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In 1985, news broke of a major environmental discovery: a hole in the earth’s ozone layer
In 2008, seeds began arriving at a frozen vault designed to save the world’s food supply
In the early 2000s, a woman known as ‘Lady Tarzan’ fought India’s so called timber mafia
In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss
In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power
In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight
In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years
In 2010 a $3.6billion fund began to stop oil drilling in Ecuador’s Yasuni national park
In 2003, the Sarayaku community began a legal battle against an oil company
In 1978, a crude oil tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of France
In 2013, campaigners were arrested for protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic
An island expedition helped save Guadalupe's wildlife from extinction...and goats
In May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded hit the US state of Oklahoma
Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail
In 1978, a group of volunteers in Denmark built their own wind turbine to power a school
In 2004, Jason deCaires Taylor built the worlds first underwater gallery in Grenada
In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean
A demand for sea cucumbers set off a confrontation between fishermen and conservationists
How a network of national parks was set up to protect Gabon's forests in 2002
Forest fires in Indonesia caused huge damage and a dense smog across South East Asia
How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010
Whales were being hunted to extinction until a biologist realised they could sing.
An oil spill in June 2000 threatened tens of thousands of African penguins.
How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.
