My City and Your City
Earth Reporters
St Louis, Senegal, is the city most threatened by rising sea levels in Africa.
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Mpingo: The Tree That Makes Music
At a musical instrument factory in France, skilled craftsmen work fragments of African blackwood into clarinets and flutes for the international market. But in the early 1980s, with more and more wood cracking under pressure on the lathes, investigations turn to the plains of Tanzania, and to the Mpingo tree - the source of the remarkable black heartwood. (1992)
March for the Land
Follows the momentous trek across Brazil by ten thousand campaigners to demand land reform from the government. (1997)
Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj
Examines the effect of western culture on South Asian culture, brought about by satellite telecommunications. (2000)
Middle Earth Report Part 2: Growing Things
Earth Report goes behind New Zealand's clean, green 'Middle-earth' image, to find out how farming is affecting the country's environment.
Middle Earth Report Part 3: Changing The Future
In this final instalment of the Middle-earth trilogy, we focus on New Zealand's urban and industrial challenges.
Making The Connection
Hands On
Reports on projects using telecommunications technology around the world.
Marooned
The efforts of the Maroons of Surinam to preserve their way of life as timber and mining companies move in.
Message In A Bottle
Earth Report travels three small island nations, to find out what they are doing to protect themselves from threats - both local and global.
Meltdown: Australia
Witness
Examines the long-term damage to corals on the Great Barrier Reef, caused by higher water temperatures, an effect of climate change.
Meltdown: Fiji
Witness
The Kabara islanders have always been self-sufficient, relying on fishing and crop cultivation to meet their needs. But over the last 10 years the islanders have witnessed profound changes in the weather and the island’s ecosystems.
Meltdown: Germany
Witness
The warmer climate in Germany is contributing to an explosion in numbers of tree-borne pests, which have altered the balance of the forest ecosystem.
Meltdown: Nepal
Witness
How melting ice due to climate change is threatening villages in the Kumbu region of northern Nepal, and affecting the lives of villagers.
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya has just been declared a World Heritage Site, in part for its beauty, but that beauty is changing. 'Earth Report' documents the growing conflict between humans and wildlife on the mountain.
Makaya - Sacred Forest
In this film we see that the survival of the great coastal forest in Kenya owes much to one people's spiritual bond with the forest. 1999
Mapping The Millennium
A thirty minute full-length documentary covering a meeting of leading environment and development "thinkers" and "achievers" convened by TVE in London in early 1996. Their brief is to identify the critical environmental issues of the next century. (1996)
My Hanoi
Life II
Profiles a city in a period of dramatic change - emerging from colonialism and the still-painful memories of the Vietnam war, through socialism to the current free market era.
My Mother Built this House
Life II
Over 70,000 very poor women belong to the Homeless People's Federation, which was founded to transform the suffering of shack dwellers in South Africa. This Life episode tells the story of three women shack dwellers.
Missing Out
Life II
Looks at iron deficiency anaemia in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries. Are iron tablets a sustainable solution?
Mucking Up the Med
Fragile Earth
On the 15th anniversary of the Mediterranean Action Plan the fragile ecosystem of the Mediterranean Sea is threatened by over-development, pollution and tourism. (1990)