Upstream Downstream
Reports on the potential for conflict over water in the Ping River basin in Thailand.
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Up the Ladder
This film takes a look at how the Basel Convention of 1992 has stopped toxic traders dumping their waste on the doorsteps of developing nations.
Unnatural Disasters
This week's 'Earth Report' shows that it is poor communities worldwide who are the first to suffer from the decisions made by the rich and powerful that are anything but sustainable.
UK: Tiger Matchmakers
There are only around 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, confined to a few reserves in Indonesia. The European zoo breeding programme is run from London Zoo, where a cub was born early in 1996 and hand-reared by keepers. (1996)
Up in Smoke
Life III
In the southern African country of Malawi, tobacco is the major export crop - responsible for 70 per cent of all export earnings. Yet, despite the poor returns from tobacco growing, the government has actually increased the land under cultivation.
Untouchable?
Life I
Discrimination based on caste membership has been, theoretically, illegal since Indian independence in 1947. But it's still an accepted part of everyday life across the continent.