Environment

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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.

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)

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FILE - In this July 21, 2016, file photo, the sun sets beyond visitors to Liberty Memorial as the temperature hovers around 100 degrees in Kansas City, Mo. It’s as if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump live on two entirely different Earths: one warming, one not. Clinton says climate change “threatens us all,” while Trump tweets that global warming is “mythical” and repeatedly refers to it as a “hoax.” Measurements and scientists say Clinton’s Earth is much closer to reality. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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We've determined what started the massive fires ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)

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In this Aug. 25, 2016 photo, debris from gutted homes line the streets of Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

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prized: Ronald Reagan is considered to be one of the fascinating presidents, with heavy interest in his personal memorabilia. Items such as a signed fragment of the Berlin Wall, a marine chronometer from Frank and Barbara Sinatra and a football from his "Gipper" days are among hundreds of lots expected to raise more than $2 million for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. (Associated Press)

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FILE - This handout photo, taken Aug. 17, 2005, file photo, provided by the US Geological Survey/Princeton University shows an American pika. A new study shows populations of the rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the West as climate change alters habitat. The U.S. Geological Survey research unveiled Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, found ranges of the mountain-dwelling herbivore are decreasing in southern Utah, northeastern California and in the Great Basin that covers most of Nevada. (Shana S. Weber/USGS, Princeton University via AP)

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 photo, thousands of dead and decaying fish are washing ashore as they float up Waackaack Creek on the morning tide in Keansburg, N.J. State environmental officials say the scores of dead peanut bunker fish were likely chased into the Raritan Bay by other fish. Once there, they apparently were killed off by low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water. (Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP)