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In this photo taken May 7, 2014, Mary Linders, a conservation biologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, poses for a photo in a prairie area used for live-fire exercises at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., that also happens to be one of the few areas in the country where the federally listed endangered Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly lives. The Army has been working to boost the numbers of the butterflies, in part because the presence of the insect could impact current training practices. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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National Edition Opinion cover for May 23, 2014 - Chilling the melting Antarctic hysteria (Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times)
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U.S. Forest Service firefighting crews work hotspots Thursday May 22, 2014 near Sedona, Ariz .The human-caused Slide Fire started Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Vyto Starinskas)
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Businessman Tom Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager turned climate-change hard-liner whose fortune stems in part from investments in the fossil-fuel industry, has pledged to donate $50 million and raise $50 million on behalf of four Democratic Senate and three gubernatorial candidates. (Associated Press)
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John Rheinbolt, of the Western Defense Systems private contractor, works on pulling pine needles and other ground clutter away from a home as the Slide Fire burns nearby on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Kachina Village, Ariz. The fire, which has burned approximately 4,800 acres, is 3 to 3 1/2 miles away from the residential areas of Forest Highlands and Kachina Village, where the 3,200 residents remain under pre-evacuation warnings. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
