Skip to content
Advertisement

Environment

Latest Stories

20120607-180859-pic-740491193.jpg

20120607-180859-pic-740491193.jpg

The Napa Valley resort, Auberge du Soleil, with La Plage below, is seen in early evening in Rutherford, Calif. (Auberge du Soleil via Associated Press)

20120607-105017-pic-383813429.jpg

20120607-105017-pic-383813429.jpg

The kitchen, which is open to the dining area and great room, has granite counters and a center island with a five-burner cooktop.

20120607-105027-pic-157827490.jpg

20120607-105027-pic-157827490.jpg

Enterprise Homes and the family of Abe Pollin are building 83 town homes at MetroTowns at Parkside in Northeast Washington. The homes have 1,288 to 1,444 finished square feet, with base prices from $259,900 to $284,900.

Intrepid Space Shuttl_Live.jpg

Intrepid Space Shuttl_Live.jpg

The space shuttle Enterprise is towed June 3, 2012, on a barge underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York. The prototype space shuttle that arrived in New York City by air earlier this spring is on the move again, this time by sea, to its final resting place at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan. (Associated Press)

20120605-153409-pic-653934602.jpg

20120605-153409-pic-653934602.jpg

credit Please fill this space. Please fill this space. Please fill this space. Please fill this space. Please fill this space. Please fill this space. Please fill this space. U.S. Ambassador to France Charles H. Rivkin tweeted "Proud to be the first US Ambassador to France to jump out of an airplane in honor of our troops". (Provided by Ambassador Rivkin)

20120604-210116-pic-593790146.jpg

20120604-210116-pic-593790146.jpg

Thomas Matson, resident engineer with the Michael Baker Corp., walks along phase one of the New York Avenue Bridge project. The reconstruction has not proved to be the traffic nightmare that skeptics predicted. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

20120604-210116-pic-881462441.jpg

20120604-210116-pic-881462441.jpg

District Department of Transportation Program Manager Ali Shakeri works on phase one of the New York Avenue Bridge reconstruction, which was begun in April 2011 and is expected to be completed in late Septermber. Officials hope to finish the entire $40 million project by 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

20120604-200522-pic-706481017.jpg

20120604-200522-pic-706481017.jpg

The patriotic rock band Madison Rising has released a drums-and-guitar-driven version"The Star-Spangled Banner." (Madison Rising)

20120604-192858-pic-904325582.jpg

20120604-192858-pic-904325582.jpg

The Nationals' Tyler Clippard has struck out six of the 11 batters he's faced since inheriting the closer's role. (Associated Press)

Braves Nationals Base_Reps(2).jpg

Braves Nationals Base_Reps(2).jpg

The Nationals' Tyler Clippard has struck out six of the 11 batters he's faced since inheriting the closer's role. (Associated Press)

Homes Dust_Reps.jpg

Homes Dust_Reps.jpg

This 2012 photo released by Mission: Allergy, Inc. shows a house dust mite as seen with an electron microscope, enlarged about 200 times. Experts say dust's constant accumulation has nothing to do with poor housekeeping. Dust is a naturally and continually forming collection of some pretty gross stuff. (AP Photo/Mission: Allergy)