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The unpredictability of floods, chronic pollution issues, shifting climate norms and interference caused by Chinese dams are creating severe woes for Vietnamese farmers growing rice, a staple crop of the Southeast Asian country's diet. (Associated Press)
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He's talking to Taiwan! (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)
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The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is lit up during a ceremony on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. The Capitol Christmas Tree is an 80-foot Engelmann Spruce from the Payette National Forest in Idaho. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016, file photo pedestrians carry umbrellas as they cross Powell Street and cable car tracks in San Francisco. State officials said Tuesday, Dec. 6 that Californians did a good job of saving water in October, a month of heavy rain falling amid ongoing drought. State regulators say cities improved water conservation by nearly 20 percent compared to 2013, before the declaration of a drought emergency. (Paul Chinn /San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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This Nov. 4, 2016 photo shows a massive Christmas tree covered in lights outside The Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C. Lonely Planet has named Asheville the No. 1 destination on its 10 best in the U.S. list for 2017.(LeeAnn Donnelly/The Biltmore via AP)
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FILE- In this April 29, 2011, file photo, Huston Walters, a sophomore at the University of Alabama from Navarre, Fla., takes a break from cleaning up at his home in the Forest Lake neighborhood after a tornado struck the area. For college administrators, extreme weather is yet another hazard to prepare and practice for on a list that includes infectious disease outbreaks, active shooters and technological outages. (Michelle Lepianka Carter/The Tuscaloosa News via AP, File)
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James Logan, a Northern Arapaho Native American from Wyoming and pipeline protester, warms himself by a fire. Activists have vowed to stay in the camps, even after the Obama administration blocked the pipeline, and the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has asked non-native protestors to leave. (Associated Press)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 photo shows trailers in the Hartsel Springs Ranches area near Hartsel, Colo. A wave of recent settlers have transformed the outskirts of this gritty mountain outpost 65 miles west of Colorado Springs. RVs, Tuff Sheds and nylon tents where they live without electricity or running water have come to dominate the mountain-capped vistas that surround the unincorporated area. (Stacie Scott/The Gazette via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 3 - In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 photo, Aspen Skiing Company's management co-director Brad Hardman poses in his office in Aspen, Colo., Hardman he has helped to reduce potable water use by hundreds of thousands of gallons at the company's four ski resorts. The skiing company's model for water conservation at on-mountain facilities could help the town of Aspen, Colo., avoid the construction of dams in the future. (Anna Stonehouse/The Aspen Times via AP)
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Crews work to clear a fallen tree off a teachers' car outside Orange High School in Orange, Calif., Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. Cold Santa Ana winds swept across Southern California on Friday, raising danger of wildfires and toppling trees onto cars, at least one home and onto a busy freeway just ahead of rush hour. (Kevin Sullivan/The Orange County Register via AP)
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Smoke billows from the remains of a home on the northern outskirts of Gatlinburg, Tenn., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. A devastating wildfire destroyed numerous homes and buildings on Monday. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP)
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People dump illegal waste at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest encampment. (Photo from North Dakota Department of Health).
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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)
