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Gazan fishermen used as shooting targets by Israeli navy
Photo: Tom Spender on Flickr. The photo wasn't taken at the same time as the video. Since the end of August, fishermen from Gaza - frequent targets of the Israeli navy - have been accompanied out to...
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The death of the Aral Sea
Left - aerial of the Aral Sea in 1989. Right - in 2008. Once one of the world's largest inland seas and home to thousands of species, in under 20 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to ten percent of its...
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Traditional pearl diving in the Gulf is making a comeback
Picture: Mohammad al-Saleh, posted on Flickr, July 31 2008. Due to the dominance of oil, diving for pearls as an industry was left by the wayside, but in recent years this traditional skill has been...
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Boat crosses river full of frantic alligators
When Ray Carson took his boat out to go fishing one morning early July, he didn’t expect the impressive greeting he’d get upon arriving at his usual fishing spot: several hundred frantic, starving...
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Senegal fishermen test life- and energy-saving 'boat kites'
In Senegal, traditional fishermen struggle to meet fuel costs, and risk dying at sea if a dugout canoe motor breaks down. But a French maths teacher may have found a surprising solution: kites. Read...
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