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Images from outer space highlight the fragility - and the resilience - of our beautiful planet.
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Pricier gas ahead? White House urges cleaner fuel and emissions
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Obama administration says rules would equal taking 33 million cars off U.S. roads; industry groups say costs could rise.
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At inauguration, Pope Francis appeals for protection of poor, environment
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Pope Francis issued an appeal for the protection of the weak, the poor and the world environment Tuesday at a special Mass marking his inauguration as the new leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
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Thousands rally in D.C. against Keystone Pipeline
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Thousands of protesters took to the National Mall on Sunday for a climate rally that organizers touted as the largest of its kind in U.S. history. The group’s top priority was to urge President Barack Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands from Canada through the United States.
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$9.8M worth of herring found dead in Icelandic fjord
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Dead herring are seen floating on Tuesday in Kolgrafafjordur, a small fjord in west Iceland, for the second time in two months.
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Warmest springs on record bring earliest flowers ever
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During the exceptionally warm springs of 2010 and 2012, plants bloomed earlier in the eastern U.S. than they have since the American writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau started keeping records near Walden Pond in 1852.
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Killer whales’ plight in ice an example of climate change impact, researcher says
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The plight of a pod of killer whales that got trapped by ice in a mostly frozen Canadian bay this week was a “good example of what climate change can do” in the Arctic, a researcher said Friday.
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Transocean to pay $1.4 billion to settle federal charges in Deepwater Horizon oil disaster
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WASHINGTON - Transocean Ltd has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle U.S. government charges arising from BP Plc’s massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and three times faster, experts warn
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What had been a blurry picture about polar ice — especially how it impacts sea levels — just got a whole lot clearer as experts on Thursday published a peer-reviewed study they say puts to rest the debate over whether the poles added to, or subtracted from, sea level rise over the last two decades.
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Florida woman arrested over ride on manatee
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Florida police arrested a woman Saturday who had been photographed riding a manatee – a violation of the state’s Manatee Sanctuary Act, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
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BP to pay $4.5 billion, plead guilty to criminal charges in Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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BP will pay approximately $4.5 billion and plead guilty to criminal charges as part of a settlement with the U.S. government over the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the London-based oil giant said Thursday.
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Breaking wave sends water sky high
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A wave breaks over Kalk Bay harbor wall in gale force winds in Cape Town, South Africa, on Oct. 15. Springtime in the Cape Peninsula brings regular gale force south-easterly winds which have been blowing for days. These winds were a contributing factor in the boating accident on Oct. 13 in Cape Town, where at least one person died after a tourist boat carrying 39 people capsized during a seal watching trip.
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Oh honey, why so blue? French beehives take a mysterious colorful turn
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Reuters — Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M’s candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.
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Great Barrier Reef coral seeing ‘major decline,’ scientists report
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Calling it the most extensive review of how coral on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is faring, scientists on Monday reported some alarming news: The amount of coral covering reefs there has been cut in half since 1985 and will likely continue to decline unless steps are taken to at least attack the easiest of several factors.
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