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Wave Energy

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

• 13 mins

Polar Meltdown

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

• 13 mins

Dead Wood

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

• 13 mins

What Can be Done About Climate Change?

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

• 13 mins

Loggerhead Turtles of Zakynthos

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

• 13 mins

Pantanal Wetlands

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

• 13 mins

Land Recovery

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

• 13 mins

Sustaining Biodiversity

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

• 13 mins

CFCs

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

• 13 mins

Water in the West Bank

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

• 13 mins

Paul Crutzen

Ozone layer predictions win Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen a Nobel Prize

• 12 mins

Drought in Southern Africa

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

• 13 mins

Omai Gold Mine Disaster

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

• 13 mins

Oil-rich Ogoniland

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

• 13 mins

Lake-hole Trapping

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

• 13 mins

Global Biodiversity

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

• 13 mins

Caspian Sea Under Threat

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

• 13 mins

Climate Change Special

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

• 13 mins

Logging Companies and the Timber Trade

How well are the world's forests being managed?

• 13 mins

What Could Happen to Plutonium Stockpiles?

The fear of plutonium falling into the wrong hands

• 13 mins

Global Warming Denied

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

• 13 mins

The Environment in 1995

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

• 13 mins

The Montreal Protocol

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

• 13 mins

Driftnet Fishing is Killing Dolphins

Illegal fishing in the Mediterranean is killing dolphins and whales off the coast of Italy

• 13 mins

Preserving Oceanic Ecosystems

"We are taking fish from the ocean faster than they can reproduce"

• 13 mins

Halocarbons

Using a balloon to gather data about halocarbons between the troposphere and statosphere

• 13 mins

Safeguarding Rhino

How the poaching of black rhino has declined in Zimbabwe

• 13 mins

Micropropagation

A method to mass producing plants to build up numbers of endangered species in Belize

• 13 mins

Oil Spills

The risks of dealing with oil pollution by containment, collection and dispersal

• 14 mins

Transport of Radioactive Materials by Sea

The rules governing the transport of plutonium and high level nuclear waste by sea

• 13 mins