Environment

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A plume of smoke rises behind homes from the Waldo Canyon Fire west of Colorado Springs on Wednesday. "It was like looking at the worst movie set you could imagine," Gov. John Hickenlooper said after flying over the 9-square-mile fire late Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Indian ringneck parakeets fly over Le Jardin du Roi spice garden at moonrise on the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles, and one rests on a bamboo branch there. The birds, which first appeared in the Seychelles in the 1970s, are pretty to see but are marked for eradication because they carry a disease that could be fatal to native black parrots. (Associated Press)

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Indian ringneck parakeets fly over Le Jardin du Roi spice garden at moonrise on the main island of Mahe in the Seychelles, and one rests on a bamboo branch there. The birds, which first appeared in the Seychelles in the 1970s, are pretty to see but are marked for eradication because they carry a disease that could be fatal to native black parrots. (Associated Press)

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In this photo released by SANA, the Syrian official news agency, the damaged Ikhbariya TV compound is seen June 27, 2012, after it was attacked by gunmen in in the town of Drousha, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Damascus. (Associated Press/SANA)

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**FILE** This 2006 photo provided by Rice University shows defensive back Dale Lloyd, who died Sept. 25, 2006, after collapsing during a football workout in Houston. (Associated Press/Rice University)

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The container ship Ville D'Aquarius is docked at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. The U.S. Coast Guard suspects that stowaways may be in one of the containers on the ship. (AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Reena Rose Sibayan)

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Tanzanian officials speak with survivors of an incident where more than forty people suffocated to death in a truck container near Chitego Forest, about 80 miles east of the capital Dodoma, in Tanzania. Tanzania lies on a smuggling route Africans use to travel to South Africa, where there are more economic opportunities. (Associated Press)