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Government shutdown heads south; Antarctic stations shuttered
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Government shutdown heads south; Antarctic stations shuttered

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FILE - This Oct. 7, 2009 file photo shows a NASA tent is erected on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in preparation of an event with the President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama who will be joined by local area middle school students as the use telescopes to star gaze. NASA may have the Right Stuff, but it’s not essential. In fact, of all the larger government agencies, NASA is sending the largest percentage home in the government shutdown because they are considered not essential. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Veterans Administration, which usually doesn’t grab attention unless something goes wrong, has one of the highest percentage of workers considered essential and staying on. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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The numbers that show how essential an agency is

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The Los Angeles-class submarine USS Annapolis rests on the Arctic Ocean after breaking through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise in The Arctic Ocean. (Tiffini M. Jones/U.S. Navy)
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Arctic sea ice 6th lowest, but rebounds from 2012

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What 95% certainty of warming means to scientists
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What 95% certainty of warming means to scientists

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This photo provided by Carel van Schaik shows the orangutan Arno in the jungle of Sumatra in 1998 looking in the direction he intends to travel the next day and letting out a long whooping call to alert others of his route just in case they need to follow him or stay clear. What Arno did hundreds of times tells scientists that advance planning and social networking about your trip aren’t just human traits. The results are detailed in a new study published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, followed the male orangutans in hundreds of trips starting back in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Perry van Duijnhoven)
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Is there an ape for that? Orangutans plan trips

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FILE - In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, heavy equipment removes debris from a home destroyed by the May 20, 2013 tornado in the Plaza Towers neighborhood of Moore, Okla. In 2013, in the nation's heartland, tornadoes are flirting with a record for the fewest, with just a bit more than half the normal number of nearly 1,300 twisters reported by mid-September. A shift in the jet stream is credited. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Quiet, not stormy, weather for US this year so far

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In this image provided by the Department of Energy, chemist Brian Dockendorff works on a mass spectrometer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. Three simple numbers will prove if sarin was used to gas Syrians last month: 99-125-81. Carlos Fraga, a chemist at the lab who specializes in nerve agent forensics calls those numbers sarin’s fingerprint. Fraga says once chemists see those digits, they know they’ve got sarin. (AP Photo/Carlos Fraga)
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Labs seeking sarin chemical signature: 99-125-81

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FILE - In an Oct. 31, 2012, file aerial photo, the destroyed and damaged homes are left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy in Ortley Beach, N.J. Researchers with the United States and British governments concluded Thursday Sept. 5, 2013, that climate change had made these events more likely: U.S. heat waves, Superstorm Sandy flooding, shrinking Arctic sea ice, drought in Europe's Iberian peninsula, and extreme rainfall in Australia and New Zealand. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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Study links warming to some 2012 wild weather

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FILE - This Feb. 22,2013 file photo shows Two heavily damaged homes on the beach in Mantoloking, N.J., from Superstorm Sandy. Man-made global warming may decrease the likelihood of the already unusual steering currents that pushed Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey in a freak 1-in-700 year path, researchers report. While that may sound like the rare good climate change news, it's probably not, according to the study's authors, because they only looked at steering currents and other factors, including stronger storms, and sea level rise can and likely will outweigh any benefit from changing air patterns. The study is disputed by other scientists who have been vocal about the meteorological factors behind Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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Sandy’s ‘freaky’ path may be less likely in future

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Syrian refugees pass through the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border with Syria, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. United Nations experts are investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria as the United States and allies prepare for the possibility of a punitive strike against President Bashar Assad's regime, blamed by the Syrian opposition for the attack. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 355 people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Experts: Don’t bomb chemical weapon sites in Syria

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