Environment

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Movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers the keynote address Monday at a symposium launching the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. (Associated Press)

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Residents help battle the Temprano fire in Murrieta, Calif., near Warm Springs Park and Preserve on Sept. 23, 2012. The Southern California wildfires have destroyed 20 homes and threatened several hundred more in rural areas. (Associated Press/The Press-Enterprise, Frank Bellino)

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Mary M. Cheh, chairwoman of the D.C. Council’s Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation, hopes common ground can be found with visionary sedan companies. “This council is not an enemy of innovation,” she said. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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associated press North Koreans work in the fields at Migok Cooperative Farm in Sariwon, North Hwanghae province on Sunday. Farmers would be able to keep a bigger share of their crops under proposed changes to boost production by collective farms.

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**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns Sept. 14, 2012, in the rain at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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Bodies of climbers killed in an avalanche at Mount Manaslu lie covered with numbers at the Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 24, 2012. The avalanche killed at least nine mountaineers and injured others. (Associated Press)

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North Korean farmer O Yong-ae is interviewed at her home at the Migok Cooperative Farm in Sariwon, in North Korea's Hwanghae province, on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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“Losing a piece of our territory eventually means losing the whole country,” says Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister and now one of the prime minister candidates of the Liberal Democratic Party, referring the land disputes with China in the South China Sea. (Associated Press)

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A crew works on a drilling rig at a well site for shale-based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. Though hydraulic fracturing is thought of as a relatively new technique, the federal government began funding research into it and horizontal drilling in the 1970s. (Associated Press)

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A mountain climber (center) injured in an avalanche is rescued at the base camp on Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The avalanche swept away climbers on a Himalayan peak and left at least nine dead and six others missing, officials said. (AP Photo/Simrik Air)