Environment

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People dump illegal waste at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest encampment. (Photo from North Dakota Department of Health).

This undated photo provided by the Hawaii Tourism Authority shows banyan tree branches in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. A banyan was planted here in 1873 in Lahaina, to mark 50 years since the arrival of the first American Protestant mission. The tree spread by aerial roots, creating new tree trunks when the roots sink into the ground. (Tor Johnson/Hawaii Tourism Authority via AP)

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File - In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, file photo, a black-footed ferret looks out of a crate used to take it to a site to be let loose during a release of 30 of the animals by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at a wildlife refuge outside Denver one year after they were released there. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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A playground is seen in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. A massive shelter has finally been installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world. The half-cylinder-shaped shelter began being moved toward the reactor on a system of hydraulic jacks two weeks ago and reached its destination Tuesday, a significant step toward liquidating the remains of the world's worst nuclear accident, 30 years ago in what is now Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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The monument to the victims of the Chernobyl tragedy is in front of a new shelter installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. A massive shelter has finally been installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A Marine gives orders to his team during a training exercise in Sabah Province, Malaysia, Nov. 13, 2016. (Instagram, U.S. Marine Corps)

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This undated photo provided by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game shows Caribou in the Western Arctic in Alaska. The size of an Arctic caribou herd in Alaska has been cut in half in just the last three years, and researchers are trying to understand why. (Jim Dau/Alaska Department of Fish and Game via AP)

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In this Nov. 1, 2016 photo, Keith Fisher of the Nature Conservancy shows colleague Abigail Strassman the start of the Cheat River Canyon near Albright, West Virginia. The conservancy and other environmentalists joined with the state to buy the canyon and its eight-mile stretch of the once badly polluted river. (AP Photo/Michael Virtanen)

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, photo, a cows are seen feeding at the New Hope Dairy in Galt, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills. New Hope Dairy, which has about 1,500 cows, installed a $4 million methane digester in 2013, thanks to a state grant and a partnership with the local utility, which operates the system to generate renewable power for the grid. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Fire erupts on the side of The Spur on Highway 441 between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. In Gatlinburg, smoke and fire caused the mandatory evacuation of downtown and surrounding areas, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. (Jessica Tezak/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)

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Health officials investigate a chicken farm in Sekikawa village, Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, after a highly contagious avian flu strain in poultry was detected, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Japanese health authorities confirmed Tuesday the highly virulent H5 strain was detected in poultry in two prefectures, Niigata and Aomori, with culling of hundreds of thousands of birds starting at the affected farms. (Yukie Nishizawa/Kyodo News via AP)

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The image provided by the European Space Agency ESA on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, shows the Millennium Tower in San Francisco on the base of modified Copernicus Sentinel satellite data. The European Space Agency has released satellite data that shows the skyscraper in San Francisco's financial district continuing to sink at a steady rate, and perhaps faster than previously known. The colored dots represent targets observed by the radar. The colour scale ranges from 40 mm a year away from radar (red) to 40 mm a year towards radar (blue). Green represents stable targets. (ESA SEOM INSARAP study/ESA via AP)

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The truck loading ramp at the Interisland Ferry wharf lays dropped and broken, in Wellington Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, after a major earthquake struck New Zealand's south Island early Monday. The powerful earthquake struck in a mostly rural area close to the city of Christchurch but appeared to be more strongly felt in the capital, Wellington, more than 200 Km (120 miles) away. (Ross Setford/SNPA via AP)

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Crews work the Party Rock Fire near Lake Lure Friday afternoon, Nov. 11, 2016. A forest fire has crossed its containment line, forcing more evacuations in western North Carolina. State and federal fire officials say portions of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure communities are now under evacuation orders due to the Party Rock Fire. (Patrick Sullivan /The Times-News via AP)

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This image made from video shows Antelope Island recovering after a wildfire scorched more than half the island, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. (Winston Armani/The Deseret News via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, NOV. 13-14 - This Oct. 27, 2016 photo, shows a Bristlecone pines under Nevad's Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park, Nev. The bristlecone pine is not only the world’s longest-lived organism, but it is also virtually immune to the pine beetle attacks that are decimating conifer forests around the West, according to new research from Utah State University and the U.S. Forest Service. (Brian Maffly/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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Hawaii guard Leland Green cuts under the SIU Edwardsville defense during the first half of the NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

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North Carolina's M.J. Stewart (6) tackles Duke's T.J. Rahming (3) as North Carolina's Andre Smith jumps during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Anaheim Ducks' Corey Perry (10) and Ryan Kesler (17) battle for the puck in front of Carolina Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward (30) with Hurricanes' Jaccob Slavin (74) and Ron Hainsey (65) providing support during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)