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**FILE** A polar bear patrols the ice in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. His 2004 observation of polar bears likely drowning in conjunction with global warming has come back to haunt federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett. (Associated Press)

Scientists hint that global cooling is the new pollution risk

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Vehicles make their way along structures destroyed by an earthquake which struck southern Iran in the city of Shonbeh, Iran, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mohammad Fatemi)

Earthquake rattles near Iran’s nuclear reactor in Bushehr

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LOGOMASINI: Nutritious apples, poisonous claims

By Angela Logomasini

Chinese people wear face masks with "No to Kunming PX," paraxylene, written, chant slogans as they hold protest against a planned refinery project in downtown Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan province Saturday, May 4, 2013. (Associated Press)

China city quashes protest against petro plant

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Oil tanker explosion in Louisiana sends residents packing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A helicopter makes a water drop on flames as a wildfire burns along a hillside in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. A Ventura County Fire Department spokeswoman said the blaze that broke out Thursday morning near Camarillo and Thousand Oaks, 50 miles west of Los Angeles, had spread to over 6,500 acres, forcing evacuations of nearby neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

California wildfires scorch thousands of acres as fearful residents flee

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Flames and smoke rise from chemical storage tanks near a strawberry farm in Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Wildfires rage on California coast, destroying homes, exploding machinery

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama inspects a Chevrolet Volt during his tour of the General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, Mich., July, 2012. (Associated Press)

GM pushes Obama, Congress to act on Climate Declaration

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

60-plus miners killed in Darfur gold mine collapse

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

MLB, players give $100K to Texas explosion victims

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Ticking time bomb: North Korea’s plutonium reactor could be online as soon as next year

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

$**FILE** A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site operates near Burlington, Pa. Natural gas locked in dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio requires a powerful drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release it. (Associated Press)$

N.Y. court: Towns can ban fracking

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: The high cost of zero

By Paul Driessen

Bugged about bees

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The high cost of zero

By Paul Driessen - The Washington Times

A woman grieves as she sticks a poster of a portrait of her family member on the wall of a school turned make-shift morgue on Tuesday April, 30, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Death toll from Bangladesh factory collapse passes 400

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Cody Fleming with Kilmer’s Farm and Orchard in Inwood, W.Va., loads peaches into pint-sized containers at a farmers market at the Southwest Waterfront in the District in 2011. A new study led by a Stanford University researcher looked at whether foods not exposed to pesticide are healthier. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Bugged about bees

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The Hoover Dam, beyond the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, has been an engineering marvel since its completion during the Depression. It is a major Southwest power supplier. (Associated Press)

Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised; Chinese hackers suspected

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

13 Democrats: Failing to fix climate change will drive women to prostitution

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times