Over-development, fishing, relentless dumping of industrial waste and sewage have turned the Mediterranean sea into a breeding ground for diseases. The prospect of cleaning up also looks grim. The film takes a look at this crippling issue of water pollution and its after effects.

Duration: 52 Minutes
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In ‘Drinking the Sky’, Dutch filmmaker Joost de Haas travels first to the wettest place on earth, then the driest. To Cherapunjee in north-east India and to the Atacama desert in Chile. Both places are populated – and therein lies the intrigue: how do you cope with life in the deluge and life in the driest spot on earth? In a film full of surprises de Haas looks at water management in a couple of places where it really matters.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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This graphic and timely Anglo-american production investigates the underlying causes of climate change, its likely effects and the measures now open to stave off ecological catastrophe.

Duration: 52 Minutes
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The film is based on the Greenland Sea Project (GSP) which was aimed at observing
and modelling the atmospheric, ice, oceanic and biological processes relevant to understanding the role of the Nordic Seas in the climate system. The focus of the project is the thermohaline circulation in the Greenland Sea, one of the most active regions in the global oceans for deep water formation.

Language: German with English subtitles
Duration: 48 Minutes
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"Hands On" is a series designed to meet more practical information about what individuals around the world are doing to save the environment. Part One of this omnibus edition includes 16 inspiring stories from Nepal, Zimbabwe, Denmark, Mexico, Jamaica and the UK. Among the technologies featured we see how sewage is turned into a fertilizer known as the biograin; how wind pumps can provide the answer to water shortages; how safety caps can reduce deaths among small children; and how one community uses rubber tyres to stop landslides.

Duration: 84 Minutes
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The theme is using water wisely. If all the world's water supply was put in a bucket, the moisture clinging to a finger dipped in it represents all the freshwater available to its six billion inhabitants. Most of the stories come from the developing world where unsustainable demands on rivers and underground sources are being made. In Malaysia, a model WWF campaign is getting the message through that protecting forested watersheds is the key to keeping streams clean and flowing all year round; in Nepal, ram-pumps are proving popular; in South Africa, children playing on a roundabout pump up water for a nearby vegetable garden; in Greece, water 'cigars' are coming to the rescue of parched Aegean islands.

Duration: 24 Minutes
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Global economic development has taken a heavy toll on nature. But some corporations are now beginning to wake up to the fact that if they continue to plunder natural resources, pollute air and water and damage ecosystems they will not be in business much longer.

Duration: 27 Minutes
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The Nepal roadshow visits a park high up in the Eastern Himalayas which is now to be protected as a ‘Gift to the Earth’. It also shows how the National Park provides refuge for sloth bears and a recovering rhino population. The team looks at the harmful impact of tourism on the fragile economy of the Himalayas - and on Kathmandu’s ancient water system - which is at breaking point.

Duration: 26 Minutes
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The Roadshow goes to Kakadu National Park, where the rock band Midnight Oil is leading the protest against uranium mining; in the Northern territories the controversial crocodile farms which meet a demand for 50,000 hides a year may be the only way to save wild populations; Eastern Australia’s Macquarie Marshes are drying up as thirsty cotton crops take more than their fair share from the water basin; and in Australia’s coastal waters, the efforts to save the Bluefin Tuna and the search for elusive sea-dragons. The Hands On slot, from South Africa, covers the invention of the Safety Cap - a childproof top for paraffin bottles.


Duration: 26 Minutes
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