Hundreds of residents of Peru's Santa Rosa de Cajacay village fell sick after a toxic cocktail of copper concentrate laced with volatile compounds spewed onto the countryside from a burst pipe. The pipeline that carries slurry at high...

Spanish/Nat Several thousand fishermen, ecologists and politicians circled Lake Maracaibo - the heart of Venezuela's oil industry - on Thursday to protest a recent oil spill. Local fishermen were left with nothing to catch after a...

Spanish/Nat Environmental groups in El Salvador have warned that pollution in the country is rising out of control. With rapid deforestation and the ever increasing number of vehicles in the large cities, pollution levels are said to...

A rehabilitated green sea turtle is returning to the wild off the Florida east coast. Pearl was found in December in the Bal Harbour area dehydrated, lethargic and with parasites. It was taken to Miami Seaquarium where it spent months...

1. Mid of members of pollution containment team wearing white suits, removing absorbing boom darkened by oily substance from water and putting it into white plastic bags on small raft 2. Wide of team in raft working at rear of grounded...

Spanish/Nat The capital of Chile, Santiago, is again besieged by one of the highest air pollution levels in the Americas. During the winter months the dry windless weather and Santiago's geographical location cause very dangerous...

South Korea is banning imports of all fishery products from Japan's Fukushima region because of what it calls growing public worry over radiation-contaminated food that has reportedly prompted a sharp decline in fish consumption. The...

1. Tilt-down of Finnish embassy building and people protesting on the streets with banners 2. Mid of people holding banners outside the building 3. Mid of man holding fish on lamp post 4. Close of fish hanging from lamp post 5. Mid...

1. People rushing towards aid supplies van, reaching into van to get food 2. Driver telling people to move back, pan to people grabbing food from inside van 3. Villagers surrounding van 4. Close-up of villagers surrounding van 5. Woman...

Galapagos Islands - File 1. Iguana on shore, with sunken oil tanker in the background Santa Fe Island, Ecuador - June 2002 2. Iguana entering water and swimming over sunken tyres 3. Iguana on shore Galapagos Islands - File 4. Sunken oil...

1. Wide of the bodies of two cholera victims, covered by blankets 2. Close up of victim's feet seen under sheet 3. Wide of two women sitting crying over the death of one those two victims 4. Mother who has lost her son to cholera...

Spanish/Nat Environmentalists have expressed relief over the limited impact of the oil spill in the Galapagos Islands on wildlife. Only one pelican and two seagulls are known to have died. Still, dozens of other birds and marine animals...

English/Nat Hundreds of penguins - victims of an oil spill off the coast of South Africa - have been saved by a remarkable air-sea rescue mission. The country's air force picked up the flightless birds and flew them to an emergency ...

1. Various of woman with drip lying on stretcher in the corridor 2. Woman and her sick daughter taking a nap sitting on the hall 3. Various of patients at cholera ward 4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Doctor Guillermo Hernandez, director of...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: New spill in the Gulf spews oil CAPTION: A tow boat slammed into an abandoned well north of a bay that had already been hit by crude from the Gulf oil spill. It sent a plume of oil and gas spewing into the air....

July 1, 2009 +Underwater Shots+ 1. Various of damaged and dead coral 2. Various of coral attached to rusted anchor 3. Various of damaged and dead coral July 3, 2009 4. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Marthen Welly, TNC Indonesia Marine...

1. Wide rubbish piled up just outside makeshift shelter camp, cow grazing on steaming rubbish 2. Close of tent camp, children running through 3. Various shots of people walking across muddy ground in camp 4. Woman standing with...

Spanish/Nat Efforts are continuing to avoid an environmental disaster in Colombia. Oil slicks are making their way down rivers and heading towards cities as rebel guerrilla forces continue to dynamite oil pipelines. Only last week a...

1. Wide of thousands of residents, from areas devastated by December's oil spill, marching on the street during rally to demand compensation 2. Mid of residents marching with placards during rally 3. Man holding oysters surrounded by...

1. Wide pan of exterior of the Quinta de Olivos, official presidential residence 2. Mid of security 3. Wide of security closing gate 4. Pan of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, Uruguay President Jos� Mujica and ministers...

Kolontar 1. Aerial showing burst reservoir at Kolontar, zoom in 2. Aerial showing burst reservoir at Kolontar, zoom out Devecser 3. Aerial showing damage in Devecser Near Gyor 4. Aerial showing Danube and Mosoni-Duna rivers...

Russian/Nat The Russian city of Dzerzhinsk was once so secret it was never marked on charts. Now Greenpeace has put it on the map, declaring it to be the most chemically polluted city in Russia and home to the world's most poisonous...

Spanish/Nat The Colombian government will launch a programme to rehabilitate the Rio Bogota, - one of the world's most polluted rivers. The river is being threatened by local industries which each day dump tons of toxic wastes and...

AP Television Ya''an, China - March 17, 2012 1. Close shot panda walking to a bamboo stick and sniffing and lying down on ground 2. Wide shot panda lying on the ground eating bamboo 3. Close shot panda eating bamboo 4. Wide shot of...