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RR8137B ZIMBABWE A PERILOUS PESTICIDE
Background to Story: The pesticide DDT is widely used in the developing world. It's
still a cheap and effective control for the tsetse fly and mosquito. But its use
involves grave dangers. In Zimbabwe, wildlife officers are concerned...
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Obama Links Conservation to Climate Change
Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably...
Bridgeman Arts
Hunters and exotic animals. France, 1955
Clip 10 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Two black men wander through the jungle with spears. A monkey climbing a tree. A ranger hunts alligators. Exotic birds walk...
Bridgeman Arts
Living at Thamesmead, 1973, part 12 - Entertainment at the estate fair
Clip 12 from the 1973 film Living at Thamesmead, a semi-fictional account of a couple who live in the Thamesmead estate, created by the Greater London Council to promote the estate. In this clip, a fair takes place at the estate,...
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See the endangered "human fish" in its natural habitat
Have you ever seen an olm?
Well, here it is.
Looking like a pink snake with four small legs and two tiny red gills, the olm is an extremely rare creature that lives in subterranean waters.
The blind salamander can be found at the...
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Biblical lake experiences drought
LEADIN The Sea of Galilee, a place associated with the miracles of Jesus, is now in desperate need of a miracle of its own. As the summer season approaches, authorities say the water levels of Israel's largest freshwater lake are at an...
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Possible artefacts of lost civilisation discovered off coast
1. Zoom out from underwater scanning maps to Paulina Zelitsky
2. Map being unfolded on the table
3. Close up of a map of the coast of Cuba and Guanahacabibies
4. Close up of scan of underwater structure
5. Mid shot of map
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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Axolotl salamanders spotted in lake calming fears they may have disappeared
Mexico's salamander-like axolotls have been spotted in the waters of the Xochimilco lake, calming scientists' fears that they may have disappeared from the wild.
The creature, with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls...
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VIETNAM: US SECURITY ADVISOR ARRIVES FOR OFFICIAL VISIT
Eng/Viet/Nat
U-S National Security Adviser Anthony Lake arrived in Vietnam Friday one year after President Bill Clinton announced his decision to establish diplomatic relations with Vietnam.
The highlight of Lake's trip is a scheduled...
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No Foul Play in Central Park Bodies
New York City police say the deaths of two men found in Central Park lakes don't appear to be crime-related.Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce spoke Wednesday at the park's Swan Lake, where a body was found hours earlier.Another body was...
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Traditional Ukrainian wedding celebrations and dancing. Natural landscapes, Ukraine, 1970s
Clip 11 from the film 'Mon Ukraine' (My Ukraine) from the 1970s, exploring landscapes, sites and everyday life in Ukraine. Close up of a Ukrainian orthodox bride. Country wedding, bride coming to a cart, two women carrying a rind-shaped...
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Green Islands, 1954, part 2 - swimming in lido, rowing on lake, walking over hills
Clip from a 1954 film about the parks and pleasure gardens of London showing many of the pastimes carried out in them. Made by the London County council to show all the activities that London Parks have to offer. Shots of children in the...
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Post-WWII Germany, Marienfelde refugee camp, contrast of the hardship in West Berlin and the wealth in East Berlin
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Cold War. Eastern Germany, East Berlin, poverty, remains of WW2, bombed buildings, rubble. Street scenes. Berlin zoo. Military presence in East Berlin, tanks. Leisure in West Berlin, people swimming in...
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A new NASA airborne mission is measuring the snowpack of major mountain watersheds in California. It's producing the most accurate measurements to date showing just how bad the drought may become. (March 26)
Nats prropellers
SOUNDBITE: Thomas Painter, NASA scientist:
"About 75 to 80 percent of our water comes from the snowmelt. Understanding the snowpack is really, really important."
SOUNDBITE: Thomas Painter, NASA scientist:
"How fast does...
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Dubai embraces graffiti street art in public place
AP Television
Dubai, UAE - 17 February 2015
1. Close-up of spray cans
2. Tilt down from tall building to art mural
3. Mid of artist Ruben Sanchez in front of his mural
4. Close-up of Sanchez looking through cans
5. Pull out of Sanchez...
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Controversy on freshwater turtles being harvested in Florida
Tallahassee, Florida - 19 November 2008
1. Wide of Wildlife Biologist Matt Aresco next to picture showing harvested turtle
2. Zoom into picture showing hook through turtle's head
3. Aresco holding softshell turtle
4. Close of turtle's...
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In a crowded Seattle neighborhood, a plumbing contractor crew discovered the tusk of an ice age mammoth that died there 10,000 years ago. (Feb. 12)
In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until Tuesday, when a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its tusk.
It's the latest example...
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Flint to Get Lake Water When System is Ready
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus057924Flint will get water from the Karegnondi Water Authority as soon as that system is ready, the mayor said Tuesday, even though she had threatened to break an agreement to join the system in...
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Unique power station becomes a tourist attraction
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4036253LEAD IN: One of the Czech Republic's more unusual tourist attractions is preparing to welcome its one millionth visitor this summer. The Dlouhe Strane hydroelectric plant boasts a mirror like...
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Slovenia makes drinking water public property
Slovenia has become only the second European state to make access to drinking water a constitutional right in a bid to protect the nation's water resources from excessive exploitation.A legal amendment adopted by Parliament earlier this...
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Fountains and water in the city. Paris, 1950s
Clip 9 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of the countryside in France. Shots of public and decorative fountains by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. End credits.
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Irma Delivers Serious Punch to Florida Citrus
Hurricane Irma dealt Florida's iconic citrus crop a devastating blow, destroying nearly all the fruit in some Southwest Florida groves and seriously damaging groves in Central Florida.
U.S. Senators Bill Nelson and Marco...
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School performances, parades and choir singing. Estonia, 1971
Clip 9 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Older school children in traditional dress give flowers to elders. Students perform dances on stage. A band plays music and a community parade walks...
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Irma Delivers Serious Punch to Florida Citrus
Hurricane Irma dealt Florida's iconic citrus crop a devastating blow, destroying nearly all the fruit in some Southwest Florida groves and seriously damaging groves in Central Florida.
U.S. Senators Bill Nelson and Marco...