Rio de Janeiro's endless beaches and lush tropical forest will be a photographer's dream during the 2016 Olympics. But zoom in on the likes of once-pristine Guanabara Bay and the picture is of household trash and raw sewage. In the...

Beijing - June 5 2003 1. Wide shot Xie Zhenhua, minister of China State Environment Protection Administration(SEPA) walking to podium 2. Cutaway cameras 3. Mid shot Xie and his deputy, vice minister of China State Environment Protection...

Voice and effects This week has brought record heat to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires with temperatures approaching the upper thirties celsius (upper nineties in Fahrenheit). More than ten million people live in the Buenos Aires area...

Sirajganj Sadar hospital 1. People carrying sick woman into hospital 2. Close up of nurse preparing saline drip 3. Nurse putting tube into catheter 4. Close up of baby's hand with drip 5. Mid of mother with dehydrated baby 6. Close up...

Wayang Mountain, West Java - March 13 2009 1. Pan right of watershed 2. Mid of water with reflection of trees 3. Various of ripples in spring water Jakarta - March 16 2009 4. Close shot of river filled with trash 5. Wide shot of...

AP Television 1. Various of security outside convention centre 2. Wide of Aztec water dance initiating forum 3. Mexico's President Vicente Fox with others at Water Forum inauguration 4. SOUNDBITE (French) Loic Fauchon, President of...

AP Television News Yanacocha Mine - July 2006 1. +Aerial+ view of Yanacocha mine 2. Wide of Yanacocha mine 3. Zoom out of mine zone 4. Medium of vehicles carrying minerals AP Television News Yanacocha Mine - 15 September 2006 5....

1. Sign reading: Irbil Teaching Hospital 2. Various of patients lying in beds 3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Naima al-Qasir, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative: "As an organisation, we have referred to cases of diarrhoea, but we did...

Kampar, Riau province - Nov 2, 2007 1. Various aerial shots of palm plantations Kampar, Riau province - Nov 2, 2007 2. Pan of a palm plantation 3. Various palm trees Pakanbaru, Riau province - Nov 2, 2007 4. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian)...

The first test event in preparation for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro began on Tuesday, but some feared the polluted waters of the Guanabara Bay could pose a danger to the athletes. Sailors, coaches and the mayor of Rio de Janeiro...

Farmers in Costa Rica are using an ancient technique dating back thousands of years to fight soil erosion and water shortages that they say is caused by climate change. Terrace farming, which some experts say was developed by the Incas,...

During the Cold War the pride and joy of the Soviet arms industry were the submarine shipyards in the town of Bolshoy Kamen in the Russian Far East. Missile-carrying nuclear submarines of the Soviet Pacific fleet were built, maintained...

They're known as "salties" in their native Australia, can grow to over seven metres and their bite is the strongest of any animal in the world today. So it's a good thing this crocodile is safely behind glass. He's been named "King...

HEADLINE: First Person: Testing mussels for pollution CAPTION: California scientists hope studying 180 black mussels pried from algae-covered rocks in San Francisco Bay will provide clues into how many drugs and chemicals are polluting...

1. Wide of Azadi Hospital 2. Sign saying Azadi General Hospital (English and Arabic) 3. Interior hospital corridor 4. Mid shot woman bringing in children with cholera 5. Various of little girl ill in bed 6. Old woman sleeps in bed,...

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...

English/Nat The international football match between Hungary and Australia passed without serious incident on Wednesday evening. Hungarian fans had threatened to toss fish at the visitors to protest the role of an Australian mining...

AP Television Lake Mead, Nevada - November 2007 1. Mid view of a boat's motor on Lake Mead 2. Mid view of hydrologist piloting boat 3. Wide view of Hoover Dam 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chuck Fisher, Hydrologist: "It's a pretty important...

AP Television Mexico City, September, 2008 1. Close axolotl in tank AP Television - File Mexico City, 31 July 2001 2. Wide shot of Tlahuac canal (part of Xochimilco canal system) 3. "Trajineras" (typical Mexican pleasure boat)...

SIGOUT - Bob McCall/Associated Press Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - December 16, 2014 1. Various of Guanabara Bay Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - July 24, 2014 2. Various of boats sailing in the bay Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - December 15, 2014 3....

Rio de Janeiro will not make good on its Olympic pledge of slashing the flow of raw sewage and garbage into the Guanabara Bay, where the 2016 games' sailing and wind surfing competitions are to be held, the state's top environmental...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus020826 NAT SOUND: "Gasping for air. Fish don't gasp for air." nats: "Here is a bright coho" nats: "Definitely pre-spawn." SOUNDBITE, Chris Wilke, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance: "There's a high...

AP Television Mexico City,Mexico. July 2009 1. Gilberto Esparza turning on Marana robot prototype 2. Detail of Marana Robot prototype 3. Medium Gilberto Esparza working 4. Close up Gilberto Esparza working 5. Pan Gilberto Esparza's...

Glogovac 1. Wide of truck unloading black slag 2. Various of inspectors at NewCo Ferronikeli factory compound 3. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Vehbi Ejupi, Environmental Inspector: "Ferronikeli did not implement the dynamic of investment in the...