A winter storm has pushed a wave of rubbish onto a Lebanese shore outside Beirut, stirring outrage over a waste management crisis that has choked the country since 2015. The beach at Zouq Mosbeh, 10 miles (16 km) north of...

LEADIN: Three female engineers have developed a process to help West Bank tanneries. They have designed a system that treats toxic by-products by using readily available local resources. ...

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Running 300 miles through Appalachia, the Clinch River is one of the most important rivers for freshwater mussels in the world.

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Residents living near three massive coal ash dumps at an energy plant in the US state of North Carolina are worried after recent tests suggested their drinking wells could be contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen, and...

The environmental activist group Greenpeace is disputing the Italian government's assessment of the environmental impact of the Costa Concordia shipwreck. The ship was successfully refloated on Monday in preparation to be towed away for...

A drug-resistant "super bacteria" that's normally found in hospitals and is notoriously difficult to treat has been discovered in the waters where Rio de Janeiro's Olympic sailing events will be held, scientists said on Monday. The...

Spanish/Nat This week brought record heat to the Argentine capital, with temperatures approaching the upper 30s (upper 90s in Fahrenheit). More than 10 (M) million people live in the Buenos Aires area and they did what they could to...

Hindi/English/Nat Summer has started in the Indian capital of Delhi, bringing with it fears of typhoid, malaria, and the inconvenience of water shortages. Delhi's main river is at the heart of the problem - heavily depleted and...

Florence - November 2, 2010 1. Wide shot, tilt down of a monumental fountain at Piazza della Signoria 2. Close up of water gushing out of a fountain at Piazza della Signoria 3. Close up water sprinkling into a pool of water 4. Wide of...

Pabbi, Nowshera district 1. Wide exterior of Pabbi Hospital 2. Close of signboard reading: Emergency Satellite Complex, Pabbi Hospital, Nowshera District 3. Wide pan of ward interior, patients and staff 4. Nurse checking child's...

1. Pan from onlookers to boats docked at river bank 2. Various of participants preparing 3. Top-shot of organiser pouring symbolic "clean water" to river 4. Mid of participants on boats 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cecille Guidote-Alvarez,...

1. Wide of Piazza Esedra central square in Rome, with Oxfam protesters wearing G8 leaders' masks and fake belly to pretend pregnancy 2. 'Pregnant' protester wearing US President Barack Obama mask 3. Wide of 'pregnant' protesters lined up...

1. Wide exterior of ice carving venue 2. Wide shot of national flags of competing countries waving in the breeze 3. Wide shot of people carving ice 4. Close shot of designs drawn ice blocks 5. Wide shot of blocks of ice lit by...

Eng/Albanian/Nat Kosovo is short of clean drinking water after the old pumps and pipes were destroyed during NATO's bombing campaign. Many are contaminated with trash and even dead bodies, causing a severe health risk. In the town of...

English/Nat It's considered an embarrassment to both the United States and Mexico. Cutting the border between the two countries east of San Diego, the New River is considered the most polluted waterway in the United States. Residents...

Mandarin/Nat China's children are at the forefront of a seasonal drive to safeguard the environment. As the festive season approaches, along with the Chinese New Year, they are being asked not to send greeting cards. It's all part of a...

Beijing - June 2, 2005 1. Wide interior of news conference 2. Journalists 3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Jirong, Vice minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration Bureau: "We have to face a series of environmental and...

STORY: In January, an outbreak of cholera was reported in the Peruvian coastal town of Chimbote. By the first week in February it had spread down the entire coast and inland, to be...