Environment

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The Eiffel Tower lights up Sunday with the slogan "Action Now" for the COP 21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. Negotiators adopted a draft climate agreement Saturday that was cluttered with brackets and competing options, leaving ministers with the job of untangling key sticking points in what is envisioned to become a lasting, universal pact to fight global warming. (Associated Press)

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The Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit project comes in answer to a lack of public transportation in the crowded Ethiopian capital. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the recent Paris climate change conference by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, houseboats float in the drought-lowered waters of Oroville Lake near Oroville, Calif. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, the Department of Water Resources reported that Lake Oroville, the State Water Project's principal reservoir, is dipping toward its record low set in 1977. Public water agencies that serve millions of residents in drought-weary California might only receive 10 percent of expected supplies in 2016 _ half of the amount that flowed to them this year through the state’s massive system of reservoirs and canals, state officials say. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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Developed for ship-to-ship combat, it's heavily armed and armored enough to lead assaults:

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One of the largest and most powerful Imperial vessels ever created, this ship served as the personal flagship of Darth Vader:

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The clamshell-like outer hull of this ship protects personnel and equipment on the inside:

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This moon shaped space station was the Empire's ultimate weapon:

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A gyroscopic control system keeps the pilot of this ship upright at all times:

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Considered a medium-weight warship, this dagger shaped ship usually brings heavy firepower:

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Built to keep the peace in Bespin, each of these vehicles has a pilot and a gunner:

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This enormous, donut-shaped vessel was originally built to haul cargo between planets:

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In this Nov. 10, 2015 photo, trash litters Rodrigo de Freitas Lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new round of testing by The Associated Press shows the city’s Olympic waterways are as rife with pathogens far offshore as they are nearer land, where raw sewage flows into them from fetid rivers and storm drains. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)