China’s insatiable demand for energy is hurting the environment. According to the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, it’s already over-taken the USA as the world’s biggest producer of C02. But in the remote Chinese province of West Guangxi, simple technology is now allowing millions of poor families to cook and keep warm using carbon-neutral biogas, produced from human and animal waste. It’s saving 13 million tonnes of firewood and nearly eight million tonnes of coal every year.

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Every flush of the toilet sends 27 litres of
precious drinking water down the drain. Dry
toilets seem to provide the perfect answer –
especially in arid North Africa. Earth Report visits Morocco and Tunisia where water is scarce, and human waste management a top priority.

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Four countries and many corporations are now
pledging to go carbon neutral. New Zealand,
host for World Environment Day, 5 June 2008,
plans to be the first to create a completely
carbon neutral economy. Their target is 2020
and they have ambitious plans to radically
reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a big
increase in renewable power generation and a
switch to sustainable transport like electric cars.
But half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas
emissions come from their huge agricultural
sector – from sheep and cows. So how will they manage? And what does carbon neutrality
really mean?

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With scientists warning that fish stocks could
collapse by 2048, Earth Report goes to the
Netherlands to find out how supermarkets
and top-brand retailers are demanding fish from sustainable sources. It’s putting pressure on commercial fishing fleets to introduce nets that catch fewer immature fish – and so reduce one of the main threats to stocks.

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More than 60 per cent of the world’s elephants
were killed by poachers in the 1970s and 80s.
Since then an international ban on the ivory
trade has helped herds recover. But new evidence is emerging that poaching is again on the rise. Now investigators are using a new DNA technique to identify the killing fields. Earth Report follows the trail from Africa to the US and Japan.

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A handful of high-yielding crops feed the world’s ever-increasing population. Have we become too reliant on wheat, maize and rice? What happens when diseases attack them? Can we develop new disease-resistant strains? Or have we lost too many plants, neglecting age-old fruit, vegetable and cereal varieties that could provide theanswers?


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The Norwegian government is building an
underground vault to guard against a major
catastrophe - nuclear war, asteroid strikes or
severe climate change. It’s a seed bank on a wild Arctic island 500 miles from the North Pole: a store for all the known varieties of the world’s crops - just in case.

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More and more people rely on the waters of
Tanzania’s Pangani River basin. It’s meant to
produce power, feed people and provide
drinking water. But it has too little water to
do all that. The glaciers of Kilimanjaro that
for years have helped feed the river are
melting. Can the situation be turned around
to avoid conflict?

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Since the 1990s the watershed on the
Mexico/Guatemala border has come under
pressure from agriculture, pollution and poor
land management linked to coffee farming in the region. But recently there’s been a sea change driven by the coffee industry itself. Global demand for certified and organically grown coffee is booming – and producing a dividend for river systems in an area that currently produces half the world’s coffee. 40 per cent of the world’s population are without access to a latrine or toilet. In the International Year of Sanitation, Earth Report travels to Asia and Africa to see how attitudes are shifting.

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