Monday, May 27, 2013

Ten Things You Didn't Know About Earthquakes

Iain Stewart looks at some of the world's most dramatic earthquakes and reveals the stories and science behind them. In seconds, these powerful forces of nature which cannot be predicted or prevented can shake a town to destruction and shift the landscape forever. We discover why quakes can last 60 times longer on the moon than on earth; how one particular earthquake fault line can produce hallucinations; and how 1960s Cold War spying gave scientists a crucial clue to understanding them.

National Geographic Colliding Continents

Documentary of earth's violent past and tectonic plates

Countries inside Countries: Bizarre Borders

The importance of the high seas

WWF's Global Marine Programme is working to increase international attention for the conservation of vast expanses of ocean, and immediately protect the high seas. Around 64% of the oceans - an area covering half the planet - lie beyond the national jurisdiction of any country. Known as the high seas, these international waters are open-access common areas for everyone.

Seedlings 3: The importance of living more sustainably in today's world

Seedlings is a new online web series telling of a new way. Following the day to day lives of people at ecological projects in the beautiful Pacific coast of Costa Rica, living amongst nature as nature intended! Watch their progress as they strive to reforest some of the mined areas of the Costa Rican coast, re-establishing our planets natural beauty as well as showing you how to live and build a more sustainable life!

In this episode, Matthew and Chris talk us through the current developments in the sustainable living facilities at Ocean Ranch Park and the importance of living more sustainably in today's world so we don't just sustain ourselves but we thrive as human beings!

Inside Wildlife Crime

On the trail of wildlife crime from Gabon to Thailand, following the burning of ivory in Gabon to the seizure of ivory and smuggled tiger kittens in Thailand.

Wildlife crime not only threatens nature's most iconic species, but exacerbates poverty and corruption, funding an entire spectrum of related international crime. These images trace the story from beginning to end, across continents, offering a sense of the fragility of the human lives that lie in its wake.

Ban Thai ivory trade and save Africa's elephants by WWF

"Say NO to rhino horn" with singer My Linh

Monday, May 6, 2013

Wind and solar energy is growing in India

Today coal accounts for approximately 57% of India's total energy consumption and is responsible for 67% of India's increased carbon emissions.

But renewable energy alternatives are growing rapidly throughout the country. Solar technology, wind power and other natural resources sources have been utilised to produce electricity, bringing power to those who would otherwise be without.

The abundance of natural resources in India uncover its potential as a world leader in renewable energy and prove that increased coal exports from Australia are unjustified and harmful.

Seedlings 2: Showing you how to live and build a more sustainable life

Seedlings is a new online web series telling of a new way. Following the day to day lives of people at ecological projects in the beautiful Pacific coast of Costa Rica, living amongst nature as nature intended! Watch their progress as they strive to reforest some of the mined areas of the Costa Rican coast, re-establishing our planets natural beauty as well as showing you how to live and build a more sustainable life!


A New Coca-Cola Ad With A Twist

Coke is trying to crush a hugely popular and proven recycling scheme before it can be implemented nationally.

Greenpeace made a new Coca-Cola ad — with a twist It exposes how this corporate giant is willing to let plastic pollution trash our oceans and kill our marine life by crushing the proven ‘Cash for Containers’ scheme. Coke won’t like it one bit — but it’s high time Australians knew the truth. Watch it now and stop Coca-Cola trashing Australia.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Tuna: Transhipment, Transparency

On the fringes of the Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Greenpeace International ampaigners witness how tuna is offloaded from a longliner to a reefer. Known as transshipping, this is a fishing operation that has little monitoring. This can lead to reefers, owned by international companies, receiving unsustainably or illegally caught tuna.

LIFE OF PI is helping WWF save the tigers

Join LIFE OF PI to help WWF double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022.

Hope in a Changing Climate Documentary by John Liu

John D Liu is an international expert on large scale restoration projects on degraded lands. First exposed to large-scale degraded ecosystems in the Loess Plateau in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River in 1995, I became fascinated by how human history has altered physical landscapes.

The loss of biodiversity, hydrological regulation, weather regulation, climate regulation, soil fertility and agricultural productivity had led to massive poverty and continuous ecological crisis. "Over the years I have witnessed the steps the Chinese people have taken to restore this region's ecology and have tried to understand the implications of what I have seen and documented"

Seedlings: Showing you how to live and build a more sustainable life

Seedlings is a new online web series telling of a new way. Following the day to day lives of people at ecological projects in the beautiful Pacific coast of Costa Rica, living amongst nature as nature intended! Watch their progress as they strive to reforest some of the mined areas of the Costa Rican coast, re-establishing our planets natural beauty as well as showing you how to live and build a more sustainable life!

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