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This is an undated image made available by the World Wildlife Fund Finland of a Saimaa Ringed Seal as it rests on a rock in Lake Saimaa, Finland. Wildlife conservationists in Finland are giving endangered seals in Europe's fourth largest lake a spot of online fame _ they plan to stream encounters with some of the estimated 360 remaining seals in southeastern lake of Saimaa, in a bid to raise awareness of their plight. (Ismo Marttinen/WWF Finland via AP)
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The entrance sign to the Water Wheel recreation area points the the waters where victims were caught in a flash flood along the banks of the East Verde River Monday, July 17, 2017, in Payson, Ariz. The bodies of several children and adults have been found after Saturday's flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area in the Tonto National Forest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This March 18, 2017 photo shows an area of Ellison Creek, a popular area in Tonto National Forest near Payson, Ariz. On Saturday, July 15, 2017, a flash flood through the area swept nearly a dozen people to their deaths. The flood was the result of a thunderstorm that dumped heavy rainfall just upstream, unleashing 6-foot-high floodwaters, dark with ash from a summer wildfire. (AP Photo/Clarice Silber)
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Gila County Sheriff's Office Detective David Hornung updates the media at the First Crossing recreation area during the ongoing search and rescue operation for a victim in a flash flood along the banks of the East Verde River Monday, July 17, 2017, in Payson, Ariz. The bodies of several children and adults have been found after Saturday's flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area in the Tonto National Forest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This Saturday, July 15, 2017, image taken from video provided by Mindy Russell shows a rescue helicopter picking up people who survived a flash flood at a popular swimming hole that swept several people to their deaths in the Tonto National Forest near Payson, Ariz. The flooded area is at lower right. The flood was the result of a thunderstorm that dumped heavy rainfall just upstream, unleashing 6-foot-high floodwaters, dark with ash from a summer wildfire. (Mindy Russell via AP)
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The muddy water was much lower near the Water Wheel recreation area where victims were caught in a flash flood along the banks of the East Verde River Monday, July 17, 2017, in Payson, Ariz. The bodies of several children and adults have been found after Saturday's flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area in the Tonto National Forest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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The muddy water was much lower near the Water Wheel recreation area where victims were caught in a flash flood along the banks of the East Verde River Monday, July 17, 2017, in Payson, Ariz. The bodies of several children and adults have been found after Saturday's flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area in the Tonto National Forest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Members of the Tonto Rim Search and Rescue Team comb the muddy East Verde River near the entrance to the First Crossing recreation area during the search and rescue operation for a victim in a flash flood Monday, July 17, 2017, in Payson, Ariz. The bodies of several children and adults have been found after Saturday's flash flooding poured over a popular swimming area in the Tonto National Forest. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Democratic state Senators Jerry Hill, of San Mateo, left, and Bill Monning, of Carmel, walk into the Senate Chambers, Monday, July 17, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. California lawmakers are expected to vote Monday on a pair of climate change bills supported by Gov. Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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State Sen. Minority Leader Pat Bates, R-Laguna Niguel, left, talks with Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, during the Senate session, Monday, July 17, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. California lawmakers are expected to vote Monday on a pair of climate change bills supported by Gov. Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, left, talks with Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Azusa, Monday, July 17, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. California lawmakers are expected to vote Monday on a pair of climate change bills supported by Gov. Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Sunday, July 16, 2017, while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, the treacherous, ice-bound route where Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen made the first successful transit in 1906. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Trainee Jussi Mikkotervo looks out from the bow of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. Although the passage presents an attractive shortcut for maritime traffic between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, only a dozen or two vessels attempt to navigate the poorly charted Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the brief summer window each year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Master Mariner Jyri Viljanen, left, captain of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica and Chief Officer Harri Venalainen, navigate from the bridge through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. More than a century has passed since the first successful transit of the treacherous, ice-bound Northwest Passage by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1906. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Sea ice floats past the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the ship sails through the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Sunday, July 16, 2017, while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, where global warming is melting sea ice and glaciers at an historic rate, altering and opening up the Arctic as never before. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. The region has become a magnet for nations wanting to exploit the Arctic’s rich oil reserves and other natural resources and for scientists seeking to understand global warming and its impacts on the sea and wildlife. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Trainee David Kullualik, of Iqaluit, Nunavut, of Canada's northern territories, looks through binoculars from the bridge of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails through ice floating on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Sunday, July 16, 2017, while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, where global warming is melting sea ice and glaciers at an historic rate, altering and opening up the Arctic as never before. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Polar maritime lawyer Scott Joblin, from the Australian National University in Cambria, looks over a map aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sets sail in the North Pacific Ocean toward the Bering Strait, Thursday, July 6, 2017. A group of international researchers is sailing into the Arctic Sea aboard the Finnish icebreaker to traverse the Northwest Passage and record the environmental and social changes that are taking place in one of the most forbidding corners of the world. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
