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Coping With Complexity: Ocean Buoys

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

151

NoS ID

325630

Story no

2 / 5

COI synopsis: This issue looks at a few new ways of managing the increasingly complex problems of modern life. Computer simulations, for instance, show how to cope with the complexity of planning a modern...

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Fragile Planet (2 Parts) (1992 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 50 min., £30.00 (each); £55.00 (set) (+VAT +p&p)

The latest scientific data and theories and the participation of the world’s leading scientists and institutions are used to investigate pollution ask whether present methods of pollution control,...

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British and Norwegian monarchs on North Sea pollution (1988)

Genre

Speech; Music

The Queen is backing Prince Charles’s campaign against pollution in the North Sea. Speaking at a banquet at Windsor in honour of the King of Norway , she says his country and ours share a need to care...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.97: Programme 97 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 97 Programme 97 of a weekly news and sports review called OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK broadcast by independent radio station OCEAN SOUND on 4th September 1988. Presented by PETE WARDMAN....

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Greenpeace condemns new oilfield off Shetlands (1994)

Genre

Interview

Jeremy Leggett, Scientific Director for Greenpeace, condemns the Government decision to allow Shell and BP to develop a new oilfield, Foinaven, in the Atlantic off the Shetland Islands, because of the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Environmental Science: Multimedia Activities

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM), £33.59

This interactive DVD covers topics such as Earth, Water, Life, Landforms and Extreme Weather. It enables students to study rock samples and to model, for example, the flow of water from rainstorm to ocean,...

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Plastic Whale, A (2017)

aka: A Plastic Whale: The Documentary

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Film

This Sky News documentary shows the devastating effects of plastic on ocean life by following the case of a post-mortem examination of a Cuvier’s beaked whale. The procedure confirmed that its intestines...

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Only One Baltic (197 Film, Video)

Director

Rolf Husbert; Marek Pisarski

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

For a long time the Baltic was used as a rubbish dump and a sewer for the wastes of industry and 200 million people. In 1974 the seven nations with Baltic coastlines made a national agreement to protect the...

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David Penhaligon on Concorde’s sonic boom (1978)

Genre

Interview

David Penhaligon, MP for Truro, on the Concorde sonic boom, about which some 40 of his constituents have complained. He says an ideal situation would be for the planes to fly supersonically only once they...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Plastic Planet (2011)

Director

Werner Boote

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 99 minutes), $295.00

We live in the Age of Plastic. It’s cheap and practical, and it’s everywhere - even in our blood. But is it a danger to us? This documentary takes us on a journey around the globe - from the Moroccan...

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