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In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.

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If you want something to worry about late at night besides your mortgage, pick orbital debris.

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The city of Mandeville was flattened and the main road through town was littered with debris.

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Each nest was swept clean of the plankton debris that blanketed the surrounding sediment, creating a landscape of geometric order across the ocean floor.

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“We’ve seen everything from rotting produce and other food to refrigerators, couches, green waste, flowers, tires and construction debris,” Lopez said.

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