Global Concerns Episodes Episode guide
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Overseas Toxic Waste Recycling
How the contents of batteries are affecting people in developing countries
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New Whale Sanctuary
The Antarctica whale sanctuary in that protects the feeding grounds of whales
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Tourism and the Environment
How turtle eggs are bought from fishermen in Sri Lanka and are released into the wild
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Gold Mining in the Amazon
How using mercury to mine gold is affecting the people and wildlife of the Amazon basin
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Verifying Treaty Compliance
Do governments 'cheat' on international environmental treaties?
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How Many People Can the World Support?
How scarcity of crop land and water will drive poverty and environmental destruction
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The Big Businesses Encouraging Biodiversity
How beauty and pharmaceutical companies are working with people in developing communities
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Living in Trees
The project to engineer a platform that enables scientists to study rainforest canopies
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Making Cars More Environmentally Friendly
How big a problem is congestion and car pollution in 1994?
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Heavy Metals
The waste disposal of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, chrome and arsenic
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Population Growth
A discussion on China's one child policy and the country's eugenics law
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The Environment in the Netherlands
How the Dutch government aimed to reduce pollution by 70-90% in 1989
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Environment in the US
The beginnings of environmentalism - and its challenges - in the US in the late 1980s
