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Special Features and Series


Go Fish: Striving for Sustainability
Living on Earth's series on efforts in the U.S. to make fish sustainable for consumers and fishermen.

North Knife: An Expedition to Hudson Bay with Mark Seth Lender
Producer Mark Seth Lender takes his recording gear and camera to Hudson Bay, Canada, just outside the Arctic Circle, to see polar bears, beluga whales, and Arctic foxes, oh my! Check out his blog posts below.

REDD Path to a Green Planet

The Environment in Election '06

Nukes

Generating Controversy: The Changing Climate of Coal
The problems and promise of coal, and the potential of new technologies.

Obama's Cabinet

Search for the Golden Moon Bear

The Road Taken

Changing Climate, Changing Language

Rachel Carson

Degrees of Concern – Climate Change and New York City’s Future

Fusion or Illusion

A Watering Can, Some Seedlings, and the Greening of a Nation
The story of Nobel Prize Peace winner Wangari Maathai.

Mars on earth

Election 2004

Page Turners 2004

2003 Democratic Environmental Forum

The Secret Life of Lead

Gulf War 2003

Colombia Pipeline: An Environment Under Seige/Dispatches From the Field/Colombia Narcos and the Environment

Iron Fertilization

Three Gorges Dam

Yaak Valley

Vegan Thanksgiving

LED: Revolutionary Lighting

A Gap in Nature

A River With Two Names: The Chattahoochee & Apalachicola Rivers

Pedaling Lewis & Clark

Beatrix Potter

Children's author, Lynne Cherry
Lynne Cherry is the bestselling author and illustrator of numerous books for young readers. Many of her books concern environmental issues.

LOE's Student Produced Web Show (Queen of Peace H.S.)

LOE's Student Produced Web Show (Northside College Prep.)

Yaak Valley

Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest

The aftermath of 9/11
LOE looks at the cleanup efforts at the WTC site, a tribute to pilot John Ogonowski, and more.

Biological Weapons as Terrorism
The possibility of bio-warfare in the U.S.

Three Mile Island - 20 Years Later
Three Mile Island was the site of America's worst commercial nuclear accident. Today, 20 years after the accident, we'll try to assess its impact on the physical and emotional health of people who live here. And we'll explore how this single event changed the course of the nuclear industry and the nation's energy policy.

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Ten Years Later
Ten years ago the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, fouling Alaska's pristine beaches with oil. Exxon claims the environment has recovered, but scientists aren't so sure, and people who fish say they're still suffering. "I think the spill affected everyone everywhere, and I would like to believe that all companies are working to prevent that kind of disaster again."

Living Estuaries
Estuaries, the vital coastal zones where rivers and streams meet the oceans. Nature designed them as marine nurseries and havens for migratory birds, but humans are getting in the way.

Thirst for Safe Water
The United States has one of the best water supplies in the world, and has eradicated some of the worst water-borne diseases like typhoid and cholera. But how healthy is America's drinking water supply?

Middle East Troubled Waters
Since civilization began, men and women have gathered at the well. For at the well is the source of life: water. Water is also the source of conflict between Israel and nearly all its neighbors.

Antarctica Series
Living On Earth Reporter Terry FitzPatrick at "Upstream Bravo," a remote field camp where scientists are trying to learn if global warming has caused large sections of the Antarctic ice sheet to break free from the ground below and slip toward the sea.

Lead: The Silent Epidemic
More than 20 years ago the United States banned the use of the metal lead in gasoline and household paint. Adults are relatively immune to small exposures. But even minute amounts of lead can have devastating effects on the brains of young children, and there is evidence that millions of American children have been so poisoned.

 

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