Environment

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** FILE ** The sun rises behind the construction site of a housing project among the haze clouding the skyline of Shenyang, China, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (Associated Press)

Two U.S. Marines fill out research consent forms before taking psychological tests at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Sept. 29, 2009. The U.S. government is testing hundreds of Marines and soldiers before they ship out, in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and collected on Thursday, May 14, 2009, shows the area in which North Korea reportedly conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday, May 25, 2009, located about 50 miles northwest of the northern city of Kilju, North Korea, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said on state-run Rossiya television. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)

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The dashboard on the new Sonata Hybrid displays not only gas levels, but economy and electric motor information at the New York International Auto Show in New York, Thursday, April 1, 2010. The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, April 1, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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South Koreans watch a television screen showing undated file footage of a South Korean Navy ship near the disputed waters off South Korea's west coast, at a railway station in Seoul on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. The two Koreas briefly exchanged naval fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, with a North Korean ship suffering heavy damage before retreating, South Korean military officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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Activists dressed as polar bears stage a protest at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, on behalf of humans who are being hit hard by climate change. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

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Illustration: Good Friday.

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This file photo shows South Korea lifting the remaining half of the Cheonan from the Yellow Sea waters off Baengnyeong Island in April 2010. On March 26, 2010, the naval warship sank after a mysterious explosion that left 46 sailors dead. On July 9, 2010, investigators from South Korea, the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Sweden concluded that it was struck by a torpedo of North Korean origin. (Yonhap via Associated Press)

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**FILE** A container for birth-control pills designed to look like a woman's compact is displayed. (Associated Press)

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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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A man looks at a broken section of Iceland's main coastal ring road near Reykjavik on after a volcanic eruption caused ice to melt and river levels to rise by up to 10 feet. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** European Union flags fly at half-mast in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Monday, April 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

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An image of the annular solar eclipse is seen on a shadow falling on the ground formed by a bifocal spectacle in Bangalore, India, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) ** FILE **

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This artist rendering shows NASA's next generation of moon rockets being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Preliminary work on two Ares spacecraft has already cost NASA $7 billion.

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China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, was jubilant after the capsule door was opened after his 21-hour space flight in October 2003. China could put someone on the moon within a decade.

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A Bureau of Land Management helicopter rounds up wild horses near Cold Creek, Nev., in June 2002. A similar operation is under way to capture about 2,500 wild horses in the next two months. (Associated Press)

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The green economy means the transformation of the nation's energy infrastructure from today's heavy reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuels to a much stronger embrace of clean, renewable forms of energy. (Mark Fenton/Bread for the World)

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associated press Snow-covered traffic lights caused a fatal accident during a snowstorm in Oswego, Ill., in April. The problem stemmed from replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient ones, which aren't hot enough to melt the snow.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Bo Burns (above and below) works at K&B Timberworks Inc., a recently reopened mill in Reserve, N.M., which was without one after 1990. The owner says the mill's future depends on federal contracts to thin forestland for wildfire prevention, funded in part by a federal timber law that has been extended beyond its original intent of helping communities hard hit by environmental restrictions on logging.

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A program to return the Mexican gray wolf, endangered in the U.S., back into the wild along the Arizona-New Mexico border has produced a decade of frustration and little resolution. (Associated Press)