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BBC WORLD NEWS LAUNCHES 'LIFE ON THE EDGE' SERIES
05 August, 2008
Life on Planet Earth is changing faster than ever before. Whether it’s globalization, or the clash of civilizations it’s inspired, people face agonizing dilemmas for which history is no guide. They are especially dramatic choices for the billions of people still living on the edge… from Europe’s Roma to the Acholi people in northern Uganda; from dispossessed girls in India to former child soldiers in Africa. TVE’s new series, Life on the Edge, follows their stories as they struggle to understand the forces that confront them, and make the best decisions. They are choices that shape both the future of their countries - and their own lives. Each of the stories ends with an unresolved question – how will our characters decide?

EDGE OF ISLAM - NEW 'LIFE' SERIES
05 August, 2008
New series. On the beautiful island of Lamu on the eastern coast of Kenya, three young Islamic footballers face a dilemma that will decide their future. Can the West offer a model of globalization that will win over Lamu's young men?

TVE JOINS EARTH STOCK FILMS ONLINE FOOTAGE
12 July, 2008
A revolutionary electronic-delivery stock footage library is helping TVE to market its rapidly growing collection of environmental footage.

The service, developed by environmental archive specialists Earth Stock Films Films, provides instant access to a core collection of easily licensable video material about the changing global environment. The library draws on the archives of several important players in the green film-making world, including TVE, Greenpeace International and Living Planet.

TVE PROFILES ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGNER FOR BBC NEWSNIGHT
08 July, 2008
John Githongo – former top anti-corruption official in Kenya, now tireless campaigner for African democracy – reports on the impact of aid funds for BBC Newsnight on the first day of the 2008 G8 meeting in Japan.

BLUE SKY DREAMING - EARTH REPORT SPECIAL
03 June, 2008
Four countries and many corporations are now pledging to go carbon neutral. New Zealand, host for World Environment Day, 5 June 2008, plans to be the first to create a completely carbon neutral economy. Their target is 2020 and they have ambitious plans to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a big increase in renewable power generation and a switch to sustainable transport like electric cars. But half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions come from their huge agricultural sector – from sheep and cows. So how will they manage? And what does carbon neutrality really mean? Earth Report finds out in a special edition marking World Environment Day.

EARTH REPORT - IS GREEN THE NEW BLACK?
04 April, 2008
On the catwalks of the world, eco-fashion is all the rage. Organic cotton and recycled clothing are part of a new green lifestyle. But is this a niche market for the wealthy and environmentally-conscious or can green fashion break into the mass market clothing industry?Earth Report investigates.

EARTH REPORT - CLIMATE FEVER
28 March, 2008
Rising temperatures, volatile weather, more floods, more droughts - climate change is going to affect our lives in many ways – but what about our health? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, says that climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and premature death. It also says that projected climate change is likely to affect the health status of millions of people. Earth Report examines to what extent climate change is impacting health and how we can respond?

Earth Report – Climate Fever will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:
Friday 28 March - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Saturday 29 March 04.30, Monday 31 March 10.30, Tuesday 1` April 15.30 and Wednesday 2 April 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)
For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

BBC WORLD DEBATE - FOOD WHO PAYS THE PRICE?
28 March, 2008
With alarm bells ringing at the spiralling costs of food around the world, TVE has bought together a distinguished panel of international experts to debate the future of farming and food production.

In a new BBC World Debate, Food - Who Pays the Price?, we ask - who are the winners and losers in this shifting agricultural landscape?

For full information on the debate, broadcast times and issues raised visit: Food Who Pays the Price?

BBC WORLD DEBATE - FOOD WHO PAYS THE PRICE
27 March, 2008
With alarm bells ringing at the spiralling costs of food around the world, TVE has bought together a distinguished panel of international experts to debate the future of farming and food production.

Food prices are rising fast – some are up by 40 per cent over the past year alone – and the supply chain delivering food to consumers is under ever-increasing pressure. Many are now struggling to cope with supply shortages exacerbated by higher prices – and there have been recent food riots in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Central America.

In a new BBC World Debate, Food - Who Pays the Price?, we ask - who are the winners and losers in this shifting agricultural landscape?

BBC WORLD DEBATE: FOOD - WHO PAYS THE PRICE? will be broadcast on BBC WORLD on Saturday 29th March at 0810 GMT

Repeated: Saturday 29th March at 1410 GMT and 2010 GMT; Sunday 30th March at 0010, 0710 and 1910 GMT.

For further information on programme schedules in local time zones visit a href="http://www.bbcworld.com" target="_new">BBC World. The debate will be online from 31 March.

WORLD WATER DAY EARTH REPORT - CLEAN LIVING PART 2
20 March, 2008
To mark World Water Day 2008 – as well as the International Year of Sanitation - this week’s Earth Report returns to Ethiopia. TVE has been tracking development in Ethiopia for over 24 years now, since the devastating 1984/5 famine that launched ‘Live Aid’ and the massive global aid response it triggered. But 24 years on, 40 million Ethiopians – half the total population - still don’t have access to a toilet, and the government acknowledges that almost half child deaths are linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.

'Clean Living Part 2' is broadcast on BBC World at the following times (all times quoted as UK time zone currently GMT):

Friday 21st March - 20:30, with repeats at 10:30 on Monday 24th March, 15:30 on Tuesday 25th, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday 26th.

EARTH REPORT - GROUNDS FOR HOPE
06 March, 2008
Feeding the growing global café craze, over half the world’s coffee now comes from Central America. Coffee farming is central to the region’s economy – but it’s also been a major culprit in the pollution of the rivers running through the Guatemala/Mexico border area. Communities living along the banks have compounded the damage by cutting the forests once covering the steep hillsides, eroding the fragile soils by sheep grazing, and using the rivers as a rubbish dump.

Now coffee farmers are leading the way in reversing the damage and rebuilding the threatened eco-system - at the same time tapping into a new market for top quality coffee. This week’s Earth Report goes to Guatemala and Mexico to see whether this really is a win-win situation.

Earth Report – Grounds for Hope will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 7 March - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 10 March 10.30, Tuesday 11 March 15.30 and Wednesday 12 March 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT - GROUNDS FOR HOPE
06 March, 2008
Feeding the growing global café craze, over half the world’s coffee now comes from Central America. Coffee farming is central to the region’s economy – but it’s also been a major culprit in the pollution of the rivers running through the Guatemala/Mexico border area. Communities living along the banks have compounded the damage by cutting the forests once covering the steep hillsides, eroding the fragile soils by sheep grazing, and using the rivers as a rubbish dump.

Now coffee farmers are leading the way in reversing the damage and rebuilding the threatened eco-system - at the same time tapping into a new market for top quality coffee. This week’s Earth Report goes to Guatemala and Mexico to see whether this really is a win-win situation.

Earth Report – Grounds for Hope will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 7 March - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 10 March 10.30, Tuesday 11 March 15.30 and Wednesday 12 March 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT - DIVIDING THE WATER
29 February, 2008
Beneath Mount Kilimanjaro’s majestic peak, there’s a growing struggle over scarce water supplies in East Africa. Nearly four million people depend on Tanzania’s Pangani river for their water. But poor rains and increasing demand have left the land, dams, people and their herds thirsty for water.

In the run-up to World Water Day on March 22nd, Earth Report investigates the root cause of the shortages and conflicts - and looks at a new strategy to share out the precious waters of the Pangani river basin.

Earth Report – In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 29 February - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 3 March 10.30, Tuesday 4 March 15.30 and Wednesday 5 March 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT - DOOMSDAY VAULT
22 February, 2008
The ultimate global safety net to safeguard the world’s seeds opens next week on the Arctic island of Spitzbergen. ‘The Doomsday Vault’ – officially the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – is stored in an underground bunker built deep inside a frozen arctic mountain by the Global Crop Diversity Trust with support from the Norwegian Government.

Store for a vast and irreplaceable collection of seeds from thousands of crop varieties, the Doomsday Vault’s role is to safeguard seeds from future global catastrophes - nuclear war, asteroid strikes, or the growing impact of climate change. The seed collection is an insurance policy, enabling scientists and farmers to start up food production again in any country, in the event of regional or global disasters. This week’s Earth Report follows the construction of the Vault, and talks to the scientists involved.

Earth Report – Doomsday Vault will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 22 February - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 25 February 10.30, Tuesday 26 February 15.30 and Wednesday 27 February 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT - FORGOTTEN FRUIT
15 February, 2008
Seventy-five per cent of the food crop varieties we once grew have disappeared in the last 100 years. Today we rely on just three – wheat, rice and maize – for over two thirds of our calories.

The trend toward standardised food crops has been accelerated by the global push to modernise agriculture, and by the ‘Green Revolution’ of the 1960s and ‘70s which led to higher yielding crop varieties that helped end famine in India and feed an expanding world population. But now some scientists are concerned we may have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. They worry that the drive to improve a few crops may have led to the neglect of many other, traditional crops potentially vital to future global food security. Earth Report goes to India and Italy to find out how, with more investment, crops of the past may be the foods of the future.

Earth Report – Forgotten Fruit will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 15 February - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 18 February 10.30, Tuesday 19 February 15.30 and Wednesday 20 February 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT - IVORY CSI
07 February, 2008
Wildlife detectives are borrowing forensic techniques popularised by the US television series CSI, to track down criminals responsible for a sharp rise in illegal ivory trading. In a bold new move, investigators from the Lusaka Agreement Taskforce, an international African wildlife protection agency, are turning to DNA analysis to trace the origins of ivory tusks seized in customs raids - and crack down on the poachers. This week’s Earth Report talks to the people dedicated to stopping the slaughter of Africa’s elephants.

Ivory poachers killed off one in six of Africa’s elephants in the 1970s and 80s. But the international ban on illegal ivory introduced in 1989 has helped African herds recover – with researchers even claiming there are now too many elephants in some southern African countries. But over the last six years customs officers have seized growing quantities of illegal ivory, raising new questions about just how secure African elephants really are.

Earth Report – The Ivory Poaching Wars will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 8 February - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 11 February 10.30, Tuesday 12 February 15.30 and Wednesday 13 February 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD
01 February, 2008
Are we in danger of running out of fish? Half the world’s fisheries are already fully exploited - and a further quarter overexploited. Over the next 40 years, some scientists now warn, fish stocks could collapse altogether. This week’s Earth Report goes to the Netherlands to find out how supermarkets and fish sellers are increasingly demanding seafood sourced from better-managed - and so more sustainable - fisheries.

Earth Report - Green Fish will be broadcast on BBC WORLD:

Friday 25 January - 20.30, with repeat broadcasts on Monday 28 January 10.30, Tuesday 29 January 15.30 and Wednesday 30 January 02.30 and 08.30 (All times quoted as GMT)

For more information on programme schedules in local time zones visit BBC World

EARTH REPORT INVESTIGATES ECOLOGICAL SANITATION
24 January, 2008
500 litres of urine and 50 litres of faeces = the average waste produced by each of us, every year. Multiply this by the 6.6 billion people alive on our planet today – and what you get is an awful lot of waste. To mark the start of The International Year of Sanitation, this week’s Earth Report investigates why we can’t make better use of human waste and – at the same time - do something to tackle the global sanitation crisis.

Flush toilets and expensive sewer systems are one way to deal with human waste – but they’re just not an option for 2.5 billion people in mostly developing countries around the world. Now the United Nations says it wants to halve the number of people who don’t have access to a toilet within seven years.

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