Environmental

ARGENTINA MANURE – APTN

My video story on sustainable farming in Argentina. Filming in one of the worlds most energy efficient pig farms just outside Buenos Aires where they use livestock manure to create bio-gas to self power.  Story was lead story on APTN’s features bulletin as part of a package of features they are doing from around the world in the build up to the Copenhagen climate change conference. This link shows broadcast of the story on Venezuelan National channel TELESUR

ARGENTINA ADOPT A FROG – APTN

The National Geographic Channel’s broadcast of my news report for the APTN reporting on how an Argentine official in the small interior city of San Luis is suggesting people adopt mosquito-munching frogs—not chemicals—as a solution to an outbreak of the disease dengue fever, which is spread by the insects. Also went out in print on USA Today and a variety of other international broadcast, print and web outlets…..

HUNTING FOR FOSSILS IN THE PANAMA CANAL

Various broadcasts of my piece from Panama on how expansion of the Panama Canal to make way for super sized ships is providing geologists and palaeontologists with the perfect hunting ground for critical fossil finds. The piece went out on various tv, print and online media outlets all around the world from Australia to Spain.

BRAZIL; ON THE FRONTLINE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Broadcast by Spanish language news agency Observador Global of my piece from Brazil for APTN exploring how recent bouts of extreme weather have roused debate about how to tackle the country’s position on the front-line of the effects of global climate change

DINO HUNTING IN PATAGONIA – APTN

The National Geographic channel’s broadcast of my news report for the Associated Press Television News reporting on how the Argentine region of Patagonia is becoming one of the main centres in the world for palaeontological discoveries. In the last years digs have thrown up all kinds of dinosaur fossils that are helping to rewrite the books on evolutionary history.

PARAGUAY’S ANTI-MOSQUITO SHIRT- APTN

They are the bane of tourists the world over. As they flock eagerly to local landmarks, the resident mosquitoes size up the fresh visitors with lunch in mind. The pesky insect’s source of nutrition is found in the blood of animals and humans. But beside the itchy effects of their bite, mosquitoes are the most deadly disease transmitters known to man, killing millions each year by circulating malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis.

In recent years numerous quick fix devices to curb the effect of mosquitoes…