Environment

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Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), waves as he arrives from Iran at Schwechat Airport in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Greenland, on July 26, 2011. (Associated Press)

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North Koreans dance near a slogan which reads “(we) fervently celebrate the successful launch of the second version of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite" during a mass rally organized to celebrate the success of a rocket launch that sent a satellite into space, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 14, 2012. As the U.S. led international condemnation of what it calls a covert test of missile technology, top North Korean officials denied the allegations and maintained the country's right to develop its space program. (Associated Press)

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More than 1,000 protesters were involved in a march on the New York State Capitol in Albany in August demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo ban fracking in the state. While the governor still hasn’t ruled, the state attorney general and six other East Coast states are suing for harsher air-quality rules on the oil and gas industry and its most effective drilling method. (Associated Press)

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We've gotten ourselves hopelessly in debt. (Illustration by Dana Summers for the Orlando Sentinel)

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**FILE** U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice listens June 7, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York. (Associated Press)

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At the back of the ground level in the Southwick model are the center-island kitchen, which is open to the family room and breakfast area.

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Basheer & Edgemoore is building 28 town homes at Boucher Place in the Eastport neighborhood of Annapolis. The Southwick model has 2,380 finished square feet and is priced from $427,900.

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U.S. tanks move during a military exercise near the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, on Dec. 13, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Scientists and technicians work on their computers to control the launch of North Korea's Unha-3 rocket at the General Satellite Control and Command Center in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, 54 minutes after a long-range Unha-3 rocket was successfully launched on Dec. 12, 2012. (Associated Press/DigitalGlobe)

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Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists recorded the first local discovery of a Gonocerus acuteangulatus a leaf-footed bug known to occur in Europe when they intercepted the insect is a shipping container of Italian ceramic tiles Dec. 7, 2012. (Handout/J.D. Young, USDA APHIS)

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Injured Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick walks on the field after an NFL football game against the Carolina Panthers Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.