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In anticipation of the publication of a comprehensive survey on the effects of climate change, Earth Report travels around the gas-guzzling United States to reveal the environmental changes that make the situation increasingly difficult to ignore.
Hands On
Five stories from towns and cities from all the continents will show that the sustainable city is a dream some people are turning into reality.
For centuries the rivers and plains of China have experienced floods, but in 1998 several river systems overflowed at the same time. Earth report travels to the forests of the Tibetan Plateau to investigate the role of deforestation and lives. (1998)
Logging, AIDS awareness raising, bush meat and a teacher who has put his environmental messages into song. (1998)
Latin America Season continues this week, travelling to Colombia. The 'Eco Cops' of Bogota patrol the capital's streets. (1998)
This week's Hands On comes from Somalia where the International Committee of the Red Cross is working with local communities to renovate old irrigation systems. (1998)
11 features on children's rights, with stories from West Africa, Hong Kong, Mongolia, India, Rwanda, Costa Rica, the USA and Egypt. (1997)
Defying the critics, China is succeeding in mobilising communities to roll back the desert. (1996)
A look at the world's growing city population and its effects on global warming, produced in 1996.
Life (series 5)
Worldwide, an estimated 200 billion dollars goes to developing countries every year in the form of remittances direct to poor families. What impact does this have in the fight against poverty?
Life on the Edge (series 6)
Examining the global brain drain, this film highlights the pressure on young professionals in Venezuela to leave their country for greater material rewards abroad.
Life (series 5)
Every year one and a quarter million people die and more than fifty million are seriously injured in road traffic accidents. Life visits India and Brazil to look at road safety in developing countries.
Life (series 4)
Life visits Ukraine and Zambia to assess the progression of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Life (series 3)
Looks at the lives of street children in St Petersburg, victims of the economic and social prssures in Russian society in the wake of the fall of communism.
Life IV
Life looks at the crisis in the international coffee industry, when coffee farmers receive less than one percent of the price of a cup of coffee sold in a coffee bar.
Life II
By 2007 more people will live in cities and towns than in the countryside. This Life programme asks how cities can organise themselves to take advantage of the new globalized economy to benefit all their inhabitants - rich and poor.
Assesses the pressures put on coral, the Philippines' most valuable resource, by a population of 58 million. (1988)
Life I
Recounts how taking out a micro-credit loan has affected the lives of six women in Bangladesh.
Voices
In downtown Lagos, Chuks is working on his latest creation