Spanish/Nat Emergency supplies have been arriving in Peru to help the thousands of victims of El Nino storms which have devastated the country. Clean drinking water is the most pressing need of people forced from coastal towns up and...

October, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1. Various of Riachuelo River nearby Buenos Aires city centre 2. Set up of Alfredo Alberti, Head of "Vecinos de la Boca", Boca Neighbours'' Association 3. Factories chimneys along the river ...

Natural Sound Israeli activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Sunday sprayed industrial waste back into a chemicals plant that was discharging it into the Mediterranean Sea. They said the effluent was dangerous to marine...

1. Wide of oil refinery on Mississippi River 2. Damaged oil tanks 3. Wide of oil refinery 4. Blackened water caused by oil spill 5. Damaged oil tanks 6. Uprooted gas pipeline crossing sign 7. SOUNDBITE (English): Senior Chief Scott...

Natural Sound Israeli activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Sunday sprayed industrial waste back into a chemicals plant that was discharging it into the Mediterranean Sea. They said the effluent was dangerous to marine...

HEADLINE: Mercury mines leave toxic legacy CAPTION: Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mercury mines lie abandoned throughout California's rugged coastal mountains, many polluting the state's major waterways and rendering fish unsafe to...

New Orleans, Louisiana 1. Wide of contaminated floodwaters 2. Close-up of contaminated floodwaters 3. Cars in floodwaters Washington, DC 4. Wide of news conference with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Centre for Disease...

The Atlantic coastline from Cape Town harbour past Sandy Bay is black with oil in what has been described as the Peninsula's worst oil pollution disaster, SABC news said on Saturday (25/6). Many of the Cape's famous tourist resorts,...

English/Nat Eight Greenpeace activists were arrested and later released on Tuesday following an attempt to stop industries pumping tons of toxic waste into the Kishon River which flows into the Mediterranean Sea. Greenpeace activists...

Eng/Portu/Nat Flood ravaged Mozambique is bracing itself for an outbreak of cholera. Aid organisations say flooding, crowding of rescued people and contamination of drinking water increases the risk of outbreaks of cholera, malaria,...

Fragrant Hills, northwest Beijing - 15 August 2003 1. Wide shot of cannon 2. Workers load cannon with ammunition for cloud seeding 3. Cannon fires 4. Workers prepare rocket launch for cloud seeding 5. Rocket launcher fires cloud seeding...

AP Television Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine, October 11 2009 1. Mid sun blocked out by pollution in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine 2. Wide GV Smokestacks emit pollution in Dniprodzerzhynsk 3. Wide Smokestacks emit pollution over the Dnieper river...

Biloxi, Mississippi 1. Wide shot of boat in field of debris 2. Mid shot of boat 3. Pull out from man sitting in rubble 4. SOUNDBITE (English): Gobbie Roberts Junior, Funeral Home Director: "I have been on at least six recoveries and...

Hindi/Nat Inhabitants of a small village on the border between the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra claim that waste from a nearby atomic power plant is killing their livestock and risks contaminating their water. Radioactive...

1. Wide of march honouring World Water Day 2. Medium of march 3. Close-up of indigenous man playing Antara (Andean indigenous instrument) 4. Wide of indigenous music band 5. Wide of march, people carrying banners 6. Man with...

Charssada - August 7, 2010 1. Saeed Khan standing by the roadside waiting for aid trucks to stop 2. Pan from car travelling on road 3. Tracking shot of Saeed and other people running towards an aid truck 4. Pan of queue behind an aid...

1. Wide of ARPAT (Regional Agency for the Protection of the Tuscan Environment) boat 2. Various of ARPAT official driving boat 3. Various of capsized Costa Concordia, filmed from boat 4.Tester pot being lowered into water to collect...

Moscow, 26 April 1. Wide shot of an anti-nuclear demo near the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy 2. Mid shot of two policemen taking notes 3. Mid shot of anti-nuclear activists with posters and photographs of alleged victims of Soviet...

Pilottown, 3 Sep, 2005 1. Wide tracking shot of hurricane-damaged oil storage tanks in catchment basin 2. Tracking shot of damaged oil storage tank 3. Water blackened by oil spill 4. Damaged oil storage tank and blackened water 5....

Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan 1. Various of Syrian refugees gathering near water tank 2. Wide of camp 3. Young man digging ditch for run-off of waste water 4. Close-up of stagnant waste water 5. Young man digging ditch for run-off of...

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus001409 (nats chopper) SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mario Moscatelli, Biologist: "If you were to have the start of the competitions today in the Guanabara Bay, I honestly wouldn't feel comfortable if all...

English/Nat It's advertised as pure and healthy and every year it's in greater demand. But according to an environmental group, bottled water, in some cases, may not be any purer or bacteria-free than tap water. An estimated 3.4 (b)...

Dozens of yachts tied black bands onto their vessels as they sailed in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay on Sunday to protest against water pollution in the area. Protesters also displayed huge banners calling for better sanitation and...

Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil - 22 July 2008 1. Tilt down from beach to dead baby Magellan penguin 2. Medium of dead baby penguins 3. Close up of dead baby penguin on beach 4. Pull out from beach to wide of dead penguins on...