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Posted: 10/3/2012 3:18:44 AM EST
In this Sept. 26, 2012 photo, cattle graze on a ranch outside of Encino, N.M. With extreme drought drying out grazing land and driving up hay prices, authorities in drought-stricken states say some ranchers have started stealing hay, cutting neighbors’ fences or leaving gates open so their cattle can graze on greener pastures. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Posted: 9/25/2012 6:54:31 PM EST
A new, improved portrait of Hubble's deepest-ever view of the universe, called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, which shows a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004, is seen in this composite image released to Reuters on September 25, 2012. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time, according to the news release. REUTERS/NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team/Handout
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Posted: 9/14/2012 2:58:26 PM EST
FILE - This March 10, 2005 file photo shows tourists walking down to the edge of the Badwater Basin, the lowest elevation in the United States, 282 ft (86m) below sea level, at Death Valley National Park, Calif. California's Death Valley has racked up another extreme accolade _ it's now deemed the world's hottest place. Long known as the lowest, driest and hottest spot in the United States, Death Valley this week was named as the hottest place on the globe by the World Meteorological Organization. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Posted: 9/13/2012 12:58:25 PM EST
In this Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, a combine is surrounded by dust at it finishes harvesting a row of corn near Bennington, Neb. The latest update on the worst U.S. drought in decades shows that farmers bringing in their weakened corn crops had some relief with recent rains that soaked much of middle America. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 shows two-thirds of Iowa now in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Posted: 9/13/2012 12:58:25 PM EST
This photo from Sept. 12, 2012 shows a stream of corn, ground up for animal feed, being whipped up by strong winds in Arapahoe, Neb. The latest update on the worst U.S. drought in decades shows that farmers bringing in their weakened corn crops had some relief with recent rains that soaked much of middle America. The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 shows two-thirds of Iowa now in extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Posted: 9/11/2012 1:23:26 PM EST
FILE - This file combo of two photos taken in June 2012, shows high-rise offices in La Dehesa Costanera Center, one of Santiago, Chile's most expensive commercial sectors in the city's Providencia sector, and at right, a man leaves his home in a horse drawn cart to begin his work day of recycling trash in an area where families live in extreme poverty in Santiago's Puente Alto sector. The efforts of Chile's President Sebastian Pinera to squeeze political advantage from his campaign to reduce poverty have backfired, opening him up to accusations that he distorted statistics to show progress on a campaign promise. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero, File)
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Posted: 9/10/2012 12:28:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Friday, June 29, 2012 file photo shows lawmakers of the Golden Dawn extreme far-right party during a vote for deputy speakers at the Greek Parliament, in Athens. Greece's public order ministry on Monday, Sept 10, 2012 is withdrawing police guards who have been protecting the lawmakers of an extreme far-right party that has vowed violent intimidation against immigrant street vendors. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)
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Posted: 9/9/2012 1:03:34 PM EST
In this July 2, 2012 copy photo a chart provided by the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital, depicts the progression, from left to right, of implanted tissue engineered for ear development and construction, at the lab in Boston. Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries. Around the country, the most advanced medical tools that exist are now being deployed to help America's newest veterans and wounded troops. (AP Photo/Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital)
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Posted: 9/9/2012 1:03:34 PM EST
In this Monday, July 2, 2012 photo Tom Cervantes, of Boston, a research engineer at the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital, displays a titanium frame designed for the reconstruction of a human ear, left, and a three dimensional plastic ear model, right, at the lab, in Boston. Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries. Around the country, the most advanced medical tools that exist are now being deployed to help America's newest veterans and wounded troops. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Posted: 9/6/2012 3:26:39 AM EST
Leader of the extreme right Golden Dawn party Nikolaos Mihaloliakos addresses parliamentarians during a session at the parliament in Athens July 7, 2012. REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis
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Posted: 8/29/2012 8:28:36 PM EST
Chandler Lacher, left, and Cody Clarambeau, both 8th graders, stand near a fan blowing air into a school building in Fort Pierre, S.D., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, after the Stanley County School District closed early because of extreme heat. More than two dozen South Dakota schools let students go home early Wednesday because temperatures topping 100 degrees made classrooms that are not air conditioned unbearable. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)
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Posted: 8/29/2012 10:58:33 AM EST
This image made available by environmental organization Greenpeace shows Greenpeace activists chained to the anchor chain of the Anna Akhmatova, the vessel which was carrying Gazprom's workers to the Prirazlomnaya platform, in the Pechora Sea about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the nearest port, Murmansk, a city on the extreme northwestern edge of the Russian mainland, Monday Aug. 27, 2012. Gazprom is pioneering Russia's oil drilling in the Arctic. The state-owned company installed the platform there last year and is preparing to drill the first well. Environmentalists have warned that drilling in the Russian Arctic could have disastrous consequences because of a lack of technology to deal with a possible spill in this remote region. (AP Photo/Denis Sinyakov/Greenpeace, HO)
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Posted: 8/23/2012 4:03:43 PM EST
FILE - In this July 26, 2012 file photo, a field of dried corn plants is seen near Percival, Iowa. In its weekly map, The U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, showed that as of Tuesday, just over two-thirds of Iowa, the nation's biggest corn producer, was in extreme or exceptional drought _ the worst two classifications. That's up more than 5 percentage points, to 67.5 percent, from the previous week. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Posted: 8/23/2012 4:03:41 PM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file, drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. According to the latest drought report released Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, nearly all of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois are in extreme or exceptional drought, with Illinois showing the most-dramatic climb in those categories, spiking 17 percentage points in one week, to 96.72 percent, according to the map. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Posted: 8/23/2012 4:03:39 PM EST
In this Aug. 22, 2012, drought condition water levels have taken their toll on the wildlife at Anderson Lake State Fish & wildlife Area near Astoria, Ill. According to the latest drought report released Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, nearly all of Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri are in extreme or exceptional drought, with Illinois showing the most-dramatic climb in those categories, spiking 17 percentage points in one week, to 96.72 percent, according to the map. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
