Environment

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** FILE ** In this June 25, 2012 photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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A Libyan civilian watches cars burn in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. (Associated Press)

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Brown marmorated stink bugs will be looking for warmth inside homes as the weather cools. Besides being household pests, the bugs attack fruit crops and could cause considerable damage to mid-Atlantic farms next spring. They also have shown up in Oregon orchard areas, where they could threaten the wine crop. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A tractor works on a cotton field near a border fence that passes through the property in Brownsville, Texas, 2008. (Associated Press)

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The Costa Concordia cruise ship remains partially sunk near the Tuscan island of Giglio. The ship hit a reef in passing too first close to the island and 32 people died. A hearing on the tragedy has begun. (Associated Press)

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A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon toward government forces (unseen) in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Hulk Hogan attends a news conference to announce his return to wrestling with TNA Wrestling held at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27, 2009. (Associated Press)

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Felix Baumgartner (left), of Austria, hugs Art Thompson, technical project director, on Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M., after Baumgartner successfully jumped from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface. (Associated Press)

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Felix Baumgartner (third from left), of Austria, gets a hug from Mission Control technical project director Art Thompson on Oct. 14, 2012, as television crews and pool photographers converge on the scene after Baumgartner successfully jumped from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface in Roswell, N.M. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Wind turbines produce green energy in Nauen near Berlin on Oct. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A statue holding the Euro sign is pictured with some flags of EU countries outside the European Parliament building in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe) ** FILE **

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The NHL season was set to begin Oct. 11 and the Washington Capitals' season Oct. 12. (Associated Press)

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In this Sept. 8, 2012 photo, a dolphin leaps from a tank during a show at a newly-built amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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British fishing boats (center and right) are prevented from fishing by French fishermen in the English Channel off Le Havre, western France, on Monday. A bumper season for scallops has given rise to a bitter international dispute in the channel. (Associated Press)