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In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, female northern white rhino Fatu grazes in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. The keepers of three of the last six northern white rhinos on Earth said Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 that it is highly unlikely the three will ever reproduce naturally, with recent medical examinations of them showing the species is doomed to extinction, unless science can help. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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The Gunnison sage grouse's habitat falls across southwestern Colorado and eastern Utah, with 86 percent of the population in Colorado's Gunnison Basin. State officials argue that local efforts to boost the bird's numbers have been succeeding without federal intervention. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This July, 26, 2014 file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Greater Sage Grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. A legislative rider in Congress’ $1.1 trillion spending bill would delay protections for the wide-ranging Western bird that’s been on a collision course with the oil and gas industry. The Obama administration faced a September 2015 deadline to propose protections for greater sage grouse. But the spending package agreed to late Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 by Democrat and Republican leaders prevents the administration from spending any money next year on rules to protect the ground-dwelling bird. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tom Koerner, File)
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Delegates attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Already well into overtime, U.N. climate talks reached a standstill Saturday as developing countries rejected a draft deal they said would allow rich countries to shirk their responsibilities to fight global warming and pay for its impacts. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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The "winter blues": How to combat SAD -- seasonal affective disorder. (AP Photo)
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The USS Wyoming in Saint Marys River, 2012. (Image: U.S. Navy)
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An MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **
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LED IN: Oil pumps work Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. The price of oil struggled to advance much beyond $92 a barrel Tuesday on expectations that supplies will rise with ramped up output in Libya and the North Sea, along with more exports from Iran if a deal on its nuclear program succeeds. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the damage done by false accusations of rape by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Indian women participate in a march in "Defense of Mother Earth" in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Thousands marched in support of Mother Earth as they chanted slogans against illegal mining, and logging operations, as well as oil drilling. They asked that the exploitation of resources in their ancestral lands be stopped immediately. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Associated Press/File)
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Officials are building a new visitor's center at Walden Pond State Reservation featuring a solar canopy and two electric vehicle charging stations. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Maryland Gov.-elect Larry Hogan vowed to roll back proposed regulations that would limit phosphorus runoff from farms, siding with Eastern Shore farmers who rely on phosphorus-rich chicken manure for fertilizer. (Associated Press)
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Birds fly past at sun set as smoke emits from a chimney at a factory in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The momentum from a historic U.S.-China pact to resist global warming is showing signs of fading at the U.N. climate talks in Peru as the familiar rich-poor conflict persists over who should do what to keep the planet from overheating. The conference's high-level phase begins Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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A New Jersey legislative committee advanced four bills Monday that could expand hunting opportunities and anger animal-rights activists. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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This undated file aerial view shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal) ** FILE **
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To avoid the economic, social, environmental and human health catastrophes that would follow fossil fuel elimination, we would need affordable, reliable options on a large enough scale to replace them. Existing "renewable" technologies cannot possibly do that. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Six countries produce nearly 60 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. China and the United States combine for more than two-fifths. The planet’s future will be shaped by what these top carbon polluters do about the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop addresses a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Iraq at the United Nations headquarters. Australia will continue to directly pay for climate change adaptation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a U.N. Green Climate Fund designed for the same purpose, Bishop said Friday, Dec. 5, ahead of climate talks in Peru. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)-FILE
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In their letter to Iranian leaders, 47 Senate Republicans, led by freshman Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, told Tehran that any nuclear deal that isn't submitted to Congress — as now seems likely — would not last into the next administration and would not represent the kind of historic, lasting agreement President Obama envisions. (Associated Press)
