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China Pollution Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on Saudi government efforts to change media and social extremism by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In this May 31, 2017 photo, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin speaks at a ceremony marking the start of a beach replenishment and dune construction project in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River, N.J., which was one of the Jersey shore towns hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. Nearly five years after the storm, New Jersey is closing in on its goal of having protective dunes along its coast, but pockets of resistance remain among residents fighting the dune plan in court. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2015, file photo, contractors work on the East Side Access project beneath midtown Manhattan, in New York. The agency that runs the Long Island Rail Road, the busiest commuter railroad in the U.S., has spent more than a decade carving out tunnels and a massive subterranean cavern that will bring suburban trains beneath the East River to Grand Central in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this photo provided by NASA, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, launches from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Saturday, June 3, 2017. SpaceX launched its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station on Saturday, yet another milestone in its bid to drive down flight costs. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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A driver pushes through a flooded neighborhood street caused by a swollen creek during a heavy rain shower, Friday, June 2, 2017, in Richardson, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 3-4, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 27, 2017 photo, the Kenai River flows by the newly restored riverbank of Dow Island in Funny River, Alaska. A group of four property owners banded together this spring to install the extensive project to protect the bank of the island in the Kenai River from rapid erosion. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 3-4, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 27, 2017 photo, the Kenai River flows by the newly restored riverbank of Dow Island in Funny River, Alaska. A group of four property owners banded together this spring to install the extensive project to protect the bank of the island in the Kenai River from rapid erosion. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 3-4, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 27, 2017 photo, Natalie and Chad Smyre relax in their cabin on Dow Island in the Kenai River in Funny River, Alaska. The Smyres, who live in Anchorage, worked with three other property owners to install an extensive bank restoration project along the shore of the island to protect it from extensive erosion over the years. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND JUNE 3-4, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 27, 2017 photo, Steve Flick, one of the property owners on Dow Island's north bank, relaxes in Natalie and Chad Smyre's cabin on the island in Funny River, Alaska. Flick, a professional construction contractor in Missouri, worked with the Smyres and two other property owners to install an extensive bank restoration project on the island to preempt the Kenai River's erosion that has been washing away feet of their properties each year. (Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, Michael Fritch plants soybeans on his home farm in Mitchellville, Iowa. Fritch, a fifth-generation farmer, plants corn and soybeans on farming plots surrounding the Mitchellville and Des Moines area. (Michael Zamora/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, Michael Fritch checks one of his planters to make sure its working properly as he plants soybeans on his home farm in Mitchellville, Iowa. Fritch, a fifth-generation farmer, plants corn and soybeans on farming plots surrounding the Mitchellville and Des Moines area. (Michael Zamora/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, Michael Fritch pokes through the soybean seeds as he checks to make sure one of his planters is working properly as he plants soybeans on his home farm in Mitchellville, Iowa. (Michael Zamora/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, Michael Fritch checks one of his planters to make sure its working properly as he plants soybeans on his home farm in Mitchellville, Iowa. Fritch, a fifth-generation farmer, plants corn and soybeans on farming plots surrounding the Mitchellville and Des Moines area. (Michael Zamora/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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In this Tuesday, May 9, 2017 photo, Michael Fritch plants soybeans on his home farm in Mitchellville, Iowa. Fritch, a fifth-generation farmer, plants corn and soybeans on farming plots surrounding the Mitchellville and Des Moines area. (Michael Zamora/The Des Moines Register via AP)
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In this May 15, 2017 photo, Dan Severson, second from left, talks about his experiences with conservation easements in the Burnt Fork area, with Friends of the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge's Paul Hayes and Skip Kowalski and Bitterroot Land Trust's Gavin Ricklefs, at his home in the Burnt Fork area east of Stevensville, Mont. Years ago, the Friends organization designed a popular state license plate that celebrated National Wildlife Refuges. The license plate generated about $20,000 for the organization. (Perry Backus/Ravalli Republic via AP)
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In this May 26, 2017, photo, Jim Papacek stands in the front yard of his former south Fargo, N.D., while taking a break from loading bricks onto a rented truck. Papacek lived in the house near the Red River for nearly half a century and had planned to die there, but decided he could no longer fight both the river and city officials who wanted him off the flood plain. Last fall he accepted a buyout for the home. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
