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Russia is a tale of two ecological stories. East of the central Ural Mountains, taiga forests and horizon spanning steppes are healthy and intact, falling in the Nature Could Reach Half category. To the west, the land is severely degraded, falling into the Imperiled category.

Magadan, Russia. Photo by Artem Kovalev.

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