Environment

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Fargo artist Stevie Famulari works on the project at a greenhouse in Fargo, N.D. Famulari, a New York City native who teaches landscape architecture at North Dakota State University, has created five wearable garments made from plants that grow, flower, and reseed themselves. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

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**FILE** Two young women smoke April 21, 2012, outside a bar in the central London area of Soho. (Associated Press)

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A Sunni gunman fires in a front of burned car on Sunday, May 13, 2012, during a clash in Tripoli, Lebanon. (AP Photo)

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Houston-area attorney Joe Gutheinz looks through a microscope at rock particles that Rafael Navarro (left), a former Colombian toy manufacturer, contends are pieces of moon rock that he wants to sell. (Associated Press)

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A worker prepares a tomato field for planting at K&D Farmers near Oneonta, Ala., on Thursday. The farm is among the operations in Alabama where farmers are cutting back on production because of labor uncertainties. (Associated Press)

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A Sunni gunman fires during clashes in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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President Obama greets people May 11, 2012, on the tarmac upon arrival at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nev. (Associated Press)

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Closer study by scientists of the gashed surface of the asteroid Vesta between Mars and Jupiter determined two massive overlapping craters on the surface were likely caused by smaller objects, possibly other asteroids, hitting Vesta. (Associated Press)

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Tomari Nuclear Power Plant is located in northern Japan. Its No. 3 unit, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline Saturday night for mandatory maintenance. The earthquake-triggered Fukushima nuclear plant crisis 14 months ago has prompted Japan to consider shifting to solar, hydro and wind power sources. (Associated Press)

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A demonstrator shows her approval of the shutdown of Tomari Nuclear Power Plant during a protest rally last Sunday in Tokyo. Japan is now without electricity produced by nuclear power for the first time in four decades. (Associated Press)

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The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a nonprofit that monitors the Iranian nuclear program, published May 9, 2012, on its website this satellite photo of Iran's Parchin military base. (Courtesy of isis-online.org)