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  • Outmaneuvering rush hour gridlock, motorcycles rank as the vehicle of choice for many Santiago commuters. Dressed in a business suit and tie with a helmet, a Chilean businessman parks his motorcycle on a side street with lines of other bikes. Chile's bustling capital and largest city thrives on manufacturing, finance and trade.
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  • Drivers of four-wheeling, off-road vehicles compete while sliding through a slippery race course of muck at a weekend mud bogging contest on Prince of Wales Island. Competitors try to beat the clock as they drive through a water-logged muddy course.
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  • Drivers compete on a mud bog course with all-terrain vehicles.
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  • Workers unload and weigh fish on the dock of a cannery. Petersburg port has the largest home-based halibut fleet in Southeast Alaska.
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  • A couple watches competitors and wait for their turn to use the "misery whip, " a two person cutting saw that typically has a 4-12 foot blade and was used to fell tall Sitka spruce, hemlock and cedar trees in the region's logging heyday. Competition is fierce as loggers are timed to see who can cut through a log the fastest. The logging show on Prince of Wales island is not a tourist event, but a chance for locals to come together and show off their skills.
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  • Women gather compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • Men from a food internet ordering company deliver in re-used glass jars as an attempt to reduce one-use-plastic.
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  • Sections of a pipeline being stockpiled near Sobolevo.
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  • Public art being created via ArtWorks, an apprentice-model workforce development program for youth.
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  • Cave jumpers play in high surf from Hurricane Issac.
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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • A timber faller works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. He turns off his chain saw occasionally to listen for others working on nearby hillsides. It is a way the men look out for each other's safety.<br />
Loggers and fishermen 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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  • The axe throwing contest at the annual logging show is one of the many competitions among locals to show off their skills on Prince of Wales Island. Red bulls eye targets are painted on cuts from trees in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Cody, a timber faller, works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It’s dangerous work, and fallers listen for others’ saws between cuts to make sure a buddy isn't injured. Following his father’s example, Cody wanted to be a timber faller since he was a kid. He got his first chain saw when he was nine and has been working since he turned seventeen.<br />
  He leaves home at 5 a.m. driving an hour to the work site. Carrying a heavy chain saw, he walks with the grace of a ballet dancer on a maze of fallen trees. His shoes, called corks that cost as much as $750, have metal-spiked soles so he is stable on fallen trees.<br />
  Loggers and fishermen 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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  • The Logger of the Year winner hugs his girlfriend in red boots to celebrate after he won in the annual logging show held in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island. The Southeast Alaskan competition is the “real thing”—not a tourist show—where loggers, former loggers, and “wannabe” loggers compete, climbing trees and sawing timber.
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  • A man with a shovels coal sludge after a mining accident occurred when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky broke into an abandoned underground mine in October 2000. An estimated 306 million gallons of oozing black waste containing arsenic and mercury killed everything in a creek and measured five feet deep covering nearby yards and surrounding some homes. Drinking water was contaminated for 27,000 residents as tributaries carried it to the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers. It is considered one of the worst environmental disasters in the southeastern United States and although largely cleaned up, water quality issues exist and residents still find sludge and slurry in surface water.
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  • Workmen survey a cleared portion of the Meadowlands.
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  • Women gather compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • A woman gathers compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • A woman gathers compost from restaurants and stores to be re-used by farmers.
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  • Water is pumped to a football field in New Mexico.
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  • A laborer at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Maintenance to a truck that hauls hundred of tons of waste rock.
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  • Ghanaian men building a volunteer health clinic.
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  • A timber faller works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor. It is dangerous work and cuts are calculated so a tree will fall cleanly to prevent injuries.
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  • An indigenous man from the rainforest protests in Quito surrounded by police.
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  • Police guard the streets in Quito while indigenous women look on.
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  • Dirt flies up as horses gallop down the track in front of the twin spires of Churchill Downs. Horses are competing for a million dollar purse and a place in history.  First held in 1875, the Kentucky Derby is one of THE most famous two minutes in thoroughbred racing.
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  • Mer de Glace Glacier in the Alps has lost 1000 meters in 130 years and thinned 150 meters in the last 100.  Children don helmets and clamp on crampons and to run playing on crevices between the last bit of melting ice on the northern slopes of Mont Blanc.
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