A bird soaked in oil from the spill caused by the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig struggles against the side of a supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rescue workers search for survivors in a landslide said to have buried more then 300 meters of freeway and four vehicles on Highway 3 in northern Taiwan.
The most polluted city on earth. Located at the heart of a 12-mile industrial belt of iron foundries, smelting plants and cement factories, fed by the 50m tonnes of coal mined every year, unregulated because of rapid development