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North Korean soldiers stand guard at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two halves of the Korean Peninsula at Panmunjom, North Korea. The building in the background stands in the South. (Associated Press)

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A plate of pancakes with blueberries and granola mixed in the batter is displayed in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)

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Robert Ward displays on April 25, 2012, one of two pieces of a meteorite he found at a park in Lotus, Calif. The meteor was probably about the size of a minivan when it entered the Earth's atmosphere three days earlier with a loud boom at about 8 a.m. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Ulysses Dublin, one of four full-time Massport wildlife technicians, fires a nonlethal pyrotechnic round from a standard shotgun to disperse birds from the runways and surrounding areas at Boston's Logan International Airport in January 2009. (AP Photo/Pool, John Tlumacki)

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Sandbags sit stacked along the seawall in Kivalina, Alaska, in September 2007. The island town has accused a handful of mostly U.S. energy companies of contributing to global warming though greenhouse gas emissions, which it says has rendered the town uninhabitable. (Associated Press)

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The eroding bank of the Ninglick River at Newtok, Alaska, has long been a problem for the village 480 miles west of Anchorage and other Alaska communities. Erosion is attacking Kivalina as well as Newtok so rapidly that residents could be forced to seek refuge elsewhere. (Associated Press)

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The Alaskan island town of Kivalina argues that companies "knew or should have known of the impacts of their emissions on global warming." (Associated Press)

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"Preventing a nuclear Iran may tragically require a military solution," says Sen. Marco Rubio. (Associated Press)

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David Dobs, of Cumming, Ga., had a request to install solar panels on his home's roof denied after neighborhood officials said the panels would look out of place. "It's like living under communism," Mr. Dobs said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Al Armendariz, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 administrator, speaks at a town-hall meeting in 2010. (Courtesy of YouTube)

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**FILE** A penguin appears in Antarctica during the southern hemisphere's summer season in 2006. (Associated Press)

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Donald Trump gives evidence April 25, 2012, to the Scottish Parliament's Economy Energy and Tourism Committee in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Associated Press/Scottish Parliament)