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Population Growth

A discussion on China's one child policy and the country's eugenics law

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Heavy Metals

The waste disposal of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, chrome and arsenic

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Making Cars More Environmentally Friendly

How big a problem is congestion and car pollution in 1994?

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Living in Trees

The project to engineer a platform that enables scientists to study rainforest canopies

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The Big Businesses Encouraging Biodiversity

How beauty and pharmaceutical companies are working with people in developing communities

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How Many People Can the World Support?

How scarcity of crop land and water will drive poverty and environmental destruction

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Verifying Treaty Compliance

Do governments 'cheat' on international environmental treaties?

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Gold Mining in the Amazon

How using mercury to mine gold is affecting the people and wildlife of the Amazon basin

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Tourism and the Environment

How turtle eggs are bought from fishermen in Sri Lanka and are released into the wild

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New Whale Sanctuary

The Antarctica whale sanctuary in that protects the feeding grounds of whales

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Overseas Toxic Waste Recycling

How the contents of batteries are affecting people in developing countries

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Children and the Environment

How children feel about the environment and the action they want to take to protect it

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Protecting the Philippines

A scheme buy shares in the island of Danjugan to prevent it being developed for tourism

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Alligators in Louisiana USA

After careful conservation and management, alligator populations have increased

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Conserving Fish Stocks

How the UN Fisheries Conference missed the opportunity to prevent overfishing

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Gorillas in Rwanda at the Beginning of Civil War

Pascale Sicotte on fleeing Rwanda and the threats to gorillas during civil conflict

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Antarctica Whale Sanctuary

Discussion on the establishment of a whale sanctuary in the southern ocean

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Madagascan Fish Eagle

Richard Lewis talks about the declining Madagascan fish eagle population and its habitat

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Flora Mesoamericana

The catalogue, written in Spanish, of all plants in southern Mexico and Central America

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Environmental Impact of Washing Detergents

What's in conventional washing powders that is bad for the environment?

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Protecting Whales

An agreement to protect whales from commercial hunting, but are all countries happy?

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The Untouched Rainforest of Papua New Guinea

It's worth $100 billion and logging means that the forest could be lost in a generation

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Coral Reef Decay

Reef decay affects the balance of marine life on which Pacific islanders depend

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International Wildlife Taskforce

A force to prevent the illegal trade and trafficking of the wild animals of Africa

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East African Conservation

How the tsetse fly has helped conservation in Tanzania at national parks such as Mkomazi

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How Red Wine is Helping Assess Levels of Pollution

How studying Chateauneuf-du-Pape has helped monitor lead pollution from car exhausts

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Could Conservationists be Causing Extinction?

The link between the extinction of African wild dogs with the intervention of scientists

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The Environment in Russia

Alexey Yablokov on radioactive pollution, environmental law and protection

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Exploitation of the Pacific Islands

A lack of economic development, logging and overfishing in the Pacific Islands

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Panda Breeding in Captivity

Simon Tong on the breeding habits of pandas such as Ming Ming - who is on loan to ZSL

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