HEADLINE: Spill may push La. state bird back to endangered list Will Gulf spill 'endanger' brown pelican again? CAPTION: The environmental group Greenpeace says officials haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to the number of...

1. Wide shot of Yangtze River 2. Wide shot mountain at the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River 3. Wide pan from the river to the dam 4. Medium high shot water pumping out of the dam 5. Wide pan over the Three Gorges Dam zone 6. Wide...

Voice and effects VOICED BY: Megan Francis Sixty orca whales have died along the Yucatan River in Mexico after they became stranded in shallow waters. Whale specialists are speculating that the cause of so many deaths at once may be the...

Urdu/Eng/Nat Polluted well water has killed five people, four of them young children, and sickened thousands of people in a small town in Pakistan. After a weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea, 65 people from Rawat, which is just north...

1. Various of truck backing into Oxfam's aid storage area 2. Various of cartons containing saline being loaded onto truck 3. Various of saline cartons 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Heather Blackwell, Oxfam Country Programme Manager: "Its a...

HEADLINE: America's 'dirtiest' beaches CAPTION: How clean is your beach? The Natural Resources Defense Council has listed over ninety beaches that have high levels of pollution in the water. (Aug. 8) [Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] NB. This...

Spanish/Nat A government report in Nicaragua shows that improper use of pesticides kills 120 people and poisons more than a thousand each year in the Central American country. The government has begun an education campaign to alert...

HEADLINE: Swanks backs UN race for clean drinking water CAPTION: Hilary Swank is backing a UN relay race begun to raise awareness about the lack of clean drinking water in parts of the globe. A team of 20 runner are traveling around...

HEADLINE: Bay Ship Pilots' Salaries Questioned CAPTION: For more than a century, the elite cadre of 60 San Francisco Bar Pilots have enjoyed monopoly control over guiding ships around the San Francisco Bay. After a massive oil spill,...

Bill Price, Sierra Club "I think water is something people assume they can just go to their sink and get here in Charleston at least but that assumption isn't safe anymore." Margaret Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology "What we...

Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region. Brazil is sizzling, and with the heat index sometimes soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), keepers at a Rio de...

Near Rohri Village 20km from Karachi - August, 8th, 2009 1. Mid of boatmen starting the engine on wooden boat 2. Close up of the engine fan 3. Zoom in from wide of mangrove trees in the distance 4. Wide of large mangrove trees 5. Mid of...

New Delhi, 27 March 2006 1. Wide of rally by Bhopal gas leak survivors 2. Mid shot two women protesters at the rally 3. Protesters shouting slogans 4. Policemen 5. Protesters clapping and shouting slogans 6. Close of a poster...

6.7.90 (Dur: 5mins 5secs/Engl sot: None) RR MUSIC: "Madagaskira" and "The Spectacle" by David Muddyman STORY: Throughout the Middle East, the scarcity of water and its pollution have become...

Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region. Brazil is sizzling, and with the heat index sometimes soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), keepers at a Rio de...

English/Nat Two Greenpeace activists were arrested Sunday after they blocked an Israeli ship from dumping toxic waste in the Mediterranean. The environmental group claimed victory after a four-hour stand-off when the ship, The Aribel,...

The head of the UN nuclear agency on Monday expressed concern over the leak of radioactive water from Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that the issue "needs to be addressed urgently." Speaking at a meeting of the...

Mandarin/Nat Environmental issues will be the main focus of talks between Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and Vice President Al Gore in Washington on Friday. The meeting of the Sino-U-S Environment Forum will be the second time the two...

IRAQ WATER POLLUTIONSOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 2:42SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionBaghdad, Iraq - 8 April 20151. Various of Tigris River with abandoned boats2. Mid of abandoned boats with debris...

LEAD IN:A former Italian fishing boat is helping Lebanon monitor its sea pollution. The CANA-CSRS was fitted with oceanographic equipment and now sails the Mediterranean carrying out scientific tests.STORY-LINE:Cruising along Lebanon's...

AP Television Lidder, Pahalgam - 7 June 2011 1. Wide of Lidder river with mountains in background 2. Wide of snowcapped peaks 3. Various of stream with boulders 4. Wide of people rafting 5. Wide of tourists fishing 6. Mid of tourist...

The quality of the water in Guanabara Bay meets the standard set by the World Health Organisation, the venues director for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games said on Thursday.Gustavo Nascimento said the water is being monitored on a daily basis...

A ship that ran aground a South African beach three years ago is still threatening bird and marine life. The Seli 1 was heavily laden with coal and oil when engine trouble led to it being wrecked on Blouberg Beach, Cape Town in...

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint Mayor Karen Weaver are urging city residents to flush the pipes in their homes every day for two weeks.It's part of an effort to remove lead particles in Flint, whose 100,000 residents are using faucet...