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Disease is claiming fewer lives, but fears it could surge again
St. Marc - 22 January 2011
1. Wide of Doctors Without Borders clinic
2. Mid of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) sign at the door
3. Wide of clinic waiting room
4. Close up of patient waiting to be treated
5. Close...
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MACEDONIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: ENVIRONMENT
English/Nat
The high concentration of refugees into the camps of Macedonia is starting to seriously affect local environments.
Aid organizations are now looking at ways to improve the situation in an attempt to both help the environment...
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Obama Drinks Filtered Flint Water in Michigan
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus054806President Barack Obama has taken a drink of the filtered water in Flint, Michigan.Obama is visiting the city for the first time since its drinking water became contaminated with lead.After a...
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WINE MAKERS SWAP PESTICIDE FOR BIO DYNAMICS
In Tuscany, wine makers are swapping pesticides for potions, putting the region at the forefront of Italy's biodynamic scene.
Biodynamic agriculture relies on natural fertilisers and the moon's cycle rather than chemicals.
The Tuscan...
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Newark mayor defends actions in city water crisis
The mayor of New Jersey's largest city denounced comparisons Thursday between high lead levels affecting as many as 18,000 residences and the recent crisis in Flint, Michigan, as the city faces a long and costly cleanup and replacement...
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Victims of Bhopal chemical disaster protest during Obama visit
1. Pan from activist addressing crowd, to Bhopal disaster victims seated
2. Various of demonstrators holding up posters of US President Barack Obama
3. Close-up of megaphone, demonstrators in background
4. Mid of activist addressing...
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Health officials call for better sanitation after cholera outbreak kills 150
Kashipur, Rayagara District, Orissa - 1 September 2007
1. Various of villagers mourning the death of a cholera victim
2. Funeral procession, women mourning
Kashipur, Rayagara District, Orissa - 4 September 2007
3. Tilt up from flowing...
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MOZAMBIQUE: FLOODING DISASTER: CHOLERA (V)
Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Richard Vaughan
Flood ravaged Mozambique is bracing itself for an outbreak of cholera.
Aid organisations say flooding, crowding of rescued people and contamination of drinking water increases the risk of...
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Chef grows own organic ingredients
This is the organic garden of Hong Kong restaurant owner Margaret Yuan.
She wanted plenty of fresh vegetables to serve in her restaurant but could not find a regular supplier. So Yuan decided to find some land and grow the produce...
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MUSIC: "COSMIC DUST" BY GUIDO & FRANCESCO REIDY
STORY: Decin, an industrial town in the Elbe valley, suffers
from some of the worst environmental pollution in
Czechoslovakia. Its air is being poisoned by the sulphur dioxide
in the...
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Olympic sailors, protesters call for clean-up of waters around Rio
Olympic sailors and other athletes demonstrated on Saturday at Rio de Janeiro's Yacht Club over poor water quality in the once-pristine Guanabara Bay, site of the future Olympic Park.
Demonstrators want the Brazilian authorities to take...
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The biologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana has become the epicenter of the oil spill. Local fisherman are upset and fear that the wildlife and fisheries will be wiped out altogether threatening the livelihood of all who depend on this already endangered estuary.
HEADLINE: Barataria estuary now ground zero in oil spill
CAPTION: The biologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana has become the epicenter of the oil spill. Local fisherman are upset and fear that the wildlife and fisheries will...
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3 charged in connection with Flint water crisis
Two state regulators and a utility worker were charged on Wednesday in connection with the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, in the US state of Michigan. State Attorney General Bill Schuette charged Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby,...
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Reaction after figures show further nuclear contamination in food chain
1. Wide of traditional Ameyoko market in downtown Tokyo
2. Fish laid out for sale
3. Fishmonger trying to sell fish to passers by
4. Close of a fish
5. Wide of fish stalls
6. Woman looking at fish for sale
7. Wide of fish stalls
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A top NOAA offical says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a major blow to the U.S. economy and the environment. David Kennedy is the acting administrator for the National Ocean Service, a branch of NOAA that manages coastal and marine resources.
HEADLINE: NOAA official: Gulf oil spill is of 'grave concern'
CAPTION: A top NOAA official says the Gulf Coast oil spill is a major blow to the U.S. economy and the environment. David Kennedy is the acting administrator for the National...
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Bug that causes Legionnaires disease found in new government HQ
1. Worker turning on the faucet of the water tank
2. Close of hand turning on the faucet
3. Mid of the worker climbing down ladder and turning on another faucet
4. Close of the worker
5. Water coming out from the water tank
6. Main...
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MALAYSIA: FRESHWATER FISHERIES DEVELOP NEW BREED OF FISH
English/Nat
Scientists in Malaysia are trying to come up with a bigger, tastier freshwater fish.
Dwindling marine fish stocks and pollution have seen many Malaysian's adding freshwater fish to their diet.
And they look set to remain on...
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June 5th is the United Nations Environment Day. The
world body has now set up an environmental protection
programme (UNEP) with its headquarters in Nairobi, to
carry out the resolutions taken at the UN Conference...
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International Atomic Energy Agency briefing on Japan nuclear crisis
1. Mid of flags in front of IAEA headquarters building
2. Wide of building, tilt down
3. Shift focus of flagpole with building
4. Shift focus, close of IAEA sign
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Flory, Deputy Director General of the...
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Obama Drinks Filtered Flint Water in Michigan
President Barack Obama has taken a drink of the filtered water in Flint, Michigan.Obama is visiting the city for the first time since its drinking water became contaminated with lead.After a briefing Wednesday on the federal government's...
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Long-hidden toxic waste endangers Serbian health and EU status
Dozens of rusty barrels and plastic tubs filled with a dark, oily liquid cluttered a muddy yard where chickens roamed. More brimming containers packed a wooden barn.
The property in northern Serbia, located next to farmland...
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Engineers mastermind new waste water process
LEADIN:
Three female engineers have developed a process to help West Bank tanneries.
They have designed a system that treats toxic by-products by using readily available local resources.
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