Environment

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The Gulf of Mexico has been a drilling hub for so long that much of the easily recoverable fuel is gone, analysts say. (Associated Press/File)

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** FILE ** Dolphins swim in the Navesink River, near the Shrewsbury, in Sea Bright, N.J., on June 24, 2008. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dolphins swim in the Shrewsbury River, in Sea Bright, N.J., on Tuesday. Wildlife officials are trying to coax the 12 to 14 bottlenose dolphins out to the open waters of Sandy Hook Bay and then the ocean.

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**FILE** This undated image released in April 2008 shows what U.S. intelligence officials said was a Syrian nuclear reactor being built with North Korean help. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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** FILE ** The battered women at the shelter rely on one another for companionship, having been rejected by their families. A common punishment in Pakistan, should they return home, is being burned with acid. An official at Human Rights Watch stressed that more burn units are critical.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, discusses the environment and climate change Friday on Capitol Hill during a news conference. Mrs. Boxer is the lead sponsor of a failed bill that addresses global warming.

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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images An Amish horse-drawn buggy is parked in near Intercourse, Pa. Amish farmer Andy Swartzentruber and school elder Sam Yoder say they will not comply with state codes that govern how they handle outhouse waste. The county is demanding the Amish men install a holding tank instead of dumping it onto fields.

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** FILE ** This file photo from October 2008 shows a coal-fired power plant in Colstrip, Mont., the state's largest producer of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. (Associated Press)

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Allison Shelley/The Washington Times Volvo dealer Don Beyer (right) and Gary Skulnik of Clean Currents of Rockville, flanked by mascot Bumble the Bee yesterday in Falls Church, announced a new carbon-offset program at Mr. Beyer's four Northern Virginia locations.

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Heiko Schuster, development engineer of the solar technology company Sulfurcell cleaned solar panels atop the company's headquarters in Berlin. The Algerian government's solar energy project is in its early stage and faces daunting financial and technological obstacles.

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** FILE ** For 10 years, a group of researchers have been training a species of giant African rats to sniff out land mines and unexploded ordnance. "When people see they can use these animals for humanitarian purposes, it changes their perception," said Bart Weetjens, whose nonprofit group, Apopo, has pioneered the use of the African or Gambian giant pouched rat in mine detection.