Six Decades After War, Cleanup Is a Constant
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FUERSTENSEE, Germany Deep in the Pomeranian forest, hidden among the groves of scraggly pine and birch, the World War II bomb squad is hard at work.
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Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.
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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to launch its final Sept. 11 contamination cleanup program next month, more than five years after the attacks and following years of criticism that the agency still has not done enough.
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And recent history repeats itself.
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Victory helps erase decades of futility for entire region.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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Residents begin the massive cleanup of one of the costliest US natural disasters ever.
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Nuclear equipment and materials in Iraq were dismantled and removed by professionals systematically, diplomats here said Thursday, indicating that this work has lasted at least one year since 2003.
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Years after graduation, there's still an annual longing for a clean slate.
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Twenty years after the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster killed 7,000 people, maimed thousands for life, and eventually claimed at least 15,000 more lives, the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy still await justice.
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KULSHICHI, Belarus -- No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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Iraq's marshlands are about halfway restored to their 1970s condition, according to the United Nations.
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A decade of instability and conflict leaves an environmentally devastated Iraq, but the international community is moving to clean it up, as the United Nations announced Tuesday
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It&#39;s the war that will not die. How can it be that three decades after we finally left Vietnam to its own devices, the events of that time still have the power to inflame us?
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More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.
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Decades of war have made mourning an all too familiar ritual. Nowadays, however, the grieving often must be done in secret
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TO THE EDITOR:           After visiting some of the western public forests, grasslands and parks, I understand much better about the scars left from drilling and mineral exploration. Vehicle tracks will be there for centuries just like the wagons of early settlers have left their mark.