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Global Concerns Episodes

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    The Montreal Protocol

    From 1996, methyl chloroform and CFCs were banned to protect the ozone layer

  2. The Environment in 1995

    A review of the major environmental events of 1995 with Robin Pellew and Alex Kirby

  3. Global Warming Denied

    Global warming deniers say the rising temperatures predictions are based on flawed data

  4. What Could Happen to Plutonium Stockpiles?

    The fear of plutonium falling into the wrong hands

  5. Logging Companies and the Timber Trade

    How well are the world's forests being managed?

  6. Climate Change Special

    How computer modelling is predicting the effects of climate change and the need for action

  7. Caspian Sea Under Threat

    From heavy industry to mining, from oil to jellyfish - the many threats to the Caspian Sea

  8. Global Biodiversity

    Ghillean Prance on why biodiversity is important for maintaining the planet's atmosphere

  9. Lake-hole Trapping

    Canadian Inuit people protest against the banning of the import of furs to the EU

  10. Oil-rich Ogoniland

    How oil spills and smoke fumes from burning flares are affecting the Ogoni people

  11. Omai Gold Mine Disaster

    Toxic waste containing cyanide leaked into the Omai creek and then on into the Essequibo

  12. Drought in Southern Africa

    A decrease in rainfall in southern Africa signals the beginning of a 100-year long drought

  13. Paul Crutzen

    Ozone layer predictions win Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen a Nobel Prize

  14. Water in the West Bank

    Negotiations about rights to water were left out of the Oslo Agreement

  15. CFCs

    Chlorofluorocarbons are still available, despite the threat to the ozone layer

  16. Sustaining Biodiversity

    Poaching is driven by the demand for animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine

  17. Land Recovery

    The wet paper that helps to reclaim land that's too salty, dry, polluted or radioactive

  18. Pantanal Wetlands

    Plans to make 1800 miles of the Pantanal navigable puts its diverse ecology at risk

  19. Loggerhead Turtles of Zakynthos

    How tourism is disrupting turtle breeding on the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos

  20. What Can be Done About Climate Change?

    Round up of the International Energy Agency's conference with David Vaughan of the BAS

  21. Dead Wood

    How dead trees provide food and shelter for wildlife - and shouldn't be cut down

  22. Polar Meltdown

    Discussion on the retreating sea ice at the Antarctic with David Vaughan of the BAS

  23. Wave Energy

    The seas around the UK could generate 12,000 megawatts of energy

  24. Lake Bangweulu, Zambia

    The wetlands of northern Zambia are home to the black lechwe antelope and rich birdlife

  25. Environmentally-friendly Cottages

    The holiday with a reed bed grey water filtration system and a groundwater heating system

  26. Saving the Rhino

    Stringent laws on the sale and trade of rhino horn are proving to be effective

  27. New Hope for the Panda

    New panda reserves and bamboo corridors which will link one panda population with another

  28. Limbe Botanic Garden

    The Mount Cameroon Conservation Project aims to create a centre for research and education

  29. Jeanette Kawas

    Profile of Jeanette Kawas, who was assassinated for her environmental work in Honduras

  30. Water Depletion

    Water demand has more than tripled since 1950 - what's the impact?

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