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Picture, 18 Sep 2013:
A study of mercury contamination from rampant informal gold mining found levels above acceptable limits in the Madre de Dios region
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Picture, 10 Sep 2013:
On 15 September Greenpeace will haul a giant people-powered polar bear through central London
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Picture, 21 Aug 2013:
Huge edifice containing 10,000 plants and designed to reduce urban flooding opens on side of hotel in Victoria
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Picture, 6 Aug 2013:
A lack of sea ice, caused by global warming, meant the bear was unable to hunt seals and starved, according to an expert who had been monitoring the animal
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Picture, 16 Jul 2013:
A 154-meter high hoist is used to install a dome on the reactor building at the site of the third generation European Pressurised Water Reactor in Flamanville, France
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Picture, 27 Jun 2013:
A breathtakingly beautiful and still evolving map of all rivers in the US
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Picture, 1 May 2013:
Workers from a pine plantation helped the animal group Wires to relocate several koalas into new habitat after logging activities displaced them
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Picture, 19 Mar 2013:
This combination picture shows varying levels of air pollution over Tiananmen Square during the National People's Congress in Beijing
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Picture, 18 Mar 2013:
At full capacity, the project will power thousands of homes in the United Arab Emirates and displace 175,000 tons of CO2 a year
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Picture, 6 Feb 2013:
New footage of emperor penguins in Antarctica will be seen in the BBC's Penguins - Spy in the Huddle
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Picture, 1 Feb 2013:
Campaigners have spent weeks camped out at three sites in Combe Haven, East Sussex, to protest against a new 5.6km link road between Bexhill and Hastings
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Picture, 3 Jan 2013:
The north-west part of the state is one of least populated parts of the US but has been aglow in recent years. Click to magnify the image and discover why
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Picture, 14 Sep 2012:
The Greenpeace vessel has sailed to the furthest extent of the annual sea ice to document the melt
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Picture, 12 Sep 2012:
Nowhereisland leaves its final stop in Bristol, after a 2,500-mile journey from the Arctic
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Picture, 15 Aug 2012:
Yao Ming inspects the corpse of an elephant in Namunyak, northern Kenya, as part of his conservation mission to document the poaching crisis in Africa
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