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Brisbane is almost up and running again after the worst floods anyone can remember a long, long time. That's largely thanks to the army of volunteers that appeared out of nowhere, including people from interstate who got on planes as soon as they could.
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Did BP hire beach cleanup workers in preparation for President Barack Obama's visit to Louisiana? Jefferson Parish Councilman say so in what he called a dog and pony show staged for the press and the visiting President.
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Everywhere we go, inner space, outer space, above ground, underground we leave a trash trail in our wake. A new report released recently found that ocean and sea floors were littered with 6.8 million pounds of trash.
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The Connecticut River will have its annual spruce up over the weekend, with hundreds of volunteers from around New England donating time and energy to pull trash from the river's waters and surrounding banks.
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Florida--What started out to be a massive man-made reef, completely made out of old tires, has turned into an ecological disaster. The tires have begun to move around, causing damage to nearby a coral reef, as well as getting washed onto the beaches.
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 The federal government is spending almost $15 million over the next year to clean up some of the remaining DEW line sites in the Arctic.
 The wave of debris from the Japanese tsunami that is starting to wash up on the West Coast has prompted a call for volunteers to clean up the trash.
 Firefighters douse smouldering buildings and cleanup crews sweep rubble from the streets of central Athens after a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures.
 A police constable at today's cleanup scene of a Brinks tractor-trailer crash in northeastern Ontario that spilled nearly $5 million in Canadian coins says he felt as if he were "walking on a carpet of loonies and toonies."
As if digging out of the rubble of deadly tornadoes were not enough of a challenge: Midwest residents and cleanup crews now have to work around people trying to exploit the destruction.
Such opportunists come in many forms, including looters, tornado tourists, fraudulent charities and contractors looking to capitalize.
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Dr. Dennis Apeti, Mussel Watch scientist, brings up a trawl full of oysters for testing
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