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title: Astonishing picture from tiny Midway Atoll in the Pacific
date: 2012-05-06T17:01:38Z
modified: 2012-05-06T17:01:38Z
permalink: "https://350.org/astonishing-picture-tiny-midway-atoll-pacific/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: Those are Laysan albatrosses in the background and the foreground, and their downy chicks. These are one of the most magnificent species on the planet. But their nesting grounds are subject to ever more flooding
wpid: 29456
author: Bill McKibben
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Those are Laysan albatrosses in the background and the foreground, and their downy chicks. These are one of the most magnificent species on the planet. But their nesting grounds are subject to ever more flooding

![](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5198/7148481633_185ae0ff57_z.jpg)