This film highlights the effects of extreme weather and it focuses mainly on the effect of heavy rainfall on large bodies of water and the measures taken to prevent disasters that follow. For example, in Dordrecht, Netherlands the strategy is to make...
How dangerous it is to work and live on an oil rig became very evident on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon exploded, causing the biggest oil spill in the entire history of...
Water is essential to life. However, it is also an extremely limited resource. Water scarcity is a severe problem that needs solutions immediately to ensure our survival. Overpopulation, as well as severe drought and climate change, have taken their...
On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan occurred. It scored a whopping nine on the Richter scale. A devastating tsunami soon followed, with 28,000 people declared dead or missing. Amongst the hardest-hit areas was Fukushima...
Every living and breathing organism on the planet needs water to survive. This basic organic need, plus all the other things we need water for, like bathing, cleaning, growing food, has made water the Earth's most precious natural resource. For over...
In the first half of the 20th century, Americans built dams all over the country to provide growing population potable water for homes, farms and communities. They were also a source of clean and sustainable hydroelectric power, a welcome alternative...
The documentary explores the implications of the changing relationship between humans and how we manipulate ecosystems for our benefit and survival. It focuses specifically on fishing of wild salmon. Throughout the piece, we can see a clear parallel...
For many years, we have all been warned about the approaching doom promised by climate change. But what might that future actually look like? Endgame 2050 looks three decades into our future to visualize the fate that awaits us all if we do not act...
Over the next 40 years, the farming industry will have to produce more food than it has in the past 500 years. This challenge transcends the massive workload placed on farmers. It also speaks to the growing scarcity of our most crucial resource in...
If they're not already impacted by it, people all over the world will soon be forced to tangle with the crisis of rising sea levels. The notion of a world under water might seem like...
Deforestation rates have doubled in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil's far-right president has embraced the destruction of this precious environmental resource in favor of increased commercial development. Meanwhile, the indigenous people who populate...
Over 9 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced since 1950. Where has it all gone? In the illuminating documentary The Plastic Problem, the PBS NewsHour explores the scourge of plastic remnants in our oceans and lakes, their points of origin,...
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is home to the world's most popular fish. Pangasius (also known as dory or catfish), drives a multi-billion dollar export industry. It's cheap and convenient to harvest, and its mass production has provided a livelihood for...
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to...
