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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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Impact of Commercial Mining on the Environment

How has the rapid expansion of mining companies happened?

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Sea Empress Supertanker Oil Spill

"The shore was totally contaminated... and the air was heavy with the stench of oil"

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The Effects of Leaded Petrol

Lead was added to petrol to make combustion efficient but modern engines no longer need it

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Food Crisis in North Korea

Floods wiped out all food crops for 1995 as well as seeds to plant for the following year

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Negotiating Climate Change

How governments are resisting advice from the IPCC to take action against climate change

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Threats to Wildlife on the Galapagos Islands

The role of population expansion, shark and sea cucumber fishing and 80,000 goats

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Bakun Dam Project in Sarawak

The building of the Malaysian dam was put on hold to take account of the views of locals

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Leipzig Declaration

The global plan of action to secure plants' genetic resources for future generations

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Prospecting in the Amazon

How oil exploration in the Peruvian Amazon will threaten 19 different indigenous peoples

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Kolkata's Arsenic Poisoning

Unchecked water extraction has led to 250,000 people being affected by arsenic poisoning

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Greenpeace in Hong Kong

Anne Dingwall talks about the toxic waste and fake recycling that ends up in Hong Kong

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Aerial Seed Bombers

Reforestation by dropping trees from airplanes in icecream cone-shaped delivery packages

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The Antarctic

Can one of the planet's last great wildernesses be kept clean for future generations?

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Water in Namibia

How are people conserving water in the country's capital Windhoek?

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Tortoise Deaths

Eight giant tortoises have died of a mystery disease on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos

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The Growth Rings of Trees

The shape of tree rings indicates a relative warming of the world over the last 100 years

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Natural and Man-made Disasters

Can you prepare for disaster?

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Tropical Ice Melt

The melting of the glaciers in mountain ranges in equatorial areas such as the Andes

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El Salvador's Environment

"The environmental problems are also social problems"

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Combating City Traffic Pollution

The device that sucks pollution out of the air described by inventor Melvin Prueitt

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How Climate Change Affects Birds

Birds' habitats, refuelling stops on migration routes and breeding grounds are threatened

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