Environment

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FILE - In this March 15, 2004 file photo, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Hua Mei, an American-born giant panda, eats bamboo at the Wolong Nature Reserve in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province. Hua Mei gave birth to her eighth cub on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, in southwest China, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders. (AP Photo/Xinhua,Chen Xie, File)

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This undated product image released by AT&T, shows the TerreStar Genus phone. On Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, AT&T will start selling its first phone that includes a backstop for AT&T's own network, over a satellite. The new phone, TerreStar Genus, could be an important tool for boaters, fishermen, forest wardens, emergency crews and others who go outside regular cellular coverage. (AP Photo/AT&T) NO SALES.

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In this Sept. 13, 2010 photo, a malnourished Pakistani boy, who came from a camp for people displaced by floods, rests on his bed during a power outage at the Railway Hospital in Sukkur, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. Medical experts warn the real catastrophe is moving much slower than the floodwaters. Children already sick or weak in poor rural areas prior to the floods are now fighting to stay alive as diarrhea, respiratory diseases and malaria attack their emaciated bodies. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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People stand in late August outside the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was damaged by a massive earthquake in January. (Associated Press)

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Two men remove rubble in late August from a building destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Most Haitians just live and work around the piles of debris. (Associated Press)

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The remains of a burned house is shown on Monday Sept. 20,2010 in Herriman, Utah after a fire swept though burning more than four homes that were destroyed overnight. A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday. (AP Photo/Jennifer Dobner)

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Small fires continue to burn near homes in Herriman, Utah on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. A wind-stoked wildfire sparked at a firing range during a National Guard training session blazed across thousands of acres Monday as crews rushed to keep it from burning more than four homes that were destroyed overnight. The fire moved back on itself Monday as the Utah National Guard acknowledged it wasn't the first time that live-fire exercises had sparked a fire at Camp Williams, a sprawling compound 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Scott G Winterton, Pool)

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Ron Stotish, chief executive officer of AquaBounty, the company that applied with the Food and Drug Administration to market genetically modified salmon, speaks to reporters during a break at an FDA advisory committee hearing in Rockville, Md., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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This undated handout photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies shows two same-age salmon, a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. The Food and Drug Administration pondered Monday whether to say, for the first time, that it's OK to market a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat. (AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies)

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Local villagers look through a damaged gate of a house that was allegedly raided by international security forces at Matun district of Khost province in Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. One person was allegedly killed and two were taken away after the operation. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)

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Indian villagers move through floodwaters in Bareily in India's Uttar Pradesh state on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of the northern part of the country over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Manjusha Verma)

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Yukiya Amano of Japan, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, addresses the general conference of the IAEA at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A lynx with a tracking device thrives in the San Juan Mountains south of Creede, Colo. Colorado wildlife officials are declaring victory in their 11-year effort to reintroduce lynx to the state.

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, at 4:45 a.m. EDT shows a swirl of clouds in the Atlantic Ocean associated with Hurricane Igor as it moves toward Bermuda as a Category 1 storm. (AP Photo/NOAA)

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A worker on the drilling floor is seen from the window of the drilling cage as the drilling pipe is removed on the Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Workers remove the drill pipe on the drilling floor of Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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** FILE ** The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R- Alaska, is seen climbing to the stage in preparation to announce her write-in campaign Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

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FILE - The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. A relief well drilled nearly 2.5 miles beneath the floor of the Gulf of Mexico has intersected BP's blown-out well, a prelude to plugging it once and for all, the U.S government said late Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. The final seal should happen by Sunday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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An Afghan policeman provides a very visible show of security in front of an election campaign billboard in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Afghans to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite threats from the Taliban warning people not to leave their homes. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe)