Environment

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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the Our Ocean, One Future conference at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. The conference focuses on marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate-related impacts on the ocean. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Former President George W. Bush speaks during an energy conference at the Bush Institute in Dallas, Sept. 12, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Marijuana plants are displayed at the Oregon Cannabis Growers' Fair in Salem, Oregon, on Aug. 16. (Associated Press)

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PSG's Marquinhos, right, challenges for the ball with Arsenal's Olivier Giroud during the Champions League group A soccer match group between Paris Saint Germain and Arsenal at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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If we only had a dime for every lie you've told ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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This an undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on Dec. 1, 1955, and ignited the boycott that led to a federal court ruling against segregation in public transportation. (Associated Press)

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David Key looks at the back yard of his flooded home in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned today to assess the damage. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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Kim Jong-un (Associated Press)

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Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller take part in a Change.org video on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. (Change.org)

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Image in public domain.

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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)