Environment

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Illustration on animal testing of medicines by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Frally Hynes (left) and Rain Phoenix of Venus and The Moon. (Dave Kapp)

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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 1988, file photo, a forest fire blazes out of control near West Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, Mont. Fire managers in Yellowstone National Park are curious to find out why wildfires are burning so actively in the summer of 2016, in areas that burned back in 1988. The park has called in a special federal team that studies fire behavior. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury, File)

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Residents evacuate the Elfers Parkway area of Pasco County, Fla., flooded by the overflowing Anclote River, in Elfers, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. The Anclote River northwest of Tampa was forecast to go well into major flood stage on Sunday afternoon. Emergency managers issued mandatory evacuations for some low-lying mobile home parks and apartment buildings. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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U.S. President Barack Obama listens to translation as he sits on stage during a climate change event with Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Ruyi Hall at West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Screen capture of map depicting earthquake zone from the 5.6-magnitude earthquake outside of Pawnee, Oklahoma on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 3. Via the U.S. Geological Survey website. [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#map?ShakeMap%20Stations=true&shakemapSource=us&shakemapCode=us10006jxs]

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The Fuqua Orchid Center at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. (Source: http://atlantabg.org/explore/plant-collections)

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Authorities in Florida said Thursday they have found the Zika virus in three groups of trapped mosquitoes in Miami Beach, the first time this has happened in the continental U.S. The mosquitoes were trapped in a 1.5-square-mile area of Miami Beach that had been identified as an active zone of transmission of the virus, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said in a news release. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) (Associated Press)

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Image in public domain.

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Barry Landis

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James Halsell, former astronaut, in his NASA portrait. In the public domain, via Wikipedia. Accessed Sept. 1, 2016.

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The Bengal tiger Shere Khan in "The Jungle Book," now available on Blu-ray from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

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Residents of the Lake Hills neighborhood in El Dorado Hills, California, are working to overturn a policy outlined in their community agreement that states only white people are allowed to own homes there. (Fox 40)

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Drivers move in the rain on Interstate 95 in Miami Tuesday. Expected to move north to Tampa, a tropical storm pushed the Redskins-Buccaneers game to Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Howard Jones.

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President Obama is expected to ratify the Paris climate accord by executive agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping prior to the G-20 Summit, according to reports from the South China Morning Post. (ASsociated Press)

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Drivers make their way in the rain along Interstate 95, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, in Miami. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could hit northern Florida as a tropical storm later in the week and possibly head toward the Atlantic coast. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Space explorers find planets filled with lively ecosystems in Hello Games' No Man's Sky.

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Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden said "the targets are becoming smaller and smaller for the quarterbacks, and protection is necessary for the quarterbacks but it is something that the defenders have to be aware of." (Associated Press)