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In this photo provided by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, smoke rises from a fire near Springwood, west of Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Nearly a hundred wildfires are burning across Australia's New South Wales state, more than a dozen of which are out of control, as unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds fanned flames across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/New South Wales Rural Fire Service)

Australian wildfires kill 1, destroy homes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A street vendor splashes water on his face to ease the discomfort from the tear gas fired by police during protests against President Michel Martelly's government, mainly about the higher cost of living in downtown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The protest happened on a national holiday known as Jean-Jacques Dessalines day, honoring one of the nation's founding fathers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

U.S. Haiti aid effort faces delays, shortfalls: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Arizona house explosion leaves two in ‘critical condition’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Oct. 2, 2013, ancient skulls and jaws of pre-human ancestors are displayed at the Georgia National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. The discovery of an estimated 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human ancestor found below Dmanisi, a medieval Georgian village, captures early human evolution on the move in a vivid snapshot and indicates our family tree may have fewer branches than originally thought, scientists say. It is the earliest evidence of human ancestors moving out of Africa and spreading north to the rest of the world. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Scientists find 1.8M-year-old skull under medieval Georgian village

Associated Press

The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Golden Hammer: Energy Department pays out millions for contractors’ food, drink

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Landslide survivors offer prayers on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, as the body of a victim is carried by rescue workers from the rubble of houses on Japan's Izu Oshima island that were damaged by landslides after a powerful typhoon. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Typhoon, mudslides kill 17 in Japan; 50 missing

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

**FILE** This Monday, May 22, 2006 file photo provided by Mary Sage shows a polar bear watching a whaling crew off shore near Barrow, Alaska. Polar bears were declared as a threatened species by the Interior Department on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 saying polar bears must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mary Sage, Joseph Napaaqtuq Sage) ** NO SALES **

Pacific man seeks asylum in New Zealand as climate change refugee

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

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Parts of climate-change agenda to come before Supreme Court

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rescuers shift through the rubble to recover an unidentified man at a fish port in Pasil, Cebu, central Philippines on Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings, cracked roads and toppled the bell tower of the Philippines' oldest church Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 people across the central region. (AP Photo/Chester Baldicantos)

Philippine residents stampede as earthquake rocks, killing dozens

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Bay Area Rapid Transit travelers wait to board an arriving train Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

San Francisco transit union halts walk-off in 11th hour deal

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has struck west of the Greek island of Crete

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"The Arctic is America's backyard. It is one of the most resource-rich areas in the world. American companies and the [its] economy need to have a strong Arctic" plan, says Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, co-founder of the Arctic Circle Assembly. (Associated Press)

Arctic Assembly meets to set rules for exploration

By Matthew Lounsberry - The Washington Times - The Washington Times

Passengers view lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry while crossing New York's Upper Bay on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Giant removable floodwalls would be erected around lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to protect the city from storms and the effects of global warming. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Climate-change study predicts NYC will be ghost town by 2047

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A miner sprays water using a hydraulic mining system at an open gold-mine pit near the small town of Nieuw Koffiekamp on the edge of the Suriname's rain forest. Thanks to record gold prices, hundreds of small-scale mining operations are proliferating along the northeastern shoulder of South America, tearing up trees and poisoning creeks with mercury. (Associated Press)

U.N. members line up to sign mercury treaty

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

L.A. Times nixes letters from climate change deniers

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Red-blue split seen in wood-burning suit

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Backhoe operator Rick Benson works with Randy Walter, at center, to make a path to a propane tank while cleaning up flood damage on Thursday, Oct. 3,2013, in Salina, Colo. The flooding damaged or destroyed nearly 1,800 homes in Colorado. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Jeremy Papasso) NO SALES

Colorado finds no floodwater pollution from fracking

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Oklahoma pipeline blast sends fireball hundreds of feet high

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times