Pakistan is using artificial glaciers to improve water access in remote, drought-affected regions. This innovative solution helps store ice during winter and release water during dry summer months.

This year's theme is Mexican modernism, an ode to Mexican architect Luis Barragan.

Kew celebrates the return of its orchid festival after missing a year



The 26th annual festival celebrates biodiversity hotspot Costa Rica

this year.

Five thousand orchids are on display among other plants to...

LEADIN: A spectacular array of orchids are being unveiled at the Royal Botanical Gardens festival in London, and they're celebrating seventy years of India's independence.There are nearly six thousand rare and unusual flowers on...

CLEAN : Ghost orchid scientists aim to restore rare Florida flowers

Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew unveils its annual orchid festival, turning a sliver of southwest London into a riot of tropical colour and flora celebrating biodiversity hotspot Costa Rica (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

1. Wide exterior of New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx

2. Mid of Orchid Show
sign
3. Man playing guitar surrounded
by flowers
4.
Pan of orchids
5. Close up o
f cluster of orchids
6.
Tight...

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...

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London, UK - February 2,
2012
1. Close of pur
ple orchid
2. Close of pink a
nd white orchid
3. Wide of Tropical
Extravaganza exhibit
4. Mid...

CLEAN : British botanists find unknown warty orchid species

Footage of some o fthe 5,000 colourful orchids and tropical plants ahead of the Indonesia-themed Orchid Festival at Kew Gardens in west London.<br/>

Creating the perfect orchid is the goal of many in Taiwan, where exports of the exotic flower bring in more than 170 million dollars annually. Tainan, Taiwan. (Footage by AFP/Getty Images)

1. Wide exterior New York Botanical Garden Conservatory Gardens

2. Pull out from orchids to water di
splay
3. Close up orchid, "Jerry Pacif
ic Empire"
4. Mid shot man taking p
hoto of...

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Singapore's Botanical Gardens are preparing to welcome Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge.

The royal visitors will tour the world famous gardens,...

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1. Pan left from snowy field, to exterior of New York Botanical Garden

2. Wide of interior of Botanical Garden with orchid show di
splay
3. Mid of Vanda orchids, called "Rainbow
Orchids"
4....

Raising the perfect orchid is a labour of love.

The 8th annual Siam Paragon Royal Orchid Paradise is a celebration of the delicate plants, often associated with Thailand, which...

The cattleya orchid.

It's a welcome beauty in a land crushed by poverty and natural disas
ter.
Antoine Assali, or Toni as he prefers to be called, is a...

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Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico - 1st November,
2009
1. Wide shot of Las Pozas, ring made of cement in the middl
e of shot
2. Medium close of cement ring...

Horticulturalists' final preparations for Kew Gardens 27th annual Orchid Festival.



Solène Dequiret talks about the preparation for the event from the planning to opening the

festival.

Professor Michael Fay provides...