MILLIONS SPENT ON WATER-STORAGE PLAN THAT LEAKS
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ELLIOT SPAGAT FILE – In this June 3, 2013 file photo, farmer David Schwabauer, a partner/manager of Leavens Ranches, a fourth-generation avocado and lemon grower,…
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RADIOACTIVE GROUNDWATER AT FUKUSHIMA NEARS PACIFIC
By MARI YAMAGUCHI In this photo provided by Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), NRA commissioners inspect storage tanks used to contain radioactive water at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, operated…
YOSEMITE-AREA WILDFIRE BALLOONS IN SIZE OVERNIGHT
By GOSIA WOZNIACKI U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., looks at the remains of a Lolo Creek home that was destroyed by the West Fork II fire when it swept down…
JAPAN NUCLEAR WATCHDOG MAY RAISE LEAK TO ‘SERIOUS
By MARI YAMAGUCHI This Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 aerial photo shows the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. The Japanese nuclear watchdog proposed Wednesday to…
UK LAWMAKER ARRESTED AT ANTI-FRACKING PROTEST
Activists link arms to resist police officers who were trying clear the road outside the main entrance to the Cuadrilla exploratory drilling site in Balcombe, southeast England , as anti…
POACHERS KILL RHINO IN NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
By JASON STRAZIUSO EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC IMAGE – In this photo of Sunday Aug. 10, 2013 provided by Kenya Wildlife Services a dead rhino killed by poaches in Nairobi National…
APNEWSBREAK: AUTHOR BERRY WINS OHIO PEACE AWARD
By DAN SEWELL In this March 10, 2011 photo, author Wendell Berry talks with a reporter at his home in Port Royal, Ky. For his career of writings about the…
2 SUMATRAN TIGER CUBS BORN AT NATIONAL ZOO
This black-and-white handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken Aug. 7, 2013, shows a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs born Aug. 5, with their 4-year-old mother Damai, at…