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One Planet (Environment)

  • Genres: Environment
  • Location: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Networks: BBC
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OnePlanet: Solar Power 20 Nov 08

Thu, Nov 20 Listen
Miriam O'Reilly investigates whether solar power from the Sahara Desert could be the solution to Europe's energy future.

OnePlanet: Stockholm Eco-Town 13 Nov 08

Thu, Nov 13 Listen
Mark Whittaker visits an "eco-town" in Sweden to see if it offers a model for the sustainable cities of the future

OnePlanet: Money from Used Plastic 6 Nov 08

Thu, Nov 6 Listen
Richard Hollingham investigates the companies hoping to make millions of dollars from recycling your used plastics

One Planet: Green Capitalism Debate 30 Oct 08

Thu, Oct 30 Listen
Richard Hollingham hosts a discussion on whether "green" capitalism can solve our financial and environmenal woes

One Planet: Wind Power 23 Oct 08

Thu, Oct 23 Listen
The European Union needs a massive increase in wind power if it is to meet its renewable energy target. Simon Cox investigates whether a wind revolution is possible.

OnePlanet: Space Junk 16 Oct 08

Thu, Oct 16 Listen
Richard Hollingham investigates the growing problem of space junk and asks how dangerous it is for astronauts and satellites.

OnePlanet: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Four

Mon, Oct 13 Listen
Brett Westwood follows individual Greenland white-fronted Geese, carrying special transmitters on their migration from south-west Scotland to the east coast of Greenland where they breed.

OnePlanet: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Three

Fri, Oct 3 Listen
In The Elephant's Journey, Brett Westwood looks at African elephant migration. He follows Mac, the African elephant that travels each year between Kruger National Park in South Africa and the private nature reserves to find a mate.

OnePlanet: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Two

Thu, Sep 25 Listen
In Silent Landscapes, the second part of Animal Migration in a Climate of Change, Brett Westwood examines why the migration of popular bird species to Europe has declined dramatically.

OnePlanet: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change

Tue, Sep 23 Listen
In Part One of a special four part series on animal movement, Brett Westwood explores how steps are being taken to develop sustainable forestry to help preserve the Orange Monarch butterfly.

One Planet: coastal erosion

Wed, Sep 10 Listen
Coastal communities around world, from Bangladesh to Britain, are under threat from rising sea levels and coastal erosion. In an island nation such as Britain, the shoreline has changed significantly in the past thirty years and it is set to continue at a rapid pace. So can governments do anything to slow the effects of the sea or are changing coastlines an inevitable result of climate change? Mark Whittaker reports.

One Planet: Cycling in Kansas City

Wed, Sep 3 Listen
Kansas City in Missouri is widely considered the least cycling-friendly city in the United States. But the city's mayor, Mark Funkhouser, wants it to become one of the best places to cycle in the US by 2020. So can it be done? And will the addition of more cycling infrastructure to the city -- such as trails and bike racks -- be enough to persuade people to give up their cars? For One Planet, Richard Hollingham got on his bike to report.

OnePlanet: Lyme Bay trawling ban

Thu, Aug 21 Listen
For years, an argument has raged between environmentalists and fishermen in Britain over the right to fish for scallops by dredging the sea floor. And now the British government has introduced a permanent ban on the practice in the region of Lyme Bay in South West England. A victory for a fragile marine environment or the final death knell for the British inshore fishing industry? For One Planet, Mark Whittaker reports.

OnePlanet: China's green movement

Wed, Aug 13 Listen
On One Planet this week: as the Olympic Games are being held in Bejing, Mukul Devishand looks at the green movement in China and asks whether the country's new environmental politics are starting to change attitudes in the one-party state.

OnePlanet: Environment and the US Election

Wed, Aug 6 Listen
The presidential election campaign in the United States is rapidly gathering pace. Both John McCain and Barack Obama are investing large amounts of their campaign funds on adverts which paint them as the strongest choice on issues such energy security, the economy and the environment. Chief among their target audience are residents of swing states such as Missouri as they hope to capture the electoral college votes needed to reach the White House. But do the two candidates really differ on...

OnePlanet: "The greatest golf course in the world"

Thu, Jul 31 Listen
The American billionaire businessman, Donald Trump, plans to extend his property empire by building what he describes as the "world's greatest golf course" in Aberdeenshire in northern Scotland. Mr Trump says that the plan will bring in work, housing and revenue to the local economy as well as preserve the health of a series of sand dunes around which the golf course is planned. Opponents disagree, saying that the course would ruin the region's fragile ecosystem. The BBC's Scotland...

OnePlanet: Farming in the City 24 Jul 08

Thu, Jul 24 Listen
Andrew Luck-Baker investigates the pros and cons of urban farming in India. Hyderabad is a city with a booming IT industry. Its streets are also home to thirty thousand buffalo – the animals behind the Indian city’s booming urban dairy businesses. But are the two compatible in a fast modernising city? And is re-using Hyderabad’s polluted waste water to grow vegetables good environmental practice - or a danger to consumers?

OnePlanet: Farming in the City 17 Jul 08

Thu, Jul 17 Listen
For the first time in history, the number of people living in the world’s cities now exceeds the global rural population. That’s one argument some people use to advocate farming in cities – to feed the growing urban masses and even solve some of the environmental problems of expanding metropolitan areas. Andrew Luck-Baker looks at how Uganda’s capital city Kampala is looking to urban agriculture to improve life in the city.

OnePlanet: a Return to Coal

Wed, Jul 9 Listen
With the oil price continuing to rise, many governments are looking for new ways to meet their energy needs. And for some countries, the answer has been a return to the fuel of the industrial revolution: coal. But is coal a viable solution to the energy crisis or just a convenient stop-gap? In the second of two programmes on the return to coal, Madeleine Morris has returned to her hometown in Queensland, Australia, to see how a recent boom has affected the mining community.

OnePlanet:

Thu, Jul 3 Listen
One Planet - The Return to Coal While the oil price continues to rise, energy companies and governments are trying to find new ways to meet their energy needs. Rather than turn to renewable sources, such as wind, solar and wave power, many companies are turning instead to the fuel of the industrial revolution, coal. From Britain to Japan, from Australia to Latin America, coal is making a comeback. But is it an answer to the energy crisis or just stop-gap for the short term? In the first of...

One Planet: Illegal Logging on the Russia-China border

Thu, Jun 26 Listen
Illegal logging is a global problem. Large swathes of forest are threatened by the trade, which is increasingly lucrative for the loggers and their middlemen -- be they in the Amazon, Asia or Europe. In this week's One Planet, Lucy Ash visits remote eastern Siberia where the world's biggest forested area is being cut down illegally to serve China's surging demand.

OnePlanet: Bees and disease

Thu, Jun 19 Listen
In recent years, commercial and amateur bee-keepers across the United States have been affected by a condition known as "Colony Collapse Disorder". On opening their hives after winter, they have found their bee populations almost completely wiped out with no obvious cause. Now there is evidence that bees in Europe are dying too. So what is causing the problem, and is the necessary research being funded? For One Planet, Richard Hollingham reports.

OnePlanet:

Fri, Jun 13 Listen
What can be done about global warming? Led by Europe, the international community is resting much of its hopes on a practice known as carbon trading. But does carbon trading really offer a solution? In One Planet you can hear the second of Mark Gregory’s two part investigation.

OnePlanet: The Great Carbon Bazaar

Thu, Jun 5 Listen
What can be done about global warming? The international community is resting much of its hopes on a practice known as carbon trading. And under the main UN scheme, rich countries are able to offset their emissions by paying for projects in poor countries. But, as you’ll hear on One Planet the BBC has unearthed disturbing evidence that the system is fundamentally flawed.

OnePlanet: Rwanda

Wed, May 28 Listen
Kevin Mwachiro travels to Lake Kivu on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to investigate plans to extract methane gas from Lake Kivu for electricity generation. After years in development the project has finally begun, but there are security concerns as its taking place right next to the ongoing civil conflict in Eastern DR Congo.

OnePlanet: Nepal

Wed, May 21 Listen
Nepal has witnessed a sea change in politics after the Maoists emerged victorious in recent elections. Amongst the issues the new government will need to address is wildlife trafficking. There are rising concerns that Nepal is increasingly becoming an international transit point for illegal wildlife products. Navin Singh Khadka travels to Nepal’s borders with India and China to investigate the trade.

OnePlanet: The Amazon Paradox - Part Two

Fri, May 16 Listen
Listen to the best of the BBC World Service's coverage of The Amazon Paradox on this special edition of One Planet.

OnePlanet: The Amazon Paradox

Thu, May 15 Listen
This programme examines the Amazon: the biggest and possibly most crucial area of forest left on the planet and an area under constant threat of destruction.

OnePlanet: Batwa

Wed, May 7 Listen
Thomas Fessy looks at the issue of conservation refugees, people who are moved from their traditional homelands to make way for conservation projects. He focuses on the Batwa people of South West Uganda who were removed from the region’s forests when national parks were established to protect the habitat of mountain gorillas.

OnePlanet: Afghanistan

Wed, Apr 30 Listen
Figures obtained by the BBC show that diseases, especially birth defects -- which are often associated with exposure to radiation -- are on the rise in Afghanistan. Dawood Azami has been to Afghanistan to investigate claims that Depleted Uranium weapons might be responsible. He visits Tora Bora, the former Taliban stronghold where local people say illness and the birth of malformed babies have become more common since the bombing of cave hideouts there. He speaks to US military officials, and...

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