Curated Video
California's record drought is hurting honey supplies and raising prices for consumers. The lack of rainfall means fewer crops and wildflowers that provide the nectar bees need to make honey. (Aug. 21)
SOUNDBITE (English) Gene Brandi, Beekeeper:
"Our honey crop is severely impacted by the drought, and it does impact our bottom line as a business."
SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Brandi, Beekeeper:
"If this would persist, you'd see higher food...
Curated Video
Japan - Cockroaches used in science
There might be something good about the cockroach, one of the dirtiest and ugliest pests known to man. Japanese researchers have discovered a way of attaching a device to a cockroach's back that could have industrial uses, such as...
Curated Video
USA: SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO TAKE COCKROACHES ON MISSION
Natural Sound
It may be hard to believe - but for some folks John Glenn isn't the focus of the "Discovery" shuttle mission.
In fact, for a group of teenagers in the U-S state of Maryland, the featured attraction is a bunch of creepy...
Bloomberg
Farm Bugs on Your Desk and...Eat Them
Jan.12 -- The idea of eating insects might not be to everyone's taste, but people in Asia have been dining on bugs for centuries. To satisfy insect eaters' appetites, a Livin Farms founder Katharina Unger and her team invented the...
Curated Video
Concerns over dwindling bee numbers
AP Television
Brussels, Belgium - 13 May 2013
1. Mid of beekeeper Anne Van Eeckhou removing bees from hive
2. Close-up of bees, including queen bee (marked with yellow dot)
3. Wide of van Eeckhou removing bees from hive and looking at...
Curated Video
Mexican farmers use fireflies to save forest
In the Mexican village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine trees on the outskirts of the sprawling megalopolis of Mexico City.Thousands of fireflies light up a magical spectacle at dusk in the mass of...
Bridgeman Arts
Banana harvest and forests in Guadeloupe, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 10 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, men and women harvest bananas and transport them. Scenes of flowers, plants and wildlife in the forests of Guadeloupe.
Curated Video
NASA to send drone to Saturn's largest moon
NASA announced ON Thursday that it's sending a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
Curated Video
Rising demand for tarantula snacks causing decline in species
LEADIN:
Fried tarantulas have long been a popular snack in Cambodia.
So popular in fact that over-hunting, combined with habitat loss are causing a decline in the species.
STORYLINE:
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Curated Video
Almond farmers hope that bee populations remain healthy
Hughson, California - February 24, 2009
1. Zoom in from vineyard to almond orchard in the distance
2. Wide shot of orchard with beehives
3. Close shot of almond blossom
4. Set up shot of Orin Johnson, President of the California...
Curated Video
HONEYBEES TAKE UP RESIDENCE AT WALDORF ASTORIA
The hotel plans to harvest its own honey and help pollinate plants in the skyscraper-heavy heart of the city, joining a mini beekeeping boom that has taken over hotel rooftops from Paris to Times Square.
"Today about half the population...
Curated Video
Smelly flower popular tourist attraction
1. Wideshot of "Corpse Flower" with crowd of onlookers
2. Tilt down flower
3. Close up of onlooker
4. Close-up of onlooker
5. Wideshot of flower and crowd
6. Pan across spathe (petal)
7. Wideshot of botanist, John Trager, examining...
Curated Video
Arachnophobes confront spiders to conquer their fear
Bristol, United Kingdom, July 22, 2009
1. Close up move in on tarantula
2. Mid shot of biologist and tarantula on rock
3. Mid shot of visitors to zoo pullout to wide of zoo entrance
4. Close up of Bristol Zoo sign
5. Close move on beetle...
Curated Video
Boran cattle promote wildlife on African rangelands
AP Television
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya - 23rd February, 2012
1. Wide of Boran cattle grazing with zebras in the back ground
2. Mid of a zebra getting in to the bush
3. Herd of elephants
4. Various of Boran cattle trampling...
Curated Video
Russia - Cockroach Races
A group of Russians, disillusioned with the poor quality of candidates put up for the recently-held elections, instead put their faith in cockroaches. They held a cockroach race at an art gallery in Moscow and attracted large crowds with...
Curated Video
FRANCE: COURT STRIPS JEAN-MARIE LE PEN OF HIS CIVIC RIGHTS
Eng/French/Nat
A court in France stripped far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen of his civic rights for two years on Thursday for attacking a Socialist candidate during election campaigning last May.
Le Pen has also been slapped with a 3300...
Curated Video
FRANCE: FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE LATEST
French/Nat
France has ordered the destruction of 50-thousand sheep as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease.
As well as 20-thousand animals imported from across the Channel, Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said officials would...
Curated Video
Wildlife corridor links two national game reserves, protects wildlife
1. Man riding bicycle through Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor
2. Elephants in corridor
3. Baboons on the Selous Game Reserve
4. Signpost reading "Wildlife Corridor Selous-Niassa"
5. Pan of corridor
6. Niassa Game Reserve Director,...
Curated Video
Conservation project to save rare giant lizards
AP Television
El Hierro Island (Canary Islands), November 26, 2011
1. Various shots of lizards
2. Various shots of landscape
3. Pan across valley to Tibataje cliff
4. Various shots of Tibataje cliff
5. Various shots of giant lizard in...
Curated Video
Animal therapy used to help army veterans
UKRAINE REHABSOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 6:02SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionTruskavets, Ukraine - 9 June 20161. Underwater shot...
Curated Video
San Francisco Hotels Booked with Bees
HIGH ABOVE THE BUSY STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO...SOMETHING NEW IS BUZZING.SEVERAL OF THE CITY'S TOP HOTELS HAVE BUILT HIVES ON THEIR ROOFTOPS... TO HELP THE COUNTRY'S BEE POPULATION DEVASTATED BY DISEASE AND HABITAT LOSS...SOUNDBITE...
Curated Video
Beekeepers unite across border to breed perfect Queen
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4064650LEAD IN:Two beekeepers from opposite sides of the border in Cyprus are ignoring the island's divide to breed their very own queen bee. They want to create a homegrown queen that can cope with...
Curated Video
Startup supermarket offers groceries of the future
LEAD IN:
Dried insects, cold-brewed coffee and cut flowers that stay fresh for three years.
These are just some of the products on the shelves at a new supermarket in Berlin that only stocks products from...
Curated Video
Slovenia buzzing for first-ever World Bee Day
SLOVENIA BEES
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY
LENGTH: 3:49
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bled, Slovenia - 17 May 2018
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