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Pelicans and sea lions covered in oil are examined and scrubbed clean following a large oil spill along the coast of southern California. Yiming Woo reports.
Firefighters rescue people trapped by floodwaters in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, where heavy rains have left at least 21 dead, according to authorities. IMAGES
Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
Firefighters rescue a miner from a coal mine where at least 11 people died and ten remain trapped following an explosion in central Colombia. The accident in the municipality of Sutatausa occurred due to an accumulation of gases that exploded after a worker's tool caused a spark, Governor Nicolas Garcia told Blu Radio. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
Huntington Beach, Oct 9 (EFE/EPA).- More than 900 people continued Friday with cleaning tasks in different parts of southern California after the spill of some 570,000 liters of oil in the waters of that area almost a week ago.This is an increase of 100 troops compared to Thursday, according to the data provided to EFE by the operations center of the Unified Command, in charge of cleaning, recovering and investigating the environmental disaster. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTGAE SHOWS TAR ACCUMULATES ON THE SHORE AND CONTAMINATED SAND AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, AND CREWS PICK THE TAR FROM THE BEACH AFTER AN OIL SPILL OFF THE COAST OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, US.
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