Nearly 40 years later, workers on banana plantations in Central America are mobilizing for reparations for the problems caused by the pesticide Nemagon, including cancer and sterility.
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Bird, fish, mollusk and crustacean populations have been devastated by the "black tide" caused by the massive oil spill off the coast of northwest Spain and will take years to recover, say experts. In the sunken tanker 'Prestige' sit another 60,000 tons of fuel.
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