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The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour Documentary
Watch the videoBy 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
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This Woman Removed Tons of Trash From Everest
Watch the videoShe climbed Mount Everest three times, but she’s accomplished another feat: removing several tons of trash from its Tibetan side. Brut nature met Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy.
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Clearing Everest's Trash - 360 | National Geographic
Watch the videoEverest, the world’s highest mountain, has been an elite climbing destination for decades. But rising tourism in the Sagarmatha National Park, has made trash and plastics management a challenge.
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Death Zone Cleaning Mount Everest 2018
Watch the videoDEATH ZONE is a Nepali feature documentary. A story told by 20 Sherpa climbers who take on the impossible mission of restoring Mount Everest - the world's highest garbage dump.
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How dangerous are microplastics? | DW Documentary
Watch the videoMicroplastics have only recently become an issue outside the scientific world. A pioneering researcher in this field, Christian Laforsch is primarily interested in the long-term hazards they pose - something that could assume critical importance for us in the future.
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Mount Everest: 11 tonnes of rubbish cleared - BBC News
Watch the videoCleaners spent weeks collecting food wrappings, cans, bottles and empty toxic cylinders, according to the Nepal Tourism Department.
The four bodies were exposed by melting snow and were carried to base camp and then flown to a hospital in Kathmandu for identification.