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As automobiles crowd the planet adding more and more greenhouse gasses many of us want to help by driving greener and cleaner. To help us sort out what we can do host Kamal Sidhu and eco expert zookeeper, Hayden Turner, take us on a tour of what's hot and what's not on the green car scene. Starting with Hybrids - cars that use gasoline and electricity - Hayden travels to Florence Italy, where Toyota is showing off it's latest Hybrid, the Prius - a car that puts out up to 90% fewer tail pipe emissions than comparable petrol or diesel powered cars. Hayden is delighted to discover not only does it drive greener it also has "grunt" and looks good too. To investigate no emission Hydrogen fuel cell cars, Hayden visits Los Angeles where the city leases a Honda powered by solar manufactured hydrogen. The only thing that exits the exhaust pipe is water. Cars don't come much cleaner than this. At the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Long Beach, California, it's green-car-alley for Hayden with over

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Can a beautiful home, that meets strict building codes, be built completely from scrap materials and salvage… using nothing new? The stakes are high. A team of architects, salvagers, and builders has decided to make it happen. They have one month and thousands of pounds of trash to build an architectural marvel.

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Brilliant coral reef shelters bustling aquatic life while sharks, manta rays and octopus continue their timeless ballet in this tropical Living Eden.

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Strange transformations are taking place around the world because of alien invaders. In Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur presided over Japan’s formal surrender in World War II. To control the termites, scientists hope to exploit one aspect of the insects’ lives. Using bait stations buried in locations across the city, scientists replace wood bait with poison-soaked paper. Meanwhile, in Uganda, an alien interloper may be jeopardizing the very health of the people living near Lake Victoria. Cases of the tropical disease, schistosomiasis, have been on the rise and scientists suspect the alien water hyacinth plant is partly to blame. In a short time, this weed has clogged 80 percent of Uganda’s shoreline, providing an ideal breeding ground for snails hosting this deadly disease. Using a technique known as bio-control, Ogwang and his team carry 1,200 weevil insects to Uganda. At the same time, in Hawaii, a foreign species of plant threatens to remodel the landscape. Botanists are tracki

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Mammoth machines. Trash piled twenty stories high. Man and technology in a battle against a tidal wave of waste. Uncover the gargantuan world of garbage at America's largest active Mega-Dump - Puente Hills, CA. Some landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day, this one processes 2,000 tons an hour. How does it do it? With mega machines and mega ingenuity. Take a spin in the 120,000 lb Bomag Compactor with its 55-inch garbage crushing steel wheels. Power up with methane gas, Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with their landfill gas. And find out what happens to your trash when you're not looking. You're going behind the scenes at LA's dirtiest suburb. Call it big, call it nasty, but don't you dare call it just a hole in the ground!

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As automobiles crowd the planet adding more and more greenhouse gasses many of us want to help by driving greener and cleaner. To help us sort out what we can do host Kamal Sidhu and eco expert zookeeper, Hayden Turner, take us on a tour of what's hot and what's not on the green car scene. Starting with Hybrids - cars that use gasoline and electricity - Hayden travels to Florence Italy, where Toyota is showing off it's latest Hybrid, the Prius - a car that puts out up to 90% fewer tail pipe emissions than comparable petrol or diesel powered cars. Hayden is delighted to discover not only does it drive greener it also has "grunt" and looks good too. To investigate no emission Hydrogen fuel cell cars, Hayden visits Los Angeles where the city leases a Honda powered by solar manufactured hydrogen. The only thing that exits the exhaust pipe is water. Cars don't come much cleaner than this. At the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Long Beach, California, it's green-car-alley for Hayden with over

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Join us off the southeast coast of Australia - Tasmania. Tasmania is an Eden of magnificent forests and also home to the Tasmanian Devil.

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Deep in the wilds of Venezuela, the natural order is being turned inside out. Miles of savanna and verdant forest have given way to small, scattered islands. What’s driving this bizarre transformation? With the reefs suffocating under shaggy layers of algae, scientists are investigating the role that the loss of top predatory fish such as sharks, groupers and jacks have played in the reef’s slow demise. As these large fish were decimated by fisheries, smaller fish became the next commercial target – including those vital grazers that kept fast-growing algae in check. Similarly, the majestic wilderness of Yellowstone National Park is also showing signs of change that some scientists trace to the depletion of natural predators. Familiar and revered forests have vanished. In Yellowstone, researchers are uncovering intriguing clues. By hunting elk in particular, wolves literally may be reshaping the landscape.

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Africa. The first continent to boil to the surface when the earth took solid form. The place where the first tiny apes dared to stand upright. A place where the violence of natural selection wrought the most astounding of creatures. Yet now, after several hundred million years, the first continent's spectacular legacy is in mortal danger. But in a small, little-known country, the war to save Africa's singular heritage is being waged. On the western edge of the continent there is an unlikely Eden, where relentless predators stalk titanic prey in lush forests. And clever primates who have not yet learned to fear man live right alongside the mysterious forest elephant who rules with size and majesty. This is the Eden called Gabon. In Gabon, against all odds, one visionary African leader and a group of dedicated scientists, including Stephen Blake, decided to defy the conventional wisdom - wisdom that insists oil and logging are the only way to bring prosperity to an impoverished land. Out of the wild, they have created 13 new national parks, the largest parks system in the world. Now they are developing an eco-tourism industry to sustain them. To make the national parks a real success, scientists and officials must understand and manage the complex world they now control - including animals, like the forest elephant, who are little known to us. If protecting Gabon's natural resources proves to be less profitable than exploiting them, the parks are doomed, along with the wondrous creatures within them. And scavengers of every kind are eager for the parks to fail. A vast, endless landscape, filled to the horizon with creatures that seem almost mythical. Once upon a time, this was the only Africa that existed. Now it's almost gone. But hope still exists in this magical, forbidding place known as Gabon.

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As automobiles crowd the planet adding more and more greenhouse gasses many of us want to help by driving greener and cleaner. To help us sort out what we can do host Kamal Sidhu and eco expert zookeeper, Hayden Turner, take us on a tour of what's hot and what's not on the green car scene. Starting with Hybrids - cars that use gasoline and electricity - Hayden travels to Florence Italy, where Toyota is showing off it's latest Hybrid, the Prius - a car that puts out up to 90% fewer tail pipe emissions than comparable petrol or diesel powered cars. Hayden is delighted to discover not only does it drive greener it also has "grunt" and looks good too. To investigate no emission Hydrogen fuel cell cars, Hayden visits Los Angeles where the city leases a Honda powered by solar manufactured hydrogen. The only thing that exits the exhaust pipe is water. Cars don't come much cleaner than this. At the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Long Beach, California, it's green-car-alley for Hayden with over

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Going green? Here’s the ultimate guide to building the ultimate garden shed and driving the car that gets the most distance for a pound. Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips investigate the hard nosed realities of living the green life. Before you head for the DIY store, here's all you need to know about double glazing, wind power and solar panels, recycling and light bulbs. And that's just for starters – we look into the nation's consumption of natural resources, then our duo dig deep into one of Britain’s biggest land fill sites to get a worm's eye view of what’s really rotten. They marvel at the world’s biggest solar farm, and build a human powered home cinema. Richard and Jonnny also head down to the race track to compare four different ‘green’ cars and test which will last the longest on £1 worth of fuel. Finally, the boys build and spend a night in their own eco sheds – for his creation, Jonny uses high ‘green’ technology such as solar panels, and Richard uses sustainable living ‘low’ technology to construct a shed made with a turf roof and manure walls - but which will the sheds pass thermal and pressure tests?

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A series of apparently unconnected crises among animal populations around the world turns out to be linked by water. This series examines evidence that toxins are being spread throughout the world's water systems and explores what people can do to remedy the problem. Elsewhere, epidemiologists in Columbia, Missouri are investigating the effects of chemicals found in tap water. They have discovered evidence of human vulnerability, reporting high miscarriage rates in women who drink tap water with elevated levels of chlorine by-products. Dozens of chemicals have been discovered in the bodies of these St. Lawrence belugas. Some dead belugas are so full of toxins and chemical mixtures from the water that they technically qualify as hazardous waste. It’s these chemical mixtures, as opposed to any one toxin in particular, that are causing scientists to worry.

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As automobiles crowd the planet adding more and more greenhouse gasses many of us want to help by driving greener and cleaner. To help us sort out what we can do host Kamal Sidhu and eco expert zookeeper, Hayden Turner, take us on a tour of what's hot and what's not on the green car scene. Starting with Hybrids - cars that use gasoline and electricity - Hayden travels to Florence Italy, where Toyota is showing off it's latest Hybrid, the Prius - a car that puts out up to 90% fewer tail pipe emissions than comparable petrol or diesel powered cars. Hayden is delighted to discover not only does it drive greener it also has "grunt" and looks good too. To investigate no emission Hydrogen fuel cell cars, Hayden visits Los Angeles where the city leases a Honda powered by solar manufactured hydrogen. The only thing that exits the exhaust pipe is water. Cars don't come much cleaner than this. At the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Long Beach, California, it's green-car-alley for Hayden with over

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Can a beautiful home, that meets strict building codes, be built completely from scrap materials and salvage… using nothing new? The stakes are high. A team of architects, salvagers, and builders has decided to make it happen. They have one month and thousands of pounds of trash to build an architectural marvel.

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From the Arctic north to the tropical isles of the Caribbean, scientists are documenting a series of perplexing phenomena many believe is linked to climate change. Emerging signs indicate that the region’s rising temperature is affecting the indigenous porcupine caribou in ways both subtle and potentially severe. To escape, the caribou seek out the cooler temperatures atop mountains and ridges, away from their traditional feeding grounds. The life of a caribou is a trade-off between time spent evading insects and time spent feeding or resting. Researchers suggest this may weaken adult caribou considerably, resulting in lower reproduction rates. Across the world, other events that some scientists link to climate change are unfolding. In Trinidad, African dust is now a prime suspect in the increased rates of childhood asthma.

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Mammoth machines. Trash piled twenty stories high. Man and technology in a battle against a tidal wave of waste. Uncover the gargantuan world of garbage at America's largest active Mega-Dump - Puente Hills, CA. Some landfills take in 2,000 tons of trash a day, this one processes 2,000 tons an hour. How does it do it? With mega machines and mega ingenuity. Take a spin in the 120,000 lb Bomag Compactor with its 55-inch garbage crushing steel wheels. Power up with methane gas, Puente Hills powers over 100,000 homes and a fleet of vehicles with their landfill gas. And find out what happens to your trash when you're not looking. You're going behind the scenes at LA's dirtiest suburb. Call it big, call it nasty, but don't you dare call it just a hole in the ground!

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Going green? Here’s the ultimate guide to building the ultimate garden shed and driving the car that gets the most distance for a pound. Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips investigate the hard nosed realities of living the green life. Before you head for the DIY store, here's all you need to know about double glazing, wind power and solar panels, recycling and light bulbs. And that's just for starters – we look into the nation's consumption of natural resources, then our duo dig deep into one of Britain’s biggest land fill sites to get a worm's eye view of what’s really rotten. They marvel at the world’s biggest solar farm, and build a human powered home cinema. Richard and Jonnny also head down to the race track to compare four different ‘green’ cars and test which will last the longest on £1 worth of fuel. Finally, the boys build and spend a night in their own eco sheds – for his creation, Jonny uses high ‘green’ technology such as solar panels, and Richard uses sustainable living ‘low’ technology to construct a shed made with a turf roof and manure walls - but which will the sheds pass thermal and pressure tests?

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As automobiles crowd the planet adding more and more greenhouse gasses many of us want to help by driving greener and cleaner. To help us sort out what we can do host Kamal Sidhu and eco expert zookeeper, Hayden Turner, take us on a tour of what's hot and what's not on the green car scene. Starting with Hybrids - cars that use gasoline and electricity - Hayden travels to Florence Italy, where Toyota is showing off it's latest Hybrid, the Prius - a car that puts out up to 90% fewer tail pipe emissions than comparable petrol or diesel powered cars. Hayden is delighted to discover not only does it drive greener it also has "grunt" and looks good too. To investigate no emission Hydrogen fuel cell cars, Hayden visits Los Angeles where the city leases a Honda powered by solar manufactured hydrogen. The only thing that exits the exhaust pipe is water. Cars don't come much cleaner than this. At the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Long Beach, California, it's green-car-alley for Hayden with over

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Can a beautiful home, that meets strict building codes, be built completely from scrap materials and salvage… using nothing new? The stakes are high. A team of architects, salvagers, and builders has decided to make it happen. They have one month and thousands of pounds of trash to build an architectural marvel.

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Scientists say we may be facing a global catastrophe. In the last six months up to 80% of honeybees in the US have disappeared. Now the nightmare has spread to Europe. Are bees the "canary in the coal mine"," the first signs of a massive ecological collapse? Eye-popping, macroscopic photography will get up close and personal on the crucial role bees play in our ecosystem. We'll explore the divergent theories on the causes behind their rapid

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Going green? Here’s the ultimate guide to building the ultimate garden shed and driving the car that gets the most distance for a pound. Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips investigate the hard nosed realities of living the green life. Before you head for the DIY store, here's all you need to know about double glazing, wind power and solar panels, recycling and light bulbs. And that's just for starters – we look into the nation's consumption of natural resources, then our duo dig deep into one of Britain’s biggest land fill sites to get a worm's eye view of what’s really rotten. They marvel at the world’s biggest solar farm, and build a human powered home cinema. Richard and Jonnny also head down to the race track to compare four different ‘green’ cars and test which will last the longest on £1 worth of fuel. Finally, the boys build and spend a night in their own eco sheds – for his creation, Jonny uses high ‘green’ technology such as solar panels, and Richard uses sustainable living ‘low’ technology to construct a shed made with a turf roof and manure walls - but which will the sheds pass thermal and pressure tests?

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Imagine having everything you ever consume in your entire life laid out right in front of you – from the amount of trash you discard to the number of tears you cry. Human Footprint tracks our consumption from birth to old age in the developing world by visually illustrating each individual’s impact on other people and the planet. In a single lifetime, the average person will consume 15,951 pints of milk, take 7,163 baths using almost one million litres of water and have 104,390 dreams. Each of us will dispose of 40 tonnes of waste to the landfill, drink 74,802 cups of tea, take 30,000 pills of medicine and eat a bathtub full of beans. We will walk 24,887 kilometres in a lifetime and drive 728,489 kilometres – enough to travel to the moon and back. It will take 24 trees to produce all of the books and newspapers that you will ever read. Piling together all of the bread you consume and igniting the amount of methane you expel, Human Footprint is a unique and compelling visualisation of our imprint on the world.

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As the Earth turns another year older in 2007, our planet has seen 8 billion metric tonnes of carbon released into its atmosphere 90 million tonnes of fish pulled out of its oceans and 11 billion trees toppled on its land. Tracking everything from carbon emissions to reforestation projects, Earth Report: State of the Planet rates how nations have impacted our world – both positively and negatively – in 2007. Opening a new coal power plant every week, China surpassed the United States in total emissions for the first time. The Arctic polar ice cap is receding more than even the worst case scenarios had predicted, and countries are scrambling to stake their claim on the prized shipping route of an ice-less Northwest Passage. On land, deforestation has taken a significant toll, with nearly 50 percent of the original forests in the world now gone. But, many countries are working to make a difference. China is investing U.S. $8 billion to build the ‘Green Wall of China’ – the world’s largest reforestation project stretching nearly 4,500 kilometres. The U.S. government will test storing carbon dioxide emissions underground – depositing more than three trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide beneath North America.

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