Environment

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Al Gore wants to see more action on climate change from President Obama. “Our democracy has been hacked,” he says.

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Joel Biddle, a Key West, Fla., resident who contracted dengue fever, opposes a plan to release genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to control the spread of the disease. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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**FILE** President Obama is greeted Oct. 31, 2012, by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon his arrival at Atlantic City International Airport in Atlantic City, N.J. Obama traveled to the region to take an aerial tour of the Atlantic Coast in New Jersey in areas damaged by superstorm Sandy. (Associated Press)

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Van Metre Homes is building 76 single-family homes at Village Run at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Manchester model, which has 3,132 square feet, is priced from $542,990.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis, here in 1995, is docked with the Russian space station Mir as the two spacecraft orbit the Earth. NASA looks lost in space and without a clear sense of where the agency is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts said in a critical report released Wednesday. (NASA via Associated Press)

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“I think Americans understand why clean energy is important and what the role of government is in helping make sure ... that the country gets the benefits of it.” - Arno Harris, chairman of the Solar Energy Industries Association and CEO of Recurrent Energy. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Natal Lion Park in Camperdown, near Durban, South Africa, is a haven for lions and other animals native to Africa. The lion population in the wild is decreasing.

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A lioness walking through the tall grass in the Phinda Private Game Reserve, near Hluhluwe, South Africa. An ever-growing human population has moved into savannah lands to settle and develop the areas where lions roam. (Associated Press)

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This artist rendering released by NASA shows the twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow orbiting the moon. The duo found evidence that the moon’s interior is more battered than previously thought and the crust is thinner than expected. (Associated Press/NASA)

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Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck shown playing at the Newport Jazz Festival August 23, 1981, Newport, RI. (AP Photo/Paul Mello)

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** File ** Tony Bennett performs with Dave Brubeck at George Wein's Carefusion Newport Jazz 55 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. (Associated Press)

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Filipinos cross a river in the flash-flood-hit village of Andap in the Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest typhoons to hit the country this year, barreled across the nation's south on Tuesday, killing scores of people while triggering landslides and flooding and cutting off power in two entire provinces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)