Toxic waste ship sinks off Turkey
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A ship carrying toxic waste sinks after being moored in a southern Turkish harbour for four years.
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A Greek tanker that spilled up to half a million gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River last month apparently gashed its hull on a discarded pipe protruding from the river bottom, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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More than 21 tons of lead, zinc, barium, copper and other toxic metals have fallen or washed away from decaying government ships in Suisun Bay, and high levels of the materials were found in sediment under the vessels, according to a draft report.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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DNA scraped from inside clay vessels show that a ship that sank off the coast of Greece 2,400 years ago was carrying a cargo of olive oil, oregano, and probably wine, researchers reported on Friday.
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A ferry with 105 people on board breaks down and is drifting off Land's End.
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Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website  Bandar Abbas, 9 June: Following a devastating tropical storm, Cyclone Gonu, which hit Persian Gulf region a cargo ship sank in the coastal waters of Haghani jetty in Bandar Abbas on Wednesday, it was announced on Saturday.
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By Angela Haupt  In  just three hours one day last September, volunteers scouring international coastlines and waterways collected more than 7 million pounds of trash -- about the same as the weight of 30 blue whales.
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Bad weather and overloading sank a  boat on a lake between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda  and at least 35 people were feared drowned, a local shipping  official said on Tuesday.
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An unusually large toxic bloom of algae, which could poison humans and taint shellfish, has been detected in the ocean off the northwest coast of Washington state, oceanographers said on Wednesday.
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A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast sinks in "very rough weather", the Coastguard says.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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An Indonesian ferry that caught fire last week, killing at least 42 people, sank on Sunday as officials and journalists on board scrambled for safety.
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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - A valve on a truck hauling animal waste from a Klamath Falls processing plant broke, spilling 4,000 pounds of pig blood. A biohazards cleaning company from Prineville was called in to clean up about 200 feet of roadway flooded by the blood.
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Two people were killed after a garbage   dump they were sifting through collapsed on them near the   Indonesian capital, a police official said on Friday. Media   reports said 22 others may be missing.