Diverse pollutants, their devastating effects and gallant efforts being made to utilize renewable alternative sources of energy

Workers drain a leaking sewage tank at a copper mine in Shanghang, China on July 13, 2010. One of China's biggest gold producers was ordered to pay $4.62 million by a local court for a toxic spill. The court also issued prison terms ranging between three years to 42 months to five staff who were found to be involved in the incident, which affected water supplies for 60,000 people.