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Photo: Photographer Mike Deere captured this image in a sewer under the River Westbourne in London, where he found parts of abandoned cranes, wells, ventilation shafts, work benches, tools and even the remnants of workers' meals from decades ago. Deere often heads to locations such as abandoned mine shafts, sewers and disused cooling towers.

Bilingual: As thick smog hung over Beijing last year, Stephanie Giambruno and her husband decided it was time for her and their two girls to return to the United States. Her husband stayed in China to work as general manager of a global technology company. He now contacts the family twice a day on Skype and lives with "constant jet lag" as he travels to Florida once a month to see them. Giambruno says Beijing's record air pollution left them no choice. She saw friends' children develop asthma, and their own daughters, at ages six and 21 months, were often forced to remain indoors.