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Scientists in Southern California are trying to design the next oil, and it may be floating in most oceans and ponds. Researchers say algae may be the next alternative to oil. The AP's John Mone reports.
HEADLINE: Could Algae be oil's next competitor?
CAPTION: Scientists in Southern California are trying to design the next oil, and it may be floating in most oceans and ponds. Researchers say algae may be the next alternative to oil....
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More people than ever are living in cities
Mumbai, 5 Dec, 2007
1. Pan of a roadside pavement showing pavement dwellers
2. Mid of a pot over fire
3. Municipal workers sweeping as a woman bathes her child on the roadside
4. Mid of child being soaped
5. Wide of mother applying soap...
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RR9418/C - CHILE: BIO-BIO RIVER
(dur: 8 min 47 sec/eng.sot: 34 sec/spanish sot: 29 sec) Music: Symphony From The New World by Antonin Dvorak
Chile is in the grip of a dilemma between the need for economic development and concern for the preservation of the...
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Rat meat is considered a deliacy in Kerala
Perumanthurthu island, Kottayam district, Kerala - 25 July, 2007
1. Wide of backwaters with boats anchored
2. Boatman rowing boat
3. Tracking shot of shoreline from boat
4. Wide of rat-hunters hunting
5. Close of rat dipping into...
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First-ever video images of ocean floor volcanic eruptions
1. Various underwater shot of Ash, and sulfur laden eruptions from the crater of NW Rota-1 volcano
2. Underwater shot of liquid carbon dioxide
3. Underwater shot of vehicle covered with liquid carbon dioxide
4. Underwater shot of robot...
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Jordan warned it is getting hotter and drier than anticipated +REPLAY+
LEADIN:
Studies suggest Jordan is being hit hard by climate change, getting hotter and drier than previously anticipated.
The warning comes as a separate study by 26 institutions including the WHO and the...
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Scientists use outdoor heaters to mimic possible effects of global warming
1. "Gothic" town sign
2. Researchers looking at animals through binoculars
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Blumstein, UCLA Ecology professor:
"The Rocky Mountain Biological lab is one of these places where people come and come and come for...
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Environmental protest against tar sands exploration
1. Wide of anti-tar-sands activists dressed as chefs holding banner
2. Close of activist dressed as chef
3. Tilt down of banner
4. Mid of activist dressed as chef
5. Close of banner showing Canadian and UK flags bleeding oil
6....
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A fifth of the world's plants threatened with extinction
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4034941LEAD IN: Scientists warn that climate change is likely to an increasing threat to the world's plants in the years ahead. There are now 391,000 plants known to science, and more than 20 percent...
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US House Speaker Pelosi testifies on global warming
1. Leader of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi walking to table
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nancy Pelosi, Leader of the US House of Representatives:
++ Partially overlaid with cutaways of audience++
"Scientific evidence suggests...
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Educators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to use a different approach to get kids interested in science. (May 8)
HEADLINE:MIT science festival focuses on kids
CAPTION: Educators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to use a different approach to get kids interested in science. (May 8)
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Reax to WHO's warning on impact of air pollution
Environmental experts in Russia and India have said they're not surprised by a new report showing more than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution.The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday...
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Nobel economics winner predicts US will accept climate science
Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel prize in economics for linking climate change and economics, says there's "pretty widespread acceptance" of climate change science outside the U.S.
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Black rhinos returning to Chad after decades
LEADIN:
Six critically endangered black rhinos are being flown to Chad from South Africa.
Their translocation restores the species to the north-central African country decades after the animals were wiped...
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Black rhinos returning to Chad after decades
LEADIN:
Six critically endangered black rhinos are being flown to Chad from South Africa.
Their translocation restores the species to the north-central African country decades after the animals were wiped...
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Natural home for more than 1,000 orchids
AP Television
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - July 30, 2011
1. Close of orchid Mormodez ramirezii
2. Close of orchid Encyclia radiata
3. Wide of orchid Encyclia radiata
4. Close of orchid Brassavola cucullada
5. Mid of orchid Brassavola...
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WRAP Second day of summit of AU and EU leaders ADDS more
1. Wide of convoy arriving at venue of joint European Union and African Union Summit
2. Various of Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates arriving
3. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jose Socrates, Portuguese Prime Minister:
"We are satisfied...
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Scientists in race against time to find cure for deadly bat disease
AP Television
Perryville, Missouri - March 8, 2012
1. Close, zooms out of hibernating bat in Missouri cave
2. Wide biologists taking samples from cave and bats
3. Close biologist swabbing hibernating bat
4. Close Tony Elliott taking...
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EL SALVADOR: 2ND HAND TYRE SALES BECOME BIG BUSINESS
Spanish/Nat
The sale of second-hand tyres imported from North America and Europe has become a prosperous business in El Salvador.
Control regulations in the country are not as stringent as those in developed countries and the business...
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Study reveals that pollution to blame for cut in lifespans in north of country
July 8, 2013
1. Wide of skyscrapers in Beijing shrouded in smog
2. Top shot of traffic, tilt up to wide of buildings enveloped in smog
3. Wide of buildings in white haze
July 9. 2013
4. Close of Peking University professor Chen Yuyu,...
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Climate change preview, AP looks at coastal erosion in Senegal
Popenguine, 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Dakar
1. Wide of coastline showing collapsed wall and building, due to sea erosion
2. Mid of collapsed building on beach
3. Close-up of the waves lapping the shore
4. Wide of collapsed house...
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Carbon towers help scientists understand tree life
SOURCE: AuBC
Richmond, New South Wales - 21 October 2012
1. Various aerials of carbon structures surrounding trees
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Wohl, environmental scientist:
"It's the only one of its kind in the world right now that's...
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EL SALVADOR: ATTEMPTS TO FIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE REJECTED
Spanish/Nat
Attempts to fight environmental damage in El Salvador are being rejected by the government and industrialists alike.
A new environmental law, approved at the beginning of March, could be the last chance to stop the high...
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UN report on climate change warns global warming will increase risks to humanity
A United Nations panel of scientists issued a stark warning on Monday about the effects of global warming as they concluded a week-long meeting in Yokohama, Japan.
The Nobel-Prize winning group of scientists said that climate change is...