The Sand
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| Initial release | August 28, 2015 |
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| Directors | Isaac Gabaeff |
| Composers | Vincent Gillioz |
| Cinematography | Matt Wise |
| Screenplay | Alex Greenfield |
| Ben Powell | |
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| ID | 1397996 |
About The Sand
After an all-night party, hung over revelers awaken to a beating sun and a carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat.
Climate crisis: Three women helping wildlife survive
... So when she and her team notice that turtles have nested below the high water mark, they dig into The Sand to rescue the eggs and move them to a safer place...
In Gaza, fleeing refugees face hunger and disease: 'We are in the Dark Ages'
... On Saturday morning, a young family was washing themselves and their clothes in the sea, trying to avoid the rubbish floating on the water and strewn on The Sand...
The man rescuing Britain's 'magical' glow worms
... " Successive governments have been burying their heads in The Sand on this, basically listening to a small vociferous minority who don t want to see reintroduction of things like pine martens and beavers...
Cleethorpes: Chris Packham praises girl, 3, for saving starfish
... " Jessie and her mum had been walking on Cleethorpes beach on Saturday when they spotted the five-armed animals stranded on The Sand...
Rushdi Abu Alouf: My daughters beg for Gaza City return - but our old lives are over
... My wife and I often walked together on The Sand in the morning...
Google Pixel's face-altering photo tool sparks AI manipulation debate
... So, is there a line Google would not cross when it comes to image manipulation? Mr Reynolds said the debate about the use of artificial intelligence was too nuanced to simply point to a line in The Sand and say it was too far...
Zaka: The volunteers giving dignity to Israel's dead
... It was still dark went Frankel arrived, and Israeli soldiers were still exchanging gunfire with Hamas, so he lay on The Sand waiting until it was safe...
How an Israel music festival turned into a nightmare after Hamas attack
... People tried to flee the site, she said, running across The Sand and getting into their cars to drive away - but partygoers said there were jeeps full of gunmen, shooting at the cars...
Karachi's Clifton Beach swamped by syringes and medical waste
It should have been a relaxing Morning Walk along one of Pakistan's most beloved beaches.
Instead, it became a race against Time to prevent anyone being seriously hurt by The Used syringes, vials of blood and other medical waste carpeting the shoreline.
"My first response was that I had to protect the People who go down to The Beach ," Shaniera Akram told the BBC. "It was very shocking. "
Clifton Beach, in the southern city of Karachi , is a favourite with local residents. But following heavy rains, four of five kilometres of its usually Golden Sands had become covered in rubbish, with the hazardous medical waste hidden In Between plastic bags.
The Beach , Mrs Akram - who is married to Pakistani cricket legend Wasim Akram - quickly realised, was unsafe.
"I have walked on The Beach Every Day for The Last four years and I have never been scared until today," she tweeted as she shared pictures taken along The Shore on Tuesday morning.
Within the space of 10 Minutes , she added, she had counted "More Than four dozen" syringes on The Sand : "Clifton Beach, at this moment, is Extremely Dangerous and needs to be shut down. "
"It was like a hospital had washed up on our beach," the Australian-born mother-of-three told the BBC. "This is the First Time in my Time here that I have heard of something like this. "
Indeed, by all accounts, the medical waste's appearance is highly unusual. But Karachi - a city of More Than 14 million People - has been struggling with accumulating waste for some Time .
The pictures, shared on Social Media , sparked outrageAccording to Dawn newspaper, about a third of the 13,000 tonnes of.
Another report, This Time by news channel Al Jazeera , while also showing how open sewers were flowing underneath a carpet of rubbish into the Arabian Sea - the same sea which laps Clifton Beach.
Jamil Ahmed Khan , Parliamentary Secretary for maritime affairs, went as far as to admit to Al Jazeera that the provincial government had "failed" to deal with the issue over The Past decade.
But the medical waste is particularly shocking to Mohammad Moazzam Khan, who works as a technical adviser for The World Wildlife Fund.
"This has never happened before," Mr Khan said. "More Than 20 years ago, when awareness about environment was not widespread, it wasn't unusual to find hospital waste dumped on general waste dumping spots.
"But then there were increasing controls, and hospital waste dumping got more organised. "
Exactly where the medical waste strewn along Clifton Beach originated is unclear. Officials told the BBC that they did not know its origin. But Mr Khan believes he knows how it ended Up There .
Clifton Beach is popular with locals and tourists"It looks like the waste found on The Beach basically came from such a dump which got washed into The Sea due to the extraordinarily heavy rains that have hit Karachi during The Last couple of weeks," he told the BBC.
At least for now, though, the medical waste on Clifton Beach is being properly dealt with. Officials in The City cordoned off the affected areas within hours of Mrs Akram's call for help on Twitter.
But she is hoping the shocking images - and the shocked response they elicited from her fellow Karachi residents - Will prompt The Authorities to act.
"People here have been in a state of fight or flight for many years, and we have missed out on this People in The West take for granted - Things like Waste Management ," She Said .
"But we are Getting There , one problem at a Time . I Am glad that I got the response that I did. I hope this becomes something positive. It's all just coming Together - People are trying. "
Additional reporting by the BBC's M Ilyas Khan
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Source of news: bbc.com
