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POLAR BEARS FIND SANCTUARY NEAR ALASKAN VILLAGE

AP PHOTOGRAPHER SHARES EXPERIENCE DOCUMENTING HOMELESSNESS

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1. POLAR BEARS FIND SANCTUARY NEAR ALASKAN VILLAGE2. AP PHOTOGRAPHER SHARES EXPERIENCE DOCUMENTING HOMELESSNESS3. BELARUS VILLAGERS PREFER HARD WORK TO CITY SMOKE

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POLAR BEARS FIND SANCTUARY NEAR ALASKAN VILLAGE

A young polar bear prepares to feast on the remains of a bowhead whale, harvested legally by whalers during their annual subsistence hunt, just outside the Inupiat village of Kaktovik, Alaska on Sept. 11, 2017.The rise in global temperatures is having a very real, and very devastating, effect on Arctic ice formation, diminishing its scope and delaying its seasonal buildup. That scarcity means Alaskan polar bears can’t reach their traditional hunting grounds until later in fall.Land-bound and hungry, 60 of these predators have learned to gather outside the village, feasting on the scraps from the annual hunt. Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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A sign welcomes visitors to the

Inupiat village of Kaktovik,

Alaska.

Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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A mural outside a private home depicts whales and polar bear.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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Five family members pile onto an all-terrain vehicle.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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Residents saw pieces of whale.After residents carve and distribute the meat and blubber, a front loader carries what remains of the carcass to a bone pile at the far end of town.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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A polar bear walks along a sand spit.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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A front loader washes a bowhead whale.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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Polar bears feast on the remains of a whale.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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A front loader dumps the unusable remains of a bowhead whale.Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA-EFE

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AP photographer shares experience documenting homelessness

A man walks past a mural of angel wings titled "Africa Wings" by artist Colette Miller in Los Angeles' Skid Row area, home to the nation's largest concentration of homeless people, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. According to the annual count released in May by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles County's homeless population has increased to 57,794, a 23 percent jump from last year's count. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A large homeless encampment is formed on the "Plaza of the Flags" elevated park at the Santa Ana Civic Center complex Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in Santa Ana, Calif. California declared a statewide emergency due to a hepatitis A outbreak linked to homeless encampments. Comparisons are being made to conditions more commonly seen in Third World countries. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Covering herself with a blanket, homeless woman Christian McKenzie, a 29-year-old heroin addict and mother of a 7-year-old boy, settles down next to a wall in the Waterfront Park area in Seattle on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. "I'm doing drugs still, but I'm not doing them as much. I've restrained myself all day not to," said McKenzie. "I miss my kitchen. I miss my kid." (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Two homeless people, Tammy Stephen, 54, left, and Bennie Koffa, 66, walk past each other at Camp Second Chance, a city-sanctioned homeless encampment, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Seattle. Against the backdrop of its booming economy, the West Coast is experiencing another type of boom_a massive surge in homeless people living on the streets that in many places is beginning to overwhelm the ability of local governments to deal with it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A mentally disabled woman stares at a camera as a homeless drug addict, who said his name was April Jane, sits on a sidewalk asking for money, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. The latest nationwide homeless count shows that 4 of every 10 people living on the street are severely mentally ill or have a serious drug addiction. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Homeless people wait in line for a meal served by a community organization outside Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Los Angeles. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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A homeless woman, who declined to give her name, eats chicken soup with a piece of bread while others wait in line for food Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. According to the annual count released in May by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles County's homeless population has increased to 57,794, a 23 percent jump from last year's count. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Sitting in front of a tent pitched on a sidewalk, Daniel Shawn, a 48-year-old homeless man, is silhouetted against the street lights Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. Since last fall, Los Angeles city and county voters approved spending $4.7 billion in an attempt to tackle the problem, largely through adding low-cost housing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY, AP PHOTOGRAPHER SHARES EXPERIENCE DOCUMENTING HOMELESSNESS, BY JAE C. HONG. See AP's coverage of the West Coast homeless crisis here.PHOTOS BY JAE C. HONG


Just a few hours drive from the Belarussian capital of Minsk, many villagers still live off the land - planting, harvesting and pickling crops according to the season and ancient folk traditions.

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Nearly 80 percent of the former Soviet nation's 9.5 million citizens live in towns and cities, but for the remainder, being close to nature can outweigh the hardships of country life.

24 APR 2017. KHRAPKOVO, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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"We're far from civilisation- and that's a good thing. I feel comfortable here," said 41-year-old Vladimir Krivenchik, who is raising a young family in his native village of Khrapkovo, close to Belarus's southern border with Ukraine.

31 AUG 2017. KHRAPKOVO, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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"We survive thanks to this scrap

of land," Krivenchik said. "You go to Minsk for half a day and your head starts to hurt and you want to go home."

Krivenchik supplements his income as a watchman at a granary by raising pigs for slaughter and hunting.

3 FEB 2017. KHRAPKOVO, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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Most villagers also grow crops close to their one-storey homes - on vegetable patches and fields that are often ploughed by horse and sown laboriously by hand.

1 SEP 2017. KHRAPKOVO, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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For 75-year old Ekaterina Panchenya, the biggest change in daily life is that young people have become more lazy.

6 MAY 2017. POGOST, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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"In the past, children didn't go out partying. They worked in the field or carried sheaves to the threshing mill," she said.

But it was "cars, noise and dirt" and the sight of city-dwellers standing in line to buy groceries that dissuaded Panchenya from leaving her smallholding in the village of Pogost.

"I do everything myself: feed the animals in the barn, the chickens in the yard, and I pickle and preserve all the vegetables. The river is nearby, the forest, mushrooms and berries in the summer. No, I'll never in my life move to town," she said.

2 FEB 2017. POGOST, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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Panchenya is also skilled in local folk traditions such as floral embroidery, a cappella choral singing and ancient pagan ceremonies, which survived the ideological white-washing of the Soviet era.

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These include a May-time ritual in honour of the pagan god Yurya, when villagers don national dress and make offerings out of colourful ribbons and paper in the hope of plentiful harvests in the future.

6 MAY 2017. POGOST, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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"I give all my strength to preserve these ceremonies and songs that make everyone cry, to give them to the young," Panchenya said.

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15 APR 2017. POGOST, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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2 FEB 2017. POGOST, BELARUS. REUTERS/VASILY FEDOSENKO

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