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.
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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...
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++ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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Construction, energy and tech companies discuss ways to decommission nuclear plant
Construction, energy and tech companies involved in decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant met on Thursday to discuss environmental, health and risk management issues.
The companies involved in decommissioning the...
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Belgium - Asbestos Empties Berlaymont Building
Brussels' star-shaped Berlaymont building, formerly the
headquarters for the European Commission, stands empty now as work
begins to strip it of 4000 tonnes of poisonous asbestos
insulation. The building was evacuated in 1992 after a...
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BELARUS: NUCLEAR SUFFERING HIGHLIGHTED AT GENEVA CONFERENCE
Russian/Nat
The opening of an international conference in Geneva on the effects of nuclear disasters has highlighted the ecological disaster Belarus has suffered following the Chernobyl disaster.
Though the ill-fated reactor was located...
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UN: "Tobacco epidemic"could kill 1 billion unless govts act now
February 7, 2008
1. Pan of news conference
2. Photographer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation:
"You can't manage a problem if you cannot measure the problem. I have a similar...
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Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study.
HEADLINE: Study: Secondhand smoke kills 600,000 every year
CAPTION: Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study. (Nov. 26)
The effects of secondhand smoke may be greater than...
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Residents Must Leave Housing Complex Due To Lead
More than 1,000 residents of a northwest Indiana public housing complex have been in a state of panic and uncertainty since authorities informed them last month that their homes must be destroyed because of serious lead contamination.A...
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Raw: Ukraine Marks 30 Years Since Chernobyl
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4033214Ceremonies were held on Tuesday in Kiev to honor those who died in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 30 years ago.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and other political leaders attended a...
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Residents Must Leave Housing Complex Due To Lead
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY East Chicago, Indiana - 23 August 2016 1. Various of signage at East Chicago, Ind. housing complex reading (English): "Do not play in the dirt or around the...
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Children being treated for lead poisoning, security near factory
Fengxiang, Shaanxi province
1. Various exterior shots of Fengxiang County Hospital
2. Pan of ward filled with children in Fengxiang County Hospital
3. Various of children and their parents on hospital beds
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Ma...
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State Council briefing on pollution sources, Greenpeace reax
FILE: Datong, Shanxi Province - 3 December 2009
1. Truck driving in front of power station, tilt up to cooling towers and chimney
2. Wide of chimneys and cooling towers with people on bikes in foreground
3. Workers on dump truck sifting...
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Ceremonies mark 30 years since nuclear disaster
Ukrainian workers who defied the odds of radiation exposure joined memorial services in Kiev on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world's worst nuclear disaster. Oleg Medvedev, a...
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Frozen Food Recall Covers Hundreds of Items
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it'll be...