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Scientists seek cause of freshwater mussel die-off
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Scientists seek cause of freshwater mussel die-off
Running 300 miles through Appalachia, the Clinch River is one of the most important rivers for freshwater mussels in the world.
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CHINA: CHILDREN SAFEGUARING THE ENVIRONMENT
Mandarin/Nat
China's children are at the forefront of a seasonal drive to safeguard the environment.
As the festive season approaches, along with the Chinese New Year, they are being asked not to send greeting cards.
It's all part of a...
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Report highlights environmental costs of China's surging economy
Beijing - June 2, 2005
1. Wide interior of news conference
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Jirong, Vice minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration Bureau:
"We have to face a series of environmental and...
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STORY: In January, an outbreak of cholera was reported in
the Peruvian coastal town of Chimbote. By the first week
in February it had spread down the entire coast and
inland, to be...
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Environmental concerns over world's largest dam
1. Wide shot of Yangtze River
2. Wide shot mountain at the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River
3. Wide pan from the river to the dam
4. Medium high shot water pumping out of the dam
5. Wide pan over the Three Gorges Dam zone
6. Wide...
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MEXICO: WHALES FOUND DEAD (V)
Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Megan Francis
Sixty orca whales have died along the Yucatan River in Mexico after they became stranded in shallow waters.
Whale specialists are speculating that the cause of so many deaths at once may be the...
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PAKISTAN: RAWAT: POLLUTED WELL WATER KILLS 5 PEOPLE
Urdu/Eng/Nat
Polluted well water has killed five people, four of them young children, and sickened thousands of people in a small town in Pakistan.
After a weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea, 65 people from Rawat, which is just north...
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OXFAM moving oral rehydration saline into cyclone affected areas
1. Various of truck backing into Oxfam's aid storage area
2. Various of cartons containing saline being loaded onto truck
3. Various of saline cartons
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Heather Blackwell, Oxfam Country Programme Manager:
"Its a...
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America's 'dirtiest' beaches
HEADLINE: America's 'dirtiest' beaches
CAPTION: How clean is your beach? The Natural Resources Defense Council has listed over ninety beaches that have high levels of pollution in the water. (Aug. 8)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
NB. This...
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NICARAGUA: REPORT SHOWS PESTICIDE POISONING KILLS 120 EACH YEAR
Spanish/Nat
A government report in Nicaragua shows that improper use of pesticides kills 120 people and poisons more than a thousand each year in the Central American country.
The government has begun an education campaign to alert...
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Actress backs UN race to raise awareness about scarcity of drinking water
HEADLINE: Swanks backs UN race for clean drinking water
CAPTION: Hilary Swank is backing a UN relay race begun to raise awareness about the lack of clean drinking water in parts of the globe. A team of 20 runner are traveling around...
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For more than a century, the elite cadre of 60 San Francisco Bar Pilots have enjoyed monopoly control over guiding ships around the San Francisco Bay. After a massive oil spill, shipping companies are contesting the pilots' rising fees with the Legislature.
HEADLINE: Bay Ship Pilots' Salaries Questioned
CAPTION: For more than a century, the elite cadre of 60 San Francisco Bar Pilots have enjoyed monopoly control over guiding ships around the San Francisco Bay. After a massive oil spill,...
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Experts say last week's chemical spill in West Virginia's Elk River affecting more than 300,000 people is a powerful reminder about the vulnerability of U.S. waterways to toxic spills. (Jan. 15)
Bill Price, Sierra Club
"I think water is something people assume they can just go to their sink and get here in Charleston at least but that assumption isn't safe anymore."
Margaret Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology
"What we...
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Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region.
Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region.
Brazil is sizzling, and with the heat index sometimes soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), keepers at a Rio de...
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Pakistan's mangrove forests under threat from pollution
Near Rohri Village 20km from Karachi - August, 8th, 2009
1. Mid of boatmen starting the engine on wooden boat
2. Close up of the engine fan
3. Zoom in from wide of mangrove trees in the distance
4. Wide of large mangrove trees
5. Mid of...
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RR MUSIC: "Madagaskira" and "The Spectacle" by David Muddyman
STORY: Throughout the Middle East, the scarcity of water
and its pollution have become...
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Icy treats for zoo animals in Brazil but scorching heat kills fish in Argentina
Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region.
Brazil is sizzling, and with the heat index sometimes soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), keepers at a Rio de...
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ISRAEL: GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS BLOCK SHIP FROM DUMPING TOXIC WASTE
English/Nat
Two Greenpeace activists were arrested Sunday after they blocked an Israeli ship from dumping toxic waste in the Mediterranean.
The environmental group claimed victory after a four-hour stand-off when the ship, The Aribel,...
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Chief of UN nuclear watchdog says Fukushima leak "high priority", Iran bites
The head of the UN nuclear agency on Monday expressed concern over the leak of radioactive water from Japan's tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that the issue "needs to be addressed urgently."
Speaking at a meeting of the...
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Treatment plant struggles to cope with water pollution in Tigris River
IRAQ WATER POLLUTIONSOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 2:42SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionBaghdad, Iraq - 8 April 20151. Various of Tigris River with abandoned boats2. Mid of abandoned boats with debris...
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River trout threatened by rock breaking
AP Television
Lidder, Pahalgam - 7 June 2011
1. Wide of Lidder river with mountains in background
2. Wide of snowcapped peaks
3. Various of stream with boulders
4. Wide of people rafting
5. Wide of tourists fishing
6. Mid of tourist...