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Rangers in training, Thailand

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has agreed to resolve hazardous waste violations identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The violations stem from the improper management of highway paint in Soldotna, Alaska, according to an agreement with EPA.

Archer Daniels Midland Company, a food processing and commodities trading company headquartered in Decatur, Ill., has agreed to settle allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) at five different large oil storage facilities located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Columbus, Neb.; Des Moines, Iowa; Mexico, Mo.; and Deerfield, Mo.

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A member of the Golden pack in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

A family of six nucleotide sugar transporters never before described have been characterized in Arabidopsis, a model plant for research in advanced biofuels.

The second fledgling of the well-known New York City red-tailed hawk Pale Male, calls to its sibling in August of 2011. Pale Male's mate Lima died in 2012 after ingesting rat poison.

This policy brief, Land Use, Food Security and Climate Change in Vietnam, is part of the project A global-to-local modelling approach to land use dynamics in Vietnam: Potential effects of a high climate impact and a high economic growth scenario, which aims to provide better insights about future land use change in Vietnam and how this relates to climate change and food security in Vietnam. The main research questions are: 1) What is the impact of socio­‐economic development on land use and land use change for the period 2010‐2030 under alternative futures, including climate change? 2) What is the spatial pattern of land use change in Vietnam? 3) What are the implications for food security and greenhouse gas emissions?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a Clean Water Act settlement requiring the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and seven East Bay communities to conduct extensive system repairs aimed at eliminating millions of gallons of sewage discharges into San Francisco Bay.

Two wildfires in California have destroyed 11 homes and scorched thousands of hectares of land since Friday.