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  • A painting of gold mining and production.
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  • Caviar production area in a fishing plant.
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  • Caviar production area in a fishing plant.
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  • Caviar production area in a fishing plant.
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  • Stacked and bundled, red cedar shakes contribute to the forest industry with manufactured wood products milled to cover roofs and walls of buildings.
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  • Artesianal fishermen sell products like octopus, squid and cuttlefish.
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  • Shark fins are sorted at a marine products export company.
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  • Sawmill operator planes boards for specialty wood products.
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  • A woman worker sorts lumber after logs are milled. Few industrial pulp mills remain open since the commercial timber industry fell on hard times. But small family operations like this one continue milling wood for products and local use rather than export.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock are monitored at a copper and gold mine.
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  • A woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine.
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  • A woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine.
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  • A laborer at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, 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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  • A truck that hauls waste rock is washed at Batu Hijau mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Tags identifying miners hang on a numbered board in a display of old equipment at the AJ Gastineau Mill gold mine. Gold was discovered in Juneau at what is now known as Gold Creek, in 1880 and AJ was constructed in 1913 and shut down in 1921. Over the years, the mine recovered 500,00 ounces of gold from 12 million tons of ore.
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  • Shredded remains of trees are the spoils left after a forest is clear cut on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass rainforest is composed of considerable stands of old-growth forest, with some trees more than 800 years old.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth.<br />
The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Timber is cut into cedar shakes and lumber for building and construction creating jobs for locals at a small sawmill operation on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • An oil drilling platform off of Newfoundland.
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  • Senegalese fishermen empty their nets of fish.
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  • Removing the fin from a shark.
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  • A meal of fish is prepared in the kitchen of a Portland restaurant.
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  • Icelanders tap into the geothermal to provide inexpensive energy.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • A cuttlefish processing plant in Tanga.
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  • A fisherman harvests jellyfish.
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  • The Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market in Hong Kong.
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  • Senegalese fishermen returning from setting nets all night.
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  • Fish carcasses on a factory trawler.
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  • On a fish factory trawler, a fisherman processes the catch.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry fish heads.
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  • Workers at the Senevisa shrimp processing factory.
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  • Shrimp fishermen lay their nets in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands.
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  • A longline fishermen in Olafsvik.
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  • Laborers washing their hands at the Visir Fish Factory.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • Hanging cages hold reef fish before transport to China and Hong Kong.
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  • Workers transport laundry baskets full of jellyfish at a fishery.
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  • A live reef fish restaurant in Guangzhou.
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  • Bracelets at Rajesh Exports, the largest gold exporter in the world.
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  • Workers at Rajesh Exports, the largest gold exporter in the world.
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  • Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River.
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  • A teenager sluicing for gold at an improvised mine.
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  • The new town of Karang Pani which supports the nearby gold mining.
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  • A man fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Batu Hijau gold mine's dedicated port facilities at Benete Bay.
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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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  • Miners use mercury to separate gold from rock.
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  • Gold camp at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Illegal mining in a shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • Illegal mining in a shaft on Ashanti Gold land.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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  • Gold from a mine in Ghana is packed and sorted for transport.
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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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  • Miners in a pond mixing mercury with ore to separate out the gold.
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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. It is dangerous work and cuts are calculated so a tree will fall cleanly to prevent injuries.
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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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  • 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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  • Shredded remains of trees on the edge of a forest that was clear cut on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. At nearly 17 million acres, the Tongass rainforest is composed of considerable stands of old-growth forest, with some trees standing more than 800 years old. <br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth.<br />
The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Aerial view of timber that is loaded for export onto a ship on South Prince of Wales. The forest industry depends on overseas sales and load floating logs from a nearby mill in a protected bay.
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  • Sawdust covers a worker’s boots at a salvage mill on Goose Creek on Prince of Wales Island. Although the timber industry has declined in southeast Alaska, the family operation makes red cedar shakes and cuts boards from salvage after a company is done clear cutting trees.<br />
The small company’s work is considered “value–added,” and is acknowledged as the best way to get the most dollars out of each board foot of timber harvested and processed locally.
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  • Timber is loaded for export onto a ship in protected waters on South Prince of Wales island. The forest industry depends on overseas sales of wood that is shipped mostly to Asia.
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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • A worker spreads out cheese cloth while making Alkase cheese in a copper kettle. A signature characteristic of Swiss cheeses is the use of copper. In fact, to be called gruyère, Emmentaler, raclette, or even French Comté, these cheeses must be made using a copper vat because it distributes heat evenly.
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  • Sugar workers chew cane during a break from harvesting charred cane in the hot sun. Canes are burned before they are cut because leaves from the plant are so sharp they dull blades of their machetes. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop is located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • Sugar workers are covered with black char as they harvest cane in the hot sun after fields are burned. Canes are burned before they are cut because leaves from the plant are so sharp they dull blades of their machetes. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • Sugar workers harvest cane in the heat after fields are burned.<br />
Workers are covered with black char when they cut sugar canes with a machete. The sharp leaves destroy workers and tools, so they are burned before the raw sugar is harvested. The stalks are then loaded on a truck, taken to a mill to be processed into white and brown sugar. <br />
The Pomalca sugar cane coop located at Campo Rosaliais, Peru.
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  • Workers collect wild agave in rural Oaxaca where 80% of the mescal made in Mexico. They use it to produce 1,000 liters of mescal a month at a small factory. The laborers cut 8-year old wild maguey instead of domestic plants with machetes they carry on their belts.
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  • Sections of a pipeline being stockpiled near Sobolevo.
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  • Sections of a pipeline being stockpiled near Sobolevo.
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  • A fisheries trawler coming into port.
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  • A meal of fish is prepared in the kitchen of a Portland restaurant.
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  • A meal of fish is prepared in the kitchen of a Portland restaurant.
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  • A meal of fish is prepared in the kitchen of a Portland restaurant.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands.
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  • Fishing off of the Vetmannaeyjar Islands.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.
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  • Icelandic fishermen use the open air to dry cod heads.
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  • A long line fishermen in Olafsvik.
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  • A farmer dries shark meat in an outbuilding on his farm.
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  • Icelanders tap into the geothermal to provide inexpensive energy.
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  • Net fishing outside the port of Burela.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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  • Vigo has the largest biomass fish shipping port in the world.
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