麻豆社

CFCs

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

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Water in the West Bank

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

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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

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Omai Gold Mine Disaster

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

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Oil-rich Ogoniland

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

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Lake-hole Trapping

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

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Global Biodiversity

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

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Caspian Sea Under Threat

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

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Climate Change Special

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

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Logging Companies and the Timber Trade

How well are the world's forests being managed?

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What Could Happen to Plutonium Stockpiles?

The fear of plutonium falling into the wrong hands

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Global Warming Denied

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

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The Environment in 1995

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

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The Montreal Protocol

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

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Driftnet Fishing is Killing Dolphins

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

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Preserving Oceanic Ecosystems

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

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Halocarbons

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

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Safeguarding Rhino

How the poaching of black rhino has declined in Zimbabwe

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Micropropagation

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

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Oil Spills

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

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Transport of Radioactive Materials by Sea

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

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More Rainfall, Less Rainfall

How increased evaporation over land and sea due to climate change affects rainfall

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Wildlife and Wetfowl Trust

A review of 50 years of the charity that protects ducks, geese and swans

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Annual Seal Hunt

The quota for Canada's annual seal hunt of harp and hooded seals has been raised

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Taiwan's Pollution

What is being done about Taiwan's choking traffic, industrial pollution and smog?

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North Pole Ice Cap is Melting

Peter Wadhams of the Scott Polar Research Institute on research in the Arctic Sea

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Salmon's Sense of Smell

Male salmon sniff out their mates and all salmon migrate guided by their sense of smell

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The Legacy and Findings of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

What happened to the people and environment in the ten years after the accident?

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Conserving Fish Stocks

Restrictions on commercial fishing to save cod, haddock and plaice in the North Sea

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