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Light brown apple moth.

Unhealthy air quality is predicted for the southern portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the south coast of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands, on Friday due to ground-level ozone.

The last uses of AZM to be eliminated are on apples, cherries, pears, blueberries, and parsley.

A Soldier with the Mississippi Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) helps a sheriff's deputy evacuate a local resident and his two dogs from a flooded area along the Mississippi coast during Hurricane Isaac relief operations.

Greenpeace is calling on the Australian government to refuse to grant a fishing license to the FV Margiris and introduce a policy to ban all super trawlers from Australian waters.

The oceans and seas that surround Europe offer new opportunities for growth and jobs to meet the Europe 2020 goals. To best tap this potential, we need to know more about what is happening under the sea. The European Commission is proposing to create a digital seabed map of European waters by 2020 by collecting all existing data into one coherent database accessible to everyone.

Isaac was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Wednesday. But the slow-moving storm is hovering over New Orleans, Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico, generating tremendous rain and high winds.

Aircrews use a C-130 Hercules aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System to drop fire retardant on a section of the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs, Colo. June 26. Aircrews flying the MAFFS mission recently dropped the 2 millionth gallon of fire retardant for the season making it the third highest in MAFFS history for gallons dropped. In 1994 about 5 million gallons were dropped and in 2000 more than 2.1 million gallons were dropped.

The lowest amounts of Arctic sea ice on record since satellite monitoring began in 1979 have all been recorded during the last six years. Chukchi Sea, Alaska.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an Action Plan today that proposes seven measures for improving water quality, restoring aquatic habitat, and improving the management of the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary. The release of the Action Plan follows the agency’s analysis concluding that existing federal and state water quality programs are not adequately safeguarding the ecosystem.