ENVIRONMENT
Food crisis fears
ENVIRONMENT

Food crisis fears

2008 saw riots across the developing world, with hungry and furious people taking to the streets. Now fears are rising that the world could be braced for another food crisis. The latest data from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation shows that at the beginning of 2011, global food prices were actually higher than at their previous peak three years ago. Environment investigates the nutrition challenges facing the planet.
Water in the city
ENVIRONMENT

Water in the city

Join us for a rendez-vous on Paris’ river Seine as we investigate the complex relationship between modern city living and water. In this edition of Environment we take you to Bangkok – a city sinking into the sea. Our correspondents also report on the technological wizardry that’s given Singapore its water independence. Finally we find out why illegal drugs could be sneaking into your daily drinking water – and how it can be prevented.
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Nuclear power panic
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Nuclear power panic

This week, we're visiting one of France's 58 nuclear reactors. One that has borne natures brunt before, damaged by a storm back in 1999. Then, the worst was avoided and extra safety mesures have been put in place since. But with 20% of the worlds working reactors lying on fault lines, how safe can nuclear ever be?
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Palm oil
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Palm oil

Whether you know it or not, palm oil is almost certainly a part of your life. Your shampoo, your ice cream, your margarine - and now even your biofuel - all contain this popular vegetable oil. But with palm oil increasingly associated with deforestation, there's a huge effort to make production more sustainable in countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. This week environment examines whether palm oil should be given the 'green'' light.
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Unconventional energy
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Unconventional energy

Shale gas has been hailed as a potential game changer in the energy industry. It could double the world’s existing supplies of natural gas. So why is it so controversial? The answer lies in the technique required to extract this deep earth natural gas. It's known as "fracking" and this week Environment explains why so many people are opposed to this technique, be it here in France or as far away as Australia.
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Toxicity of transport
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Toxicity of transport

Drilling through the alps or super sizing trucks : Can that really help the environment ? The toxicity of transport is the theme of this weeks show brought to you from the heart of the world's longest tunnel, the Gottard base tunnel here in Switzerland.
Containing contamination
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Containing contamination

This week we're in Strasbourg where we are waiting for the Pollution Police to arrive, a rapid response service that comes to the rescue of nature. Then, discover how uranium mines in Gabon has left locals living in radioactive homes and using contaminated water. Finally we go down under to Cape Grim in Australia where scientists have discovered two new greenhouse gases polluting our airwaves.
Innovative energy
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Innovative energy

This week Environment is looking at innovative energy. To start, French researchers try to identify the sweetest of trees with a high sugar content to produce a fruitful harvest of biofuels. Meanwhile in Spain CO2 from a cement factory is sucked up by algae leading to the mass production of bio petroleum. Finally how green are the latest shiny engines to hit the road? They avoid polluting petrol but nonetheless need powerplants many still fueled by coal to run.
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Land use and misuse
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Land use and misuse

This week we bring you not along the silk road but down another important route : the grain road. Also discover a feud between fuel and food in Vietnam where the government wants to speed up bio-fuel production. Crops for cars, can it find a compromise that can satisfy both hungers? Then, discover an increasing number of countries are scrambling to Africa and renting fields to produce food for their growing populations.Finally, the farmers market goes global with the Internet allowing you to.
Let the sunshine in
ENVIRONMENT

Let the sunshine in

With a visit to the Heliodome, a house built in line with the light in order to get the most from nature in terms of heat and energy, ENVIRONMENT looks at the power of the sun.
Forests on the front line
ENVIRONMENT

Forests on the front line

2011 marks the UN year of the forest so ENVIRONMENT takes stock of the vegetation that makes up 31% of our land and is home to 80% of our biodiversity with reports ranging from bio-pirates stealing snakes in Brazil to the fall of the mighty Baobab in Madagascar.
Waste not, want not
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Waste not, want not

Each year in the European Union alone 3 billion tonnes are thrown away. This week, ENVIRONMENT is taking out the trash and looking at the value of what we all too often throw away without giving it a second though. The Villa Dechets, or house that rubbish built in Nantes a shining example of what our waste can build.
Could they in Cancun ?
ENVIRONMENT

Could they in Cancun ?

As the 16th annual UN climate change talks come to a close in Mexico, ENVIRONMENT looks at the major topics that were on the table, the divisions that persist and solutions proposed.
All that glistens ain't green
ENVIRONMENT

All that glistens ain't green

The global lust for gold has reached record levels but getting at remaining deposits can come at a huge cost to the environment. FRANCE 24 visits one smelting works that recycles the precious metal and says that there is 40 years worth of stock lying in drawers around the world.
Who owns the right to mother nature?
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Who owns the right to mother nature?

As annual UN climate change talks get underway in Cancun, ENVIRONMENT travels to Bolivia where water worries already have locals rapping their rage, and plans to protect forests are getting the thumbs down.
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