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The Hall of Extinction and Hope analogizes manmade climate change and habitat destruction to a slow-moving asteroid that has already obliterated species such as the passenger pigeon, dodo and great auk.

In June, a UN independent international commission of inquiry said Israel had "obliterated Gaza's education system".

Loyalty is rewarded, dissent is punished and the line between reporter and political operative is obliterated.

Mansions with picturesque views of the Pacific Ocean were obliterated into charred slabs of stucco, broken concrete and dust.

After almost two years of war, triggered by the Hamas attacks of October 2023, much of the territory has been obliterated.