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NASA images show before-and-after scenes of Earth

RUSHING WATER  Typhoon Nari made landfall in mid-October 2013 after heavy seasonal rains, flooding areas along the Mekong and Tonlé Sap Rivers in Cambodia.

LANDSAT/USGS, NASA

By Gabriel Popkin

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