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FRANCE 24 Environment – 02/04/2012 ENVIRONMENT

Tweet All you need to know about the planet and all its facets A weekly look at the world around us – how we affect it, and how it affects us. Saturdays at 11:40am Paris time. All shows: www.france24.com FRANCE … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – 02/11/2012 ENVIRONMENT

Tweet All you need to know about the planet and all its facets A weekly look at the world around us – how we affect it, and how it affects us. Saturdays at 11:40am Paris time. All shows: www.france24.com FRANCE … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Future farming

Tweet Environment – Droughts, floods and the cost of energy are all factors which are making agriculture an increasingly difficult trade. FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 www.france24.com ENVIRONMENT All you need to know about the planet and all its facets … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – The Age of Man?

Tweet Environment – Geologists are saying we’re living in new times – so new that they’re thinking of changing the name of the geological phase in which we live. The notion recognises humans as the driving force behind changes to … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Innovative energy

Tweet 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 … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Kyoto: dead or alive?

Tweet Can the Durban climate change conference resurrect the world’s ONLY legally-binding agreement on tackling carbon emissions? Time is running out for the Kyoto protocol and the mood is pessimistic. In this episode we discuss the environmental damage assessed by … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Madagascar’s timber mafia

Tweet Environment – Since a military coup in 2009 many of Madagascar’s most rare and precious resources have become primary targets in a secretive world of exploitation. FRANCE 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 24/7 www.france24.com All you need to know about the … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Insects under threat

Tweet ENVIRONMENT – Environment – The warm season has arrived in France and the Asian hornet is awakening. Since its introduction in 2004, this aggressive insect has been devastating bee colonies in the southwest,just a handful can wipe out a … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Invading space to take control of our climate and environment

Tweet ENVIRONMENT visits the Astrium space laboratory, to look at high tech satellites that are designed to observe and report specifically on the environment, part of a new fleet that it is hoped will help man predict and react to … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Water in the city

Tweet ENVIRONMENT – This week : Water in the city. Thailand: Bangkok is sinking – Desalination: a saltwater solution in Singapore – Drugs in your drinking water. All you need to know about the planet and all its facets www.france24.com … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Organic opportunity

Tweet Environment – Is organic food the gold standard we are led to believe? We start in China, where scientists are making human milk from genetically modified cattle and insist it is as healthy to drink as that from ordinary … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – The plastic trap

Tweet The plastic trap. ENVIRONMENT: bioproducts green Floating continents of waste Synthetic products enter bloodstream. www.france24.com Video Rating: 5 / 5 Harold A Mooney, California Universityk, leading researcher in biological diversity and ecosystem services, was awarded Volvo Environment Prize 2010. … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Who owns the right to mother nature?

Tweet ENVIRONMENT – 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 … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Protecting the sea turtles

Tweet ENVIRONMENT: This week we are flying to the south of Italy where searchers are trying to protect an endangered species of the sea turtles. Why historic homes are environmentally friendly ‘Living and breathing’ old-fashioned homes deserve a better press … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – The color of your clothes: Dipping into dyes and showing your clothes true colours

Tweet ENVIRONMENT – The color of your clothes: This week were dipping into dyes and showing you your clothes true colours. We bring you to cowboy city in China where Pearl River has turned a worrying shade of deep blue: … Continue reading

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FRANCE 24 Environment – When chaos erupts: Eyjafjallajökull, portrait of a volcano

Tweet ENVIRONMENT – When chaos erupts: Eyjafjallajökull, portrait of a volcano After the eruption: what next? our explosive planet. Farmer can challenge bull slaughter A South Yorkshire farmer and his daughter have won the High Court’s permission to challenge a … Continue reading

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