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Local residents clear blue-green infestation 
(Asianewsphoto)
Updated: 2008-07-03 00:10

A couple look at mounds of algae deposited along a road beside a beach in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province July 1, 2008. A bright green covering of algae is carpeting beaches and the local government said it would take about half a month to clean up the shoreline. [Asianewsphoto]