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Report highlights environmental costs of China's surging economy
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...
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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...
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PAKISTAN: RAWAT: POLLUTED WELL WATER KILLS 5 PEOPLE
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...
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NICARAGUA: REPORT SHOWS PESTICIDE POISONING KILLS 120 EACH YEAR
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...
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Experts say last week's chemical spill in West Virginia's Elk River affecting more than 300,000 people is a powerful reminder about the vulnerability of U.S. waterways to toxic spills. (Jan. 15)
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...
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RR MUSIC: "Madagaskira" and "The Spectacle" by David Muddyman
STORY: Throughout the Middle East, the scarcity of water
and its pollution have become...
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Chief of UN nuclear watchdog says Fukushima leak "high priority", Iran bites
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...
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Treatment plant struggles to cope with water pollution in Tigris River
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...
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River trout threatened by rock breaking
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...
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Cape Town penguins threatened by ship wreck
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...
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Mayor, Gov. Urge Flint Residents to Flush Pipes
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...
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Cuban mining environmental challenge
A mine on Cuba's southeast coast is an engine of revenue for the country's cash-strapped government, but at the same time presents challenges for a country that prides itself on its environmental safeguards.Plumes of smoke rise over the...
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Olympic sailors comment on water pollution
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRio de Janeiro - 11 August 20161. Guanabara Bay, Sugarloaf Mountain in background2. Pan of entrance to the marina where sailing competition is taking place3....
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Amano proposes high level summit on global nuclear safety
1. Wide of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano arriving for briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Yukiya Amano, IAEA Director General:
"The situation remains very serious, it continues to be very serious....
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The crusade to clean-up one of the world's most polluted rivers
A Indonesian man is on a crusade to clean up one of the world's most polluted rivers.
The Citarum River is the longest and largest waterway in West Java, but it's choked with rubbish and human waste.
As well as improving the...
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Cleaning up Rio ahead of world sporting events
Preparing for the World Cup and Olympics is putting Brazil's reputation on the line, while giving South America's biggest country a chance to boost its profile.
But cleaning the filthy waters surrounding Rio, where major Olympic and...
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Residents complain of contaminated tap water
LEAD IN:Baghdad residents are complaining they're getting sick because the quality of their drinking water is so bad. Some are installing small filtration systems to safeguard their family's health. STORY-LINE:The pumps, pipes and...
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Plastic waste threatens sea birds on Grassholm
VOICED: Conservationists have mounted a rescue mission to save sea birds trapped in plastic. Sky News have been given special access to the RSPB's operation on the Welsh Island of Grassholm, home to one of the world's largest Gannet...
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BRAZIL - GOLD AND MERCURY
STORY
Uncontrolled gold mining in Brazil is leading to contamination of the rivers of the Amazon rainforest. Mercury, which is used in the extraction, is polluting rivers and poisoning the Indians who live nearby.
...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Flies overwhelm Pakistan's Karachi in monsoon hell
Swarms of flies water borne illnesses and rivers of sewage have brought Pakistan's Karachi to its knees this rainy season after decades of mismanagement turned the commercial capital into one of the world's least liveable cities (Footage...
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Korea fears Fukushima contaminated water release
Korea criticised Japan on Monday at the IAEA over fears that it was planning to release radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.
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Dilemma over Fukushima growing radioactive water
Inside a giant decontamination facility at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant, workers in hazmat suits monitor radioactive water pumped from three damaged reactors, making sure it's adequately — though not completely — treated.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Estuary dumps rubbish onto beaches of Ecuadorean island
Locals and politicians worry as estuary dumps rubbish onto the beaches of Isla Puna off the coast of southern Ecuador affecting local fauna and flora as well as the upcoming tourist season (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)