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This week: In the heart of the Amazon communities use nature to treat all their ailments, HEALTH takes a tour of the forest with a local shaman.
This week : A trip to the heart of the Amazon to see the progress being made in the fight against deforestation and the problems that persist.
This week: Environment looks into the ‘dumping’ of toxic waste in Siberia and the safety of the third generation power stations, EPR’s.
Health looks at rare illnesses, meeting a girl with Ondines curse before crossing over to Canada to find out more about Fabry’s disease.
ENVIRONMENT travels to the Pyrenees on the French Spanish border to visit the latest dam built in the area. Small in size it provides electricity to just a few hundred homes but it does so with very little cost to the environment.
In this edition HEALTH travels to a hub of nanotechnology in Grenoble and visits a laboratory where size matters and it’s the smaller the better, as miniaturization means more targeted treatment.
According to the WHO every five seconds someone in the world goes blind; one child goes blind every minute. The UN body says that 80% of blindness could be avoided or treated, if people had the right access to care and facilities. In honor of world
ENVIRONMENT takes to the high seas on board the TARA, a boat that is sailing across the world’s oceans and seas to examine the effect climate change is having on them and their biodiversity.
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