICHINI

The Arapaima Gigas, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, is found in the Amazon.

CARRARA MARBLE - ALESSANDRO GANDOLFI

Carrara Marble is known the world over for quality, and history.

NAPLES - WHAT IS MISSING - SALVATORE ESPOSITO

Naples, famous in history, notorious for crime.

THE MELTING WORLD: ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC - SEBNEM COKSUN / ANADOLU

In polar regions, the effects of global warming are tangible, visible and significant.

THE GREAT MIGRATION OF LIFE - ALEXIS ROSENFELD / UNESCO

The “sardine run” off the coast of South Africa: millions of fish moving north, triggering a feeding frenzy from larger species.

ECHOES EAST - MOLDOVA - WILL BAXTER

Moldova is a small country with a small population (2.5 million), on the border with Ukraine, and vulnerable.

LIVING WITH DEMENTIA - Isadora KOSOFSKY / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

In the world today, an estimated 57 million people are living with dementia.
By 2050 there will be three times as many.

THE POWER OF SILENCE - SALVATORE ESPOSITO

The twin boys are autistic. Their parents set up an association named “The Power of Silence.”

30 WEEKS - MAYLIS ROLLAND / HANS LUCAS

Extremely premature babies, their parents and neonatologists at a teaching hospital in Rennes, France.

POLITICAL YEAR ZERO - LOUIE PALU / AGENCE VU’

Everything changed in American politics after September 2019.

GUN LEGISLATION IN TENNESSEE - SETH HERALD, CHENEY ORR, KEVIN WURM / REUTERS

After the Covenant School shooting in Nashville in March 2023, killing three children and three adults, the Tennessee General Assembly did not approve of certain members demonstrating in favor of gun control.

SARKAS, THE LAST SHOW - LUCIEN MIGNÉ / ZEPPELIN

The Sarkas touring circus, in Bangladesh.

THE SILENT STRUGGLE: WOMEN IN THE SHADOWS OF MODERN-DAY LABOR - ABIR ABDULLAH

In Bangladesh, 90% of all employment is on the informal market, and women have to contend with some of the harshest working conditions.

READY FOR RESCUE - SIMONE BOCCACCIO

SEARCH AND RESCUE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA - MAX CAVALLARI

Large numbers of migrants risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in a bid to reach Europe. Reports from two rescue boats manned by humanitarian NGOs: Médecins sans frontières and SOS Humanity

THE CONGO FOREST, THE LAST GREEN LUNG OF THE EARTH - GWENN DUBOURTHOUMIEU

The Congo Basin is the largest land-based carbon sink on earth.