Climate change updates and conservation news from around the world
World Service,路163 episodes
Ozone layer predictions win Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen a Nobel Prize
A decrease in rainfall in southern Africa signals the beginning of a 100-year long drought
Toxic waste containing cyanide leaked into the Omai creek and then on into the Essequibo
How oil spills and smoke fumes from burning flares are affecting the Ogoni people
Canadian Inuit people protest against the banning of the import of furs to the EU
Ghillean Prance on why biodiversity is important for maintaining the planet's atmosphere
From heavy industry to mining, from oil to jellyfish - the many threats to the Caspian Sea
How computer modelling is predicting the effects of climate change and the need for action
How well are the world's forests being managed?
The fear of plutonium falling into the wrong hands
Global warming deniers say the rising temperatures predictions are based on flawed data
A review of the major environmental events of 1995 with Robin Pellew and Alex Kirby
From 1996, methyl chloroform and CFCs were banned to protect the ozone layer
Illegal fishing in the Mediterranean is killing dolphins and whales off the coast of Italy
"We are taking fish from the ocean faster than they can reproduce"
Using a balloon to gather data about halocarbons between the troposphere and statosphere
How the poaching of black rhino has declined in Zimbabwe
A method to mass producing plants to build up numbers of endangered species in Belize
The risks of dealing with oil pollution by containment, collection and dispersal
The rules governing the transport of plutonium and high level nuclear waste by sea
How increased evaporation over land and sea due to climate change affects rainfall
A review of 50 years of the charity that protects ducks, geese and swans
The quota for Canada's annual seal hunt of harp and hooded seals has been raised
What is being done about Taiwan's choking traffic, industrial pollution and smog?
Peter Wadhams of the Scott Polar Research Institute on research in the Arctic Sea
Male salmon sniff out their mates and all salmon migrate guided by their sense of smell
What happened to the people and environment in the ten years after the accident?
Restrictions on commercial fishing to save cod, haddock and plaice in the North Sea
How has the rapid expansion of mining companies happened?
"The shore was totally contaminated... and the air was heavy with the stench of oil"