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USA: US-EU GENETIC FOODS TRADE DISPUTE
English/Nat
Genetically modified, or G-M, crops are the cause of the latest trade dispute between the U-S and Europe.
Advocates of crops that are genetically engineered to kill insect say that they reduce the need for heavy doses of...
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Homeopathy and herbalism - still popular in 2009
London, United Kingdom, 15th December 2008
1. Homeopath and patient enter treatment room and sit (note: no UPSOT)
2. Mid shot of homeopath (camera left) with patient (note: no UPSOT)
3.Mid pull out of homeopath (note: no UPSOT)
4.Mid...
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Glowing bacteria used to catch superbugs
At the Bioluminescent Superbugs Laboratory (BSL) in Auckland, glow-in-the-dark bacteria are being used in the search for new and more efficient treatments for antibiotic resistant diseases.
These bugs are doing more than just spelling...
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Cockroaches are a key weapon against hospital infections
Karachi, Pakistan, October 12, 2010
1. Various close up of cockroach in laboratory tank
2. Medium close of laboratory assistant entering the animal house of Aga Khan University Hospital
3. Close of cockroaches in tank
4. Close of...
Press Association
Artist creating 100 ceramic beetles to highlight insects as objects of beauty
Harrogate artist Anna Whitehouse has engaged with more than 2,000 people worldwide, and closer to home, to help her sculpt a beetle a day for 100 days. The creative challenge has seen her followers from Australia, Canada, USA, Singapore,...
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Call to world leaders to protect the planet's rare plants
This is the seed of a rare mandrake plant.
It once grew wild on Spain's Balearic Islands.
Now it's one of over thirty thousand different types of seeds held in the UK's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB).
The bank was set up a decade ago, an...
Press Association
Morrisons unveils 'carbon-neutral' eggs
Supermarket chain Morrisons is launching what it claims are carbon-neutral eggs into 50 of its stores in the north of England. The farms the eggs come from use renewable energy sources and aim to use low-carbon feed for their hens.
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Is pollution changing the way flowers smell? Some scientists say yes. Ted Shaffrey reports from New York.
HEADLINE: Are flowers less 'smelly' these days?
CAPTION: Is pollution changing the way flowers smell? Some scientists say yes. Ted Shaffrey reports from New York. (May 12)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
((New York))
The wafting...
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The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin
London, United Kingdom 21st January 2009
1. Wide Galapagos tortoise exhibit
2. Various ant eater exhibits
3. Close up motorised lizard
4. Midshot bird exhibits
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Bloomfield, Darwin Exhibition Coordinator
...
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Endangered Species Act change could affect monarch
The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and other changes critics...
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Parasites, insects, microbes, oh my! It s the little things that scare Dan Aykroyd
PARASITES, INSECTS, MICROBES, OH MY! IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT SCARE DAN AYKROYD
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Neurotoxins harmful to bees found in global honey samples
LEADIN:
A new report shows that 75 percent of honey samples tested from around the globe contain a key pesticide, linked to the decline in the number of bees.
It comes as Europe decides whether to enforce an...
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Super queens selectively bred to halt bee decline
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4033684LEAD IN: Scientists in Canada are breeding a genetically superior queen bee in the hope of reversing a catastrophic decline in bee populations around the world. Bees have been dying off in...
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RR DURATION: 5 Mins 33 Secs/Eng sot: 21 Secs.
MUSIC: 'African Improvisation' by Jonny Teupen/
'Kilimandjaro' by Gerhard Trede.
STORY: A massive privately owned game reserve in Natal,
...
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Museum Launches Largest Urban Biodiversity Study
Long before Southern California was paved over with freeways and a concrete-bottomed river, covered in cars and trod upon by millions of people, it was teeming with snakes, slugs, spiders, snails and uncounted numbers of other slimy,...
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Museum Launches Largest Urban Biodiversity Study
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus053170Long before Southern California was paved over with freeways and a concrete-bottomed river, covered in cars and trod upon by millions of people, it was teeming with snakes, slugs, spiders,...
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Red ants remedy for tea plant infestation
AP Television
Padannakkad, Kasargode District, Kerala, India - September 21, 2011
1. Close of red ants (also called the weaver ant ), pull focus to show red ants feasting on a moth
2. Various of red ants feeding on moth
3. Close of red...
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Super queens selectively bred to halt bee decline
LEAD IN: Scientists in Canada are breeding a genetically superior queen bee in the hope of reversing a catastrophic decline in bee populations around the world. Bees have been dying off in alarming numbers during the past eight to nine...
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Space, Google, Termites, Hybrid Bus, US - Dog Cancer, Lying, Hungary Science
After a seven-month journey, a NASA spacecraft closed in on Mars in March on a mission to examine the Red Planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit. Engines were fired on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has travelled 310 (m)...
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Humans taught to telepathically communicate with baboons
Kommetjie, outside Cape Town - May 20, 2006
1. Wide shot Wynter taking class on baboon walk
2. Wide shot class on baboon walk
3. Wide of baboons
4. Tight shot baboons
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wynter Worsthorne, Animal Talk Expert
" This...
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RR7736B EAST AFRICA: BATTLE OF THE BUGS
From the coffee plantations of Brazil to the maize
fields of Africa insects have wrought havoc and in
some places threatened the very existence of the
human population. Only the freak discovery of DDT
and the spin-off pesticides which...