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Armed with a camera and a sturdy pair of boots, Janet Kessler spends most of her days roaming through lush parklands in pursuit of some of San Francisco's most unlikely inhabitants _ the city's increasingly visible population of coyotes.

By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent Updated: December 11, 2009, 5:11 PM / Once every turn around the sun, inhabitants of our battered blue globe gather by the thousands in an assigned place, for a two-week ritual of despair and hope called a climate conference.

Hurricane Ike-damaged oyster reefs in Galveston Bay are getting a rocky makeover in preparation for some new inhabitants.