The biggest issues in global development and the environment.
World Service,Β·490 episodes
Germany's pledge to reduce it's greenhouse gases by levels set at the Kyoto Protocol talks
What exactly is biofuel and is it the answer to the world's love affair with the car?
Grimsby's decline from being the largest port in the world- the changing fishing industry
Bush fires, sometimes caused by fires lit in dry areas, leads to tensions in Australia
The loss of the grasslands and livelihoods of the herdspeople of Inner Mongolia.
Thar Desert in Rajasthan, water scarcity and the national debate about who owns the water
A look at the population of Owens Valley, who are looking for recompense from Los Angeles
Multinationals and the environmental disasters associated with them.
How have we progressed since the Kyoto Treaty of 1997?
With the growing demand for water, can sea water be turned into drinking water?
Saving endangered species, a look at bushmeat markets in Cameroon
Remote communities of Finnish Lapland and inuit Kalowitz
Rising population, city enlargements and increasing traffic, the world is becoming noisier
Ground-based phenomena which causes climatic change.
The influence of the sea in regulating, and protecting, the planet's atmosphere.
The lowest reaches of the atmosphere and how it affects the weather
The natural processes which create our weather, a look at the sun's impact.
Rewards and the risks of nuclear power.
Results of nuclear accidents on the food chain and how nuclear energy can improve food.
Can nuclear science solve some of farming's problems?
Cancer and Nuclear medicine in Kenya.
Attempts to bring back the Bustard, a bird extinct in Britain.
A look at the expense of the Greek Olympics and the economic impact of the games
What place do highrises have in modern living?
Deaths and respiratory problems caused by air pollution
Meeting the sanitation needs of the world's growing urban population.
Interviews with African farmers, land transfer and how agriculture reacted to legal change
Health dangers posed by rotting waste and a look at British attitudes towards refuse.
The damage plants and animals can do when taken out of their natural habitat.
Conservation and hunting, a report from a moose hunt in Finland