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Living Conditions Episodes

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    Global Impact

    What can we do about human impact on our planet?

  2. Global Warming

    Looking for evidence of global warming and questioning whether humans are to blame

  3. Mining

    Mining is one of the least sustainable human enterprises

  4. Dust Bowls

    Dust storms caused ecological damage to North American prairies in the 1930s

  5. Torrey Canyon Disaster

    The Torrey Canyon was a big supertanker carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil

  6. Acid Rain

    A look at the corrosive and harmful effects of acid rain

  7. Smog

    The effects of air pollution on people's health

  8. DDT pesticide

    DDT was initially considered a miracle pesticide, but caused huge damage to the ecosystem

  9. Minamata, Japan

    Sea pollution occured following the illegal discharge of mercury

  10. Bhopal Gas Tragedy

    The Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984 is widely regarded as the world's worst industrial accident

  11. Chernobyl, Ukraine

    The Chernobyl accident means that tens of thousands of people will develop cancers

  12. Human Impact on Environment

    Impact on the environment and what this could mean for the future