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Film 1 THE BIG DRY: Farmers in south-east Australia are suffering their worst drought in living memory. It’s a question of adapt or go under. Film 2 THE SALT PROBLEM: White settlers tried to use water to...
Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...
First-hand accounts and pictures of the best and worst of British weather during the last sixty years including the blizzards of 1947, coastal floods of 1953, the winter of 1963, the summer of 1976, the...
Canadian scientist Dr Graeme Mather, who work with cloud seeding in South Africa to prove that clouds could be made to rain by means of human intervention, believed that after 30 years he learned how to end...
Shows what happens in poorer countries when natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and drought strike. In contrast to the stereotyped images of people in developing countries as hopeless, passive...
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...
Shows how the camel has been successfully domesticated and used to combat the effects of the droughts of the previous five years.
Over 26 million people who live in the Sahel region of Africa are continually threatened by drought. Looks at how the shortage of water affected Gad Amar Fal, a small village in North Senegal. Examines...
Contrasts past and present conditions of the Dust Bowl area of the southern Great Plains. Shows newsreel footage of the area during the dust storms of the early 1930s. Interviews residents in Dalhart, Texas,...
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