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Marina BERTSCH

Cairo's waste war
06/06/2013 - DOWN TO EARTH

Cairo's waste war

At the base of Cairo's Mokkatam Hill is a neighbourhood known as Garbage City. Its residents are the Zabbaleen, a community that has become so adept at treating trash that it rivals the most advanced waste management systems in the world.
Morocco: Kingdom of sun
23/05/2013 - DOWN TO EARTH

Morocco: Kingdom of sun

Morocco may have little to no fossil fuel resources, but the kingdom has its eyes on a brighter future. By 2020 the country plans to produce 42 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, a large portion of it thanks to energy from the sun.
Ethiopia: Planting hope in trees
09/05/2013 - DOWN TO EARTH

Ethiopia: Planting hope in trees

In the past half century, Ethiopia has ravaged more than 90 percent of its forests. Reforestation campaigns are now sowing new hope on the Ethiopian highlands. France 24 went out to Ethiopia to find out more.
Uganda: Rooting out hidden hunger
25/04/2013 - DOWN TO EARTH

Uganda: Rooting out hidden hunger

In Uganda, sweet potatoes have always been white, not orange, as is common in the west. The crucial difference is that the orange variety is high in vitamin A. If the locals can be convinced to adopt this unusually coloured variety, their children could stave off blindness and in many cases death.
Rwanda's plastic bag-free utopia
11/04/2013 - DOWN TO EARTH

Rwanda's plastic bag-free utopia

Not so long ago, Rwanda suffered from an all-too-familiar problem in Africa: billions of plastic bags choking waterways and destroying entire ecosystems. To fight this scourge of the environment, the government launched a radical policy to ban all non-biodegradable plastic from the country.
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Digital pollution: the ecological cost of our technology
23/02/2013 - ENVIRONMENT

Digital pollution: the ecological cost of our technology

Every time we send an email, download a film or use social media we set off an explosion of digital information that ends in energy-greedy data centres. The servers inside these centres operate day and night, seven days a week and produce two per cent of global carbon emissions - equivalent to the consumption of a country as big as Japan.
Greece: a poor prognosis
17/02/2013 - HEALTH

Greece: a poor prognosis

Life in Greece has been turned on its head since the debt crisis took hold. Severe austerity measures have left the country's once-proud health system in tatters. Shortages of medicine, the return of malaria and an explosion in HIV infections are prompting calls for humanitarian aid.
Birth control pills: a new health scandal?
03/02/2013 - HEALTH

Birth control pills: a new health scandal?

France's health authorities have decided that a higher risk of blood clots, strokes and thrombosis in the latest versions of birth control pills pose an unacceptable danger to women’s health. As a result, the government has changed its prescription guidelines for oral contraceptives. The decision could affect 2.5 million women in France and many more overseas, should other countries follow suit.
Animals with all the answers
26/01/2013 - ENVIRONMENT

Animals with all the answers

From earthquake-predicting cats to tadpoles that glow in polluted water, this week's show looks to nature for solutions to some of our most troubling environmental concerns.
Dr. Robot: New heights in hi-tech health
20/01/2013 - HEALTH

Dr. Robot: New heights in hi-tech health

From robotic surgeons to bionic limbs or intelligent mannequins, machines of the future are shaping the medicine of today. Should we brace ourselves for a world where health care is completely automated? This week we take a look at new heights in hi-tech health.
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