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Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky team to co-direct Watermark, an environmentally conscious documentary that examines the relationship between mankind and water. The filmmakers travel to various...
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In...
S270 support video in six bands: 1) Coastal Processes: Shows how sedimentary processes in a coastal setting are preserved in present and past depositional environments. The processes include waves, currents,...
Looks at desertification, the process of land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. Recorded in Kenya, it examines the way of life of the pastoral nomads. The problems faced by these tribes...
A virtual field expedition to the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. One encounters biodiversity in a ‘real’ setting and learns the techniques of identification and interpretation....
A virtual field expedition to the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. A storyline has the user seting out on a hiking expedition to find and identify the fauna and flora. One encounters...
A electronic version of the text ‘Understanding Earth’ by Frank Press and Raymond Siever, with additional diagrams, photos, 3-D animation, laboratory demonstrations, mini-documentaries, archival footage,...
During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...
A seven-part series with each programme presenting a personal view of a major issue, followed by responses from grass-roots groups in different countries, and concluded with discussion relating the issue to...
Filmed in 1984 at the Chihuahuan Desert field station at Mapimi in Northern Mexico in collaboration with members of the Institute of Ecology (Mexico). Shows the main features of the desert environment and...
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