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CLEAN : Brazil non profit concerned for sea turtles after giant oil spill
The non profit Projeto TAMAR expresses its concerns over the impact of a huge oil spill on the lives of sea turtles off Brazil's northeastern coast (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Venezuela crisis: Mountain park turns public bath
The lush, tree-covered Avila mountain rising over Venezuela's capital has breathed life into crowded Caracas for generations, yet it is being transformed into a public bath amid worsening power failures that are disrupting life in the...
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EPA to drop Obama-era water protection rule
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution but was opposed by developers and farmers who said it hurt economic development and infringed on property...
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Scientists reveal extent of Lima river pollution
A recent study by scientists in Peru has found that the waters of the Chillon River, on the outskirts of Lima, are laden with pollutants.
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CLEAN : Peru president signs environmental emergency decree at oil spill site
Peru President Pedro Castillo signs a decree declaring the 'climate emergency' an issue of national interest, while he visits the site of an oil spill at a beach near the capital Lima caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption near...
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CLEAN : Peru president signs environmental emergency decree after oil spill
Peru President Pedro Castillo signs a decree declaring 'the climate emergency' an issue of national interest, while he visits the site of an oil spill at a beach near the capital Lima caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption near...
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Friday prayers protests in West Bank, Gaza, clashes at Al Aqsa mosque, funeral
Jerusalem
1. Push in of protesters throwing stones at Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa compound
2. Israeli policemen firing tear gas at protesters, AUDIO: stun grenades
3. Policemen pushing protesters away
4. Close of wounded man...
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Cholera outbreak kills at least 150
1. Wide of people walking through entrance to St. Nicholas hospital
2. Close of signs reading (Creole): "Only one person may enter with sick patient"
3. Wide of people carrying sick person in bed
4. Mid of people carrying sick person on...
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Philippines - Toxic Mine Residue Floods River
About 2,000 Filipinos have been evacuated from villages marooned by a massive leak of toxic mine residue which swelled a river in the central island of Marinduque, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Manila. Engineers worked...
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Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating 'dead zones' where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives.
HEADLINE: Methane in Gulf spill: 'dangerous, deadly'
CAPTION: Vast amounts of natural gas contained in crude escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico oil well could pose a serious threat to marine life by creating 'dead zones' where...
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COLOMBIA: ACTIVISTS RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT RIVER BOGOTA POLLUTION
Spanish/Nat
An environmental group in Colombia has started an expedition down the River Bogota to try to raise awareness about the deadly pollution in its waters.
Each day at least 179 kilograms of metals and more than five tonnes of...
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WRAP Magsaysay Awards ceremony, Asia's Nobel prize; winner
1. Wide of Ramon Magsaysay Awards ceremony
2. Cutaway of crowd
3. Mid of Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr., son of the late president Magsaysay
4. Mid of replica of medal on stage
5. Wide of speaker and board members on stage
6. Mid of...
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Environmentalists try to stop the River Jordan being polluted
AP Television News
Kibbutz Kinneret - June 26 2006
1. People walking down to baptism site
2. Pan across sign "Jordan River Baptismal Place"
3. View of river - pan to congregation
UPSOUND: (English) Ove EkJordan, River man/Pastor
"We...
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TURKEY: GREENPEACE ACCUSE SHELL OF POLLUTING RESERVOIR
Eng/Turkish/Nat
The environmental group Greenpeace has Shell Oil in its sights, again.
This time, Greenpeace and other environmental groups accuse Shell of polluting a huge underground water reservoir in south-east Turkey.
Confidential...
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Underwater footage of oil slick, divers comment
1. Medium of oil from above the spill on sea surface
2. Wide of oil spill on sea surface, tilts up to horizon
3. Various underwater shots of oil, taken by scuba diver
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Walker, diver, charter boat...
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Fishing industry is struggling to recover from Fukushima nuclear accident
1. Wide of fishing boat returning to port
2. Mid of fisherman on boat
3. Wide of fishing boat entering port
4. Mid of fishermen unloading fish caught for monitoring purposes
5. Close of fish (flatfish) in a basket
6. Mid of...
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AZERBAIJAN/TURKMENISTAN: OIL PRODUCTION POLLUTES CASPIAN SEA AREA
Baku area, Azerbaijan; Turkmenbashi, Chelekan and Nebit Dag, Turkmenistan
Outside Baku, Azerbaijan - October 1st
1. Wide shot of land contaminated by oil
2. Mid shot of above showing close ups of pipes and leaking oil tanks
3. Close up...
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US Energy Secretary delivers lecture on Japan-US cooperation
The US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Thursday urged Japan to accept further international aid in the decommissioning process of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
Moniz was speaking during a lecture in Tokyo on the...
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CHINA: RED CROSS SAY NORTH KOREA MAY SOON FACE NEW HEALTH CRISIS
English/Nat
While North Korea's famine appears to have eased in some areas, foreign aid workers say the country may now be facing a new health crisis.
Red Cross workers have just returned to China after a two week visit to two ...
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Struggle to address water shortage before Olympics
Beijing - June 7, 2005
1. Chinese Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing and other officials arriving
2. Journalists
3. Qiu in news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Qiu Baoxing, China's Vice Minister of Construction:
"The water...
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INDIA: WEST BENGAL:CONTAMINATED WATER CAUSES THOUSANDS OF DEATHS
Bengal/Nat
Thousands of people in India have fallen ill after drinking water contaminated with arsenic from the soil.
More than 200-thousand people in West Bengal have developed swollen joints, sores or discoloured skin after they...