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Atlantic Crossing: A Robot's Daring Mission
World-renowned scientists lead by oceanographer Scott Glenn are racing against time to design, build and launch the first transatlantic autonomous underwater robot. RU27 or Scarlet will explore the vast uncharted waters of the North Atlantic collecting critical data necessary for future climate models on her journey toward Spain. It is a one-hour television documentary on new science, deep-sea adventure and history in the making. |
750 |
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BURNING THE FUTURE: Coal in America
Examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging clean coal energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction. Faced with toxic ground water and the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, our heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life. |
557 |
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Climate Change and Coral Reefs: Comprehensive Classroom Resource
A comprehensive resource to optimize student learning about the science of climate change and its impact on the world's coral reefs, with video modules, teacher's guide & more. |
746 |
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Climate Change: Classroom Issues 2
Scientific evidence clearly shows that global temperatures are rising, and weather patterns are changing. Evidence is also clear that climatic changes including extreme changes have been present on our planet for millions of years. This DVD presents expert opinions, statistics and historical references presenting two sides of the story, and ultimately asks us, how worried should we be? |
598 |
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Climate Change: Our Responsibility
This DVD establishes the vital importance of the greenhouse effect for life on Earth and then presents a balanced argument to assess whether or not anthropogenic climate change (often called global warming) is in fact taking place. |
601 |
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GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home
With his first son just born, filmmaker Andrew Nisker is very concerned with the state of our planet. As the average household level of consumption rises, so does the astronomical amount of waste we collectively create. Are we turning the earth into one giant garbage can? Determined to understand the damage we are doing, Nisker enlists the average urban family, the McDonalds, to keep every scrap of garbage that they produce for three months in their increasingly smelly garage. From organic waste to dirty diapers, from plastic bottles to Christmas wrapping, the McDonald's discover that for every action there is a reaction that affects them and the entire planet. |
534 |
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On Thin Ice
Moved by an impending tragedy for an entire species, producer and host Greg Grainger leads an expedition into the arctic to examine the lives of the polar bears who, thanks to global warming, are predicted to become extinct within 50 years. |
556 |
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Terra Antarctica: ReDiscovering the Seventh Continent
This National Geographic-sponsored exploration is a one-of-a-kind look at Antarctica from a unique perspective - sea level. Impacted by climate change - temperatures have warmed along the Peninsula faster than anywhere on the planet during the past 50 years - this part of Antarctica is also experiencing a boom in tourism and nations fighting over who owns what as its ice slowly disappears. |
749 |
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The Carbon Connection
Two communities affected by one new global market the 'trade' in carbon dioxide. In Scotland, a town has been polluted by oil and chemical companies since the 1940s. In Brazil, local people's water and land is being swallowed up by destructive monoculture eucalyptus tree plantations. Both communities now share a new threat. |
524 |
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The Cost of Oil
The pressure to drill for oil in the Arctic has intensified with the increasing prices of crude oil. But the potential for lower oil prices is at what cost? In this feature-length documentary the Alaskan Inupiat show how oil drilling in their nearby seas will forever alter their subsistence-living lifestyle and multiply the struggles of preserving their rich cultural history. Members of the oil industry and expert scientists also highlight the predicted effects of oil drilling on the delicate Arctic ecosystem, and in turn, the effects on a society dependent on that ecosystem. Through this film viewers discover the irony of drilling for oil in order to become a more self-sustaining nation, and in doing so, likely destroying one of the last remaining self-sustaining cultures. |
639 |
