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The revitalization of Atlanta's Midtown

GINOWAN, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft lands at the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012, as three more Ospreys flew to the Futenma base for deployment from another base in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Six Ospreys had arrived at Futenma from Iwakuni the previous day. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)

Beaches, bases, battles: The seven-decade fight for Okinawa

Kilauea volcano destroys 467 Hawaiian homes, officials say

Reagan's EPA chief was forced to resign amid scandals. Why not Scott Pruitt?

Daytona Beach firefighters work to rescue two riders that are in a dangling roller coaster car.

Florida agency probing roller coaster derailment in Daytona Beach

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Ethics watchdog wants EPA IG to expand Pruitt investigations

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Capitol Hill January 18, 2017 in Washington, DC. Pruitt is expected to face tough questioning about his stance on climate change and ties to the oil and gas industry. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Why Scott Pruitt may be getting a pass

title: Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Flow: From Vent to Sea duration: 00:01:55 site: Youtube author: null published: Thu Jun 14 2018 19:22:30 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) intervention: no description: A helicopter overflight video of the lower East Rift Zone on June 14, 2018, around 6:00 AM, shows lava fountaining at fissure 8 feeding channelized lava flows that flow into the ocean. Lava is still flowing out of fissure 8 unabated and the channel is full. At the start of the video, standing waves in the lava channel can be seen near the vent exit. The channel appears crust-free from vent to the bend around Kapoho Crater. A surface crust forms over the channel as it spreads out during its approach to the ocean. The overflight along the ocea

#LaImagenDelDía: impresionante río de lava deja el volcán Kilauea

MOROVIS, PUERTO RICO - DECEMBER 20: A resident, whose home remains without electricity, watches as debris is removed on December 20, 2017 in Morovis, Puerto Rico. Barely three months after Hurricane Maria made landfall, approximately one-third of the devastated island is still without electricity and 14 percent lack running water. While the official death toll from the massive storm remains at 64, The New York Times recently reported the actual toll for the storm and its aftermath likely stands at more than 1,000. Puerto Rico's governor has ordered a review and recount as the holiday season approaches. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

What 2 CNN reporters want you to know about Puerto Rico

In this photograph taken on 29 May, 2018, Indian women return after fetching water from a pit dug in the bed of Lokpal Sagar lake, near Manas Nagar village in Panna district, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. - The region is experiencing a severe drought due to a shortage of rainfall in recent years. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

India facing its worst water shortage in history, report says

'It's in blood, the nature and the culture.' Iceland's hard World Cup work pays off

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25 of the best places to visit in the UK

Trump's new world order

Sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), named after the sun-like spot on its chest. The smallest bear but still potentially dangerous. Range is tropical rainforest from Burma to Sumatra with smaller subspecies in Borneo. Southeast Asia. (Photo by Auscape/UIG via Getty Images)

To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift

This picture taken on May 31, 2018 shows a dog barking while standing between houses covered with overgrown vegetation in Houtouwan on Shengshan island, China's eastern Zhejiang province. - Houtouwan was a thriving fishing community of sturdy brick homes that climb up the steeply hilled island of Shenghshan, but is now abandoned, with entire houses completely overgrown as if vacuum-sealed in a lush layer of green. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

China's forgotten village swallowed by nature

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Conservatives turn on embattled EPA chief

Girl taking a test in school.

IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds

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José Andrés is at it again! He's feeding thousands in Guatemala after the volcano eruption

This is so much better than Cancún

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Upgrading Uganda's poor road networks

Study shows melting of Antarctica is speeding up

Scientists lay out how to save a melting Antarctica -- and the grim future if we don't

Study: IQ scores are falling

The master architect behind Japan's remote 'art island'

Senate Armed Service Committee ranking member Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) talks with reporters after voting against cloture on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be the next Secretary of State at the U.S. Capitol February 14, 2013 in Washington, DC.

Republican senator suggests Pruitt's number 2 lead EPA

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Sessions announces religious land-use plan

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Can Kenya sustain its charcoal consumption?

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

WaPo: Pruitt enlisted EPA aide, donors to find his wife a job

NS Slug: CO:BUFFALO MTN FIRE FORCES HUNDREDS TO EVACUATE Synopsis: Buffalo Mountain fire forces evacuations of hundreds of Silverthorne residents Keywords: COLORADO SILVERTHORNE WILDFIRE

Colorado fire grows, sends thousands fleeing

Aurelia aurita also known as Moon Jellyfish is seen in a water tank at the Aquarium in the Berlin Zoo, on July 15, 2017. Sipa/AP Images

More than 800 people were stung by jellyfish along Florida beaches in three days

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 7: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on December 7, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

EPA spent nearly $3.5M on security for Pruitt

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies about the fiscal year 2018 budget during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 27, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

WaPo: Pruitt used EPA aide to help wife

In this May 16, 2018, photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pruitt claimed credit for pollution cleanups done mostly by the Obama administration while flubbing facts about his 2017 condo deal and blaming underlings for his ethical woes. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

WaPo: Pruitt enlisted aide to get wife a job

No worries for this orphaned baby bear

Discovering Japan's remote 'art island'

Milford Sound, New Zealand

Fiji to New Zealand: 9 of the most scenic Asia-Pacific flights

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CDC: Drowning is the 2nd leading cause of death for kids aged 1-14

A large baobab tree in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia, Africa

Baobab tree deaths linked to climate change

This June 10, 2018, satellite image provide by DigitalGlobe shows the 416 Fire northwest of Hermosa, Colorado.

Colorado national forest closes due to wildfire that burned over 22,000 acres

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Kamau Bell: Standing Rock changed how I see America

Air Force Capt. William Howard Hughes, Jr was taken into custody at his California home where he'd been living under the name Barry O'Beirne since he went missing in July 1983, according to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

US Air Force deserter caught after 35 years

EAST CHICAGO, IN - APRIL 19: U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes a statement to the media after meeting residents from and taking a brief tour of the West Calumet Housing Complex on April 19, 2017 in East Chicago, Indiana. Nearly all the residents of the complex were ordered to move by the East Chicago Housing Authority after the soil and many homes in the complex were found to contain high levels of lead. The area has been declared an EPA superfund site. This was Pruitt's first visit to a superfund site since being named the agency's administrator. The complex is scheduled for demolition. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

House Dem accuses EPA of dodging public records requests

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve, Alaska

10 national park record-setters

Leg 7, Auckland to Itajai, around East Cape. 18 March, 2018.

Sailor sacrifices sleep for science to save the planet

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Fixing the problem of plastic pollution

Chinese missile launchers reappear on disputed South China Sea island

TOKYO, JAPAN - MAY 20: A heavily tattooed Japanese woman poses for photographs near Asakusa Temple during the third and final day of Sanja Festival, on May 20, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. Sanja Festival is one of Japan's major festivals and is held annually in the Asakusa area of Tokyo. The three day event starts with a grand parade with people in traditional costumes performing dances before around a hundred mikoshi (portable shrines) from the local communities are carried to and from Asakusa Temple watched on by an audience of locals and tourists. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

New website helps travelers find tattoo-friendly hot springs in Japan

Feinstein: Big mistake to not sign G7 agreement