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This March, 2012 photo provided by SolTribe shows Joe Shark, 29, a resident of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, cuts a tree infested with mountain pine beetles in South Dakota's Custer State Park as part of the Lakota Logging Project. The pine beetle epidemic has grown so large that Native Americans _ historically opposed to the logging industry _ are beginning to become loggers themselves for the greater good of saving the non-infected trees and putting the marred dead ones to use. (AP Photo/SolTribe, Struever McConnell)
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Participants gather at a rally protesting against the usage of nuclear energy in Tokyo Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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The Titanoboa exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History features video interviews about the discovery of fossils of the largest snake species known to have existed on the planet (which researchers are comparing to finding Tyranosaurus Rex), as well as illustrations.
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The two-level homes feature hardwood flooring, oak stairs, recessed lighting and custom-designed crown molding.
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Van Metre Homes is building 53 single-family homes at Marrwood at Stone Ridge in Aldie. The Prescott model, with 3,627 square feet, is priced from $629,990.
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Residents try to extinguish fires in the smoldering remains of a market in Rubkona near Bentiu in South Sudan after an attack by Sudanese aircraft on April 23. A massive humanitarian crisis, triggered by the conflict and heightened by an approaching rainy season, is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people along the Sudan-South Sudan border. (Associated Press)
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William J. Bosanko, NARA's Executive for Agency Services, said officials are searching for missing boxes. (Associated Press)
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Rail cars transport coal to energy providers across the U.S. Environmentalists are trying to keep the fossil fuel inside the nation's borders and take responsibility for carbon emissions. (Associated Press)
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Barges filled with coal and wells pumping natural gas give the U.S. enough fuel to export to burgeoning markets in Asia, but proposals to build a natural gas liquefaction and export plant in Maryland and coal export facilities in the Pacific Northwest have raised environmental concerns about the global use of fossil fuels. (Associated Press)
