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Fire Breaks Out At Buddhist Cultural Center Next To Jogyesa Temple In Central Seoul
Buddhist monks watch the scene of a fire with concern at the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Center next to Jogyesa Temple in Jongno District, central Seoul. The fire is reported at 10:23 a.m., and 306 personnel from the fire department and police are deployed to respond in Seoul, South Korea, on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto) -
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Fire Breaks Out At Buddhist Cultural Center Next To Jogyesa Temple In Central Seoul
Buddhist monks watch the scene of a fire with concern at the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Center next to Jogyesa Temple in Jongno District, central Seoul. The fire is reported at 10:23 a.m., and 306 personnel from the fire department and police are deployed to respond in Seoul, South Korea, on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto) -
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Fire Breaks Out At Buddhist Cultural Center Next To Jogyesa Temple In Central Seoul
Buddhist monks watch the scene of a fire with concern at the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Center next to Jogyesa Temple in Jongno District, central Seoul. The fire is reported at 10:23 a.m., and 306 personnel from the fire department and police are deployed to respond in Seoul, South Korea, on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto) -
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Fire Breaks Out At Buddhist Cultural Center Next To Jogyesa Temple In Central Seoul
Buddhist monks watch the scene of a fire with concern at the Korean Buddhist History and Culture Memorial Center next to Jogyesa Temple in Jongno District, central Seoul. The fire is reported at 10:23 a.m., and 306 personnel from the fire department and police are deployed to respond in Seoul, South Korea, on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Services At Vienna Westbahnhof
An ambulance from the Wiener Rotes Kreuz (Vienna Red Cross) parks outside the Westbahnhof railway station during an active medical response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Services At Vienna Westbahnhof
An ambulance from the Wiener Rotes Kreuz (Vienna Red Cross) parks outside the Westbahnhof railway station during an active medical response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Services At Vienna Westbahnhof
An ambulance from the Wiener Rotes Kreuz (Vienna Red Cross) parks outside the Westbahnhof railway station during an active medical response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Response At A Metro Station
An emergency ambulance from Berufsrettung Wien is stationed at the Keplerplatz U-Bahn entrance during an active response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. Crowds pass by the busy shopping street while emergency personnel are on site, highlighting the coordination of public services in a densely frequented urban area. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Response At A Metro Station
An emergency ambulance from Berufsrettung Wien is stationed at the Keplerplatz U-Bahn entrance during an active response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. Crowds pass by the busy shopping street while emergency personnel are on site, highlighting the coordination of public services in a densely frequented urban area. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Emergency Medical Response At A Metro Station
An emergency ambulance from Berufsrettung Wien is stationed at the Keplerplatz U-Bahn entrance during an active response in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. Crowds pass by the busy shopping street while emergency personnel are on site, highlighting the coordination of public services in a densely frequented urban area. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Ambulance Response In Vienna
An ambulance from Berufsrettung Wien drives through urban traffic during an emergency call while a woman on a cargo bicycle waits at a red light in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2025. The scene captures a typical moment of coexistence between emergency services and civilian mobility in the city. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Longueuil
LONGUEUIL, CANADA – JUNE 6:
A poster with the message 'Désordre mondial et crise au Canada' ('Global disorder and crisis in Canada') is seen on a lamppost in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, on June 6, 2025. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto) -
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Elderly Man Entering Home With Walker Support
An elderly man with a walking aid attempts to open the front door of his residence, navigating steps with visible effort in Luebeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on August 28, 2022. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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The Land-ownership Polemic Solution's
Abandoned high-rise buildings are involved in the polemic of land ownership and business use certification cases after the policy of the grand sultan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 13, 2025. The number of major sultanates in North Sumatra that have heirs and carry out traditions probably does not change much in the last 10 years. Their focus is more on cultural and historical aspects of existence. Meanwhile, the issue of transparency in resolving land cases, including those involving sultanate claims, remains an important concern in North Sumatra. (Photo by Sutanta Aditya/NurPhoto) -
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The Land-ownership Polemic Solution's
Abandoned high-rise buildings are involved in the polemic of land ownership and business use certification cases after the policy of the grand sultan in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 13, 2025. The number of major sultanates in North Sumatra that have heirs and carry out traditions probably does not change much in the last 10 years. Their focus is more on cultural and historical aspects of existence. Meanwhile, the issue of transparency in resolving land cases, including those involving sultanate claims, remains an important concern in North Sumatra. (Photo by Sutanta Aditya/NurPhoto) -
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Family, Friends, And Feminist Groups Mobilize For The Disappearance Of Fanny Zúñiga Martinez In Milpa Alta, Mexico City
Dionisia Zuniga, the mother of Fanny Zuniga Martinez, protests in Los Olivos Park for the disappearance of her daughter in the Milpa Alta district of the capital. Her daughter disappears on April 22 when she goes to make payments in San Antonio Tecomitl and has not been seen since. On May 7, 2025. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto) -
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Family, Friends, And Feminist Groups Mobilize For The Disappearance Of Fanny Zúñiga Martinez In Milpa Alta, Mexico City
Dionisia Zuniga, the mother of Fanny Zuniga Martinez, protests in Los Olivos Park for the disappearance of her daughter in the Milpa Alta district of the capital. Her daughter disappears on April 22 when she goes to make payments in San Antonio Tecomitl and has not been seen since. On May 7, 2025. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto) -
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Grapevines Along Pumphouse Rd In The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Grapevines receive direct sunlight along Pumphouse Rd and Babel Slough in Clarksburg, Calif., on May 1, 2025. Farmers in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta express concern about the Delta Conveyance Project's impact on agriculture in the area. (Photo by Penny Collins/NurPhoto) -
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Bangladesh: Emerging Pathogen Found in Chicken Meat
May 6, 2025, Chittagong, Bangladesh: Chittagong, Bangladesh: A chicken is butchered in a Bangladesh meat shop. A newly identified and highly infectious bacterium, Escherichia albertii, has been detected in broiler chicken meat in Bangladesh. Closely related to E. coli, this variant is more dangerous, linked to severe gastrointestinal illness, kidney complications. In Japan, E. albertii has been linked to multiple mass food poisoning outbreaks, affecting over 100 people at a time. E. albertii has been found to be antibiotic resistant. (Credit Image: © Md Rafayat Haque Khan/ZUMA Press Wire (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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Road Infrastructure In Germany
Workers with protective gear operate heavy machinery and manage excavation tasks at a road construction site in Gauting, Starnberg District, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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Road Infrastructure In Germany
A maze of temporary plastic barriers and warning signs surrounds a large construction area in the town center of Gauting, Starnberg District, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on November 17, 2020. The image illustrates widespread infrastructure problems in Germany, where delayed maintenance and underinvestment often lead to prolonged and disruptive roadworks. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto) -
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From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes - and other countries are looking to follow their lead.
This hasn't always been the case. In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers such as the Aare and Limmat on health grounds.
Now, Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants: a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear.
Bains des Paquis, a man-made jetty, beach and swimming area in the centre of the Geneva on the lake.
The two men in these pictures are swimmers quoted in the story. They are pictured on the BDP.
On the left, Pascal Baudin, and on the right, Rene Rottenberg.
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From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes - and other countries are looking to follow their lead.
This hasn't always been the case. In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers such as the Aare and Limmat on health grounds.
Now, Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants: a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear.
Michael Mattle, head of wastewater technology at engineering company Holinger, Geneva, Switzerland.
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From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes - and other countries are looking to follow their lead.
This hasn't always been the case. In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers such as the Aare and Limmat on health grounds.
Now, Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants: a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear.
This is engineer Frederic Galley
The factory is the Villette wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The bits of equipment he is pictured in front of is the micropollutant treatment. Essentially it is pumping water through activated charcoal.
The picture of him next to the big basin of bubbly water is the bacterial treatment part.
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From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
From sewage and scum to swimming in 'blue gold': how Switzerland transformed its rivers.
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes - and other countries are looking to follow their lead.
This hasn't always been the case. In the 1960s, Switzerland had among the dirtiest water in Europe, blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. For decades, swimming was banned in some rivers such as the Aare and Limmat on health grounds.
Now, Switzerland is leading the world in purifying its water of micropollutants: a concoction of chemicals often found in bodies of water that look crystal clear.
This is engineer Frederic Galley
The factory is the Villette wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The bits of equipment he is pictured in front of is the micropollutant treatment. Essentially it is pumping water through activated charcoal.
The picture of him next to the big basin of bubbly water is the bacterial treatment part.
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'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.
On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.
A polluted river in Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador on December 5th, 2024.
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'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.
On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.
The river in Santa Rosa de Lima, with runoff from a mine on December 5th, 2024.
Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.
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Seascape: the state of our oceans 'It's nonstop': how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway's whales
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater.
Heike Vester at home in Bodo, Norway. Her love of whales comes partly from her interest in matrilineal societies. She lives right on the water.
Vester has made hundreds of recordings from the sea in Vestfjorden over decades.
Recordings made with the hydrophone, analysed at Vester's home in Bodo, indicate a significant rise in noise pollution in the region.
Blue whales are returning to fjords but they face threat from noise pollution.
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Seascape: the state of our oceans 'It's nonstop': how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway's whales
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater.
Heike Vester at home in Bodo, Norway. Her love of whales comes partly from her interest in matrilineal societies. She lives right on the water.
Blue whales are returning to fjords but they face threat from noise pollution.
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Seascape: the state of our oceans 'It's nonstop': how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway's whales
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater.
Heike Vester at home in Bodo, Norway. Her love of whales comes partly from her interest in matrilineal societies. She lives right on the water.
Blue whales are returning to fjords but they face threat from noise pollution.
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Seascape: the state of our oceans 'It's nonstop': how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway's whales
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater.
Heike Vester at home in Bodo, Norway. Her love of whales comes partly from her interest in matrilineal societies. She lives right on the water.
Vester has made hundreds of recordings from the sea in Vestfjorden over decades.
Recordings made with the hydrophone, analysed at Vester's home in Bodo, indicate a significant rise in noise pollution in the region.
Blue whales are returning to fjords but they face threat from noise pollution.
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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.
Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.
Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
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Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's mother Rosamun to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution
UK government offers undisclosed sum in compensation to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah for daughter's untimely death.
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah said every child had a right to breathe clean air, 'no matter where they live, their ethnic background or their economic status'.
Rosamun Kissi-Debrah, mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah air pollution case has been settled with three government departments, namely: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Department for Transport (DoT) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Leimer Morales, 23, competing in the stand-up-paddle Copa America, on the beaches of Cartagena. He learnt to surf through the Fundaci—n Amigos del Mar
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Pedro Salazar, founder and director of the Fundaci—n Amigos del Mar, speaks to children that form part of his organisation ahead of a beach clean up
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Dayana and Tatiana Blanco members of the Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Dayana Blanco founder of Team Uru Uru looking at native plants called totora (Schoenoplectus californicus Ð a bulrush that grows in lakes and marshes in the Americas). - Team Uru Uru is a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Two children walk down a slope in Tierra Bomba, as the skyline of Cartagena lies in the background
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Merk Morales, a local Tierra Bomba resident who has learnt to surf through the Fundaci—n Amigos del Mar, carried a board which bears fins made of recycled plastic. The Cartagena skyline lies in the background.
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Merk Morales, a local Tierra Bomba resident who has learnt to surf through the Fundaci—n Amigos del Mar, places fins made of recycled plastic on a surfboard
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
A handful of bottle caps collected from the streets of Tierra Bomba
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Magnelis Torres and his aunt place bottle caps they have collected from the streets of Tierra Bomba into a bag for recycling
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
A local child carries a surfboard across a beach on the island of Tierra Bomba that is cluttered with litter
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'Waste has value': how surfing helps Colombia solve its plastic problem
The Amigos del Mar has found a way to help Tierra Bomba island clean up its beaches - and get children back to school.
Amigos del Mar has set up the Olas Paz programme (known as the Clean Wave Project in English), transforming the thousands of plastic bottle caps that pollute Tierra Bomba into surfboard fins.
In Tierra Bomba, plastic bottle caps, bags, wrappers, toys and other plastic waste constantly washes up on the white sand beaches, where it accumulates due to the lack of adequate waste collection services.
Magnelis Torres, a local resident of Tierra Bomba, takes part in the weekly surf lesson organised by the Fundaci—n Amigos del Mar on the beach of Playa Linda
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.
In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.
Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, walks through Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok's plastic pollution
Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.
In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.
Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.
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