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The Week in Pictures: Dengue Fever Hits Miami, Slow Thanksgiving Meals, and More (Slideshow)

Just another blood-sucking mosquito? Think again. For the first time in half a century a person in Miami-Dade County, Florida has been diagnosed (and recovered from…) a case of dengue fever that had been acquired locally. In other shocking news this week, a Pennsylvania conservation officer was gunned down by a suspected poacher, Sandia has announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy generation, TreeHugger cooks up a tasty vegetarian entree–and helps you find an ethical bird–for a healthy Thanksgiving entree, and more in our photo roundup of the most popular stories from the world of green.

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The Week in Pictures: Dengue Fever Hits Miami, Slow Thanksgiving Meals, and More (Slideshow)

The Week in Pictures: BP Bans Photos of Animals Killed by Oil Spill, Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill", The All-Electric Supercar, and More (Slideshow)

Another week goes by and oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico and if we have a rough hurricane season, things could get apocalyptic. All the attempts to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have failed so far, and even the latest attempt to cut-and-cap the well has hit a snag. BP has apparently banned oil spill clean up contractors from sharing photos of dead animals washed ashore; One contractor took a Daily News reporter out to see, in his words, what BP didn’t want President Obama to see. In other news Sarah Palin defends “Drill, Baby, Drill” on Twitter; Bugatti is experimenting with an electric powertrain that d… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: BP Bans Photos of Animals Killed by Oil Spill, Sarah Palin Defends "Drill, Baby, Drill", The All-Electric Supercar, and More (Slideshow)