Soldiers on hand to tackle green plight

2008-7-4

It's a sea of green as soldiers collect algae on a Qingdao beach in eastern China's Shandong Province yesterday. More than 10,000 people and 1,200 vessels have been mobilized to tackle the huge algae bloom threatening the Olympic sailing events in the sea of Qingdao. So far, 285,000 tons of the algae have been removed from the water and seashore, a municipal government spokesman said yesterday.

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