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Baseball-size Martian rock recovered in the Sahara

By ALICIA CHANG - Associated Press

Baseball-size Martian rock recovered in Sahara

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

** FILE ** The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (Associated Press)

Transocean agrees to pay $1.4B for Gulf spill

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

Martian rock from Sahara desert unlike others

By ALICIA CHANG - Associated Press

Flu? Malaria? Disease forecasters look to the sky

By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press

A leafless tree stands in the Cheniere Caminada cemetery in Grand Isle, La. Eleven cemeteries in Jefferson Parish have repeatedly flooded since Hurricane Katrina. “When I was a kid, you didn’t see graves floating away and going under water,” said Timothy Kerner, mayor of Jean Lafitte. (Associated Press)

Storms, tides unearth grave sites

By Stacey Plaisance - Associated Press

Rare San Francisco river otter stumps researchers

By JASON DEAREN - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Friday, May 11, 2007, photo, a mosquito is sorted according to species and gender before testing for West Nile Virus at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas. Scientists have been working on mathematical models to predict outbreaks for decades and have long factored in the weather. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Flu? Malaria? Disease forecasters look to the sky

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

“The Bay is still dangerously out of balance, the rivers and streams are still impaired, but it’s getting better and that’s the good news,” Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William C. Baker says. (Associated Press)

Health of Chesapeake Bay gets a bit better

Associated Press

Cleanup crews clear oil from alongside the Yellowstone River in Laurel, Mont., on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. The scenic waterway has risen above flood stage, raising fears that the surging currents will further spread crude from the previous week's oil spill. (Associated Press)

Feds: Exxon Mobil’s delay worsened Yellowstone oil spill

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Cornstalks poke up through the snow in a field near La Vista, Neb., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Despite getting some big storms in December, much of the United States is still desperate for relief from the nation’s longest dry spell in decades, and experts say it will take an absurd amount of snow to ease the woes of farmers and ranchers. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Extraordinary snowfall needed to relieve drought

By Jim Suhr - Associated Press

$Matt Damon plays a drilling company representative who tries to ingratiate himself with the residents of a Pennsylvania small town, including a character played by Rosemarie DeWitt, in “Promised Land.” Industry groups and environmental activists alike see it as a message film about the perils of the gas boom and fracking. (Associated Press)$

‘Promised Land’ buries fracking

By Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Hollywood faces fracking in ‘Promised Land’

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island on Jan. 1, 2013. A Coast Guard C-130 plane and a helicopter were used to fly over the grounded vessel. Severe weather did not permit putting the marine experts on board the drilling rig, which is near shore and being pounded by stormy seas. (Associated Press/U.S. Coast Guard)

Storm impedes salvage of grounded drilling ship

By Mary Pemberton - Associated Press

Pakistan child measles deaths surge in 2012

By ADIL JAWAD - Associated Press

$The most notable instance in the ongoing public relations war centers on the upcoming Matt Damon movie “Promised Land,” which tells the story of small American towns ruined by fracking. (Associated Press)$

EDITORIAL: Fracking flick channels science fiction

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

The mobile drilling unit Kulluk is towed by the tugs Aiviq and Nanuq in 29 mph winds and 20-foot seas 116 miles southwest of Kodiak, Alaska, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S Coast Guard, Chris Usher)

Shell oil-drilling ship runs aground on Alaska’s Sitkalidak Island

By Dan Joling - Associated Press

Noble Discoverer, one of two drill ships used by Royal Dutch Shell PLC to drill off Alaska’s coast, sits at port in Seward. The other, the Kulluk, was grounded Monday off Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska during a storm. Flights to check for leaks from the stranded vessel could not take off. (Associated Press)

Oil-drilling rig grounded near Alaskan island

By Mary Pemberton - Associated Press

An Ivory Coast soldier stands next to the belongings of people involved in a deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, early on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. At least 61 people were killed following a New Year's fireworks display, and the death toll is expected to rise, officials said. (AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra)

61 killed in New Year’s stampede in Ivory Coast

By Inza Bakayoko - Associated Press

Illustration American Energy by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

MEANS: Obama needs to prove he’s serious about energy independence

By Grady Means