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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 1995 file photo, a downy woodpecker sits on a bird feeder in Calais, Vt. A scientific study being released in April 2017 found that Vermont forest birds declined by more than 14 percent over 25 years. Among those declining was the downy woodpecker. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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Sri Lankan army soldiers and rescue workers salvage belongings after houses are buried in a collapse of a garbage dump in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankans affected by a garbage dump collapse salvage their belongings in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Sri Lankans affected by a garbage dump collapse salvage their belongings in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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A Sri Lankan woman who lost her family members in a garbage dump collapse cries in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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People affected by a garbage dump collapse salvage their belongings in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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Crows fly over a row of houses buried by a collapse of a garbage dump in Meetotamulla, on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 15, 2017. A part of the garbage dump that had been used in recent years to dump the waste from capital Colombo collapsed destroying houses, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
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In this Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, Jarkko Virtanen of Helsinki, Finland, lines up a video scene along the Platte River in Wood River, Neb. (David Hendee/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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In this March 29, 2017, photo Rosebud Sioux Tribe member Eva Iyotte looks at beaded earrings and pins in White River, S.D. Iyotte said she doesn't know what she would do without an energy assistance program that faces elimination under President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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In this March 29, 2017 photo, Rosebud Sioux Tribe member Eva Iyotte discusses an energy assistance program that faces elimination under President Donald Trump in White River, S.D. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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In this March 9, 2017, photo, Dr. Katie Ringsmuth, a University of Alaska historian, poses for a photo in her Eagle River, Alaska, home. Tundra Vision, Ringsmuth's public history consulting venture, organizes a popular history lecture series in Anchorage and Chugiak-Eagle River. (Kirsten Swann/Chugiak-Eagle River Star via AP)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017, a caged bird is seen at the home Alvin Lea in the community of Hardwick in the San Joaquin Valley where drought has yet to loosen its grip on some residents near Hanford, Calif. Lea spent $17,000 to dig a new well when his ran dry. Some neighbors are still living on emergency tanks even after state officials lifted the drought emergency for much California. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017, Alvin Lea looks at his birds at his home in the community of Hardwick in the San Joaquin Valley where drought has yet to loosen its grip on some residents near Hanford, Calif. Lea spent $17,000 to dig a new well when his ran dry. Some neighbors are still living on emergency tanks even after state officials lifted the drought emergency for much California. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017, birds fly over the Kings River swollen with water from rain and melting snow in the Sierra Nevada near Hanford, Calif. State officials have lifted the drought emergency for much of the state, but drought has yet to loosen its grip on thousands of resident in the San Joaquin Valley where domestic wells have run dry, forcing them to wash and flush toilets with water from tanks next to their homes. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017 boxes of bottled drinking water are seen in Hardwick, a small community in the San Joaquin Valley, where drought has yet to loosen its grip on some residents near Hanford, Calif. State officials lifted the drought emergency for much California, but thousands of people are still living on an water tanks and bottled water provided through a state emergency fund because their wells went dry. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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In this photo taken April 10, 2017, is David Miguel at his home in the community of Hardwick in the San Joaquin Valley where drought has yet to loosen its grip on some residents near Hanford, Calif. State officials lifted the drought emergency for much California, but thousands of people like Miguel still live on water tanks because their wells ran dry. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
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Pilot Brandon Wynn looks at his aircraft in the parking lot of Fiddler's Green Golf Center north of Eugene, Ore., after making an emergency landing, Friday, April 14, 2017. The Register-Guard reported the Vans RV12 plane landed on State Highway 99 North Friday afternoon after the pilot reported a problem with the plane's oil pressure. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP)
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Calgary Flames' Troy Brouwer (36) is defended by Anaheim Ducks' Kevin Bieksa (2) and Logan Shaw (48) as Ducks goalie John Gibson falls to the ice trying to stop a shot during the third period in Game 1 of a first-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Anaheim, Calif. The Ducks won 3-2. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A section of Proctor Creek flows through an old welding plant in Atlanta, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Growing up, Mark Teixeira loved playing at a park near his home. Now, he's trying to bring those same opportunities to an impoverished area in his second home. Hopefully the retired baseball star will lead others to become eco-athletes, lending their considerable influence and financial power to one of the world's most pressing issues: preserving the environment. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Garbage litters a section of Proctor Creek that flows through an old welding plant in Atlanta, Thursday, April 13, 2017. Growing up, Mark Teixeira loved playing at a park near his home. Now, he's trying to bring those same opportunities to an impoverished area in his second home. Hopefully the retired baseball star will lead others to become eco-athletes, lending their considerable influence and financial power to one of the world's most pressing issues: preserving the environment. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
