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There are more positive and profitable ways of dealing with our rubbish than dumping it. Modern equipment can sort it and use it in all sorts of ways, but more is not being done. The programme explores the...
Outlines the nature of the demands being made on the coast, the factorial/process complex, and typical environmental problems facing coastal planners and managers. As well as considering the factors...
Concerns East Farm, a 62 hectare dairy farm at Hammoon, near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. Shows how with imagination and a small outlay, the existing wildlife on farms can be preserved, integrated and...
Britain continues to dump drums of radioactive waste at sea despite the fact that Germany and the United States have abandoned this form of disposal in the face of growing criticism from scientists and...
Examines the dangers of dioxin, a by-product in the manufacture of certain herbicides such as Agent Orange and the weedkiller 245T. Four thousand times more poisonous than arsenic, dioxin attacks the cells...
Summarises the problem of falling reserves of oil and natural gas and describes alternatives: solar energy, wind and wave power, tidal power. geothermal energy. nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.
Discusses the ecology of a tropical rainforest at Korup in Cameroon including predation, parasitism, competition and symbiosis. Sequences include one of the flowers of Parkia and the animals which visit it....
The natural history and ecology of a tropical rainforest. Sequences include a jaguar hunting, bot fly larvae developing within a newly hatched chick, and cow birds laying their eggs in the nest of other...
Documents excessive and uncontrolled use of pesticides in Guatemala. The country’s cotton production depends on aerial spraying of pesticides every two or three days during the harvest. The consequences...
Looks at the reactions to the nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Uses extracts from local radio coverage of the incident.
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