The document is a collection of news photographs from various environmental disasters and issues between 1989 and 2009. It includes photos of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, fish dying in an Indian lake due to pollution, heavy smog in Hong Kong, oil sands mining in Canada, and a large patch of garbage in the Pacific Ocean. The photos provide visual examples of different types of environmental damage that occurred over a 20 year period.

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2.  In this April 9, 1989 file
photo, crude oil from the
tanker Exxon Valdez, top,
swirls on the surface of
Alaska's Prince William
Sound near Naked Island, 16
days after the tanker ran
aground, spilling millions of
gallons of oil and causing
widespread environmental
damage. The Supreme Court
on Wednesday
June 25, 2008 slashed the $2.5
billion punitive damages
award in the Exxon Valdez
disaster to $500 million.
(John Gaps III/Associated
Press)
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3.  A worker creates ripples in the water to push dead fish towards the banks in
Puttenahalli Lake in Bangalore, India, on June 16, 2005. Thousands of fish died
due to contaminated water. (Gautam Singh/Associated Press)
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4.  Thick smog shrouds
Hong Kong on
Tuesday, Sept. 14,
2004, pushing air
pollution near the
airport to an all-
time record of 201
on the territory's
Air Pollution Index.
The government
warned the general
public to reduce
physical exertion
and outdoor
activities in the
highly polluted
area. (Anat Givon/
Associated Press)
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5.  Mining trucks carry
loads of oil-laden sand
after being loaded by
huge shovels at the
Albian Sands oilsands
project in
Ft. McMurray, Alta., in
2005. It was that year
when Canada, then
head of UN climate
change talks, became
the first country to
announce it would not
meet its Kyoto target
of a six percent
emissions cut between
2008-12. Canada's
emissions ballooned
by 29 per cent instead.
(Jeff McIntosh/
Associated Press)
http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/world/3310/

6.  An image provided by the
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography shows a
patch of garbage in the
Pacific Ocean on Aug. 11,
2009. The Great Pacific
Garbage Patch, about
1,000 miles west of
California, is a vortex
formed by ocean currents
and collects human-
produced trash. The patch
is estimated to be larger
then the state of Texas.
(Mario Aguilera/
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography/Associated
Press)
http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/world/3310/