Thousands Expected for Global Beach Cleanup: ; 7 Million Pounds of Trash Removed in 2006 Effort
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By Brian Skoloff  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Cigarettes are still the biggest trash problem on the world's beaches, according to a group that picks them up.
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MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The Dow Chemical Company and The Glad Products Company today announced the donation of 380,000 trash bags to The Ocean Conservancy for use in the Conservancy's 21st annual International Coastal Cleanup day this coming Saturday, September 16th.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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By Mary Owen, Chicago Tribune  May 24--In an effort to cut energy costs, keep beaches cleaner and reduce closings due to high bacteria levels, the city soon will install 25 solar-powered trash compactors at four Chicago beaches, Park District officials announced today.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 9--Beach restoration in east Destin is halfway done.
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The operation to clean up the toxic waste which has killed seven people in Ivory Coast is to start on Sunday.
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Within the Global Monitoring for Environment an
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A further Â£7 million was donated overnight to help the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami - bringing the total raised so far to Â£32 million, the Disasters Emergency Committee said.
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InfoWorld - In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems, and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world&#39;s beaches.
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coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost of a tsunami that killed at least 12,600. world&#39;s biggest earthquake in 40 years that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra early on Sunday.
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&quot;Seven more are still missing in the area,&quot; Penang Civil Defence Director Mohamad Johari Mohamad Taufik told Reuters. 3-metre high (9-ft) waves hit the coast from around 1:30 pm on Sunday.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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WATER and sanitation supplies from the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) were slated to arrive in Jamaica last night. The supplies include water purification tablets, water containers, chlorine bleach
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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Rescuers are anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands, as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.
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By Dan Lamothe, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 27--The Coast Guard plans to take no action to clean up the first of seven contaminated sites at its yard on Curtis Bay.