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Small traditional fishing village in Greece

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement of $1.44 million with TDY Industries, LLC to help pay for groundwater cleanup at the South El Monte portion of the San Gabriel Valley Area 1 Superfund Site in Los Angeles, Calif.

Huge swaths of the U.S. East Coast are being pelted by one of the biggest storms ever to approach the mainland, just more than a week before Americans vote for president and pick a new Congress. Hurricane Sandy has forced the cancellation of campaign events and could leave millions of Americans without power as they prepare to cast ballots.

Airmen of the New Jersey National Guard's 108th Wing are processed in at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., before being sent out to assist at various emergency shelters prior to the landfall of Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 28, 2012.

Audits of ivory stockpiles help ensure that no tusks leak into illegal trade.

The announcement is set to benefit not only the local population, but it is also welcome news for neighboring countries Ecuador and Colombia.

Hurricane Sandy's destructive path through Haiti left 29 dead and caused extensive damage to roads and crops in the impoverished, quake-ravaged country, authorities said Saturday.

Tar sands operations are harming at least 130 migratory bird species, including endangered whooping cranes.

Tar sands operations are harming at least 130 migratory bird species, including endangered whooping cranes.