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Volunteers deliver boxes carrying thousands of signed petitions in support of the Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservations Act outside the offices of the Michigan Secretary of State on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 in Lansing. Supporters delivered over 350,00 signatures in the boxes for the Citizens for Professional Wildlife Management citizen initiative that is designed to stave off a ban on hunting wolves. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Dale G. Young)
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In this April 29, 2014 photo, Joe Cione, who studies how storms interact with the ocean at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Research Division in Miami, displays a drone he hopes to use this hurricane season for research. NOAA researchers plan to test five or six drones in the peak of hurricane season that will be transmitting data that could help forecasters understand what makes some storms fizzle while others strengthen into monsters. ( AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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FILE - This Oct. 5, 2011 file satellite photo provided by NASA shows algae blooms on Lake Erie. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces a new program under which the federal government will spend $1.2 billion over five years supporting conservation projects designed by universities, private companies, nonprofits and other local partners. An April, 2013, study said the warming climate and modern farming practices are creating ideal conditions for gigantic algae formations on Lake Erie. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
