Great Big Story
EcoAcoustics: Listening to the Rainforest for Conservation
Explore the Kalimantan rainforest of Borneo, Indonesia, through the ears of Dr Eddie Game, an environmental scientist using bioacoustic monitoring to save this biodiverse ecosystem. Join the team as they deploy smart microphones to...
Global Health with Greg Martin
One Health - thinking about human health, animal health and environmental health as one system
One health is about developing strategies that consider the interrelations between human health, the environment and animal health. Zoonotic outbreaks, where infectious diseases spread from animals to humans, is an example of the need to...
Food Farmer Earth
Kitchen Literacy 3
From the archives: Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and all the interrelated social, health, and environmental consequences that occur.
Curated Video
People fearing radiation exposure from a series of nuclear accidents on the northeastern Japan coast in the aftermath of Friday's earthquakes and tsunami line up to be tested at a gymnasium in the city of Koriyama.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Lining up for radiation exposure scan
CAPTION: People fearing radiation exposure from a series of nuclear accidents on the northeastern Japan coast in the aftermath of Friday's earthquakes and tsunami line up to be...
Curated Video
Cooking stove using plant oil launched
1. Wide shot of Protos Plant Oil Stove
2. Close-up of Protos oil tank then pan to stove
3. Wide shot of coconut trees
4. Close-up of coconuts
5. Wide shot of farmer drying coconut meat
6. Close up of coconut
7. Wide shot of Doctor...
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USA: SMITHSONIAN ACQUIRES 1ST PENICILLIN MOULD
Washington, USA, June 24, 1999 and various file.
1. Close up Smithsonian display of first petri dish of penicillin
2. Wide shot display
3. Close up of bottle of penicillin on display
4. Various of archive footage of Dr. Alexander...
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Studies show too much radiation can raise the risk of cancer. That's why some hospitals are taking part in a campaign to lower the radiation doses to kids and monitor their total exposure with radiation ID cards. (March 10)
SOUNDBITE: Rolando Valdes, Cancer patient:
"I lost count�.."
SOUNDBITE: Dr. Debra Lau, Pediatric Radiology:
"It's like an inoculation record. So when you come in we write down the date, we write down the scan that you got."
SOUNDBITE:...
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USA - People Exposed To Possible Radiation
A few dozen people were unwittingly exposed to possible radiation
poisoning when they sat in front of TV satellite dishes while
waiting for Pope John Paul's mass in Central Park on Saturday
(7/10). They had been seated in bleachers for...
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Medical profession divided over WHO plans for tough E-cigarette laws ++REPLAY++
Tougher rules on e-cigarettes, as recommended by the World Health Organisation, would risk the lives of over fifty thousand people according to addiction experts in the UK.
In August, WHO urged governments to ban the use of electronic...
Curated Video
EPA Review Would Exclude Asbestos in Public Use
HEAD-TO-TOE COVERING ...
A PERSONAL AIR MONITOR …
PRECAUTIONS GEORGE RIEGEL (REE'-guhl) AND HIS WORKERS TAKE TO REMOVE CEILING TILES COATED WITH ASBESTOS.
SOUNDBITE: (English) George Riegel,...
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Panel says Fukushima accident did not cause any immediate impact to public health
1. Wide of expert panel taking their seats for news conference
2. Medium of camera operator
3. Close of camera screen showing expert panel
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wolfgang Weiss, Chair, United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects...
Curated Video
Technology makes dental work easier
London
1. Patient walking up to door of dental practice
2. Patient pressing buzzer
3. Patient walking in
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Andrew Dawood, Dentist
"Very often implant surgery involves peeling back the gum to look at the bone so...
Curated Video
++ REPLAY ++Study claims smokers have more success quitting with e-cigarettes
A new scientific review of e-cigarettes has found they are likely to be much less harmful than conventional cigarettes for both users and bystanders.
The latest review looked at a number of major studies including evidence that people...
Curated Video
3D printer makes live body parts
Cornell University, Ithaca New York State, USA - 13 February, 2013
1. Wide of rotating 3D scanner scanning grad student in darkened room
2. Tracking shot as laser scans woman's head
3.Close interior shot of 3D Scanner as low intensity...
Curated Video
Philippines has its first swine flu-related death
June 22, 2009
1. Wide exterior of health department
2. Health department sign
3. Presser of health officials
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Francisco Duque III, Philippines Health Secretary
"I would like to report to you the death of a...
Curated Video
California smoking - despite bans across the state
San Francisco, Calif. - August 17, 2011
1. Curtist Post removes cigar from shelf;
UPSOUND (English) Curtis Post, Co-owner, Occidental Cigar Bar:
"This is a Don Cervantes."
2. Close shot Don Cervantes cigar
3. Curtis Post lighting...
Curated Video
ROVING REPORT 8145B: BRITAIN: THE LEAD POISON PROBLEM
RR Background to Story: About 10,000 tons of lead go into
Britain's atmosphere each year via the exhaust fumes of the
Nation's traffic. Experts say the lead causes damage to the
body and...
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The town of the Libby, Montana is the deadliest Superfund site in the nation's history. Health officials say at least 400 people have died from asbestos-related diseases caused by the W.R. Grace Mine.
HEADLINE: Mont. Town fights asbestos-related diseases
CAPTION: The town of the Libby, Montana is the deadliest Superfund site in the nation's history. Health officials say at least 400 people have died from asbestos-related...
Curated Video
Michigan Gov. Creates Child Lead Exposure Board
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Friday the state should eliminate, not just reduce, childhood exposure to lead across the state in the wake of the water contamination in Flint. The Republican governor, whose administration has been deemed...
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Environmental groups meet officials over lead-poisoned site
15 June, 2007
1. Mid of Paraiso de Dios community inside Haina
2. Mid of children
3. Close up of girls
4. Mid of boys playing in bushes
5. Various of children playing in lead-polluted area
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sandra Castillo,...
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Bans on smoking at outdoor venues are on the rise even though few studies have been done to test the danger of secondhand smoke at parks, beaches and sidewalk cafes.
HEADLINE: Growing push for outdoor smoking bans
CAPTION: Bans on smoking at outdoor venues are on the rise even though few studies have been done to test the danger of secondhand smoke at parks, beaches and sidewalk cafes. (Aug. 8) ...
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BANGLADESH: WORLD BANK PLAN TO REDUCE POLLUTION
Dhaka, Bangladesh. Recent.
1. Various shots of Dhaka traffic, people wearing masks, exhaust fumes
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Martin, World Bank
3. Various shots of young child (Nur Mohammed) being tested at Dhaka Children's...
Curated Video
First human recipient of laboratory-grown bladder
AP Television
Haddam, Connecticut, 31 March 2006
1. Kaitlyne McNamara, bladder transplant patient walking with family
2. Close up of Kaitlyne
3. Kaitlyne walking towards her house
4. Kaitlyne with leg braces walking up steps
5. Set up...
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Forgotten asbestos mine sickens Indian villagers
Sick villagers in eastern India are suing a company three decades after it abandoned an asbestos mine claiming it's hazardous waste is still poisoning local people.
They want a court to decide whether the waste left behind is still...