Environment

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Lam Jibola, right, pulls a plastic sheet over the broken back window of a car in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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Clean up crews work to clear debris from the area near Newton St. and 54th Avenue that was hit by a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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The roof of an apartment building near was destroyed in Bladensburg, Md after a storm on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)

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Rubble smolders Sunday from a home consumed by fire a day earlier in Estes Park, Colo. Eight wildfires are burning across Colorado, with temperatures near 100 degrees and gusty winds fueling flames in tinder-dry conditions. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this image made from the monitor at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (center), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang celebrate aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft after a successful manual docking between the spacecraft and the Tiangong-1 lab module on Sunday, June 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua)

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This NOAA satellite image taken on Saturday, June 23, 2012, shows shower and thunderstorm activity developing around an area of low pressure spinning in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

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Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)

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Environmental activists, one portraying Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff holding a banner symbolizing "dirty money" made from fossil fuel subsidies, protest on the final day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech June 22, 2012, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks June 22, 2012, at the NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials) conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Associated Press)

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Residents of New Delhi are paying the toll of an unprecedented water shortage as a result of the destruction of natural sources such as the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers. Top left: In some parts of China, those who must venture outside need heavy protection against raging sandstorms, which are blamed on a mentality of growth at any cost. (Associated Press)

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Residents of New Delhi are paying the toll of an unprecedented water shortage as a result of the destruction of natural sources such as the Ganga and the Yamuna rivers. In some parts of China, those who must venture outside need heavy protection against raging sandstorms, which are blamed on a mentality of growth at any cost. (Associated Press)

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Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses June 20, 2012, for a photo at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro. (Associated Press)