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CHELLANEY: China’s great water wall

By Brahma Chellaney

Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Rare fire alert issued for structures U.S. built for Afghan mililtary

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

** FILE ** In this image made from video and provided by WSOC-TV Charlotte, authorities work to rescue two children at a construction site, Sunday, April 7, 2013, in Stanley, N.C. (AP Photo/WSOC TV)

Wall of dirt at construction site fatally collapses on 2 N.C. children

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Chinese health worker takes excrement samples from a chicken at a closed poultry market in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Health officials believe humans are contracting the H7N9 bird flu virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there's no evidence the virus is spreading easily between people. (AP Photo)

China reports 2 more cases of bird flu not previously found in humans

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

**FILE** New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (Associated Press)

Fracking support becomes bipartisan as both parties see economic benefits

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Smoke rises March 15, 2011, from the badly damaged Unit 3 reactor (left), next to the Unit 4 reactor covered by an outer wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okuma, Japan. The emergency command center at Japan's stricken nuclear plant shook violently when hydrogen exploded at Unit 3 and the plant chief reacted by shouting, "This is serious, this is serious," reveal videos of the crisis as it happened. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File)

Power fails again at Japan’s ailing nuclear plant

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 3, 2013, photo, a worker pushes a cart as live pigeons are sold at a cage at a poultry wholesale market in Shanghai China. China announced a sixth death from the new bird flu H7N9 strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat. The first cases were announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

China kills 20,000 birds in flu investigation

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

An illegally tapped maple tree is pictured in northern Maine on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Forest rangers say the illegal tappers are damaging valuable maple trees before they are harvested for lumber. (AP Photo/Maine Forest Rangers)

Sticky-fingered thieves target maple sap in Maine

By Clarke Canfield - Associated Press

People survey the destruction left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Sandy criticism prompts change in storm warnings

By Jennifer Kay - Associated Press

Illustration Government Money by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The triumph of mediocrity

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A customer prepares to pay in a poultry market in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. (Associated Press)

China finds more cases of bird flu previously not seen in humans

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The U.S. Interior Department posted this photo on its Intagram page. The Alaska Volcano Observatory celebrated 25 years of monitoring and studying Alaska volcanos. (Credit: Interior Department)

Holy Smokes! See the Department of the Interior’s dramatic volcano pictures

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BEAUPREZ: The high price of ‘Frankenol’

By Bob Beauprez

Illustration Global Warming by John Camejo for The Washington Times

RAHN: Global warming’s ‘fatal conceit’

By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times

Workers clean up oil in Mayflower, Ark., on April 1, 2013, days after a pipeline ruptured and spewed oil over lawns and roadways. (Associated Press)

Arkansas attorney general to investigate ExxonMobil pipeline spill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration: EPA overreach by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: EPA rules over all

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

NASCAR launches initiatives to impact environment

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

N. Korea threatens to restart nuclear reactor

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times