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Tiny insect invades and damages chestnut forests
LEADIN:
A tiny wasp that's invading Spain could end up spoiling Christmas for many people because of its impact on chestnuts.
The chestnut wasp (Dryoscomus kuriphillus) has come in from China and is stunting...
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Wind and fire at Hamburg indie games fest
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A game that blows air from a tube and another that's controlled by a burning match are some of the independently-developed video games being shown at Hamburg's Play 17 indie games fest.
Now in its...
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Wildfire Dangers Continue As Crews Battle Blazes
Firefighting crews worked feverishly to shore up vulnerable foothills in Glen Ellen, California from catching alight. Up and down Cavedale Road, a rural one lane street, fire fighters set back burns up canyons to beat the Nunn fire...
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California trims brush to reduce wildfire danger
California is calling in the National Guard for the first time to help protect communities from wildfires like the one that destroyed much of the city of Paradise last fall.
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Officials use salt for cloud seeding to fight fires
The Indonesian Disaster Mitigation Agency said on Saturday 42 helicopters have dropped nearly 240 million litres (63 million gallons) of water and 160 tons of salt for cloud seeding as part of the firefighting efforts to expire forest...
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Indigenous debate how to save Amazon lands
Under a thatched-roof shelter in the Amazon rainforest, warriors wielding bows and arrows, elderly chieftains in face paint and nursing mothers gathered to debate a plan that some hope will hold at bay the loggers and other invaders...
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Next week in the Florida legislature
Florida lawmakers have three weeks left to wrap up their business and one target they're going after is the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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Highlights of regional summit on bird flu crisis
1. Wide shot exterior of Foreign Ministry, cars arriving with delegates
2. Chinese delegate Qi Jingfa, Vice Minister of Agriculture, entering building
3. Journalists
4. Cambodian delegate Hong Sun Hout, Senior Minister of Health,...
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Ant plague kills trees in 3 to 4 days
1. Various pine forest
2. Man carrying chainsaw
3. Various cutting pines
4. Various falling trees
5. Buffer zone to contain ants
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Hernandez, INAFOR (National Forestry Institute) "The female gorgojo (beetle)...
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GERMANY: UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES REACH A POSTWAR RECORD HIGH
German/Nat
Unemployment on a seasonally adjusted basis has risen in Germany and February's unemployment figures marked a postwar record high.
The economy seems to have avoided sliding into recession, but any growth this year is ...
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Brazil's largest monkey threatened by loss of habitat
Rio de Janeiro, 18 October 2010
1. Close up of Muriqui monkey
2. Pan showing monkey cages
3. Two women walk to cage and point.
4. Golden-headed lion tamarin monkey with baby on her back.
5. SauÄÅ¼Ë or callicebus coimbrai monkey
6....
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Californians face massive cleanups after storm
1. Cars half buried in mud
2. House, surrounded by deep mud
3. Pickup truck stuck in mud
4. Wide of prisoners and others digging out car
5. Close up of crew digging car out
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Peters, California Department of...
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INDONESIA: SUMATRA: FOREST FIRES & AIR POLLUTION
Indonesian/Nat
Officials in the provincial centre of Pekan Baru have started handing out surgical masks to passersby after rain failed to disperse a thick smoky haze above Sumatra island.
Fires have been raging in the jungles for weeks,...
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Mexicans to replace 250 million trees in 2007
1. Tree nursery in Coyoacan, Mexico City
2. Young cedar trees at nursery, part of Pro-Arbol project of Mexico's National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR).
3. Various of Forestry Commission Director Jose Cibrian and Biologist Vicente...
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Reax to Sea Shepherd collision; Japan,Aus, NZ, captain; lawyer
Antarctic Ocean - 06 January 2010
1. Anti whaling ship Ady Gil seen from the approaching Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru as it is spraying water over Ady Gil; collides with Ady Gil and moves away from damaged conservation group''s...
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SKorea decides to implement deal to resume US beef imports this week
Gwangju, Gyeonggi province - 25 June 2008
1. Tilt down from boxes of imported US beef in inspection warehouse to reporters surrounding Chung Woon-Chun, South Korea's Minister for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
2. Close of...
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South Korean wetland threatened by development
1. Wide shot Saemangeum Wetland in Buan
2. Mid shore birds at tidal-flats
3. Close-up water bird
4. Various of thousands of shore birds in the sky
5. Close-up Nial Moores, director, Birds Korea, observing birds through telescope.
6. Wide...
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Protest against plan to build major petrochemical complex on reclaimed land
1. Wide of protesters in front of Environmental Protection Administration building
2. Various of protesters raising hands and chanting slogans, UPSOUND: (Mandarin) "Anti-Petrochemical Project - take care of our health!"
3. Close of sign...
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USA: SACRAMENTO: UNABOMBER CONFRONTED BY VICTIMS' FAMILIES
English/Nat
The Unabomber's victims will today (Monday) have their first and final opportunity to confront the man responsible for killing or maiming their loved ones.
Under a plea bargain reached on the eve of opening statements in...
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RUSSIA: HIGH DEMAND FOR CHRISTMAS TREES
Russian/Nat
The Russian government's efforts to entice Russians into buying Russian-made goods has failed, but with a few exceptions.
Workers at the Khlyupino Forest Farm, some forty kilometers west of Moscow, work long hours in the few...