Fishing Industry

A former child slave is rescuing victims of child trafficking in Ghana and has built a school to help give them a better future. Once a child slave himself, James Kofi Annan is turning what would be a crippling experience for many into a drive to stamp out child trafficking. Annan quit his promising job at Barclays Bank to open Challenging Heights School. At any time his school has several dozen former child slaves, mixed in with 300 other students. "Every child must go to school," Annan told CNN. "Nobody is free until every child has received at least a basic education.

Dramatically steep seaside cliffs, quaint multicolored hillside buildings and sweeping views of the sea captivate visitors as they enter scenic Positano, perched along Italy's Amalfi Coast. The small, slow-paced Tyrrhenian Sea resort town is tucked into the Lattari Mountains and surrounded by colorful flowers and sweet-smelling lemon and orange trees. Positano was a sleepy fishing village that began to attract large numbers of tourists in the 1950s after John Steinbeck published an essay about the town in Harper's Bazaar, tourism officials say. "Nearly always when you find a place as beautiful as Positano, your impulse is to conceal it," Steinbeck wrote.

Iceland may be best known for world-famous musical export Bjork but there's a new star quickly gaining this island nation worldwide acclaim -- clean energy. For more than 50 years Iceland has been decreasing its dependence on fossil fuels by tapping the natural power all around this rainy, windswept rock of fire. Waterfalls, volcanoes, geysers and hot springs provide Icelanders with abundant electricity and hot water. Virtually all of the country's electricity and heating comes from domestic renewable energy sources -- hydroelectric power and geothermal springs.

As a sunken rig continues to spew 42,000 gallons of oil a day off the Louisiana coast, health and fishing industry experts say seafood will remain safe to eat. "No one should be worrying about whether the shrimp they're having for dinner is going to have oil on it," said Mike Voisin, the past president of the National Fisheries Institute, a nonprofit organization that tracks the fishing industry and advocates seafood safety regulations. There is the possibility, though, that the slick could move inland, threatening sea life in estuaries and seriously damaging the ecosystem.

The third installment of our Going Green series looks at cutting edge ideas from around the globe - from solar boats in Hong Kong and steel plants in South Korea to "upcycling" in the United States and green film festivals in South America. Once again, Philippe Cousteau brings his expertise to CNN reporting on the ideas that are impacting the green movement as well as investigating the plight of loggerhead sea turtles. U.S. beefs up conservation efforts of endangered sea turtles The declining population can be traced in part to man-made problems like the fishing industry and pollution.

The world's coral reefs are under threat. Overfishing, unsustainable tourism, coastal development, pollution, the global aquarium trade and climate change are having a devastating effect on these fragile ecosystems, according to the International Coral Reef Initiative. The group has designated 2008 as International Year of the Reef in a bid to publicize the reefs' precarious predicament. Meanwhile fellow conservation group, Nature Conservancy, warns that if destruction continues at its current rate, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs will have disappeared within 50 years.

Wooden sailboats and steering wheels from ships decorate the cavernous Nosa Senora da Barca, or "Our Lady of the Boat" church. Last week, a small congregation from the neighboring fishing village of Muxia gathered to pray in this stone chapel, which stands 100 feet from where the foaming Atlantic Ocean pounds the rocky coast. Here, along the stormy Costa da Morta, or Coast of Death, locals are raised with the knowledge that the sea is a capricious neighbor, one that can be as bountiful as it can be dangerous.

From CNN Financial News Correspondent Charles Hodson LONDON, England (CNN) -- Raise a pint to the popular British and Irish fare of fish and chips -- because threatened cod populations at sea could leave you with more chips and less fish in your basket. The price of cod, in fact, has soared over the last 20 years as the North Sea cod catch has dropped by 85 percent, experts said.

On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way. A mix of island officials and resident volunteers are struggling to save tens of thousands of Northern Rockhopper penguins threatened by an oil spill in the remote stretches of the south Atlantic, roughly 1,500 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa. The islands' conservation director said at least 300 penguins have died after a cargo ship leaked thousands of tons of heavy oil, diesel fuel and soya bean near Nightingale Island, a British territory part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago.

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