Living Planet
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Living Planet: Flight of the Great White Pelican
Climate negotiators inch closer to a global pact, scientists track the Great White Pelican on its journey back to Europe and a cargo ship carries our correspondent from Brazil to Germany.
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Living Planet: Bangkok sinking
Guatemalans accuse Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources of destroying the land, Abu Dhabi builds a massive aquaponics center and groundwater theft causes the city of Bangkok to sink.
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Living Planet: Nuclear Europe
As the world remembers Chernobyl, Slovakia expands its nuclear program; a new climate protection plan targets cows that pass gas; and villagers in Myanmar protest against a Chinese mining project they say is polluting their lands.
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Living Planet: Desertification & food security
Protecting the world's food supply from desertification, more rights for Kenya's women farmers means better food security, Spanish scientists ask if improving air quality will lead to fewer hospitalizations.
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Living Planet: Storks shiver in Poland
Northern Europe's long winter leaves migrating storks shivering in Poland, Spain pumps energy onto the grid from Europe's first wave-powered electricity plant and tourists tear through the dunes and mud flats of Jordan's Wadi Rum desert.
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Living Planet: Leopards prowl in the city
Leopard attacks increase as India's urban areas grow, Vietnamese fishers in Lousiana leave the wild waters and turn to aquaculture, Sarajevo reclaims its green spaces, more than 2 decades after the city was destroyed by war.
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Living Planet: Living on lava
A volcanic colony living above molten lava, Ethiopian beekeepers take lessons from Italian apiarists and Rwandan women turn their village on to solar power.
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Living Planet: Roaming the forests of Cambodia and Brazil
This week Living Planet patrols a Cambodian forest searching for illegal loggers, we swing through the trees with the Golden Lion tamarin monkey and we remember Egyptian convservationist Mindy Baha El Din, who died earlier this week.
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Living Planet: Poaching pangolins
Rangers rescue scaly anteaters from poachers in the Cambodian forest, a global crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade and a new fish farm lands the Irish government in hot water.
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Living Planet: Women who smash the ice
Climate warriors, fearless farmers and Antarctic ice smashers... Living Planet celebrates women who nurture and protect the planet.
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Living Planet: BP in court for Deepwater Horizon
This week on Living Planet, as the civil trial against BP begins in New Orleans, we visit Louisiana to check on fishermen who say they are still affected by the 2010 oil spill. Also, we meet a group of volunteers who are repairing parks in Sarajevo still damaged by conflict, we learn about new European water regulations and we speak to an expert on the world's increasing water scarcity.
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Living Planet: Reviving the carbon trade
The European Union renews its commitments to carbon trading, vegetable gardens srout to life with the help of the World Vegetable Center and Germany’s sewage systems are copied for the processing of water around the world.
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Living Planet: Electric cars rev their engines
The electric car industry revs its engines, but sales are low-velocity, Peruvians look for ways to provide clean water and Canada's First Nations demand better protection of the land.
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Living Planet: Paper giants protect the rainforest
A paper company halts its bulldozers in the forests of Indonesia, Germany rejects studies that say low-frequency sound from turbines causes illness and food experts examine the ethics of foreign investment in agriculture.
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Living Planet: Wolf packs run wild
The return of wild wolf packs divides conservationists and farmers in Germany, Dutch courts issue a mixed verdict in the Nigerian oil spill case against Shell and farmers clash with indigenous groups in Brazil.
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Living Planet: Giant squid on camera
Climate change tops agendas at the World Economic Forum, the legendary giant squid is captured on camera and investors make a land grab in Colombia.
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Living Planet: Hunting the Burmese python
Hunters wade into the Florida Everglades to kill predatory pythons, the Indian city of Bhopal struggles for survival 30 years after a catastrophic industrial accident and a Scottish farmer builds a home constructed from recycled materials.
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Living Planet: How can we slow down global warming?
This week, as high temperatures ravage parts of the southern hemisphere, we have a closer look at global warming. We profile a green protest movement in Buenos Aires, climate researcher Clemens Simmer is in the studio for a chat and we hear about a biomethane project in South Africa. Plus, we dive into a controversy about a whale shipment due to take place in the US.
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Living Planet: The Living Planet Cookbook
This week we look at food production and the impact it has on the earth. We go from a farmer's market in Bonn, to preparing meat for traditional Muslim holidays, to struggling farmers in Fukushima. And, we look at how Brazilian restaurants are composting the extras that they don't need.
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Living Planet: Looking back at 2012
In our final broadcast of the year we look back at some of the most interesting environment stories of 2012. From rainforests to nuclear power to dumpster diving, this week's show has everything an environment buff would hope for. Also, don't miss our trash quiz too.
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Living Planet: Sustainable solutions
Climate talks inspire innovation in host nation Qatar, Hurricane Sandy prompts new thinking on sustainability in New York and the spread of ash dieback triggers a trade ban in Britain.
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Living Planet: All eyes on Doha
Andrea Rnsberg gives us an update from the climate conference in Qatar - Changing priorities in China, as the issue of air quality starts to get more importance - In northern Germany, natural gas goes up against wind power - Buenos Aires locals are angry at pollution in the Riachuelo
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Living Planet: Arab youth take action on climate change
The Arab Youth Climate Movement wants to take the lead in Doha, illegal oil businesses flourish in Nigeria and Germans munch on local delicacies at the SlowFisch expo.
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Living Planet: Drilling the Arctic for oil
The race is on! Energy giants are looking for more ways to tap the Arctic for oil, world leaders scramble to protect biodiversity and a swarm of urban beekeepers set up hives in Berlin.
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Green houses and books
What publishers, printers and electronics companies are doing to make the book industry more environmentally friendly, an energy efficiency house competition in Madrid and the role of fracking in the US election.
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Living Planet: Green houses and books
We look at what book publishers, printers and electronics companies are doing to make the book industry more environmentally friendly, we head to an energy efficiency house competition in Madrid and we look at the role of fracking the US election. Produced and presented by Andr Leslie Making books greenerAt the Frankfurt book fair over 600,000 new titles are on display each year. That's a lot of paper. So, what about reducing the paper in book production via e-book readers and other digital...
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Living Planet: Flying south for the winter
A near death experience turns a nuclear engineer into a environmental crusader, migratory birds face tough challenges as they begin their journey south and a Polish mining town reinvents itself as a modern green city. Listen the entire show, or click on the individual reports below. Keeping Gansu GreenGansu province in western China is poor, polluted and parched. After 29-year-old Zhao Zhong survived a serious climbing accident, he decided to dedicate himself to preserving Gansu. He founded...
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Living Planet: Bison, bikes and Berlin
European bison re-enter the wild for the first time in a century, autos at a standstill in Brussels as the city goes for a "car-free" day and fracking becomes an issue in the US elections.Helgoland turns to windThe German island of Heligoland (or Helgoland, as the locals call it) has invested in new wind turbines to make use of the strong gusts that the island regularly has to put up with. But as the region turns to alternative energy, the new industry is starting to affect the island's...
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Living Planet: Protest and prosecution
Europe's farmers take to the streets of Brussels, Amnesty International calls on Britain to investigate a toxic waste scandal and sharks still circle the depths, but their numbers are dropping.EU farmers storm the streets of BrusselsFarmers and activists from across the European Union gathered in the Belgian capital earlier this month to demand a food policy that treats small farmers and the environment with more care. We followed one passionate landlover who travelled all the way from...
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Living Planet: Harness the waves!
We harness the power of the waves, an urban gardener experiments with her own urban fish farm and Japan appoints a new nuclear watchdog. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Harness the waves!Two thirds of the earth surface is covered in water. Scientists are trying to harness that power and create a new energy source for the world. Europe is turning its...
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Living Planet: Nuclear ambitions
Poland moves ahead with its nuclear program, Zimbabweans demand clean drinking water and Germany creates a green economy. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Poland's nuclear ambitionsPoland is set to build two nuclear power plants on the Baltic coast. Taoteusz Pastusiak is a reluctant activist, for whom the fight against nuclear power is highly personal....
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Living Planet: Scorched cornfields of the US Midwest
Drought decimates the cornfields of the midwestern United States, a call for the US to relax biofuel mandates and forest fires ravage southern Europe. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Drought devastates US cornfieldsWe begin in the agricultural heartland of the United States, where the worst drought in at least 50 years is shrivelling crops, baking pastures...
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Living Planet: Israel helps India clean up the Ganges
This week on Living Planet, Israeli water specialists try to save the Ganges, German scientists harness the power of the sun and a town in Belgium sues weather forecasters for inaccurate weather reports. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Israel helps India to save the Ganges riverThe Ganges is one of the world’s dirtiest rivers. Emerging from the central...
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Living Planet: The corpse flower blooms
A towering plan emits a powerful pong, Europeans race to cut energy consumption and green educators hit the road in an eco-bus. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. The corpse flower bloomsA gigantic flower bloomed in Bonn over the weekend and it's causing an incredible stink. The titan arum is renowned for its hideous smell which is a little like rotting flesh....
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Living Planet: Blowin' in the wind
Learn how a village in Germany is getting a blast of wind power, as well as finding out about an Australian community power project. We meet a family of gorillas in southwestern Uganda, and head to the depths of the ocean to inspect some unusual bumps on whale fins. Producer: Jessie Wingard Town turns wind into big businessGermany’s shift toward alternative energy has seen wind parks pop up around the country. Through careful planning, community education and a lot of hard work, a group in...
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Living Planet: Taking back the trash
This week on Living Planet, the World Bank warns of an urban waste explosion, the EU moves to phase-out hazardous chemicals and white storks circle in the skies over Germany.Return of the storkThe sun is shining, the air is warm and thousands of white storks are swooping through the skies. It's spring in Germany. The stork spends its winters in Africa and southern Europe, but returns to central Europe to breed. Now, bird enthusiasts living along the Rhine River are tagging the storks in...
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Living Planet: Safeguarding the future
This week on Living Planet, Brazil celebrates World Environment Day, tourists trample the Galapagos Islands and an architect dreams of building his own plastic island.Building a plastic islandIn the remote waters between Hawaii and California, ocean currents sweep up all kinds of plastic trash, including old toothbrushes, food packaging and empty detergent bottles. Now, an architect from the Netherlands has an idea for recycling it into something useful. Report by: Jack Kerr Gisele Bndchen...
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Living Planet: Biking around the world
Biking around the world: our very own cross continental cyclist, London's Borris bikes, Bogota's Ciclovia, BASF's search for efficiency and Beijing's status envy are all in our look at international attitudes to cycling. We also hear reactions to the partial veto of Brazil's controversial forestry code. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Borris bikes impress...
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Living Planet: Killing for Cambodian forests
Killing for Cambodian forests: Opposing logging turns deadly in Cambodia; Israelis and Arabs beat ammunition crates to owls' homes; Hanging on to coracles in Wales; What robots can do for electric cars. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Opposing logging turns deadly in CambodiaCambodians have been shocked in recent weeks by the killing of people protesting...
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Living Planet: Catching bats and viruses
Catching bats and viruses: Virologists discovered that bats carry a wider spectrum of viruses than previously assumed - so how dangerous are they? The next round of climate talks gets underway; Italy's dying breed of wild-mussel divers and Ukraine's wolfman. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Scroll to the bottom for the full show. Catching bats and their virusesVirologists in Germany recently...
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Living Planet: Stress tests for trees
Europeans stress-test their trees; the business that links fashion-conscious customers with knitting-enthralled grannies; a home designed to generate more power than you (and your car) need; India's problem with the world's dirtiest job; and France's last city vineyard. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Europeans stress-test their treesWe use wood for just about everything, but as climate changes,...
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Living Planet: A Great Green Wall
Africa's Great Green Wall project to stop the advance of the Sahara; 'Trashy Bags' tackles Ghana's plastic problem; and we profile one man and his campaign to save the snow leopard. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. A Great Green Wall to halt the SaharaIn the West African nation of Senegal, an audacious project is underway to create a vast forest across the African continent. It's known as the...
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Living Planet: Dirty deeds
Dirty deeds: we visit some spills, old and new. We hear from the gas leak off Scotland; Amnesty hurls fresh allegations at Shell over its behavior in the Niger Delta; Ecuador presses ahead with its initiative to avoid drilling in its Yasuni national park; and the fuss over dredging the Elbe. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Total leak suggests lessons for industryTotal has been unable to plug the...
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Living Planet: Environmental tradeoffs
We hear from some environmental trade offs: when clean energy isn't quite green energy, and when hunting benefits conservation. Also, a mystery illness afflicts the sea lions of Galapagos and using BP's fines to heal two wounds at once. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. UK wind farms compete with bogsIn Scotland, great swathes of peatland habitat are being used to build wind farms. Yet peatlands...
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Living Planet: For peat's sake
The eager beavers working to save Ukraine's peatlands; why some French butchers would prefer their cattle farmers to be a little more British; a cat parasite that may be making many of us worse drivers; and one team's quest to make fish farming a little cleaner for the environment. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Eager beavers save Ukraine's peatlandsThe draining and burning of peat bogs may...
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Living Planet: Solar dimming
The sun dims for Germany's solar subsidies; A Latvian invention promises to raise solar efficiency; the cost of extreme weather events rises; La Nina's toll on Paraguay; and a look at Earth Hour from Berlin. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. The sun dims for Germany's solar subsidiesLast year Germany installed a whopping 7.5 gigawatts of new solar panels. For a country with a third of the sunlight...
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Living Planet: Under pressure
Stuttgart begins powering cars with food waste; improving Europe's recycling rates; sticking a face on meat; London hosts 'Planet under Pressure'; and an interview on reshaping the UN. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Stuttgart begins powering cars with food wasteA recent study found that Germans throw away an incredible 11 million kilos of food a year. While much of this is turned into compost,...
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Living Planet: France's nuclear nomads
The contractors who work in the radioactive areas of France's nuclear power plants have banded together to fight for safer working conditions; skiers and wildlife share the mountain at a ski resort in Vermont; an OECD report predicts a bleak future for the planet unless we change our consumption habits; and activists try to revive a dead river in Sao Paolo. French nuclear workers fight for safer working conditionsIn France, they're known as nuclear nomads: the contractors who work in...
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Living Planet: Green laws
Law and the environment – we speak to environmental lawyer and ClientEarth CEO, James Thornton; Germany's environmental zones and air pollution; the EU drums up support for its energy roadmap for 2050; and we hear about greening up music festivals. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. German air pollution rises despite green zonesSince 2008, environmental zones in Germany have restricted where heavily...
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Living Planet: Hamburg's cruise pollution
We hear from a push in Hamburg to tackle cruise ships' port-based soot emissions; plans for Europe's biggest gold mine divide a small town in Romania; an energy austerity drive gathers support amid campaigning for France's presidential elections; and tsunami tourism in Aceh.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Hamburg wrestles with increasing cruise ship pollutionEnvironmental groups have long...
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Living Planet: Fracking in the US and Europe
This week we look at two examples of fracking in the US and Europe; as South Sudan and its northern neighbor resume revenue-sharing talks, we look at the role of oil in their conflict; and a molecule to cool the planet – is its recent discovery good news for the climate?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Oil's role in SudanThis week Sudan and South Sudan resumed talks on sharing the proceeds of oil...
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Living Planet: Trading blows
A special show this week – we focus on the dispute over applying Europe's emissions trading scheme to aviation. Also, are more sharks responsible for more shark attacks in Australia? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Aviation's problem with Europe's carbon tradeThe European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) was extended to aviation on January 1 in the face of intense opposition from foreign and...
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Living Planet: Locking out elephants
We visit a reserve in Sri Lanka where they're locking the elephants out and keeping the humans in; we chat with a researcher about her team's new paper in Science on predicting ocean circulation and its climate impacts; and we hear from fair trades in South Africa and Costa Rica.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Human reserves sooth Sri Lanka's strife with elephantsInstead of locking nature into...
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Living Planet: Looking back at 2011
Looking back at 2011: Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster; Germany to phase out nuclear energy; smart grids necessary to handle renewables; France fights over its controversial nuclear power plant in Fessenheim; concerns about methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte dam; Europe's emissions trading scheme upsets air carriers.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Nuclear safety expert looks at Japan's...
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Living Planet: Uganda strikes oil
Uganda's oil fever bodes badly for its environment; Scientists make a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes; Latvians embrace worms; Taipei 101 aims to be the world's tallest 'green' building; and a look at efforts to save two species of endangered birds this winter. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Uganda's oil fever bodes badly for its environmentIn recent years, Uganda has struck oil. It's a...
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Living Planet: Canada and Kyoto
Canada and Kyoto: Canada pulls out of the Kyoto Protocol just one day after the close of climate talks in Durban; Sri Lanka's peace poses new problems for balancing tourism with the environment; DW visits a Dutch rooftop farm; and a bright idea wins Germany's Future Prize. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Canada pulls out of the Kyoto ProtocolCanada delivers a symbolic blow to the Kyoto Protocol,...
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Living Planet: Prosperity vs preservation
Energy giants in Brazil tap deep-sea oil fields; South Africa investigates the connection between climate change and social instability; the EU lifts a ban on stevia; and music event organisers try to preserve festival fun while keeping their green credentials intact.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Oil still fuels Brazil's dream for a prosperous futureA deep-sea oil well off the coast of Brazil...
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Living Planet: What is so special about carbon?
Eco-guards are dispatched to the Gishwati rainforest in Rwanda; we travel to India to investigate carbon offset programs; forest-dwelling indigenous groups want more say in the future of their homes; and developing nations report bullying at the climate negotiations. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Finding out if carbon offset funds are well spentOur correspondent travels to India to find out how...
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Living Planet: Financing Climate Protection
As climate change tightens its grip on the world, Bangladesh warns that time is running out; Middle Eastern and North African nations face challenging hurdles to go green; and solar technology designers look for ways to brighten the lives of girls.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Bangladesh pins hopes on climate funds as global warming takes its tollAs climate change tightens its grip on the...
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Living Planet: Food and climate
Food and climate: As the clock counts down to this year's climate negotiations in Durban, we look at some of the links between food and climate; the IEA's 25-year energy outlook contains difficult implications for Germany; getting sewage out of the Thames; and Tanzania considers mining uranium.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Climate prompts American farmers to rethink their waysClimate change...
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Living Planet: Acid earth
Acid earth: US scientists warn that we are rapidly changing the chemical composition of soils and waterways; shifting food production to cities; promoting alternative farming in Nigeria; and eco tourism provides a better livelihood in rural Cambodia. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. US Scientists warn of acidifying soilsThe problem of acid rain may not be new, but it is far from solved.In the 60s,...
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Living Planet: What to do with E-waste?
We look at more eco-friendly ways to recycle electronics; we have a sampling of one of the largest animal sound archives in the world; whales and dolphins are fighting an uphill battle - under water; and we look at the complications of climate change in the forests of Brandenburg.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. What to do with E-waste?The head of a United Nations University initiative talks about...
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Living Planet: A new Rainbow
A new Rainbow: We step on board Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior III; Europe increases its dependence on other people's land; We drop in on a rescue centre for storks in Cambodia and fish versus energy – the simmering dispute between countries that share the Mekong.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.A new Rainbow Warrior takes to the seaThe Greenpeace flagship's swashbuckling adventures have courted...
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Living Planet: Climate wars
Is it an exaggeration to talk of climate wars? We hear from soldiers and doctors who fear the security and health implications of climate change are not being appreciated. We also hear about Germany's diffidence towards electric cars, a novel idea for recharging electric devices and Europe's problem with electric waste.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Doctors partner with soldiers to warn of...
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Living Planet: Fessenheim, fracking and food waste
Authorities prepare to decide the fate of France's oldest reactor amid rising anti-nuclear sentiment; a backlash against 'fracking' gathers in Germany; we talk to the director of a film that follows our food waste; and the Dutch lead the way in growing meat in a Petri dish.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. France prepares to decide the fate of its oldest reactorThe Rhine River separates France and...
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Living Planet: Forests on center stage
Got a few spare million? Then why not max the energy efficiency at your office with Energy Plus? Or get into the new Green Economy and learn how to capitalize on forests sustainably, and make plastic from sugar waste.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Energy Plus efficiency and self-sufficiencyA solar company in Hannover has spent millions on rennovating a 100 year old building to make it totally...
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Living Planet: Ecuador's Yasuni gambit
Ecuador's conservation offer: pay us not to drill for oil; the growing voluntary carbon market; Argentina's efforts to clean up one of the world's dirtiest rivers; and the endless cities of the 21st Century.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Ecuador seeks $100 million for Yasuni by DecemberAmid this month's addresses to the UN General Assembly in New York, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa made a...
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Living Planet: Indonesian palm oil
Indonesia's balancing act between rainforests and development; carbon storage prepares to face its final hurdle in Germany; greener shipping; wave power; and a duo of pranksters who hope to make the world a better place, one stunt at a time.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Indonesia grapples with sustainable palm oilIndonesia is trying to make its palm oil industry 'sustainable,' but there are few...
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Living Planet: Smart meters and the struggle for top soil
The Belgian city of Leuven trials a smart meter in cars to track people's driving habits and charge a tax by the kilometer, while the UN Convention to Combat Desertification pushes for more action to restore degraded farming land, Greenpeace turns 40, and Brazil's palm oil industry expands.You can listen to the programme online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Smart meters in carsThe Belgian city of Leuven is trialing a smart meter to track people's driving habits and charge a tax...
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Living Planet: Sniffer dogs and turtles
We look back at Japan's devastating earthquake and the ongoing problems at its Fukushima reactors; Frankfurt Airport deploys sniffer dogs for wildlife seizures; A volunteer program to save sea turtles on the Cape Verde islands; and Greenwashing in Berlin.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan faces decade-long cleanup at FukushimaMarch 11 this year was a day like any other in Japan, until about...
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Living Planet: Damning dams
It may take decades for Brazil's massive new Belo Monte dam to repay its methane debt; Endangered European bison find a home in a former Red Army base; Glaciers, weather and the US-Europe public divide on climate change; and why Frankfurt Airport is experiment with bees.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Concerns about methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte damIn the UK, a TV show appears to have...
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Living Planet: Living Planet - Our water challenges
Experts are looking for solutions to our water problems at World Water Week; Turning seawater into freshwater through desalination has some environmental downsides; More people are swimming in the Rhine, but it's not as clean as they think; A carpenter builds houses and schools out of plastic bottles in Africa; Small-town Germans bid on a tree's worth of fruit in historical community orchards.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links...
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Living Planet: Fish fight
A TV show in the UK about sustainable fishing appears to be making a difference; What Indonesia might learn from China and India when it comes to preserving forests; A trial program in Cologne gives personalized advice on reducing one's CO2 footprint; 'Carbon carousel fraud' hearing begins in Frankfurt; and we talk to an author behind a new report on the world's oil consumption trends.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for...
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Living Planet: Airline emissions
Europe wants airlines included in its emissions trading scheme next year, but foreign carriers are furious; Cleaning up one of the world's worst - and least talked about - oil spills; rethinking food relief in East Africa; Expiring swine flu vaccines; and Taiwan's burgeoning orchids.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. International airlines challenge EU's emissions schemeAs of next year the European...
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Living Planet: Wind parks and animals
The environmental impact of wind parks; UK veterans fight for nuclear-test compensation; and a visit to one of Germany's recently-declared UNESCO world heritage parks You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Wind sector promises to triple output this decadeAccording to a report this week by Europe's wind energy association, the EU's output of wind energy could triple from today's level of about 86...
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Living Planet: Gunning for forests
Environmental assassinations in Brazil; The pilot project that's turning poor countries' sewage problems into a source of fuel; European beekeepers' battle with the varroa mite; and thorium reactors.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brazil fails to halt environmental assassinationsLast week police in Brazil indicted three people for the murders of two prominent environmental activists in the Amazon...
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Living Planet: Marshalling water
Profligate utility companies in the UK; An enormous Chilean dam project prompts accusations of state corruption; A community that's reviving old bread-making techniques on the banks of the river Po; and a project aimed at curbing the trade in illegal timber.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Report takes aim at UK profligate use of waterA new report in the UK says British utility companies are over...
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Living Planet: Money in whaling and human-wildlife...
We look at efforts to 'clean up' the International Whaling Commission; A bear poacher turns gamekeeper in Taiwan; Bright prospects for Kenyan renewables; and we discuss the roles of nature and humans in spreading infectious diseases. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. UK aims to 'clean up' whaling talksJapan, Norway and Iceland have frequently come close to getting the numbers they need to overturn...
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Living Planet: Greening Europe's farms
We look at the idea of paying Europe's farmers to protect nature: With budget proposals out for the EU's next five-year cycle, we hear how changes to agriculture spending are being received on the continent and in the UK; we also speak to the EU's environment chief; and hear about making fair trade mobile phones.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. EU fails to please with greener farm...
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Living Planet: Decommissioning a reactor
As Germany passes legislation to exit nuclear energy, we visit one of the country's ex-nuclear plants that's still a hive of activity; A clever organic idea for tackling crop pests in the tropics; Ghana's e-waste problem; Some success in beating desertification in China; and an electric car for Ugandans.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Years of dismantling await Germany's nuclear exitAs Germany...
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Living Planet: A right to water
We ask whether we should consider water a human right; A look back at the outcome of this month's climate talks in Bonn; New science shows faster warming in the Arctic; and the US and Vietnam begin a new chapter of cooperation to tackle the legacy of Agent Orange.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Bonn's climate talks fail to bridge key differencesThe intermediate round of talks in Bonn was aimed at...
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Living Planet: Panel: Climate change and extreme events
Special: A panel discussion on the link between climate change and extreme events, and what steps we should be taking – if any – to brace ourselves. The panelists include Thomas Loster, head of the Munich Re Foundation; Shafqat Kakakhel, a former deputy exec. director of the UN Environment Programme; Baba Tuahiru, of CARE in Ghana; and Mizan Khan of the North South University in Bangladesh.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below...
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Living Planet: Saving reefs and battling dams
We get an update on the state of climate talks; A program in Indonesia saves reefs and supports locals; We talk with an expert about the climate threat to reefs; Merkel's cabinet agrees to phase out nuclear power by 2022; Brazil stands behind its huge Amazon dam project.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Kyoto looks dead at Bonn climate talksThe future of the Kyoto Protocol looks bleak as delegates...
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Living Planet: Sea turtles and slow fish
This week we hear how Turkey's turtle-rescuer has secured a beach sanctuary for loggerhead turtles; Slow Fish promotes different kinds of seafood to benefit fishermen, consumers and the oceans; some good news for tropical forests; and the mixed state of metal recycling.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Turkey's turtle-rescuer secures a sanctuary for loggerheadsKaptan June Haimoff has just been...
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Living Planet: Europe seeks resource efficiency and a...
Living Planet examines Europe push for resource efficiency and a green economy; Spanish motorists rev up debate over the need for less speed; International Day for Biodiversity focuses on climate change and biodiversity; And the Dutch put insects on the menu.Europe seeks resource efficiencyResource efficiency and using less to live better is the big message during EU Green Week in Brussels – the biggest annual conference on European environmental policy.As the world’s population and appetite...
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Living Planet: Coy eels and precocious boars
Living Planet follows an eel restocking program on the Rhine River; A look at the IPCC's recent report on renewable energies' prospects in the coming decades; and Berlin struggles with too few trees and too many wild boars.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Eel enthusiasts race against time to restock fishThe European eel is a mysterious fish. So mysterious, that we still don't really know how they...
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Living Planet: Arctic spoils and promiscuous horses
Arctic neighbors hammer out new rules to exploit the Arctic's untapped resources; Spain's review of feed-in tariffs tempers enthusiasm for renewable energy investments; Hemp supporters tout cannabis as a solution to South Africa's housing shortage; and promiscuous horses – researchers claim to have discovered why so many mares abort their young.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Arctic neighbors eye...
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Living Planet: Food, corruption, cradles and hamsters
Growing the world's food supply in the face of environmental constraints; the Cradle to Cradle movement to rethink how we use resources in the 21st century; corruption in climate finance and France's disappearing hamsters.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Corruption threatens climate financeHundreds of billions of dollars will be needed to respond to climate change over the years ahead, yet much of...
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Living Planet: Cycling's all the rage
Cycling road rage in London; making pedal power a more attractive option; the Netherland's solar bike-track plans; and some disappointing facts about biodegradable bags in Germany. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. The UK considers cracking down on 'rogue cyclists'In the United Kingdom, an attempt to create a new offence of causing death by dangerous cycling has cyclists up in arms.The proposed...
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Living Planet: Zoos and zoology and energy disasters
From zoos to airlifts - new moves to save what's left of the earth's wildlife, Chernobyl's sarcophagus needs more than money and the Norwegian scientists developing dispersants for the next oil spill.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Researchers urge greater role for zoos in conservationFrom white rhinos to Californian condors and Indian tigers, recent years have seen some marvelous conservation...
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Living Planet: Happier bees and reclaiming nature
Apiarists say Italy's bees have been bouncing back thanks to the suspension of a type of pesticide, organic wines compete with their conventional cousins and turning bombing grounds and industrial wastelands into nature reserves.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Apiarists say Italy's bees are bouncing backBees pollinate most of our food sources and without them, we'd probably starve. That's why...
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Living Planet: Revisiting Chernobyl and Europe's air...
We revisit the Chernobyl accident to ask if its health impacts were exaggerated, and from 'green zones' to London smog we look at some of the difficulties in tackling air pollution in Europe.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Revisiting Chernobyl after 25 yearsThis month will mark the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It's an anniversary perhaps made more poignant with the...
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Living Planet: Triumphant Greens, banning cars and...
Germany's Greens get their best opportunity to date to turn their ideas into practice; Brussels gets into a mix up over banning cars and the online tool to help you measure your nitrogen footprint.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brussels wins few friends with its 2050 transport planThe European Union's executive caused a brief sensation this week, momentarily leaving the press gallery thinking...
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Living Planet: Smart grids, meat-free Thursdays and...
Smarter grids for a smarter future; Louisiana's Vietnamese community gets frustrated with BP's compensation scheme; Ghent's meat-free Thursdays gain increasing support; Helping frogs across the road. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan's nuclear crisis prompts rethink of German gridsGermany's review of its nuclear energy plans, triggered by the crisis in Japan, has prompted a scramble to find...
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Living Planet: Nuclear fallout, melting ice and a road...
As Japan's nuclear crisis hangs in the balance, political fallout reaches Europe; Tanzania sticks to plans for a road through the Serengeti; setting sailing records in the Arctic You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan's nuclear crisis absorbs world's attentionNearly a week after the country's devastating magnitude 9 earthquake, authorities are racing to cool the reactor cores of the Daiichi plant,...
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Living Planet: Passive homes and sustainable housing;...
Designing smarter homes – from London's Ecobuild to Brooklyn's first passive house; Russian activists take their struggle for the Khimki forest to Europe; Fixing Italy's troubled sewage system You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. London's Ecobuild exhibits the latest in ecological housing ideasPassive houses rely on insulation and are designed to use 90 percent less energy than a regular home. At...
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Living Planet: Fox hunting; Brazilian logging; forest...
Is an annual cull the best way of managing fox populations? Brazil's conflicted relationship with its forests; Giving forest dwellers a greater say over their territory; An 'upcycling' enterprise turns fire hoses into fashion. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Is culling the best way of managing fox populations?Fox hunting is an increasingly controversial issue in Germany – as in other parts of...
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Living Planet: Focus on the illegal bushmeat trade
We travel from France to Zimbabwe, to examine the illegal trade in wild animal meat.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Interview with Primatologist Melanie VirtuePrimatologist Melanie Virtue is the coordinator of the Gorilla Agreement, a partnership of gorilla range states aimed at protecting the primates.Primatologist Melanie Virtue's work focuses on a wide range of issues, including the killing...
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Living Planet: Global drylands, the British forest...
Seeking new answers to desertification, fending off a forest sale and dreaming up a sustainable new future.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Stopping desertificationAs sand threatens to smother farmland around the world, experts look for ways to halt erosion. Desert experts from around the world have gathered in the German city of Bonn to discuss desertification. The world’s drylands are home to...
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Living Planet: Arctic trade routes, upcycled fashion and...
The rush to claim new Arctic trade routes, cast-off textiles turned into high fashion works of wonder and scepticism over South Korea’s ‘Green Growth’ program. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.The Arctic's new gold rushAs the Arctic melting trend continues, businesses and governments are rushing to claim newly open waters.As the Arctic continues to thaw, channels which were once choked with ice...
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Living Planet: Water scarcity, low-energy housing and...
Water activists in Amsterdam launch a battle against the bottle, zero-energy housing becomes cheaper and EU leaders meet in Brussels for the first energy summit in the history of the bloc.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Water activists in Amsterdam turn on the tapsA swig of plain old tap water in Amsterdam helps to quench global thirst.The World Health Organisation says about a third of the...
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Living Planet: The World Bank's climate finance; Green...
Germany's dioxin scandal looms over this year's Green Week agricultural fair; Sweden's wolf cull ignites passions from Stockholm to Brussels; The construction industry considers recycling buildings; and the World Bank's push to take part in climate finance. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Germany's dioxin scandal looms over Berlin's Green Week farm fairGreen Week is one of the world's biggest...
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Living Planet: Changing a river's course, Saudi...
A radical idea for saving New Orleans from flooding; reversing years of neglect for Saudi wetlands; the gap between German environmental rhetoric and action; and food security creeps back on to the international agenda.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. A radical proposal for securing New Orleans from floodingNew Orleans is a city built in a swamp – one that extends for hundreds of miles buffering...
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Living Planet: Venice's sea wall, fish...
Venice's sea wall divides residents; what Swedes are learning from managing their fisheries; Germany's dioxin scandal prompts questioning of its food chain; and Rwanda reaps energy from the threat lurking in Lake Kivu. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Venice's sea wall divides residentsVenice’s MOSE project aims to hold back the sea. The name means Moses in Italian, but that hasn't prevented it...
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Living Planet: Growing biofuels, Canadian pipelines, a...
With E10 hitting soon to hit service stations in Germany, we take a look at some of the views on planting crops for cars; Indigenous groups fall in behind plans for a massive pipeline-project in Canada; Dioxin makes its way into Germans' groceries; and 2011 marks the year of the bat. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Ethanol in Germany begins 2011 with a fizzleE10 – a blend of petrol mixed with 10...
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Living Planet: Living Planet
Hamburg becomes the second ever European Green Capital, global warming brings immigration issues to a boiling point and scientists make new discoveries about microbes in the Brazilian rainforest. You can listen to the show onine or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Hamburg becomes the second ever European Green CapitalHamburg beat 33 other cities to become Europe's newest Green Capital, taking the title over from Stockholm. Officials...
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Living Planet: Eating aliens, Indian bees, Hydrogen...
One man's answer to invasive species - hunt 'em, cook 'em and make a TV show about it; Saving Indian bees and farmers; Hydrogen cars make stealthy progress; and just why was Cancun a success?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. One man's answer to invasive speciesAround the world, biologists and environmentalists alike worry about invasive species: Plants and animals that are so strong and aggressive...
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Living Planet: Electric cars, Russia's Khimki forest,...
We get behind the wheel of a Nissan LEAF, as electric cars hit selected markets; The battle over Russia's Khimki forest resumes; The climate threat to human health; and indigenous Canadians resist an oil pipeline.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Electric vehicles enter the mass marketElectric cars have had many false dawns over the years. But their proponents in the motor industry say now their...
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Living Planet: Electric cars, Russia's Khimki forest,...
We get behind the wheel of a Nissan LEAF, as electric cars hit selected markets; The battle over Russia's Khimki forest resumes; The climate threat to human health; and indigenous Canadians resist an oil pipeline.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Electric vehicles enter the mass marketElectric cars have had many false dawns over the years. But their proponents in the motor industry say now their...
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Living Planet: UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico
Emission reduction targets - the gap between what's been pledged and what science says is needed; Coping with the financial burden of climate change; Fighting deforestation - sustainable forest management; In 80 days around the world - using only renewable energy. Climate talks struggle to make progressWe talk to Deutsche Welle correspondent Nathan Witkop in Cancun about the Kyoto protocol, emission reduction targets, deforestation and WikiLeaks. Expectations for the UN climate talks in...
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Living Planet: UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico
Emission reduction targets - the gap between what's been pledged and what science says is needed; Coping with the financial burden of climate change; Fighting deforestation - sustainable forest management; In 80 days around the world - using only renewable energy. Climate talks struggle to make progressWe talk to Deutsche Welle correspondent Nathan Witkop in Cancun about the Kyoto protocol, emission reduction targets, deforestation and WikiLeaks. Expectations for the UN climate talks in...
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Living Planet: Climate talks begin, Kiribati sinking,...
Cancun climate talks get off to a subdued start; Kiribati struggles with a rising sea; How accurately can we estimate climate migration? Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten regional floods and drought.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Cancun climate talks get off to subdued startFor the next two weeks delegates from around the world will try to negotiate solutions to the challenges posed by climate...
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Living Planet: The EU at Cancun, solar bottlenecks, tuna...
We hear from the EU climate chief heading into Cancun; A bottleneck squeezes the German solar industry; Environmentalist and fishermen face off in Paris over tuna; and Russia clinches a deal to save tigers from extinction. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the clinks below for the individual items. EU sets sights low for CancunIt's coming up to that time of the year again when the world's nations send their delegates somewhere to try to...
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Living Planet: Tiger protection, aquaponics, Mexican GM...
We look at efforts to save tigers from extinction in the wild, as Russia prepares to hold a key conservation summit ++ Genetically modified corn takes root in Mexico ++ A super efficient farming operation, right in the middle of London ++ And a controversy over German plans to export nuclear waste to Russia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the clinks below for the individual items. Russia convenes a meeting to save tigersIn the early 20th...
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Living Planet: Germany's beef with nuclear
A train delivery of waste provokes some of Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protests ever ++ A geophysicist talks about storing nuclear waste ++ Bottrop's vision of an innovative future ++ Denmark's poor score on WWF's sustainability index You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Gorleben waste delivery provokes Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protestsA controversial convoy of radioactive waste arrived at the...
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Living Planet: Germany's beef with nuclear
A train delivery of waste provokes some of Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protests ever ++ A geophysicist talks about storing nuclear waste ++ Bottrop's vision of an innovative future ++ Denmark's poor score on WWF's sustainability index You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Gorleben waste delivery provokes Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protestsA controversial convoy of radioactive waste arrived at the...
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Living Planet: Humans relations with animals
The Pie Noir cow comes back from the brink of extinction thanks to foodies ++ The Nagoya biodiversity summit ends with a breakthrough ++ A food bank for pets ++ Ending live bear bile farming – a profile of animal welfare activist Jill RobinsonYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Foodies save Pie Noir cow from extinctionOnce one of France's most common breeds of cattle, prized for its rich milk, the Pie...
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Living Planet: Biodiversity talks - what the world's...
We cross to the talks on biodiversity in Japan to hear what our governments are doing to tackle species loss ++ Are further toxic waste accidents just waiting to happen in Hungary? ++ Divvying up the royalties of the earth's genetic riches ++ A look at whether bottom-up solar energy schemes make more sense than top-down ones in western India.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. World's governments...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Biodiversity special: With the world gathering in Nagoya, Japan, to discuss ways of reversing biodiversity loss, Living Planet looks at the diversity of the challenge. The chytrid fungus devastating frogs ++ What poaching means for a mammal like the saiga antelope ++ The cost of invasive species ++ An award for best-practice solutions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Frog rescue team battles...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
European bats hold out hope for saving their American cousins from a devastating disease ++ Update on Hungary's toxic spill ++ A low-tech bid to improve energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan ++ The danger of synthetic pollutants creeping into our waterways and bodies ++ Germany's struggle over carbon capture and storage technology. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet asa podcast. Click on the links below for the individualreports.European bats offer hope for fungus...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud was...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud was...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to save...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to save...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
'Stop the Loss' roundtable on the biodiversity crisis: A special show this week, we hear from a panel of alternative Nobel prize-winners discussing what needs to be done to reverse the world's current catastrophic rate of extinctions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
'Stop the Loss' roundtable on the biodiversity crisis: A special show this week, we hear from a panel of alternative Nobel prize-winners discussing what needs to be done to reverse the world's current catastrophic rate of extinctions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather,...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather,...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Living dangerously on one of the world's highest peaks; A look at the pressures on European bats; Changing bears behavior in Slovakia - for their own sake; and a Dutch astronaut-turned-sailor and his obsession with a more sustainable life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Living dangerously on Mount ElbrusAt 5642 meters Russia's Mount Elbrus – located close to the border with Georgia - is Europe's...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Two scientific papers draw differing conclusions on BP's oil spill; Why peatlands matter - the lesson from Belarus; How industrial poisons are making their way into polar bears' diets; and five years on from Hurricane Katrina, a local reporter recounts what it was like to work through the disaster. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Studies draw differing conclusions over BP oil spillTwo separate...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
An eco-friendly way of dealing with corpses runs up against taboos in Belgium; How much has government mismanagement stoked Russia's forest fires? We take a look at Italy's illegal construction boom – and the incentives driving it; and a decade to halt desertification – the UN launches a new drive to stop the loss of our planet's precious soils.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Resomation meets...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; conservationists in Wales breed falcons for commercial hunting; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; falcon breeders in Wales find a way to appease hunters; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square kilometer...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A wind farm in Scotland makes energy education a breeze; The Census of Marine Life probes the bottom of the ocean; and an organic garden in South West Wales plants seeds of hope for the economy. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Learning is a breeze at Scotland's Whitelee Wind FarmAt the Whitelee Wind Farm visitors learn about the 140 giant wind turbines scattered across Eaglesham moor.The Scottish...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A wind farm in Scotland makes energy education a breeze; The Census of Marine Life probes the bottom of the ocean; and an organic garden in South West Wales plants seeds of hope for the economy. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Learning is a breeze at Scotland's Whitelee Wind FarmAt the Whitelee Wind Farm visitors learn about the 140 giant wind turbines scattered across Eaglesham moor.The Scottish...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
'Growing Power' and the urban farming revolution; A peek inside the doomsday vault for seeds in the Arctic; and the D-I-Y workshop in Berlin for making bikes out of bamboo. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Will Allen, Growing Power and the urban farming revolutionUntil now, the US city of Milwaukee has been famous for beer, but Will Allen has planted the seeds of another legacy.Over the last five...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
'Growing Power' and the urban farming revolution; A peak inside the doomsday vault for seeds in the Arctic; and the D-I-Y workshop in Berlin for making bikes out of bamboo. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Will Allen, Growing Power and the urban farming revolutionUntil now, the US city of Milwaukee has been famous for beer, but Will Allen has planted the seeds of another legacy.Over the last five...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Holiday-makers may be about to catch more than just sun on beaches in Italy; A new report says international efforts are having a dramatic effect on reducing illegal logging; A mighty wind blows through Texas; and can we catch fish without wreaking havoc on other species that are in the way? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Sewage threatens the safety of Italian beachesItaly's beaches have long...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Holiday-makers may be about to catch more than just sun on beaches in Italy; A new report says international efforts are having a dramatic effect on reducing illegal logging; A mighty wind blows through Texas; and can we catch fish without wreaking havoc on other species that are in the way? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Sewage threatens the safety of Italian beachesItaly's beaches have long...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
BP begins testing its latest attempt to halt the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; A compromise proposal to allow more GM crops into the EU upsets both biotech backers and detractors; A community scheme in the UK finds a clever way to generate power close to home; and an ambassador for animals says we shouldn't miss the forest for the trees when it comes to preserving life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
BP begins testing its latest attempt to halt the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; A compromise proposal to allow more GM crops into the EU upsets both biotech backers and detractors; A community scheme in the UK finds a clever way to generate power close to home; and an ambassador for animals says we shouldn't miss the forest for the trees when it comes to preserving life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The growing bioplastics industry and the changing face of disposable packaging; the donkeys powering a rubbish revolution in Sicily; the latest on the oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico; and the eco film festival that practices what it preaches. A greener form of plasticWhile plastic used to be seen as the material of the future, these days we recognize that goods such as plastic bags can have a harmful impact on wildlife and the environment. Can a new generation of plastics...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The growing bioplastics industry and the changing face of disposable packaging; the donkeys powering a rubbish revolution in Sicily; the latest on the oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico; and the eco film festival that practices what it preaches. A greener form of plasticWhile plastic used to be seen as the material of the future, these days we recognize that goods such as plastic bags can have a harmful impact on wildlife and the environment. Can a new generation of plastics...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Alien invaders catch the US on the back foot; Whales are granted a reprieve – for the next 12 months at least; Scientists enter an unusual alliance to monitor some disturbing trends in the Arctic; and an initiative to fix the health and environmental hazards plaguing many South African homes. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Alien invaders catch the US on the back footFor years, the United States...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Alien invaders catch the US on the back foot; Whales are granted a reprieve – for the next 12 months at least; Scientists enter an unusual alliance to monitor some disturbing trends in the Arctic; and an initiative to fix the health and environmental hazards plaguing many South African homes. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Alien invaders catch the US on the back footFor years, the United States...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A balloonist, a psychotherapist and a business executive give their perspectives on climate change at this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard wants to prove that he can fly around the world without fuel; Journalist-turned-therapist Mark Brayne says our species is in denial; and Desertec executive Rainer Arlinghoff thinks the future looks bright after all. You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A balloonist, a psychotherapist and a business executive give their perspectives on climate change at this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard wants to prove that he can fly around the world without fuel; Journalist-turned-therapist Mark Brayne says our species is in denial; and Desertec executive Rainer Arlinghoff thinks the future looks bright after all. You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A sea-change from conferences this week: we talk to a conservationist about the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting, which will consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling; we explore Japan's taste for whale meat; and we hear about the losing struggle of balancing tourism with sustainable fishing practices in the Bahamas.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Eating whales: It's (not...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A sea-change from conferences this week: we talk to a conservationist about the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting, which will consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling; we explore Japan's taste for whale meat; and we hear about the losing struggle of balancing tourism with sustainable fishing practices in the Bahamas.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Eating whales: It's (not...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Another special edition of Living Planet this week – we're focusing on the climate talks taking place in Bonn. We get an overview of the progress to date; a look at what the future holds in store for Bangladesh; and a conversation with an organization dedicated to ensuring climate action is wedded to what the science demands – even when it sounds 'unfeasible.' You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Another special edition of Living Planet this week – we're focusing on the climate talks taking place in Bonn. We get an overview of the progress to date; a look at what the future holds in store for Bangladesh; and a conversation with an organization dedicated to ensuring climate action is wedded to what the science demands – even when it sounds 'unfeasible.' You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A special edition of Living Planet this week – you can hear just a few of the more interesting speakers addressing a panel discussion on pricing the planet. Pavan Sukhdev explains how TEEB audits nature – to save it from us; Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation is less than fully convinced; and the EU's top environment bureaucrat says what Europe intends to do about it.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A special edition of Living Planet this week – you can hear just a few of the more interesting speakers addressing a panel discussion on pricing the planet. Pavan Sukhdev explains how TEEB audits nature – to save it from us; Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation is less than fully convinced; and the EU's top environment bureaucrat says what Europe intends to do about it.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Poland and East Germany face powerful floods; the EU climate commissioner talks up the prospects of an international emissions trading scheme, pressure mounts on US authorities to take over responsibility for sealing the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico; and a separate threat to Florida's wild life. You can listen online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click teh links below for the individual reports. Poland and East Germany face powerful floodsFloods along the Vistula and Odra...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of Mexico this week; the European Union wrestles with the idea of a sea change for its fishing industry; a tour through Europe's greenest city; and a minor gourmet French revolution.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of MexicoBP is finally making progress in stemming the leaking oil well.Not all the news is...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of Mexico this week; the European Union wrestles with the idea of a sea change for its fishing industry; a tour through Europe's greenest city; and a minor gourmet French revolution.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of MexicoBP is finally making progress in stemming the leaking oil well.Not all the news is...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Efforts to stop the oil in the Gulf of Mexico grow desperate; the UN's latest biodiversity outlook paints a bleak picture for life on earth; turning trains to reefs, and a team of scientists sets off to measure the impact of warming on the Arctic. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Efforts to stop oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico become desperateA plan to lower a containment dome over one of the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Efforts to stop the oil in the Gulf of Mexico grow desperate; the UN's latest biodiversity outlook paints a bleak picture for life on earth; turning trains to reefs, and a team of scientists sets off to measure the impact of warming on the Arctic. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Efforts to stop oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico become desperateA plan to lower a containment dome over one of the...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
We talk to our US correspondent on the fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; we hear from a bird cleaning station in Louisiana; a look at how half-way climate talks fared in Bonn this week; and a German kid's campaign to plant a million trees in every country passes its first major hurdle.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podacast. Click the links below for the indivdual reports.Still no end in sight to oil disasterNearly two weeks after an oil...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
US authorities are overwhelmed by the scale of one of the country's worst-ever oil spills; a look at how life is flourishing in Chernobyl on the disaster's 24th anniversary; disturbing signs that an underwater volcano off the coast of Italy could erupt soon; and Tunisia reconsider an ancient approach to agriculture to improve the marketability of one of its top exports. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below to hear individual...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
US authorities are overwhelmed by the scale of one of the country's worst-ever oil spills; a look at how life is flourishing in Chernobyl on the disaster's 24th anniversary; disturbing signs that an underwater volcano off the coast of Italy could erupt soon; and Tunisia reconsider an ancient approach to agriculture to improve the marketability of one of its top exports. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below to hear individual...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
On this week's Living Planet: A look at the environmental impacts of the Icelandic volcano eruption; a carbon neutral city is under construction in the Middle Eastern desert; green roofing takes earth-friendly urban living to new heights in Duesseldorf and London is about to be invaded by a large herd of elephants – of the artistic kind! You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Icelandic volcano raises...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
On this week's Living Planet: UN climate talks make little progress; Scotland exploits the forces of nature to produce energy; two sailors plan to circumnavigate the world in a solar-powered boat; and Brazil's baru nut trees are disappearing.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. UN climate talks make little progressLast weekend, delegates from 175 nations met in Bonn for crucial climate talks.The...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
On Living Planet this week: Small wind turbines lagging behing in the energy market; experts call for linking up renewable energy projects; and an Egyptian oasis exploits its most precious resource. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Small wind turbines lagging behing in the energy marketIs the small wind turbines sector losing out?European Union member nations want one-fifth of their electricity...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
New York City overturns a ban on beekeeping; the southern Indian state of Kerala struggles with a boom in the popularity of houseboats; a conversation about whether tourism can ever be sustainable; and is a country that prides itself on its beer-making tradition ready for organic beer?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.New York City overturns a ban on beekeepingFormer renegade beekepers need no...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
New York City overturns a ban on beekeeping; the southern Indian state of Kerala struggles with a boom in the popularity of houseboats; a conversation about whether tourism can ever be sustainable; and is a country that prides itself on its beer-making tradition ready for organic beer?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.New York City overturns a ban on beekeepingFormer renegade beekepers need no...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
Rome's latest invader assaults the city's aesthetic charm; a Dutchman's bright idea for slashing emissions in the shipping industry and a conversation about living beyond our means. You can download the show or subsrcibe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rome struggles with invasion of palm-killersRome has preserved a rich architectural heritage that lends it a lasting beauty. But that beauty is now under assault by a new invader.The red palm...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
Rome's latest invader assaults the city's aesthetic charm; a Dutchman's bright idea for slashing emissions in the shipping industry and a conversation about living beyond our means. You can download the show or subsrcibe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rome struggles with invasion of palm-killersRome has preserved a rich architectural heritage that lends it a lasting beauty. But that beauty is now under assault by a new invader.The red palm...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A French seaside town wrestles with the idea of an end to tuna fishing; sourcing paper for books sustainably; Germany's government reignites passions over a nuclear waste dump and guerrilla gardeners mount an urban-planning revolution in London. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. World considers banning bluefin tuna tradeA possible ban on sales of bluefin tuna is one of the more radical proposals being...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
A French seaside town wrestles with the idea of an end to tuna fishing; sourcing paper for books sustainably; Germany's government reignites passions over a nuclear waste dump and guerrilla gardeners mount an urban-planning revolution in London. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. World considers banning bluefin tuna tradeA possible ban on sales of bluefin tuna is one of the more radical proposals being...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Environmentalists and indigenous people in Russia settle on a novel approach to forestry protection, a program to promote renewable energies in developing countries reveals some of the unexpected problems that can arise, Spanish communities vie for the dubious privilege of housing a nuclear waste dump, and a look at the drawbacks of fish farming. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rent-a-forest scheme...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Environmentalists and indigenous people in Russia settle on a novel approach to forestry protection, a program to promote renewable energies in developing countries reveals some of the unexpected problems that can arise, Spanish communities vie for the dubious privilege of housing a nuclear waste dump, and a look at the drawbacks of fish farming. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rent-a-forest scheme...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The EU approves its first genetically modified crop in over a decade, Mongolians weight the cost of cutting smog, fabrics offer hope of revolutionizing the building industry while cutting costs, and a town in Norway's icy north hopes to cash in on climate change.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.EU clears the way for gentically modified potatoBASF's Amflora potato is to be used for paper production DW...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
The EU approves its first genetically modified crop in over a decade, Mongolians weight the cost of cutting smog, fabrics offer hope of revolutionizing the building industry while cutting costs, and a town in Norway's icy north hopes to cash in on climate change.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.EU clears the way for gentically modified potatoBASF's Amflora potato is to be used for paper production DW...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
US states take initiative in tackling climate change, the organic industry responds to troubles over certification, and the wind energy sector rides a boom in investment into 2010 (all music from this podcast has been removed for copyright reasons). You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.US states take initiative in tackling climate changeThe next round of preparatory talks for this year's climate negotiations...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
The environmental cost of a Baltic pipeline to pump gas from Russia to Europe, Mauritius tries to break bad habits when it comes to cleaning up its backyard, Brazil struggles to balance development with conservation of its natural riches and what can the rest of the world learn from Europe's experience of running an emissions trading scheme?You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. WWF challenges Baltic pipeline...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
The environmental cost of a Baltic pipeline to pump gas from Russia to Europe, Mauritius tries to break bad habits when it comes to cleaning up its backyard, Brazil struggles to balance development with conservation of its natural riches and what can the rest of the world learn from Europe's experience of running an emissions trading scheme?You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. WWF challenges Baltic pipeline...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports....
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports....
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
This week on Living Planet we delve into a scandal over the labelling of organic cotton wear in Europe, we chat with the Pakistani-born climate expert Adil Najam, and we hear about how Australia's environment ministry is considering banning people from climbing one of the country's most famous tourist attractions. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Organic garment makers respond to cotton scamDemand for...
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Living Planet: Environmental Mattters Around the World
This week on Living Planet we take a look at the scandal over Germany's disintegrating nuclear repository at Asse, snow sports' troubling future in the European Alps, a royal rumble over a solar energy park and pioneering efforts to insulate old apartment blocks so they lose next to no heat.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Decision reached on disintegrating German nuclear repositoryGerman authorities...
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Living Planet: Environment matters around the world
How European policy-makers are rethinking climate strategy post-Copenhagen, the state of Germany's Greens Party on its 30th birthday, Armenian conservationists' efforts to save one of the highest lakes in the world, and what the head of the UN's environment program thinks we need to do to halt current rates of extinction.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for individual reports.Top German climate advisor says the dice are not yet...
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Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world
This week on Living Planet we take a look at an ambitious proposal for a green energy grid to hook up nine countries around the North Sea, what the UN's 2010 year of biodiversity means and how the rate of evolution is now being measured in the test tube.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Europe plans ambitious North Sea renewables gridEurope is planning a massive electricity grid to run under the North...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
On this week's Living Planet, India's Ganges delta residents struggle to cope with the impact of climate change, Russian scientists scoff at global warming and why schoolchildren in Ghent are changing their eating habits. Ganges delta residents bear the brunt of climate changeA few months ago, tropical storm Aila swept across the Ganges river delta in India. Meter-high tidal waves flooded many islands, destroying houses and turning the land brackish. Hundreds of people died and thousands...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
On this edition of Living Planet, a look-back at the Copenhagen summit amid disappointment over its outcome, an analysis of the drawbacks of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, and Australia faces a thousand-year drought! Widespread disappointment over outcome of climate talksLiving Planet takes a look-back at the Copenhagen summit, for which tens of thousands of climate activists and delegates from 193 countries had gathered in the Danish capital for almost two weeks. A treaty to combat...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week Living Planet is at the global climate summit in Copenhagen with an in-depth look at the negotiations themselves as well as some of the key items on the agenda. Deadline to replace Kyoto loomsThe Kyoto Protocol officially expires in 2012 and while that may seem like a long way off, something needs to be done because carbon is already taking its toll on the planet.Ever since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, countries have been talking about ways to tackle climate change. That meeting gave...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet an NGO hands over 10 million demands for a fair climate summit, assessing the media hype surrounding Copenhagen, the technological gains driven by climate change, and how one French city is spreading the idea of eco-friendly lights.Eco NGO has 10 million supporters calling for fair dealThe Alliance of Small Island States is urging delegates at the global climate summit in Copenhagen to approve measures that would save their homes from sinking into the sea.The 15th...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet we speak to the head of the UN's climate secretariat, take a look at where the EU stands ahead of the climate summit, learn how the Dutch are hoping to combat the rising waters, and find out how REDD could bring Madagascar a little more green.Copenhagen is all or nothing, says de BoerThe head of the United Nations climate secretariat tells Deutsche Welle that the upcoming summit in the Danish capital has to be a success.For two weeks the world will watch as heads...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet we go shopping for a sustainable mall, learn why heating with wood can be both good and bad, and take a trip south to see how the island nation of Jamaica is trying to go green to save the environment and bring in money.Sustainable shopping mall could change design ideas in GermanyMassive shopping complexes are one of the last places anyone would probably put on their list of eco-friendly buildings. A German design firm is hoping to change that.The end of November...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet: the German chancellor announces plans to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen, Ecuador calls on the international community to pay it not to drill for oil, and bridging the social and ecological divide between the German majority and Turkish minority.Merkel announces plans to attend CopenhagenGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joining her French and British counterparts at the global climate summit in Copenhagen. Many have applauded the move, but some...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet we take a look at a plan to raise the price of carbon credits, how car-sharing is taking off in Germany despite the credit crunch, the future of eco-energy in sunny Spain, and how one of the planet's most energy-intensive IT products could be more green.Eco-activists strive to raise the price of carbonCap and trade is a system designed to let developed countries piggyback on the climate friendly aspects of much of the developed world. But is the price they pay...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
This week on Living Planet takes a look at the devastating aftermath of an oil spill in Lebanon, an auto race where the goal is efficiency over speed, the pros and cons of eco-friendly, earthquake-proof housing in Italy and gets the lowdown on carbon capture and sequestration.Years later, devastating oil spill continues to ravage LebanonThe United Nations has named November 6 as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.One of the...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
Using human waste as an eco-friendly building material, trees that can quickly deliver a large, steady supply of quality hardwood, and turning carbon from coal-fired power plants into fertilizer.Bricks take on an organic twistEverything flushed down the toilet eventually ends up at a sewage treatment plant where it is turned into sewage sludge. Each year in Germany some 200 million tons of the stuff is processed. Half of that is burned in power plants and the other half is used on fields as...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
An outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
An outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe
Swiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakes, unlocking the wonders of the African miracle tree, hormone-free beef in Europe and climate campaigners go to camp.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Swiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakesAs climate change causes glaciers around the world to melt, a new threat to those living in their shadows has emerged. Unstable glacial lakes are forming high in the...
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Living Planet: Environmental Matters Around the Globe
Climate-friendly living could fail to meet emissions goals, counting carbon around the world and getting up close and personal with one of humanity's most endangered relatives.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.UN carbon emissions goal beyond reach of most GermansReducing CO2 emissions by 80 to 90 percent as the United Nations has recommended is going to take a lot more than just retooling industries and...
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Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World
Coalition talks are on in Germany but green groups are worried about plans to delay a nuclear phase-out, Normandy faces a new invasion by a nuclear plant and power lines, and Italians fill up their water bottles for free in a bid to get rid of plastic waste.Green groups oppose plans to delay nuclear phase out in GermanyA proposed move to extend the 2020 deadline for phasing out nuclear energy in Germany has sparked protest from environmental groups and skepticism among some energy...
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