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Global Concerns Episodes

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    Tortoise Deaths

    Eight giant tortoises have died of a mystery disease on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos

  2. Water in Namibia

    How are people conserving water in the country's capital Windhoek?

  3. The Antarctic

    Can one of the planet's last great wildernesses be kept clean for future generations?

  4. Aerial Seed Bombers

    Reforestation by dropping trees from airplanes in icecream cone-shaped delivery packages

  5. Greenpeace in Hong Kong

    Anne Dingwall talks about the toxic waste and fake recycling that ends up in Hong Kong

  6. Kolkata's Arsenic Poisoning

    Unchecked water extraction has led to 250,000 people being affected by arsenic poisoning

  7. Prospecting in the Amazon

    How oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon will threaten 19 different indigenous peoples

  8. Leipzig Declaration

    The global plan of action to secure plants' genetic resources for future generations

  9. Bakun Dam Project in Sarawak

    The building of the Malaysian dam was put on hold to take account of the views of locals

  10. Threats to Wildlife on the Galapagos Islands

    The role of population expansion, shark and sea cucumber fishing and 80,000 goats

  11. Negotiating Climate Change

    How governments are resisting advice from the IPCC to take action against climate change

  12. Food Crisis in North Korea

    Floods wiped out all food crops for 1995 as well as seeds to plant for the following year

  13. The Effects of Leaded Petrol

    Lead was added to petrol to make combustion efficient but modern engines no longer need it

  14. Sea Empress Supertanker Oil Spill

    "The shore was totally contaminated... and the air was heavy with the stench of oil"

  15. Impact of Commercial Mining on the Environment

    How has the rapid expansion of mining companies happened?

  16. Conserving Fish Stocks

    Restrictions on commercial fishing to save cod, haddock and plaice in the North Sea

  17. The Legacy and Findings of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

    What happened to the people and environment in the ten years after the accident?

  18. Salmon's Sense of Smell

    Male salmon sniff out their mates and all salmon migrate guided by their sense of smell

  19. North Pole Ice Cap is Melting

    Peter Wadhams of the Scott Polar Research Institute on research in the Arctic Sea

  20. Taiwan's Pollution

    What is being done about Taiwan's choking traffic, industrial pollution and smog?

  21. Annual Seal Hunt

    The quota for Canada's annual seal hunt of harp and hooded seals has been raised

  22. Wildlife and Wetfowl Trust

    A review of 50 years of the charity that protects ducks, geese and swans

  23. More Rainfall, Less Rainfall

    How increased evaporation over land and sea due to climate change affects rainfall

  24. Transport of Radioactive Materials by Sea

    The rules governing the transport of plutonium and high level nuclear waste by sea

  25. Oil Spills

    The risks of dealing with oil pollution by containment, collection and dispersal

  26. Micropropagation

    A method to mass producing plants to build up numbers of endangered species in Belize

  27. Safeguarding Rhino

    How the poaching of black rhino has declined in Zimbabwe

  28. Halocarbons

    Using a balloon to gather data about halocarbons between the troposphere and statosphere

  29. Preserving Oceanic Ecosystems

    "We are taking fish from the ocean faster than they can reproduce"

  30. Driftnet Fishing is Killing Dolphins

    Illegal fishing in the Mediterranean is killing dolphins and whales off the coast of Italy

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