The Guardian
Life After Mining in Queenstown
Mount Lyell mine in Queenstown, Tasmania shut down after a disaster in which a few miners were killed. With operations paused, residents reflect on life in the town, what and who they have lost, and where they go from here. Where the...
The Guardian
Forged by Copper: Life in the Shadow of Queenstown's Red River
In the isolated west of Tasmania an ominous red river divides the small mining town of Queenstown. A result of copper run-off from a closed mine, it is an ever-present reminder of the town’s history of environmental and industrial...
Curated Video
Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic Fracturing explains what hydraulic fracturing is and why it is a highly controversial process by explaining the advantages and disadvantages of fracking.
Curated Video
Rhino horns sawn off to protect animals from poachers
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4056851LEAD IN: Eager to stop wildlife poaching, some in Africa are taking the drastic step of de-horning rhinos before the illegal hunters do, taking a chainsaw to the hulking animals' most...
TLDR News
15 Executive Orders: What Biden Did in his Huge First Day in the White House - TLDR News
On Wednesday, Joe Biden entered the White House for the first time as President and he didn't mess around. In his first 24 hours, Biden got to work undoing some of Trump's biggest achievements - signing 15 executive orders. So in this...
FuseSchool
Environmental Impacts of Detergents
Learn the basics about the environmental impacts of detergents as part of the environmental chemistry topic.
Curated Video
Iraq/Kuwait - Pollution, China - Facing Environmental Pollution Crisis, France - Moves To Cut Air Pollution, Kosovo - Lead Pollution Levels, Russia - Moscow Pollution , Czechoslovakia: Pollution, North Korea - Pollution, China - Pollution, Japan - Background To Kyoto Summit, Tibet - Factories, Mexico/Usa - Factory Pollution, Egypt - High Levels Of Pollution
Iraq/Kuwait - Pollution
Iraq/Kuwait - 31/01/1992
The Kuwaiti people are still dealing with the environmental legacy of the Gulf war. Six-hundred-and-forty oil wells were set alight and not extinguished for eight months. It created...
Curated Video
GS 10 11 82 CAR POLLUTION CONTROL PROPOSALS IN ATHENS
There are attemtps to control car pollution in Athens
1. vs heavy traffic in the centre of Athens
2. cu numberplate tilt up to minicar and woman talking to policeman
3. vs traffic, cars and buses
Film: Rev - Sound: Mag SOF - Colour - ...
Curated Video
MEXICO: MEXICO CITY: OZONE LEVELS SOAR PAST DANGER POINT
Natural Sound
City pollution officials in Mexico have extended the emergency measures ordered for Tuesday after ozone levels soared past the danger point in many parts of the city.
Measures include doubling, to 40 percent, the number of...
Curated Video
GERMANY - Ozone Induces Voluntary Speed Limit
Environmentally-conscious Germans, who normally are some of the
fastest car drivers on the country's motorways, were keeping to a
low speed limit this week because of high ozone levels in the
state of Hesse. State authorities recorded...
Curated Video
France - Holiday Season Traffic Jams
Millions of holidaymakers fried in monster traffic jams on
France's traditional "black Saturday" (30/7) start of the August
vacation. A heatwave compounded travellers' misery. The transport
ministry said some 11 million motorists were...
Curated Video
Ukraine-Reactor at Chernobyl power station closed
Work started Saturday (30/11) to shut down Reactor Number One at the Chernobyl power station in Ukraine, site of the world's worst atomic accident a decade ago.
exterior of fourth reactor at Chernobyl,
exterior wall of...
Curated Video
Hawaii's stray cats threaten endangered seals
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4061030LEAD IN:Hawaii's legions of stray cats are threatening the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. While officials want to reduce the feral cat population - whose faeces carry a disease that can kill the...
Curated Video
Germany - Co2 Emissions Meter, China - Xinjiang Oil, Nigeria - Oil, Brazil: Rainforest Animals, Thailand: Rainforest
Germany - CO2 Emissions meter
Berlin - 31 March 1995 and file
1. Large CO2 emission meter set up by Friends of the Earth in city centre
China - Xinjiang Oil
Desert in Xinjiang Province - 26 May 1995
1. WS truck riding, oil wells in...
Curated Video
SYND 12 3 68 DEATHS AND FAMINE DUE TO POLLUTED GANGES WATER
Partly due to polluted Ganges water, six people die and hundreds of others face Famine in Monghyr, bihar state
1. ws river Ganges and steamer, pan over widewater
2. ms water tower
3. ms funeral pyre on bank
4. mcu corpse ready to be...
Curated Video
Giant, brightly coloured sculptures paraded on streets of Mexican capital
1. Wide of Mexican folk art sculptures known as Alebrijes on parade
2. Mid of marching band with various Alebrijes in background
3. Mid of various Alebrijes on parade
4. Close of Alebrije that resembles spider
5. Zoom out from Alebrije...
Curated Video
Third BA plane grounded in Moscow amid UK Litvinenko investigation
1. Wide of planes on tarmac at airport
2. Various of grounded British Airways plane on tarmac
3. Wide of interior of airport
4. Wide of departure boards
5. Close-up of departure board
6. Man standing next to check-in machines
7. Pull-out...
Curated Video
A film of oil could be seen on the surface of the waters surrounding the Costa Concordia Wednesday, adding to concerns that that the fuel-laden ship could cause environmental pollution in the pristine waters where it ran aground.
HEADLINE Raw Video: Oil film near Costa Concordia
CAPTION: A film of oil could be seen on the surface of the waters surrounding the Costa Concordia Wednesday, adding to concerns that that the fuel-laden ship could cause environmental...
Curated Video
NASA releases new 'black carbon' imaging to coincide with COP summit
1. Animated video showing the global reach of black carbon spreading across the Earth
2. Various STILLS from animated video showing black carbon over Earth
As world leaders battle to hash out an agreement to reducing carbon dioxide and...
Curated Video
Indonesia - Out of control fires continue to rage
Hopes that fires raging across Indonesia are under control have been dashed by reports of a dramatic increase in the number of new forest blazes. The Indonesian government's National Coordination Centre for
Ground Fire Control announced...
Curated Video
Wearable cape turns red in polluted areas
LEAD IN: A cape which flashes through the light spectrum to warn that you are breathing in pollution has been created by an artist for a campaign to raise awareness of the problem.STORY-LINE:This is the "Human Sensor".Part art and part...
Curated Video
Farming butterflies for exhibits
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4061757LEAD IN:Forests around the world are under threat, as humans continue with deforestation, poaching and the pillage of natural resources.But in one corner of Africa, butterflies offer local...
Curated Video
Sarawak: Forests, Brazil - Balbina
EF307A - Sarawak: Forests
Sarawak and Japan - 31 December 1990 and file
As much as 68 per cent of Japan is covered with forest, making it the most forest-rich nation in the world. And yet Japanese companies are importing vast quantities...
Curated Video
Pollution, dust, blankets Chinese capital
1. Wide of traffic on road under heavy layer of pollution and dust
2. Mid of traffic
3. Mid of buildings
4. Mid of traffic
5. Mid of cyclists
6. Close-up of cyclist with mask on face
7. Mid of traffic
8. Mid of buildings
The...