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  • A piece of mining equipment of behemoth proportions operates at a surface coal mining site, Black Thunder, the largest surface coal mine in the U.S.   Located in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the dragline bucket holds 170 cubic yards of coal that is extracted, processed, then loaded onto trains. Almost 100 million tons of low sulpher coal is shipped from this surface mine to power plants.
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  • Elevated view of a small mine operation finding coal after a larger company left. The owner of this operation stated that "One man's trash is another man's treasure." His equipment works on a mountain top coal mine.
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  • A mining employee works around a large piece digging equipment used at Black Thunder, a coal surface mine. Located in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the dragline bucket used at the mine holds 170 cubic yards of coal that is extracted, processed, then loaded onto trains. Almost 100 million tons of low sulpher coal is shipped from this surface mine to power plants.
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  • Scientists in white lab coats check monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Monitoring equipment at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), an underground nuclear waste disposal research facility.<br />
Located in the Swiss Alps, it was established in 1984 as a centre for underground Research and Development (R&D) supporting a wide range of research projects on the geological disposal of radioactive waste. International partners from Europe, Asia and North America are working together at this unique facility.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • A man fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Bulldozers push rocks into hills attempting to reclaim the land after coal mining at a mountaintop removal mining site. This small mine site dwarfs the equipment so they look like toys.
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  • Crew members from a family fishing operation land approximately 1,000 Coho salmon in the boat from a purse seine in waters near Craig, Alaska.<br />
Alaska’s fisheries are some of the richest in the world, with fishermen harvesting hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of salmon, crab, herring, halibut, pollock, and groundfish every year. However, overfishing, exploitation, and poor fisheries management in the ‘40s and ‘50s took a heavy toll on the industry. The state adopted drastic measures that saved the fishing industry from collapse. Tough times again hit the fishermen in the 1970s as the number of boats grew and increasingly efficient gear depleted catch levels to record lows.<br />
Permit systems and reserves helped the commercial industry recover in the late ‘70s—a trend that has continued to the present because of cooperation between scientists and fishermen.<br />
Fishermen and loggers rank in the top two spots for most dangerous jobs. Both are common lines of work for people in the Alaskan outdoors. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal occupational injuries in 1980, there were 4,547 fatal work injuries in 2010, and fatality rates of some occupations remain alarmingly high.
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  • Tourists photograph a native dancer in body paint.
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  • A fisheries trawler coming into port.
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  • Factory trawlers at the port of Dakar.
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  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Fishermen mend nets aboard a boat with lights that atrract squid.
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  • A photographer takes images inside the Ocean Park Aquarium.
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  • Adjusting the wings of the trawler net on a factory ship.
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  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • As researchers take measurements to study a brown bear (Ursus arctos) they trapped and tranquilized near the Unuk River, the grizzlies eyes open. They had to work quickly  as the sedative began to wear off.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • A robotic leg with electrodes monitors changes in muscle activity.
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  • A talking robot helps a 69-year-old woman shop.
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  • Musicians play lively dance music on a small outdoor stage for a crowd.
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  • A woman checks her cell phone on busy Lincoln Road.
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  • U.S. Border patrol officers take a break at the Montana/Canadian border after riding their trained mustangs in the rough backcountry.
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  • Families gather for a boat ride and check a crab pot that also contained a common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) that feeds on crabs and other intertidal, marine creatures.
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  • Father and daugter kayak on still water near Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound on Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest.
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  • A boy proudly displays the salmon he caught when the family was fishing near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Two fishermen net a salmon near Prince of Wales Island in the pristine waters of Southeast Alaska.
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  • A logger takes a coffee break near a campfire  while cutting trees in a snow-dusted forest near Lake Bled.
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  • Bulldozers fill trucks with excess rock at a small mountaintop removal site in Man, West Virginia, where a small crew is mining coal in a site in Logan County that was left by a large coal company as rubble. Mine operator Gordon Justice said, "One man's trash is another man's treasure."<br />
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Large mining operations are only visible from the air, although coal and debris are removed using enormous earth-moving machines known as draglines that stand 22 stories tall and can hold 24 compact cars in its bucket. The machines can cost up to $100 million, but are favored by coal companies because they can do the work of hundreds of employees. A small operation like this one can keep 17 employees working for five years and making good wages.
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  • Dust rises up from Black Thunder, the largest surface coal mine in the U.S. located in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The dragline bucket holds 170 cubic yards of coal that is extracted, processed, then loaded onto trains. Almost 100 million tons of low sulpher coal is shipped from this surface mine to power plants.
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  • Drivers using cell phones in a parking lot of a scenic stop in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The 13-mile drive through ancient sand dunes is a protected area near Las Vegas under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and Southern Nevada Conservancy.
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  • The Tangle Lakes area contains reveries for paddlers.
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  • Seagulls feast on a garbage dump in the Meadowlands.
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  • Two men cast crab traps into the Hackensack River at twilight.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • An oil drilling platform off of Newfoundland.
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  • Workers boring a tunnel that will divert the Omo River.
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  • A scientist studies salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • Scientists study salmon fish in the Kol River Biostation.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.
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  • Residents of a remote village ride a motorcycle.
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  • A local indigenous girl attends a salmon festival.
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  • A trucker will haul a load of these coho to a nearby processing plant.
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  • Net fishing outside the port of Burela.
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  • Fishermen set nets for live reef fish.
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  • Satellite dishes in the fishing village of Pulau Misa.
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  • A photographer dives off the coast of Komodo Island.
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  • Hookah divers searching for lobsters off the coast of Indonesia.
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  • A beach community in Saint Louis, Senegal.
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  • Canoe fishermen in the waters off of Dakar.
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  • Artisanal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.
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  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Fishermen on a factory trawler in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Canoe fishermen in the waters off of Dakar.
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  • Net fishermen in the waters off of Mbour.
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  • Canoe fishermen in the waters off of Mbour.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands.
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  • A worker at Kwun Tong Fish Market.
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  • Atlantic bumpers are a crucial food source in Africa.
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  • Senegalese fishermen haul in nets loaded with fish.
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  • Hookah divers searching for lobsters off the coast of Indonesia.
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  • Billboards advertising gold wedding jewelry.
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  • Masai tribesman near Serengeti National Park with cell phone.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribespeople with hunting net and baby in sling in forest.
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  • A man, television, brooms, and tables outside a back doorway.
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  • A satellite dish for international programs is in a courtyard.
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  • A family churns butter while watching television.
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  • Adem Keismal, left, works on a generator that is powered by snowmelt.
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  • Rifat Pinarbas readies his nets on the family fishing boat.
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  • Crew members aboard the research vessel Northern Horizon prepare to lower the s ubmersible Little Hercules into the Black Sea.  Robert D. Ballard, in blue shir t, watches.
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  • Mohanis fishermen and cargo rivermen  use flat bottom boats.
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  • Fishermen laying nets with terra cotta weights.
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  • Fair-goers can watch amusement riders' reactions on a large-screen TV set up at a local fair.
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  • A Lions Club volunteer is interviewed at the Del Norte County Fair.
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  • High school cheerleaders gather backstage to prepare for their routine at the C ullman County Fair.
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  • The Twendy One robot project at Waseda University involves a robot being programmed to help elderly out of bed and into a wheelchair. Twendy One can also pick up a straw and put it into a drink for patients and the scientists hope eventually will be able to help around the kitchen and with shopping.  The hardware is very sophisticated with top of the line sensors everywhere including the very newest tactile sensors embedded in the palm and fingers of both hands, but the software to make all those sensors work in practical ways is lagging.  The hope is these robots will be a practical analytical solution to a burgeoning elderly class in Japan.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • A worker steps inside a giant dragline bucket used to mine coal from Black Thunder, the largest surface coal mine in the U.S. located in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The bucket holds 170 cubic yards of coal that is extracted, processed, then loaded onto trains. Almost 100 million tons of low sulphur coal is shipped from this surface mine to power plants.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • A robot programmed to help elderly out of bed and into a wheelchair.
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  • Tailgaters watch a Lions game on TV, parked in the erstwhile Grand Michigan Theater.
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  • Owner of 'Good Girls Go to Paris' creperie in Detroit.
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  • Melissa Farlow, a photographer on assignment in the Tongass National Forest poses with a tranquilized brown bear (Ursus arctos) that was darted and studied by wildlife researchers.
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  • A tranquilized brown bear (Ursus arctos) creates a problem for Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife researchers. They darted a 16-year-old male in Kingsburg Creek tributary of the Unuk River while studying the grizzly bear range and habitat in southeast Alaska near the Canadian border. <br />
The 600-pound males slipped down the edge of a muddy embankment and was too heavy to move. With only a short time to work before the bear is revived, the two men took their research notes and then quickly built the bear a nest of branches so he wouldn’t fall into the creek upon waking.<br />
Brown bears decline in the range and numbers in the lower 48 states heightened management concern in habitat-related studies. It is believed that brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetlands, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.
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  • A detail showing a brown bear’s paws and claws while he is tranquilized to be radio-collared by state biologists.  <br />
Grizzly bears, as they are commonly known, are found in most of Alaska from the islands of the Southeast to the Arctic. Over 98 percent of the brown bear population resides in Alaska.<br />
The coastal brown bear is the world’s largest carnivorous land mammal. Nearly 45,000 brown bears (Ursus arctos), roam Alaska, weigh up to 1,100 pounds. Salmon is their primary food source.
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  • A cigar-smoking, casually dressed fan stands in the clubhouse courtyard of Churchill Downs on Derby day. Fans crowd into the paddock with racing programs to place their bets and watch the horses being saddled.
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  • A woman looks through a microscope at an invasive species of worm.
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  • Bulldozers line up to scrape layers of coal that are loaded into trucks at a mountain top removal mine site.
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  • A large industrial mining truck carries a load of coal from Black Thunder, the largest surface mine in the U.S. Located in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, the mine extracts coal that is transported by rail to power plants in the East.
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