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INDIA: ELEPHANTS KILLED BY FARMERS TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR CROPS
English/Nat
India's elephants, for long the victims of poachers, now face a new threat.
Fourteen have been killed since 1996 by farmers trying to protect their crops.
Now a method originally used by ivory hunters to trap and kill...
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Rare tiger cub born at National Zoo Washington DC
1. Berani the baby tiger comes out
2. Baby tiger plays with mom and on a branch
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Lucy Spelman, Director of the US National Zoo:
"For us its another addition. We are sort of having a rebirth here. We have a...
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A school introduces yoga to try to improve student grades
1. Cherry Trees primary school sign
2. Exterior Cherry Trees school
3. Young Girl with Yoga chimes
4. Socks and shoes
5. Students Practicing yoga
6. Flowers in the yoga field
7. Bare Foot
8. Teacher and pupils practicing...
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Earth worms the secret to recycling waste
1. wide of Mount Nelson hotel
2. wide of Mount Nelson entrance
3. wide of hotel guests at Afternoon Tea
4. close up of tea pot and cups
5. Pan of Mount Nelson estate
6. Sylvia Danster takes out old fruit
7. Sylvia Danster puts fruit...
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Tens of thousands of freshwater turtles are being harvested in Florida for export to Asia. The state prepares to take public comments on setting permanent limits on turtle hunting in Florida.
HEADLINE: Florida considering limiting turtle harvesting
CAPTION: Tens of thousands of freshwater turtles are being harvested in Florida for export to Asia. The state prepares to take public comments on setting permanent limits on...
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NEW Stars including Vanessa Hudgens and Channing Tatum pass on their cold cures
It's that time of year -- when everyone seems to have a runny nose or a hacking cough and people pop vitamin C like candy to try and keep the cold and flu away.
Celebrities we spoke to at the Critics' Choice Awards and the premiere of...
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Kangaroo meat divides diners
Eating kangaroo is not a new phenomenon in Australia.
Aborigines have been tucking into marsupial meat for thousands of years.
But it is only in the last three decades that it's been legally sold for human consumption.
Most Australians...
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Container farms could turn urbanites into growers
AP Television - AP Clients Only
Berlin - 10 May 2012
1. Close up of tomato plant, sun in background
2. Mid of plants in water, water pouring out of hose
3. Close up of plans in water canal
4. Close up of plants in water
5. Wide of...
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Space age to recycled design ideas
AP Television
Dubai - March 17th, 2013
1. Woman sitting in chair designed like a plant - 'Tufty' by Jonas Jurgaitis, price eight-thousand US dollars, at Nakkash Gallery
2. 'Night Flowers' made from ceramics, used to block out light at...
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Naked mole rats are becoming increasingly popular in research laboratories. The seemingly invulnerable rodents have surprised scientists with their ability to live up to 30 years and their potential to offer insights into human health.
HEADLINE: Scientist: Naked mole rats ''Holy Grail'' on aging
CAPTION: About 1,600 naked mole rats live in clear tanks at the Univ. of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where researcher Rochelle Buffenstein nurtures the largest...
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Renewable energy experts, gov't officials meet
June 27, 2007
1. Various wide of Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) meeting
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Elvira Quesada, Mexico's Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources:
"Just like we teach children how to add and...
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Religious leaders at interfaith service to pray for wildlife protection
Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders prayed together next to a pile of charred elephant ivory in Nairobi National Park on Thursday, calling on God to bring help to those involved in animal conservation.
Three dozen religious...
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Five pieces by Banksy, the anonymous British street artist, are up for sale at a Beverly Hills auction house that specializes in celebrity collections. One piece is a 9 foot tall piece of brick wall removed from a Los Angeles gas station. (Dec. 4)
When a friend asked Los Angeles gas station owner Eytan Rosenberg if a British artist could paint the side wall of his gas station, Rosenberg had no idea that he would soon be the owner of a work by Banksy, one of the art world's most...
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Report on water pollution ahead of World Water Congress
Huailai county, Hebei Province, 2 September 2006
1. Wide pan of Yongding River
2. Polluted water flowing in river
3. Villager carrying pears walking to house in Jiuzhuangwo village
4. Wide of villager walking into house
5. Various of...
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Global evidence of climate warming
Zermatt, Switzerland - January 22, 2008
1. Wide shot sun shining over Swiss Alps
2. Wide shot mountain top
3. Wide shot mountain top
Zurich, Switzerland - 24 January, 2008
4. Mid shot Doctor Frank Paul, Expert in Glaciology showing...
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Focus on the growing threat of West Nile virus in the US
Baltimore, Maryland - 31 July, 2001
1. Mid view Shone taking photograph of muddy pond
2. Extreme close-up of mosquito larva
3. Mid view of Shone going to trap
4. Close-up of mosquitos in trap
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Scott Shone, Mosquito...
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Biofuel research may keep tobacco industry from going up in smoke
Berkeley, California - 7 May 2013
1. Researcher walks up to tobacco plant in greenhouse on UC Berkeley campus
2. Researcher inspects tobacco plant
3. Close of tobacco leaf
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Peggy Lemaux ("la-mow") - Researcher -...
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As temperatures take a tumble around the country, The New York Botanical Garden welcomes spring with the 12th annual Orchid Show. The exhibit opens March 1st, and runs through April 21st. (Feb. 27)
The theme of this year's 12th annual Orchid Show is Key West Contemporary, and it was inspired by a garden design by Raymond Jungles, a Florida landscape architect.
Jungles won the American Society of Landscape Architects award for his...
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EGYPT: GIZA: CHEOPS PYRAMID TO CLOSE FOR RESTORATION WORK
Giza, near Cairo, Egypt - 12 March 19981. Tourists taking pictures of the pyramids panorama2. Cheops and Cephren pyramids3. Tourists4. Camel by Cheops' pyramid5. People at pyramid's entrance6. Series of interior of pyramid that needs...
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Chinese medicine used as beauty treatment to keep skin young
1. Static book "Secrets of Longevity"
2. Wide Dr. Maoshing Ni at desk
3. Pullout of book to Dr. Maoshing Ni
4. Close-up two books
5. Close-up Ni family picture
6. Wide Dr. Maoshing Ni 10 books he's written
7. Wide Tao of Wellness...
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Fewer white truffles as dry summers mean poor harvests
Acqualagna - October 27th, 2008
1. Wide shot of truffle hunter, Giorgio Remedia, walking uphill with his dogs in search of white truffles.
2. Medium shot of truffle dogs walking through the bushes in the woods outside Acqualagna.
3....
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The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska.
HEADLINE: Oil companies protected if they harm polar bears
CAPTION: The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in...
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ISRAEL: SPERM BANK FOR FISH
Eng/Nat
Everyone is familiar with the concept of a sperm bank for human use, but in Israel farmers have developed an entirely new concept - the first sperm bank in the world to cater exclusively for fish!
Fish farmers on the profitable...
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Features and Technology - Polar bear cub in Germany / Chicken lays green eggs in Mexico / $2500 car launched in India / Lunar eclipse in Argentina
Germany - Polar bear cub
Nuremberg - 8 Jan 2008
1. Vera carrying in enclosure, dropping it repeatedly
2. Vera carrying cub, dropping it
Mexico - Chicken which lays green eggs
Cuautitlan, 29 Jan 2008
3. Cockerel with chickens in yard...