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There are over 30 years between these amazing before-and-after photos.

"It's important for me for my photography to make people smile."

All photos by Chris Porsz/REX/Shutterstock.

Before and after photos separated by 30 years.

This article originally appeared on 11.30.16

Chris Porsz was tired of studying sociology.

As a university student in the 1970s, he found the talk of economics and statistics completely mind-numbing. So instead, he says, he roamed the streets of his hometown of Peterborough, England, with a camera in hand, snapping pictures of the people he met and listening to their stories. To him, it was a far better way to understand the world.

He always looked for the most eccentric people he could find, anyone who stood out from the crowd. Sometimes he'd snap a single picture of that person and walk away. Other times he'd have lengthy conversations with these strangers.

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She decided to put her photography skills and her daughter's sleeping skills together to create some adorable works of art.

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Mom is finding time to still be creative.

This article originally appeared on 09.14.16

When Laura Izumikawa was pregnant with her daughter, Joey, her friends who had kids warned her life as she knew it would change once Joey was born.

In some ways, this was true. After Joey was born, Laura's stress levels rose, and her "me time" diminished significantly.

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Ah, the beauty in winding down.

"It's important for me for my photography to make people smile."

Chris Porsz was tired of studying sociology.

Then, a few years ago, Porsz found those 30- to 40-year-old photos and sent them to be printed in his local newspaper.

Many were eager to recreate the old shots as best they could, like Layla Gordon, who Porsz originally photographed drinking milk in 1983.

Others groups, like these schoolgirls, had fallen out of touch. "Reunions," fittingly enough, brought them back together.

Porsz says that his subjects, like this wild-haired couple, were strangers to him 30 years ago. Now he considers many of them friends.

She decided to put her photography skills and her daughter's sleeping skills together to create some adorable works of art.

When Laura Izumikawa was pregnant with her daughter, Joey, her friends who had kids warned her life as she knew it would change once Joey was born.

So she decided to put her photography skills and her daughter's sleeping skills together to create some adorable works of art to commemorate Joey's infancy and ultimately unwind from the stresses of new parenthood.

1. She's been a tourist on Hawaii.

2. And won a gold medal in her sleep.

So how does Laura do all this without waking her baby? Simple, she does the arm flinch test to make sure Joey's totally out, then, ever so carefully, starts to put props around her.

3. The fierce Beyoncé.

4. Sia in her famous eye-hiding wig.

5. Slash from Guns and Roses.

6. Furiosa from "Mad Max: Fury Road."

7. The lost, but not forgotten Barb from "Stranger Things."

8. Leia from "Star Wars" with her dad.

9. "It's Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!"

10. The Princess Bride "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to ... (snores)."

11. "The hills are alive..."

At the end of the day, parenting can be exhausting. If you can find a way to smile or laugh through it, you're doing pretty great.

Our world is changing every day.

NASA satellites continually monitor the Earth, snapping photos and sending information to researchers on the ground.

1. In May 2016, NASA's satellites picked up the devastating 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire.

2. The satellites also captured how landscapes eventually recover from fires, like in Yellowstone.

3. They saw drought shrink Utah's Great Salt Lake over the last 30 years ...

4. And they showed the Mississippi pouring over its banks in March 2016.

5. In West Virginia, surface mining reshaped mountaintops.

6. In Washington state, the Oso mudslide changed the Earth back in 2014.

7. In Louisiana, sediment carried by water created new land.

8. The images show Hurricane Isaac touching down in Louisiana.

9. And warming temperatures shrink Alaska's Columbia Glacier.

10. Meanwhile, our cities grew and expanded, like this image of San Antonio, Texas, shows.

The world — and our country — is constantly changing, and we play a part in that.

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UNESCO has officially removed the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, the world's second largest barrier reef, from its list of endangered world heritage sites.

The reef is home to several threatened species who now have a fighting chance.

There's so much more work still to be done, but this is a huge victory.