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Living Planet: Green laws Law and the environment – we speak to environmental lawyer and ClientEarth CEO, James Thornton; Germany's environmental zones and air pollution; the EU drums up support for its energy roadmap for 2050; and we hear about greening up music festivals. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. German air pollution rises despite green zonesSince 2008, environmental zones in Germany have restricted where hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Hamburg's cruise pollution We hear from a push in Hamburg to tackle cruise ships' port-based soot emissions; plans for Europe's biggest gold mine divide a small town in Romania; an energy austerity drive gathers support amid campaigning for France's presidential elections; and tsunami tourism in Aceh.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Hamburg wrestles with increasing cruise ship pollutionEnvironmental groups have long critici ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Fracking in the US and Europe This week we look at two examples of fracking in the US and Europe; as South Sudan and its northern neighbor resume revenue-sharing talks, we look at the role of oil in their conflict; and a molecule to cool the planet – is its recent discovery good news for the climate?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Oil's role in SudanThis week Sudan and South Sudan resumed talks on sharing the proceeds of oi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Trading blows A special show this week – we focus on the dispute over applying Europe's emissions trading scheme to aviation. Also, are more sharks responsible for more shark attacks in Australia? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Aviation's problem with Europe's carbon tradeThe European Union's emissions trading scheme (ETS) was extended to aviation on January 1 in the face of intense opposition from foreign ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Locking out elephants We visit a reserve in Sri Lanka where they're locking the elephants out and keeping the humans in; we chat with a researcher about her team's new paper in Science on predicting ocean circulation and its climate impacts; and we hear from fair trades in South Africa and Costa Rica.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Human reserves sooth Sri Lanka's strife with elephantsInstead of locking nature into re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Looking back at 2011 Looking back at 2011: Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster; Germany to phase out nuclear energy; smart grids necessary to handle renewables; France fights over its controversial nuclear power plant in Fessenheim; concerns about methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte dam; Europe's emissions trading scheme upsets air carriers.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Nuclear safety expert looks at Japan's Fukushi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Uganda strikes oil Uganda's oil fever bodes badly for its environment; Scientists make a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes; Latvians embrace worms; Taipei 101 aims to be the world's tallest 'green' building; and a look at efforts to save two species of endangered birds this winter. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Uganda's oil fever bodes badly for its environmentIn recent years, Uganda has struck oil. It's a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Canada and Kyoto Canada and Kyoto: Canada pulls out of the Kyoto Protocol just one day after the close of climate talks in Durban; Sri Lanka's peace poses new problems for balancing tourism with the environment; DW visits a Dutch rooftop farm; and a bright idea wins Germany's Future Prize. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Canada pulls out of the Kyoto ProtocolCanada delivers a symbolic blow to the Kyoto Protocol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Prosperity vs preservation Energy giants in Brazil tap deep-sea oil fields; South Africa investigates the connection between climate change and social instability; the EU lifts a ban on stevia; and music event organisers try to preserve festival fun while keeping their green credentials intact.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Oil still fuels Brazil's dream for a prosperous futureA deep-sea oil well off the coast of Brazil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: What is so special about carbon? Eco-guards are dispatched to the Gishwati rainforest in Rwanda; we travel to India to investigate carbon offset programs; forest-dwelling indigenous groups want more say in the future of their homes; and developing nations report bullying at the climate negotiations. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Finding out if carbon offset funds are well spentOur correspondent travels to India to find out ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Financing Climate Protection As climate change tightens its grip on the world, Bangladesh warns that time is running out; Middle Eastern and North African nations face challenging hurdles to go green; and solar technology designers look for ways to brighten the lives of girls.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Bangladesh pins hopes on climate funds as global warming takes its tollAs climate change tightens its grip on the worl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Food and climate Food and climate: As the clock counts down to this year's climate negotiations in Durban, we look at some of the links between food and climate; the IEA's 25-year energy outlook contains difficult implications for Germany; getting sewage out of the Thames; and Tanzania considers mining uranium.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Climate prompts American farmers to rethink their waysClimate change ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Acid earth Acid earth: US scientists warn that we are rapidly changing the chemical composition of soils and waterways; shifting food production to cities; promoting alternative farming in Nigeria; and eco tourism provides a better livelihood in rural Cambodia. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. US Scientists warn of acidifying soilsThe problem of acid rain may not be new, but it is far from solved.In the 60s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: What to do with E-waste? We look at more eco-friendly ways to recycle electronics; we have a sampling of one of the largest animal sound archives in the world; whales and dolphins are fighting an uphill battle - under water; and we look at the complications of climate change in the forests of Brandenburg.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. What to do with E-waste?The head of a United Nations University initiative talks abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: A new Rainbow A new Rainbow: We step on board Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior III; Europe increases its dependence on other people's land; We drop in on a rescue centre for storks in Cambodia and fish versus energy – the simmering dispute between countries that share the Mekong.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.A new Rainbow Warrior takes to the seaThe Greenpeace flagship's swashbuckling adventures have court ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Climate wars Is it an exaggeration to talk of climate wars? We hear from soldiers and doctors who fear the security and health implications of climate change are not being appreciated. We also hear about Germany's diffidence towards electric cars, a novel idea for recharging electric devices and Europe's problem with electric waste.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Doctors partner with soldiers to warn of clim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Fessenheim, fracking and food waste Authorities prepare to decide the fate of France's oldest reactor amid rising anti-nuclear sentiment; a backlash against 'fracking' gathers in Germany; we talk to the director of a film that follows our food waste; and the Dutch lead the way in growing meat in a Petri dish.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. France prepares to decide the fate of its oldest reactorThe Rhine River separates France and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Forests on center stage Got a few spare million? Then why not max the energy efficiency at your office with Energy Plus? Or get into the new Green Economy and learn how to capitalize on forests sustainably, and make plastic from sugar waste.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Energy Plus efficiency and self-sufficiencyA solar company in Hannover has spent millions on rennovating a 100 year old building to make it totally en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Ecuador's Yasuni gambit Ecuador's conservation offer: pay us not to drill for oil; the growing voluntary carbon market; Argentina's efforts to clean up one of the world's dirtiest rivers; and the endless cities of the 21st Century.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Ecuador seeks $100 million for Yasuni by DecemberAmid this month's addresses to the UN General Assembly in New York, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa made a n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Indonesian palm oil Indonesia's balancing act between rainforests and development; carbon storage prepares to face its final hurdle in Germany; greener shipping; wave power; and a duo of pranksters who hope to make the world a better place, one stunt at a time.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Indonesia grapples with sustainable palm oilIndonesia is trying to make its palm oil industry 'sustainable,' but there are fe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Smart meters and the struggle for top soil The Belgian city of Leuven trials a smart meter in cars to track people's driving habits and charge a tax by the kilometer, while the UN Convention to Combat Desertification pushes for more action to restore degraded farming land, Greenpeace turns 40, and Brazil's palm oil industry expands.You can listen to the programme online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Smart meters in carsThe Belgian city of Leuven is trialing a smart meter to track people's driving habits and charge a ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Sniffer dogs and turtles We look back at Japan's devastating earthquake and the ongoing problems at its Fukushima reactors; Frankfurt Airport deploys sniffer dogs for wildlife seizures; A volunteer program to save sea turtles on the Cape Verde islands; and Greenwashing in Berlin.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan faces decade-long cleanup at FukushimaMarch 11 this year was a day like any other in Japan, until about 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Damning dams It may take decades for Brazil's massive new Belo Monte dam to repay its methane debt; Endangered European bison find a home in a former Red Army base; Glaciers, weather and the US-Europe public divide on climate change; and why Frankfurt Airport is experiment with bees.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Concerns about methane plague Brazil's Belo Monte damIn the UK, a TV show appears to have convi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Living Planet - Our water challenges Experts are looking for solutions to our water problems at World Water Week; Turning seawater into freshwater through desalination has some environmental downsides; More people are swimming in the Rhine, but it's not as clean as they think; A carpenter builds houses and schools out of plastic bottles in Africa; Small-town Germans bid on a tree's worth of fruit in historical community orchards.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Fish fight A TV show in the UK about sustainable fishing appears to be making a difference; What Indonesia might learn from China and India when it comes to preserving forests; A trial program in Cologne gives personalized advice on reducing one's CO2 footprint; 'Carbon carousel fraud' hearing begins in Frankfurt; and we talk to an author behind a new report on the world's oil consumption trends.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Airline emissions Europe wants airlines included in its emissions trading scheme next year, but foreign carriers are furious; Cleaning up one of the world's worst - and least talked about - oil spills; rethinking food relief in East Africa; Expiring swine flu vaccines; and Taiwan's burgeoning orchids.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. International airlines challenge EU's emissions schemeAs of next year the Europea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Wind parks and animals The environmental impact of wind parks; UK veterans fight for nuclear-test compensation; and a visit to one of Germany's recently-declared UNESCO world heritage parks You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Wind sector promises to triple output this decadeAccording to a report this week by Europe's wind energy association, the EU's output of wind energy could triple from today's level of about 86 gigawa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Wind parks and animals The environmental impact of wind parks; UK veterans fight for nuclear-test compensation; and a visit to one of Germany's recently-declared UNESCO world heritage parks You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Wind sector promises to triple output this decadeAccording to a report this week by Europe's wind energy association, the EU's output of wind energy could triple from today's level of about 86 gigawa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Gunning for forests Environmental assassinations in Brazil; The pilot project that's turning poor countries' sewage problems into a source of fuel; European beekeepers' battle with the varroa mite; and thorium reactors.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brazil fails to halt environmental assassinationsLast week police in Brazil indicted three people for the murders of two prominent environmental activists in the Amazo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Gunning for forests Environmental assassinations in Brazil; The pilot project that's turning poor countries' sewage problems into a source of fuel; European beekeepers' battle with the varroa mite; and thorium reactors.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brazil fails to halt environmental assassinationsLast week police in Brazil indicted three people for the murders of two prominent environmental activists in the Amazo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Marshalling water Profligate utility companies in the UK; An enormous Chilean dam project prompts accusations of state corruption; A community that's reviving old bread-making techniques on the banks of the river Po; and a project aimed at curbing the trade in illegal timber.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Report takes aim at UK profligate use of waterA new report in the UK says British utility companies are over ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Marshalling water Profligate utility companies in the UK; An enormous Chilean dam project prompts accusations of state corruption; A community that's reviving old bread-making techniques on the banks of the river Po; and a project aimed at curbing the trade in illegal timber.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Report takes aim at UK profligate use of waterA new report in the UK says British utility companies are over ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Money in whaling and human-wildlife diseases We look at efforts to 'clean up' the International Whaling Commission; A bear poacher turns gamekeeper in Taiwan; Bright prospects for Kenyan renewables; and we discuss the roles of nature and humans in spreading infectious diseases. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. UK aims to 'clean up' whaling talksJapan, Norway and Iceland have frequently come close to getting the numbers they need to overturn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Money in whaling and human-wildlife diseases We look at efforts to 'clean up' the International Whaling Commission; A bear poacher turns gamekeeper in Taiwan; Bright prospects for Kenyan renewables; and we discuss the roles of nature and humans in spreading infectious diseases. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. UK aims to 'clean up' whaling talksJapan, Norway and Iceland have frequently come close to getting the numbers they need to overturn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Greening Europe's farms We look at the idea of paying Europe's farmers to protect nature: With budget proposals out for the EU's 2014-2020 budget, we hear how changes to agriculture spending are being received on the continent and in the UK; we also speak to the EU's environment chief; and hear about making fair trade mobile phones.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. EU fails to please with greener farm subsidiesEurope's f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Greening Europe's farms We look at the idea of paying Europe's farmers to protect nature: With budget proposals out for the EU's next five-year cycle, we hear how changes to agriculture spending are being received on the continent and in the UK; we also speak to the EU's environment chief; and hear about making fair trade mobile phones.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. EU fails to please with greener farm subsidiesEurope ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Decommissioning a reactor As Germany passes legislation to exit nuclear energy, we visit one of the country's ex-nuclear plants that's still a hive of activity; A clever organic idea for tackling crop pests in the tropics; Ghana's e-waste problem; Some success in beating desertification in China; and an electric car for Ugandans.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Years of dismantling await Germany's nuclear exitAs Germany p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Decommissioning a reactor As Germany passes legislation to exit nuclear energy, we visit one of the country's ex-nuclear plants that's still a hive of activity; A clever organic idea for tackling crop pests in the tropics; Ghana's e-waste problem; Some success in beating desertification in China; and an electric car for Ugandans.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Years of dismantling await Germany's nuclear exitAs Germany p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: A right to water We ask whether we should consider water a human right; A look back at the outcome of this month's climate talks in Bonn; New science shows faster warming in the Arctic; and the US and Vietnam begin a new chapter of cooperation to tackle the legacy of Agent Orange.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Bonn's climate talks fail to bridge key differencesThe intermediate round of talks in Bonn was aimed a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: A right to water We ask whether we should consider water a human right; A look back at the outcome of this month's climate talks in Bonn; New science shows faster warming in the Arctic; and the US and Vietnam begin a new chapter of cooperation to tackle the legacy of Agent Orange.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Bonn's climate talks fail to bridge key differencesThe intermediate round of talks in Bonn was aimed a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Panel: Climate change and extreme events Special: A panel discussion on the link between climate change and extreme events, and what steps we should be taking – if any – to brace ourselves. The panelists include Thomas Loster, head of the Munich Re Foundation; Shafqat Kakakhel, a former deputy exec. director of the UN Environment Programme; Baba Tuahiru, of CARE in Ghana; and Mizan Khan of the North South University in Bangladesh.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Panel: Climate change and extreme events Special: A panel discussion on the link between climate change and extreme events, and what steps we should be taking – if any – to brace ourselves. The panelists include Thomas Loster, head of the Munich Re Foundation; Shafqat Kakakhel, a former deputy exec. director of the UN Environment Programme; Baba Tuahiru, of CARE in Ghana; and Mizan Khan of the North South University in Bangladesh.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Saving reefs and battling dams We get an update on the state of climate talks; A program in Indonesia saves reefs and supports locals; We talk with an expert about the climate threat to reefs; Merkel's cabinet agrees to phase out nuclear power by 2022; Brazil stands behind its huge Amazon dam project.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Kyoto looks dead at Bonn climate talksThe future of the Kyoto Protocol looks bleak as delegates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Saving reefs and battling dams We get an update on the state of climate talks; A program in Indonesia saves reefs and supports locals; We talk with an expert about the climate threat to reefs; Merkel's cabinet agrees to phase out nuclear power by 2022; Brazil stands behind its huge Amazon dam project.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Kyoto looks dead at Bonn climate talksThe future of the Kyoto Protocol looks bleak as delegates ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Sea turtles and slow fish This week we hear how Turkey's turtle-rescuer has secured a beach sanctuary for loggerhead turtles; Slow Fish promotes different kinds of seafood to benefit fishermen, consumers and the oceans; some good news for tropical forests; and the mixed state of metal recycling.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Turkey's turtle-rescuer secures a sanctuary for loggerheadsKaptan June Haimoff has just been awa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Sea turtles and slow fish This week we hear how Turkey's turtle-rescuer has secured a beach sanctuary for loggerhead turtles; Slow Fish promotes different kinds of seafood to benefit fishermen, consumers and the oceans; some good news for tropical forests; and the mixed state of metal recycling.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Turkey's turtle-rescuer secures a sanctuary for loggerheadsKaptan June Haimoff has just been awa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Europe seeks resource efficiency Living Planet examines Europe's push for resource efficiency and a green economy; Spanish motorists rev up debate over the need for less speed; International Day for Biodiversity focuses on climate change's role in species loss; And the Dutch put insects on the menu.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Europe seeks resource efficiencyResource efficiency and using less to live better is the big messag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Europe seeks resource efficiency and a green economy Living Planet examines Europe push for resource efficiency and a green economy; Spanish motorists rev up debate over the need for less speed; International Day for Biodiversity focuses on climate change and biodiversity; And the Dutch put insects on the menu.Europe seeks resource efficiencyResource efficiency and using less to live better is the big message during EU Green Week in Brussels – the biggest annual conference on European environmental policy.As the world’s population and app ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Coy eels and precocious boars Living Planet follows an eel restocking program on the Rhine River; A look at the IPCC's recent report on renewable energies' prospects in the coming decades; and Berlin struggles with too few trees and too many wild boars.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Eel enthusiasts race against time to restock fishThe European eel is a mysterious fish. So mysterious, that we still don't really know how they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Coy eels and precocious boars Living Planet follows an eel restocking program on the Rhine River; A look at the IPCC's recent report on renewable energies' prospects in the coming decades; and Berlin struggles with too few trees and too many wild boars.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Eel enthusiasts race against time to restock fishThe European eel is a mysterious fish. So mysterious, that we still don't really know how they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Arctic spoils and promiscuous horses Arctic neighbors hammer out new rules to exploit the Arctic's untapped resources; Spain's review of feed-in tariffs tempers enthusiasm for renewable energy investments; Hemp supporters tout cannabis as a solution to South Africa's housing shortage; and promiscuous horses – researchers claim to have discovered why so many mares abort their young.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Arctic neighbors ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Arctic spoils and promiscuous horses Arctic neighbors hammer out new rules to exploit the Arctic's untapped resources; Spain's review of feed-in tariffs tempers enthusiasm for renewable energy investments; Hemp supporters tout cannabis as a solution to South Africa's housing shortage; and promiscuous horses – researchers claim to have discovered why so many mares abort.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Arctic neighbors eye region's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Food, corruption, cradles and hamsters Growing the world's food supply in the face of environmental constraints; the Cradle to Cradle movement to rethink how we use resources in the 21st century; corruption in climate finance and France's disappearing hamsters.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Corruption threatens climate financeHundreds of billions of dollars will be needed to respond to climate change over the years ahead, yet much o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Food, corruption, cradles and hamsters Growing the world's food supply in the face of environmental constraints; the Cradle to Cradle movement to rethink how we use resources in the 21st century; corruption in climate finance and France's disappearing hamsters.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Corruption threatens climate financeHundreds of billions of dollars will be needed to respond to climate change over the years ahead, yet much o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Cycling's all the rage Cycling road rage in London; making pedal power a more attractive option; the Netherland's solar bike-track plans; and some disappointing facts about biodegradable bags in Germany. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. The UK considers cracking down on 'rogue cyclists'In the United Kingdom, an attempt to create a new offence of causing death by dangerous cycling has cyclists up in arms.The proposed d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Cycling's all the rage Cycling road rage in London; making pedal power a more attractive option; the Netherland's solar bike-track plans; and some disappointing facts about biodegradable bags in Germany. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. The UK considers cracking down on 'rogue cyclists'In the United Kingdom, an attempt to create a new offence of causing death by dangerous cycling has cyclists up in arms.The proposed d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Zoos and zoology and energy disasters From zoos to airlifts - new moves to save what's left of the earth's wildlife, Chernobyl's sarcophagus needs more than money and the Norwegian scientists developing dispersants for the next oil spill.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Researchers urge greater role for zoos in conservationFrom white rhinos to Californian condors and Indian tigers, recent years have seen some marvelous conservation s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Zoos and zoology and energy disasters From zoos to airlifts - new moves to save what's left of the earth's wildlife, Chernobyl's sarcophagus needs more than money and the Norwegian scientists developing dispersants for the next oil spill.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Researchers urge greater role for zoos in conservationFrom white rhinos to Californian condors and Indian tigers, recent years have seen some marvelous conservation s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Happier bees and reclaiming nature Apiarists say Italy's bees have been bouncing back thanks to the suspension of a type of pesticide, organic wines compete with their conventional cousins and turning bombing grounds and industrial wastelands into nature reserves.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Apiarists say Italy's bees are bouncing backBees pollinate most of our food sources and without them, we'd probably starve. That's why be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Happier bees and reclaiming nature Apiarists say Italy's bees have been bouncing back thanks to the suspension of a type of pesticide, organic wines compete with their conventional cousins and turning bombing grounds and industrial wastelands into nature reserves.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Apiarists say Italy's bees are bouncing backBees pollinate most of our food sources and without them, we'd probably starve. That's why be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Revisiting Chernobyl and Europe's air pollution We revisit the Chernobyl accident to ask if its health impacts were exaggerated, and from 'green zones' to London smog we look at some of the difficulties in tackling air pollution in Europe.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Revisiting Chernobyl after 25 yearsThis month will mark the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It's an anniversary perhaps made more poignant with the ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Revisiting Chernobyl and Europe's air pollution We revisit the Chernobyl accident to ask if its health impacts were exaggerated, and from 'green zones' to London smog we look at some of the difficulties in tackling air pollution in Europe.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Revisiting Chernobyl after 25 yearsThis month will mark the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It's an anniversary perhaps made more poignant with the ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Triumphant Greens, banning cars and measuring a nitrogen footprint Germany's Greens get their best opportunity to date to turn their ideas into practice; Brussels gets into a mix up over banning cars and the online tool to help you measure your nitrogen footprint.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brussels wins few friends with its 2050 transport planThe European Union's executive caused a brief sensation this week, momentarily leaving the press gallery thinking t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Triumphant Greens, banning cars and measuring a nitrogen footprint Germany's Greens get their best opportunity to date to turn their ideas into practice; Brussels gets into a mix up over banning cars and the online tool to help you measure your nitrogen footprint.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brussels wins few friends with its 2050 transport planThe European Union's executive caused a brief sensation this week, momentarily leaving the press gallery thinking t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Smart grids, meat-free Thursdays and jaywalking frogs Smarter grids for a smarter future; Louisiana's Vietnamese community gets frustrated with BP's compensation scheme; Ghent's meat-free Thursdays gain increasing support; Helping frogs across the road. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan's nuclear crisis prompts rethink of German gridsGermany's review of its nuclear energy plans, triggered by the crisis in Japan, has prompted a scramble to find ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Smart grids, meat-free Thursdays and jaywalking frogs Smarter grids for a smarter future; Louisiana's Vietnamese community gets frustrated with BP's compensation scheme; Ghent's meat-free Thursdays gain increasing support; Helping frogs across the road. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan's nuclear crisis prompts rethink of German gridsGermany's review of its nuclear energy plans, triggered by the crisis in Japan, has prompted a scramble to find ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Nuclear fallout, melting ice and a road through Serengeti As Japan's nuclear crisis hangs in the balance, political fallout reaches Europe; Tanzania sticks to plans for a road through the Serengeti; setting sailing records in the Arctic You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Japan's nuclear crisis absorbs world's attentionNearly a week after the country's devastating magnitude 9 earthquake, authorities are racing to cool the reactor cores of the Daiichi plant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Passive homes and sustainable housing; Khimki activists; Italian sewage Designing smarter homes – from London's Ecobuild to Brooklyn's first passive house; Russian activists take their struggle for the Khimki forest to Europe; Fixing Italy's troubled sewage system You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. London's Ecobuild exhibits the latest in ecological housing ideasPassive houses rely on insulation and are designed to use 90 percent less energy than a regular home. At E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Fox hunting; Brazilian logging; forest communities; 'Upcylcing' hoses Is an annual cull the best way of managing fox populations? Brazil's conflicted relationship with its forests; Giving forest dwellers a greater say over their territory; An 'upcycling' enterprise turns fire hoses into fashion. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Is culling the best way of managing fox populations?Fox hunting is an increasingly controversial issue in Germany – as in other parts of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Focus on the illegal bushmeat trade We travel from France to Zimbabwe, to examine the illegal trade in wild animal meat.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Interview with Primatologist Melanie VirtuePrimatologist Melanie Virtue is the coordinator of the Gorilla Agreement, a partnership of gorilla range states aimed at protecting the primates.Primatologist Melanie Virtue's work focuses on a wide range of issues, including the killing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Global drylands, the British forest sell-off and a new American Dream Seeking new answers to desertification, fending off a forest sale and dreaming up a sustainable new future.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Stopping desertificationAs sand threatens to smother farmland around the world, experts look for ways to halt erosion. Desert experts from around the world have gathered in the German city of Bonn to discuss desertification. The world’s drylands are home t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Arctic trade routes, upcycled fashion and South Korean carbon trading The rush to claim new Arctic trade routes, cast-off textiles turned into high fashion works of wonder and scepticism over South Korea’s ‘Green Growth’ program. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.The Arctic's new gold rushAs the Arctic melting trend continues, businesses and governments are rushing to claim newly open waters.As the Arctic continues to thaw, channels which were once choked wit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Water scarcity, low-energy housing and the EU energy summit Water activists in Amsterdam launch a battle against the bottle, zero-energy housing becomes cheaper and EU leaders meet in Brussels for the first energy summit in the history of the bloc.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Water activists in Amsterdam turn on the tapsA swig of plain old tap water in Amsterdam helps to quench global thirst.The World Health Organisation says about a third of the wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: The World Bank's climate finance; Green Week; Recycling buildings; Sweden's wolf cull Germany's dioxin scandal looms over this year's Green Week agricultural fair; Sweden's wolf cull ignites passions from Stockholm to Brussels; The construction industry considers recycling buildings; and the World Bank's push to take part in climate finance. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Germany's dioxin scandal looms over Berlin's Green Week farm fairGreen Week is one of the world's biggest tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Changing a river's course, Saudi wetlands, green rhetoric, food security A radical idea for saving New Orleans from flooding; reversing years of neglect for Saudi wetlands; the gap between German environmental rhetoric and action; and food security creeps back on to the international agenda.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. A radical proposal for securing New Orleans from floodingNew Orleans is a city built in a swamp – one that extends for hundreds of miles bufferin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Venice's sea wall, fish conflict-mediation, industrial agriculture, Rwandan methane Venice's sea wall divides residents; what Swedes are learning from managing their fisheries; Germany's dioxin scandal prompts questioning of its food chain; and Rwanda reaps energy from the threat lurking in Lake Kivu. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Venice's sea wall divides residentsVenice’s MOSE project aims to hold back the sea. The name means Moses in Italian, but that hasn't prevented it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Growing biofuels, Canadian pipelines, a year for bats With E10 hitting soon to hit service stations in Germany, we take a look at some of the views on planting crops for cars; Indigenous groups fall in behind plans for a massive pipeline-project in Canada; Dioxin makes its way into Germans' groceries; and 2011 marks the year of the bat. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Ethanol in Germany begins 2011 with a fizzleE10 – a blend of petrol mixed with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: [Living Planet] Hamburg becomes the second ever European Green Capital, global warming brings immigration issues to a boiling point and scientists make new discoveries about microbes in the Brazilian rainforest. You can listen to the show onine or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Hamburg becomes the second ever European Green CapitalHamburg beat 33 other cities to become Europe's newest Green Capital, taking the title over from Stockholm. Officials ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Eating aliens, Indian bees, Hydrogen cars, Cancun success? One man's answer to invasive species - hunt 'em, cook 'em and make a TV show about it; Saving Indian bees and farmers; Hydrogen cars make stealthy progress; and just why was Cancun a success?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. One man's answer to invasive speciesAround the world, biologists and environmentalists alike worry about invasive species: Plants and animals that are so strong and aggressive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Electric cars, Russia's Khimki forest, health and climate, Canadian pipelines We get behind the wheel of a Nissan LEAF, as electric cars hit selected markets; The battle over Russia's Khimki forest resumes; The climate threat to human health; and indigenous Canadians resist an oil pipeline.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Electric vehicles enter the mass marketElectric cars have had many false dawns over the years. But their proponents in the motor industry say now their t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico Emission reduction targets - the gap between what's been pledged and what science says is needed; Coping with the financial burden of climate change; Fighting deforestation - sustainable forest management; In 80 days around the world - using only renewable energy. Climate talks struggle to make progressWe talk to Deutsche Welle correspondent Nathan Witkop in Cancun about the Kyoto protocol, emission reduction targets, deforestation and WikiLeaks. Expectations for the UN climate talks in Mex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico Emission reduction targets - the gap between what's been pledged and what science says is needed; Coping with the financial burden of climate change; Fighting deforestation - sustainable forest management; In 80 days around the world - using only renewable energy. Climate talks struggle to make progressWe talk to Deutsche Welle correspondent Nathan Witkop in Cancun about the Kyoto protocol, emission reduction targets, deforestation and WikiLeaks. Expectations for the UN climate talks in Mex ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Climate talks begin, Kiribati sinking, climate migration, melting glaciers Cancun climate talks get off to a subdued start; Kiribati struggles with a rising sea; How accurately can we estimate climate migration? Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten regional floods and drought.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Cancun climate talks get off to subdued startFor the next two weeks delegates from around the world will try to negotiate solutions to the challenges posed by climat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: The EU at Cancun, solar bottlenecks, tuna wars and a tiger breakthrough We hear from the EU climate chief heading into Cancun; A bottleneck squeezes the German solar industry; Environmentalist and fishermen face off in Paris over tuna; and Russia clinches a deal to save tigers from extinction. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the clinks below for the individual items. EU sets sights low for CancunIt's coming up to that time of the year again when the world's nations send their delegates somewhere to try to c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Tiger protection, aquaponics, Mexican GM corn and exporting waste to Russia We look at efforts to save tigers from extinction in the wild, as Russia prepares to hold a key conservation summit ++ Genetically modified corn takes root in Mexico ++ A super efficient farming operation, right in the middle of London ++ And a controversy over German plans to export nuclear waste to Russia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the clinks below for the individual items. Russia convenes a meeting to save tigersIn the early 20t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Germany's beef with nuclear A train delivery of waste provokes some of Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protests ever ++ A geophysicist talks about storing nuclear waste ++ Bottrop's vision of an innovative future ++ Denmark's poor score on WWF's sustainability index You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Gorleben waste delivery provokes Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protestsA controversial convoy of radioactive waste arrived at th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Germany's beef with nuclear A train delivery of waste provokes some of Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protests ever ++ A geophysicist talks about storing nuclear waste ++ Bottrop's vision of an innovative future ++ Denmark's poor score on WWF's sustainability index You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Gorleben waste delivery provokes Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protestsA controversial convoy of radioactive waste arrived at th ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Germany's beef with nuclear A train delivery of waste provokes some of Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protests ever ++ A geophysicist talks about storing nuclear waste ++ Bottrop's vision of an innovative future ++ Denmark's poor score on WWF's sustainability index You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Gorleben waste delivery provokes Germany's biggest anti-nuclear protestsA controversial convoy of radioactive waste arrived at th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Humans relations with animals The Pie Noir cow comes back from the brink of extinction thanks to foodies ++ The Nagoya biodiversity summit ends with a breakthrough ++ A food bank for pets ++ Ending live bear bile farming – a profile of animal welfare activist Jill RobinsonYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Foodies save Pie Noir cow from extinctionOnce one of France's most common breeds of cattle, prized for its rich milk, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Humans and animals The Pie Noir cow comes back from the brink of extinction thanks to foodies ++ The Nagoya biodiversity summit ends with a breakthrough ++ A food bank for pets ++ Ending live bear bile farming – a profile of animal welfare activist Jill RobinsonYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Foodies save Pie Noir cow from extinctionOnce one of France's most common breeds of cattle, prized for its rich milk, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Biodiversity talks - what the world's discussing in Nagoya We cross to the talks on biodiversity in Japan to hear what our governments are doing to tackle species loss ++ Are further toxic waste accidents just waiting to happen in Hungary? ++ Divvying up the royalties of the earth's genetic riches ++ A look at whether bottom-up solar energy schemes make more sense than top-down ones in western India.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. World's governments ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Biodiversity talks - what the world's discussing in Nagoya We cross to the talks on biodiversity in Japan to hear what our governments are doing to tackle species loss ++ Are further toxic waste accidents just waiting to happen in Hungary? ++ Divvying up the royalties of the earth's genetic riches ++ A look at whether bottom-up solar energy schemes make more sense than top-down ones in western India.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. World's governments ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Biodiversity special: With the world gathering in Nagoya, Japan, to discuss ways of reversing biodiversity loss, Living Planet looks at the diversity of the challenge. The chytrid fungus devastating frogs ++ What poaching means for a mammal like the saiga antelope ++ The cost of invasive species ++ An award for best-practice solutions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Frog rescue team battles chy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Biodiversity special: The various threats to Earth's species Biodiversity special: With the world gathering in Nagoya, Japan, to discuss ways of reversing biodiversity loss, Living Planet looks at the diversity of the challenge. The chytrid fungus devastating frogs ++ What poaching means for a mammal like the saiga antelope ++ The cost of invasive species ++ An award for best-practice solutions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Frog rescue team battles ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world European bats hold out hope for saving their American cousins from a devastating disease ++ Update on Hungary's toxic spill ++ A low-tech bid to improve energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan ++ The danger of synthetic pollutants creeping into our waterways and bodies ++ Germany's struggle over carbon capture and storage technology. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. European bats offer hope for fung ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world European bats hold out hope for saving their American cousins from a devastating disease ++ Update on Hungary's toxic spill ++ A low-tech bid to improve energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan ++ The danger of synthetic pollutants creeping into our waterways and bodies ++ Germany's struggle over carbon capture and storage technology. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. European bats offer hope for fung ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Hungary's toxic spill threatens Europe's Danube river ++ The transformation of China's livestock industry ++ Hamburg's port embraces a little Tai Chi ++ Whale conservationists kick up a commotion about noise pollution You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Hungary's toxic spill threatens DanubeHungary's toxic spill appears set to pollute Europe's second longest river – the Danube.A wave of toxic mud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to sav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to sav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to sav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A bright idea for Nepal runs into trouble; rethinking a house of straw; Naples' rubbish problem is swept under the carpet; and Germany marks 20 years of reunification – we visit a town synonymous with communist-era environmental destruction.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A bright idea for Nepal runs into troublePeasant farmers in Nepal are being encouraged to switch to biogas burners to sav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world 'Stop the Loss' roundtable on the biodiversity crisis: A special show this week, we hear from a panel of alternative Nobel prize-winners discussing what needs to be done to reverse the world's current catastrophic rate of extinctions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world 'Stop the Loss' roundtable on the biodiversity crisis: A special show this week, we hear from a panel of alternative Nobel prize-winners discussing what needs to be done to reverse the world's current catastrophic rate of extinctions. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world 'Stop the Loss' roundtable on the biodiversity crisis: A special show this week, we hear from a panel of alternative Nobel prize-winners discussing what needs to be done to reverse the world's current catastrophic rate of extinctions. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather, b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather, b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather, b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world In this edition: The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failure - Truce between loggers and environmentalists in Canada? - A safer environment for both humans and the endangered leopard in Pakistan - World Ozone DayYou can listen to Living Planet online or download individual reports.The mystery behind Nepal's corn crop failureThe cause of Nepal's recent corn crop failure remains a major mystery. A government investigation is focusing on the possibilities of bad GM seeds or extreme weather, b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world It's all about water at Stockholm's world water week; Some of the challenges involved in getting people to pay for a resource they've taken for granted; A profile of Rita Colwell, awarded this year's Stockholm water prize for her efforts in combating Cholera; and we talk to an energy expert who grades the German government on its plan to revolutionize the country's energy supplyYou can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Living dangerously on one of the world's highest peaks; A look at the pressures on European bats; Changing bears behavior in Slovakia - for their own sake; and a Dutch astronaut-turned-sailor and his obsession with a more sustainable life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Living dangerously on Mount ElbrusAt 5642 meters Russia's Mount Elbrus – located close to the border with Georgia - is Europe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Living dangerously on one of the world's highest peaks; A look at the pressures on European bats; Changing bears behavior in Slovakia - for their own sake; and a Dutch astronaut-turned-sailor and his obsession with a more sustainable life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Living dangerously on Mount ElbrusAt 5642 meters Russia's Mount Elbrus – located close to the border with Georgia - is Europe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Two scientific papers draw differing conclusions on BP's oil spill; Why peatlands matter - the lesson from Belarus; How industrial poisons are making their way into polar bears' diets; and five years on from Hurricane Katrina, a local reporter recounts what it was like to work through the disaster. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Studies draw differing conclusions over BP oil spillTwo separate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Two scientific papers draw differing conclusions on BP's oil spill; Why peatlands matter - the lesson from Belarus; How industrial poisons are making their way into polar bears' diets; and five years on from Hurricane Katrina, a local reporter recounts what it was like to work through the disaster. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Studies draw differing conclusions over BP oil spillTwo separate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world An eco-friendly way of dealing with corpses runs up against taboos in Belgium; How much has government mismanagement stoked Russia's forest fires? We take a look at Italy's illegal construction boom – and the incentives driving it; and a decade to halt desertification – the UN launches a new drive to stop the loss of our planet's precious soils.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Resomation meet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world An eco-friendly way of dealing with corpses runs up against taboos in Belgium; How much has government mismanagement stoked Russia's forest fires? We take a look at Italy's illegal construction boom – and the incentives driving it; and a decade to halt desertification – the UN launches a new drive to stop the loss of our planet's precious soils.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Resomation meet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; conservationists in Wales breed falcons for commercial hunting; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; conservationists in Wales breed falcons for commercial hunting; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; falcon breeders in Wales find a way to appease hunters; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square kilomete ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The birth of an ice island in Greenland; urban foragers go dumpster diving in Amsterdam; conservationists in Wales breed falcons for commercial hunting; and toxic toads invade West Australia.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to the Living Planet podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Canadian ice expert witnesses the birth of a massive ice islandCanadian Ice Service researcher Trudy Wohlleben talks about her discovery of a giant ice island. The 260 square ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A wind farm in Scotland makes energy education a breeze; The Census of Marine Life probes the bottom of the ocean; and an organic garden in South West Wales plants seeds of hope for the economy. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Learning is a breeze at Scotland's Whitelee Wind FarmAt the Whitelee Wind Farm visitors learn about the 140 giant wind turbines scattered across Eaglesham moor.The Scottish ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A wind farm in Scotland makes energy education a breeze; The Census of Marine Life probes the bottom of the ocean; and an organic garden in South West Wales plants seeds of hope for the economy. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Learning is a breeze at Scotland's Whitelee Wind FarmAt the Whitelee Wind Farm visitors learn about the 140 giant wind turbines scattered across Eaglesham moor.The Scottish ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world 'Growing Power' and the urban farming revolution; A peek inside the doomsday vault for seeds in the Arctic; and the D-I-Y workshop in Berlin for making bikes out of bamboo. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Will Allen, Growing Power and the urban farming revolutionUntil now, the US city of Milwaukee has been famous for beer, but Will Allen has planted the seeds of another legacy.Over the last five ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world 'Growing Power' and the urban farming revolution; A peak inside the doomsday vault for seeds in the Arctic; and the D-I-Y workshop in Berlin for making bikes out of bamboo. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Will Allen, Growing Power and the urban farming revolutionUntil now, the US city of Milwaukee has been famous for beer, but Will Allen has planted the seeds of another legacy.Over the last five ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Holiday-makers may be about to catch more than just sun on beaches in Italy; A new report says international efforts are having a dramatic effect on reducing illegal logging; A mighty wind blows through Texas; and can we catch fish without wreaking havoc on other species that are in the way? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Sewage threatens the safety of Italian beachesItaly's beaches have long b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Holiday-makers may be about to catch more than just sun on beaches in Italy; A new report says international efforts are having a dramatic effect on reducing illegal logging; A mighty wind blows through Texas; and can we catch fish without wreaking havoc on other species that are in the way? You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items.Sewage threatens the safety of Italian beachesItaly's beaches have long b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world BP begins testing its latest attempt to halt the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; A compromise proposal to allow more GM crops into the EU upsets both biotech backers and detractors; A community scheme in the UK finds a clever way to generate power close to home; and an ambassador for animals says we shouldn't miss the forest for the trees when it comes to preserving life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world BP begins testing its latest attempt to halt the flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico; A compromise proposal to allow more GM crops into the EU upsets both biotech backers and detractors; A community scheme in the UK finds a clever way to generate power close to home; and an ambassador for animals says we shouldn't miss the forest for the trees when it comes to preserving life.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The growing bioplastics industry and the changing face of disposable packaging; the donkeys powering a rubbish revolution in Sicily; the latest on the oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico; and the eco film festival that practices what it preaches. A greener form of plasticWhile plastic used to be seen as the material of the future, these days we recognize that goods such as plastic bags can have a harmful impact on wildlife and the environment. Can a new generation of plasti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The growing bioplastics industry and the changing face of disposable packaging; the donkeys powering a rubbish revolution in Sicily; the latest on the oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico; and the eco film festival that practices what it preaches. A greener form of plasticWhile plastic used to be seen as the material of the future, these days we recognize that goods such as plastic bags can have a harmful impact on wildlife and the environment. Can a new generation of plasti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Alien invaders catch the US on the back foot; Whales are granted a reprieve – for the next 12 months at least; Scientists enter an unusual alliance to monitor some disturbing trends in the Arctic; and an initiative to fix the health and environmental hazards plaguing many South African homes. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Alien invaders catch the US on the back footFor years, the United Sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Alien invaders catch the US on the back foot; Whales are granted a reprieve – for the next 12 months at least; Scientists enter an unusual alliance to monitor some disturbing trends in the Arctic; and an initiative to fix the health and environmental hazards plaguing many South African homes. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Alien invaders catch the US on the back footFor years, the United Sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A balloonist, a psychotherapist and a business executive give their perspectives on climate change at this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard wants to prove that he can fly around the world without fuel; Journalist-turned-therapist Mark Brayne says our species is in denial; and Desertec executive Rainer Arlinghoff thinks the future looks bright after all. You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A balloonist, a psychotherapist and a business executive give their perspectives on climate change at this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum. Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard wants to prove that he can fly around the world without fuel; Journalist-turned-therapist Mark Brayne says our species is in denial; and Desertec executive Rainer Arlinghoff thinks the future looks bright after all. You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A sea-change from conferences this week: we talk to a conservationist about the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting, which will consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling; we explore Japan's taste for whale meat; and we hear about the losing struggle of balancing tourism with sustainable fishing practices in the Bahamas.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Eating whales: It's (not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A sea-change from conferences this week: we talk to a conservationist about the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting, which will consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling; we explore Japan's taste for whale meat; and we hear about the losing struggle of balancing tourism with sustainable fishing practices in the Bahamas.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Eating whales: It's (not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Another special edition of Living Planet this week – we're focusing on the climate talks taking place in Bonn. We get an overview of the progress to date; a look at what the future holds in store for Bangladesh; and a conversation with an organization dedicated to ensuring climate action is wedded to what the science demands – even when it sounds 'unfeasible.' You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual report ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Another special edition of Living Planet this week – we're focusing on the climate talks taking place in Bonn. We get an overview of the progress to date; a look at what the future holds in store for Bangladesh; and a conversation with an organization dedicated to ensuring climate action is wedded to what the science demands – even when it sounds 'unfeasible.' You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual report ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A special edition of Living Planet this week – you can hear just a few of the more interesting speakers addressing a panel discussion on pricing the planet. Pavan Sukhdev explains how TEEB audits nature – to save it from us; Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation is less than fully convinced; and the EU's top environment bureaucrat says what Europe intends to do about it.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A special edition of Living Planet this week – you can hear just a few of the more interesting speakers addressing a panel discussion on pricing the planet. Pavan Sukhdev explains how TEEB audits nature – to save it from us; Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation is less than fully convinced; and the EU's top environment bureaucrat says what Europe intends to do about it.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Poland and East Germany face powerful floods; the EU climate commissioner talks up the prospects of an international emissions trading scheme, pressure mounts on US authorities to take over responsibility for sealing the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico; and a separate threat to Florida's wild life. You can listen online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click teh links below for the individual reports. Poland and East Germany face powerful floodsFloods along the Vistula and Odra ri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of Mexico this week; the European Union wrestles with the idea of a sea change for its fishing industry; a tour through Europe's greenest city; and a minor gourmet French revolution.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of MexicoBP is finally making progress in stemming the leaking oil well.Not all the news is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of Mexico this week; the European Union wrestles with the idea of a sea change for its fishing industry; a tour through Europe's greenest city; and a minor gourmet French revolution.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. A mix of good and bad news seeps from the Gulf of MexicoBP is finally making progress in stemming the leaking oil well.Not all the news is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Efforts to stop the oil in the Gulf of Mexico grow desperate; the UN's latest biodiversity outlook paints a bleak picture for life on earth; turning trains to reefs, and a team of scientists sets off to measure the impact of warming on the Arctic. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Efforts to stop oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico become desperateA plan to lower a containment dome over one of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world We talk to our US correspondent on the fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; we hear from a bird cleaning station in Louisiana; a look at how half-way climate talks fared in Bonn this week; and a German kid's campaign to plant a million trees in every country passes its first major hurdle.You can listen to the show online or download Living Planet as a podacast. Click the links below for the indivdual reports.Still no end in sight to oil disasterNearly two weeks after an oil pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world US authorities are overwhelmed by the scale of one of the country's worst-ever oil spills; a look at how life is flourishing in Chernobyl on the disaster's 24th anniversary; disturbing signs that an underwater volcano off the coast of Italy could erupt soon; and Tunisia reconsider an ancient approach to agriculture to improve the marketability of one of its top exports. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below to hear individua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world On this week's Living Planet: A look at the environmental impacts of the Icelandic volcano eruption; a carbon neutral city is under construction in the Middle Eastern desert; green roofing takes earth-friendly urban living to new heights in Duesseldorf and London is about to be invaded by a large herd of elephants – of the artistic kind! You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Icelandic volcano rai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world On this week's Living Planet: UN climate talks make little progress; Scotland exploits the forces of nature to produce energy; two sailors plan to circumnavigate the world in a solar-powered boat; and Brazil's baru nut trees are disappearing.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. UN climate talks make little progressLast weekend, delegates from 175 nations met in Bonn for crucial climate talks.The me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world On Living Planet this week: Small wind turbines lagging behing in the energy market; experts call for linking up renewable energy projects; and an Egyptian oasis exploits its most precious resource. You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Small wind turbines lagging behing in the energy marketIs the small wind turbines sector losing out?European Union member nations want one-fifth of their electricit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world New York City overturns a ban on beekeeping; the southern Indian state of Kerala struggles with a boom in the popularity of houseboats; a conversation about whether tourism can ever be sustainable; and is a country that prides itself on its beer-making tradition ready for organic beer?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.New York City overturns a ban on beekeepingFormer renegade beekepers need no lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world New York City overturns a ban on beekeeping; the southern Indian state of Kerala struggles with a boom in the popularity of houseboats; a conversation about whether tourism can ever be sustainable; and is a country that prides itself on its beer-making tradition ready for organic beer?You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.New York City overturns a ban on beekeepingFormer renegade beekepers need no lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world Rome's latest invader assaults the city's aesthetic charm; a Dutchman's bright idea for slashing emissions in the shipping industry and a conversation about living beyond our means. You can download the show or subsrcibe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rome struggles with invasion of palm-killersRome has preserved a rich architectural heritage that lends it a lasting beauty. But that beauty is now under assault by a new invader.The red pal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world Rome's latest invader assaults the city's aesthetic charm; a Dutchman's bright idea for slashing emissions in the shipping industry and a conversation about living beyond our means. You can download the show or subsrcibe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rome struggles with invasion of palm-killersRome has preserved a rich architectural heritage that lends it a lasting beauty. But that beauty is now under assault by a new invader.The red pal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A French seaside town wrestles with the idea of an end to tuna fishing; sourcing paper for books sustainably; Germany's government reignites passions over a nuclear waste dump and guerrilla gardeners mount an urban-planning revolution in London. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. World considers banning bluefin tuna tradeA possible ban on sales of bluefin tuna is one of the more radical proposals being c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world A French seaside town wrestles with the idea of an end to tuna fishing; sourcing paper for books sustainably; Germany's government reignites passions over a nuclear waste dump and guerrilla gardeners mount an urban-planning revolution in London. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. World considers banning bluefin tuna tradeA possible ban on sales of bluefin tuna is one of the more radical proposals being c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Environmentalists and indigenous people in Russia settle on a novel approach to forestry protection, a program to promote renewable energies in developing countries reveals some of the unexpected problems that can arise, Spanish communities vie for the dubious privilege of housing a nuclear waste dump, and a look at the drawbacks of fish farming. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rent-a-forest scheme pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Environmentalists and indigenous people in Russia settle on a novel approach to forestry protection, a program to promote renewable energies in developing countries reveals some of the unexpected problems that can arise, Spanish communities vie for the dubious privilege of housing a nuclear waste dump, and a look at the drawbacks of fish farming. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Rent-a-forest scheme pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The EU approves its first genetically modified crop in over a decade, Mongolians weight the cost of cutting smog, fabrics offer hope of revolutionizing the building industry while cutting costs, and a town in Norway's icy north hopes to cash in on climate change.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.EU clears the way for gentically modified potatoBASF's Amflora potato is to be used for paper production DW sp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world The EU approves its first genetically modified crop in over a decade, Mongolians weight the cost of cutting smog, fabrics offer hope of revolutionizing the building industry while cutting costs, and a town in Norway's icy north hopes to cash in on climate change.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.EU clears the way for gentically modified potatoBASF's Amflora potato is to be used for paper production DW sp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world US states take initiative in tackling climate change, the organic industry responds to troubles over certification, and the wind energy sector rides a boom in investment into 2010 (all music from this podcast has been removed for copyright reasons). You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.US states take initiative in tackling climate changeThe next round of preparatory talks for this year's climate negotiation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world The environmental cost of a Baltic pipeline to pump gas from Russia to Europe, Mauritius tries to break bad habits when it comes to cleaning up its backyard, Brazil struggles to balance development with conservation of its natural riches and what can the rest of the world learn from Europe's experience of running an emissions trading scheme?You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. WWF challenges Baltic pipelin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world The environmental cost of a Baltic pipeline to pump gas from Russia to Europe, Mauritius tries to break bad habits when it comes to cleaning up its backyard, Brazil struggles to balance development with conservation of its natural riches and what can the rest of the world learn from Europe's experience of running an emissions trading scheme?You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. WWF challenges Baltic pipelin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernise its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world This week on Living Planet we delve into a scandal over the labelling of organic cotton wear in Europe, we chat with the Pakistani-born climate expert Adil Najam, and we hear about how Australia's environment ministry is considering banning people from climbing one of the country's most famous tourist attractions. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Organic garment makers respond to cotton scamDemand for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environmental Mattters Around the World This week on Living Planet we take a look at the scandal over Germany's disintegrating nuclear repository at Asse, snow sports' troubling future in the European Alps, a royal rumble over a solar energy park and pioneering efforts to insulate old apartment blocks so they lose next to no heat.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports. Decision reached on disintegrating German nuclear repositoryGerman authorities h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters around the world How European policy-makers are rethinking climate strategy post-Copenhagen, the state of Germany's Greens Party on its 30th birthday, Armenian conservationists' efforts to save one of the highest lakes in the world, and what the head of the UN's environment program thinks we need to do to halt current rates of extinction.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for individual reports.Top German climate advisor says the dice are not yet c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world This week on Living Planet we take a look at an ambitious proposal for a green energy grid to hook up nine countries around the North Sea, what the UN's 2010 year of biodiversity means and how the rate of evolution is now being measured in the test tube.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Europe plans ambitious North Sea renewables gridEurope is planning a massive electricity grid to run under the North Se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe On this week's Living Planet, India's Ganges delta residents struggle to cope with the impact of climate change, Russian scientists scoff at global warming and why schoolchildren in Ghent are changing their eating habits. Ganges delta residents bear the brunt of climate changeA few months ago, tropical storm Aila swept across the Ganges river delta in India. Meter-high tidal waves flooded many islands, destroying houses and turning the land brackish. Hundreds of people died and thousands lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe On this edition of Living Planet, a look-back at the Copenhagen summit amid disappointment over its outcome, an analysis of the drawbacks of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, and Australia faces a thousand-year drought! Widespread disappointment over outcome of climate talksLiving Planet takes a look-back at the Copenhagen summit, for which tens of thousands of climate activists and delegates from 193 countries had gathered in the Danish capital for almost two weeks. A treaty to combat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week Living Planet is at the global climate summit in Copenhagen with an in-depth look at the negotiations themselves as well as some of the key items on the agenda. Deadline to replace Kyoto loomsThe Kyoto Protocol officially expires in 2012 and while that may seem like a long way off, something needs to be done because carbon is already taking its toll on the planet.Ever since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, countries have been talking about ways to tackle climate change. That meeting gav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet an NGO hands over 10 million demands for a fair climate summit, assessing the media hype surrounding Copenhagen, the technological gains driven by climate change, and how one French city is spreading the idea of eco-friendly lights.Eco NGO has 10 million supporters calling for fair dealThe Alliance of Small Island States is urging delegates at the global climate summit in Copenhagen to approve measures that would save their homes from sinking into the sea.The 15th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we speak to the head of the UN's climate secretariat, take a look at where the EU stands ahead of the climate summit, learn how the Dutch are hoping to combat the rising waters, and find out how REDD could bring Madagascar a little more green.Copenhagen is all or nothing, says de BoerThe head of the United Nations climate secretariat tells Deutsche Welle that the upcoming summit in the Danish capital has to be a success.For two weeks the world will watch as heads ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we go shopping for a sustainable mall, learn why heating with wood can be both good and bad, and take a trip south to see how the island nation of Jamaica is trying to go green to save the environment and bring in money.Sustainable shopping mall could change design ideas in GermanyMassive shopping complexes are one of the last places anyone would probably put on their list of eco-friendly buildings. A German design firm is hoping to change that.The end of November ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet: the German chancellor announces plans to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen, Ecuador calls on the international community to pay it not to drill for oil, and bridging the social and ecological divide between the German majority and Turkish minority.Merkel announces plans to attend CopenhagenGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel will be joining her French and British counterparts at the global climate summit in Copenhagen. Many have applauded the move, but some ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we take a look at a plan to raise the price of carbon credits, how car-sharing is taking off in Germany despite the credit crunch, the future of eco-energy in sunny Spain, and how one of the planet's most energy-intensive IT products could be more green.Eco-activists strive to raise the price of carbonCap and trade is a system designed to let developed countries piggyback on the climate friendly aspects of much of the developed world. But is the price they pay rea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet takes a look at the devastating aftermath of an oil spill in Lebanon, an auto race where the goal is efficiency over speed, the pros and cons of eco-friendly, earthquake-proof housing in Italy and gets the lowdown on carbon capture and sequestration.Years later, devastating oil spill continues to ravage LebanonThe United Nations has named November 6 as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.One of the fir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Using human waste as an eco-friendly building material, trees that can quickly deliver a large, steady supply of quality hardwood, and turning carbon from coal-fired power plants into fertilizer.Bricks take on an organic twistEverything flushed down the toilet eventually ends up at a sewage treatment plant where it is turned into sewage sludge. Each year in Germany some 200 million tons of the stuff is processed. Half of that is burned in power plants and the other half is used on fields as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe An outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate agreem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe An outlined plan for carbon neutrality, mudslides threaten the Italian landscape, transforming Norwegian spruce into beautiful hardwood, and a seal paradise remains a big draw in Holland.NGOs outline path to carbon neutralityThis December 192 government representatives are supposed to hammer out an agreement that will dictate a 95 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels. But how does a country actually put that plan into action?Negotiations to form a new climate agreem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Swiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakes, unlocking the wonders of the African miracle tree, hormone-free beef in Europe and climate campaigners go to camp.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Swiss tackle threat posed by glacial lakesAs climate change causes glaciers around the world to melt, a new threat to those living in their shadows has emerged. Unstable glacial lakes are forming high in the mountai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environmental Matters Around the Globe Climate-friendly living could fail to meet emissions goals, counting carbon around the world and getting up close and personal with one of humanity's most endangered relatives.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.UN carbon emissions goal beyond reach of most GermansReducing CO2 emissions by 80 to 90 percent as the United Nations has recommended is going to take a lot more than just retooling industries and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Coalition talks are on in Germany but green groups are worried about plans to delay a nuclear phase-out, Normandy faces a new invasion by a nuclear plant and power lines, and Italians fill up their water bottles for free in a bid to get rid of plastic waste.Green groups oppose plans to delay nuclear phase out in GermanyA proposed move to extend the 2020 deadline for phasing out nuclear energy in Germany has sparked protest from environmental groups and skepticism among some energy experts.G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World A big week in climate negotiations, Germany's political parties pitch for green votes, Cologne clears its streets of cars and a Bremen shipping company blazes a trail through the Northeast Passage.You can download the show or subscribe to the Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.World leaders debate climate goalsChina steps forward in efforts to combat climate change, but deep divisions between rich and developing countries remain. What happened in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Powering the grid from your basement, climate network aids in the spread of vital information, and the plight of small cetaceans in European waters exposed.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Powering the grid from your basementWhat if you could use a car motor to help power not only your home, but every home in the neighborhood? A German energy company and automaker have come together to do just that.For ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Anti-nuclear protestors converge on Berlin, nuclear energy policy around the European Union, taking eco-fashion out for a strut on the runway and how tourists are endangering the future of the loggerhead turtle.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Anti-nuclear demonstrators converge on BerlinGermany's political parties are generally in agreement when it comes to the environment and climate change, though th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World German research vessel causes controversy -- Raising a voice for the environment in China -- and – Environmentally friendly worship.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Polarstern Sets Sail to Fertilize Southern OceanFertilizing oceans to cause plankton blooms is a highly controversial undertaking, and despite international outcry, it seems a German research vessel may carry out that task in the near fut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Micro Hydro in Rural Kenya -- Growing Crops for Biofuels in Mali -- Home-based Power PlantsMicro Hydro Powers Rural KenyaMany places in Africa are situated far from centralized power grids, forcing people there to use expensive and harmful kerosene to light their homes. It also makesowning simple things like televisions and mobile phones quite complicated. When we think of hydropower, huge centralized dam projects usually come to mind. While these provide electricity without emitting carbo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Why European fruit orchards are in danger -- How eco-friendly footwear is helping to save the planet -- 2009 announced as the Year of the Gorilla -- All this and more in this edition of Living Planet.Saving the OrchardsCentral-European fruit-tree meadows, which provide living space for thousands of species, are among the most endangered habitats in Europe.Up until the 1950s, “fruit-tree meadows” or “grassland orchards” were an integral part of the Central European landscape. But this tradit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environmental Matters Around the Globe New WWF report warns of dire the consequences of climate change, tapping into the greener side of Danish fashion, and following eco-conscious students as they march across China.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Consequences from climate change much worse than expected, says expertIn a report released this week, experts at the WWF have warned that getting carbon emissions and global warming under control ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Examining the correlation between natural disasters and climate change, a look ahead at a different kind of climate conference and how environmental policy is playing a role in upcoming German elections.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Experts point to a connection between natural disasters and climate changeNatural disasters have become extremely commonplace all over the world. It is not clear if clima ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Special World Water Week edition of Living Planet looks at the benefits of wasting water, testing Italy's waterways for health risks and investigating an ancient alternative to water-intensive factory farming. You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Saving water might not always be good for the environmentFor decades, environmentalists and scientists have been warning that we need to save as much water as poss ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World This week on Living Planet: Climate talks continuing in Bonn, questioning how much and where sea levels will go up, crossing the great shrinking Greenland ice sheets and whale tourism in Iceland.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Climate talks continue in BonnJust four months ahead of the final negotiations in Copenhagen, government representatives are meeting in Bonn for a round of informal talks. Two wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Imported water heavily impacts daily per capita use in Germany, Italian councils push recycling programs, and a climate house showcases global environments.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Imported water heavily impacts daily per capita use in GermanyHow much water do most people use every day? 100 liters? 200 liters? Well it might be a whole lot more than you think.Every German goes through enough wate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World The EU comes together to find common ground for climate negotiations in Copenhagen, nuclear energy weighs heavily on the minds of German voters and the import and export of renewable power.You can download the show or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual reports.Environment ministers meet to hammer out EU climate stanceThe European Union is supposed to stand together when it comes to international climate change agreements. Of course, that mea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Testing the viability of electric cars in Berlin, transforming human waste into energy, and witnessing how climate change is affecting the island nation of Vanuatu and threatening the economy of Senegal.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Berlin becomes a proving ground for the cars of the futureWithout an easy way to charge them, electric cars have yet to become a widespread phenomenon, but across Europe and North America, carmakers and power companies are joining forces to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Testing the viability of electric cars in Berlin, transforming human waste into energy, and witnessing how climate change is affecting the island nation of Vanuatu and threatening the economy of Senegal.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Berlin becomes a proving ground for the cars of the futureWithout an easy way to charge them, electric cars have yet to become a widespread phenomenon, but across Europe and North America, carmakers and power companies are joining forces to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Massive dam causes controversy in Turkey, growing grass to produce electricity in Ireland and making the future of farming more eco-friendly.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Future of giant Turkish dam dimsHydroelectric power, while eco-friendly, often comes under scrutiny from international environmental groups for the damage it causes. Most people associate dams with China, but Turkey has its fair share and the most recent, the Ilisu Dam, is causing real controversy. The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Debating how much G8 countries have to do to make Copenhagen a success, using rip tides to power homes in Northern Ireland and eco-art takes over the Loire Estuary.WWF: G8 countries must act for Copenhagen to be a successThe world has looked to the G8 countries to help sort out their problems for decades, particularly since it seems they are the cause of many of those problems. This year the key phrase is climate change, and, here too, the G8 must play its part.Leaders of the Group of Eight ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Tracking down the Rhine-River-warming culprits, investigating the fate of an ancient civilization destroyed by runoff from farming, and looking into the clean-up plan of a river so polluted, you cannot see the water.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.BUND: Rhine River warming is threatening the environmentBetween Germany and the Netherlands, the Rhine is on average three degrees warmer than 100 years ago. Ecologists warn of serious consequences for nature and wildlife.The Riv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Using the sun's rays to turn hot air into cold, a town that's using a blue campaign to help its residents go green, and why organic food is still going strong in China, despite the global economic crisis.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.German innovations cool buildings with the sunTapping into solar rays to bring power to our homes and office buildings has been around for a while now, and while that will continue to be the case, the sun offers us much more, specifically wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Examining the topics up for discussion at the annual summit of the International Whaling Commission, looking at the effects of fish farms on wild stocks, and taking a German bike sharing program for a test ride.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Greenland to ask for permission to hunt humpback whalesThe International Whaling Commission is holding its annual summit from June 22 to 26 on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Among the topics on the table are Greenland's request to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Checking in on how one of Europe's energy giants is trying to conform to a greener future, helping out a group of Italians in an international project to clean up the Med, and producing biodynamic wines using European methods on the side of an Argentinean mountain.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.European energy giant dabbles in biomass in BerlinAs climate delegations meet in Bonn to hammer out the details of the Copenhagen Agreement on climate change one thing is clear: na ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Talking to the head of the US climate delegation at the UNFCCC climate talks, journey across a barrier island to find out how the work of one conservation group can have a global impact, and meeting an 11-year-old whose passion for the environment has really taken root.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Charting the road to CopenhagenThe second round of climate talks have convened in Bonn, with representatives of 181 nations coming together to work out an agreement to replace ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Digging into the mystery of missing toxic waste in Italy, touring the Elbe River floodplains along the Green Band and getting an education in marine ecology at an Emirati aquarium.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Italy's missing toxic waste31 million tons of toxic waste went missing in Italy last year. Most people blame the ecomafia - organized crime groups committing acts with huge consequences to people and the environment.Every hour, three crimes against the environment ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Discovering the eco-paradise the Iron Curtain left behind, listening in on German climate talks, getting the view of a biodiversity expert on the future of the world's crops and looking back on a cycling trip across Africa.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Travelling the Green BandOnce a demarcation that divided a continent, the former Iron Curtain has become an eco-paradise for plants and animals across Germany.2009 marks 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down, and while ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Taking in the sights, smells and tastes of an eco-friendly farmer's market in a UNESCO biosphere reserve, following the trail of some very delicate insects, and taking back the streets from carbon-emitting cars in Italy.Franco-German farmers’ market showcases UNESCO biosphere reserveFresh food markets are common place around most European cities and towns, but few involve wares from two nations, take place in a biosphere reserve and showcase an eco-friendly way of production.Imagine being ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Eliminating harmful pollutants from the environment, using eco-friendly electricity to drive Iceland out of the recession, getting a bird's eye view of peregrine falcons, and predicting extreme weather around the world ... All that, on this week's Living Planet.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast.Eliminating Persistent Organic PollutantsExperts and government representatives are meeting in Geneva to discuss the elimination of many harmful pollutants in an attempt to reduce ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Whether the United States are going far enough in combating global warming, what EU countries are doing to adapt to climate change, why prolonged drought may hit Australian wombats hard, and how globalisation is affecting the North Atlantic Right Whale ... All that, on this week's Living Planet.Tune into the program or download it as a podcast. EU struggles with mixed emotions over US climate pledgesAt this week's Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington, D.C., lead negotia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environmental Matters Around the World Why Stockholm is set to be European Green Capital 2010, how a nuclear power plant in Austrian has gone solar, and where to catch a whiff of spring and biodiversity in Bonn -- All that and more on this week's Living Planet!Tune in to the show or subscribe to our podcast!Stockholm Selected "European Green Capital 2010"Stockholm – most of us know it as the capital of Sweden. But in 2010 Stockholm will also be the first European Green Capital, setting an example in eco-friendliness for the re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet find out if working less is better for you and the environment, the changing role of forests, the challenges Bangladesh faces due to climate change, and test drive Denmark’s electric cars.Working Less Could Do More to Save the EnvironmentThe fight against climate change is being battled on many fronts throughout the world, but not in the workplace.Australian workers, like many people across the globe, work longer hours, take fewer holidays and have increasingly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we check in on the first of three climate talks, go "camping" with some eco-protesters in London, learn about the effects of climate change on barrier islands and take a light-hearted look at trash.Climate change talks kick offThe countdown to Copenhagen has started with the first round of climate talks, which are taking place in Bonn. World leaders, scientists and other experts are all putting their heads together to come up with an agreement to replace the Kyoto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we check in on the first of three climate talks, go 'camping' with some eco-protesters in London, learn about the effects of climate change on barrier islands and take light-hearted look at trash.Climate Change Talks Kick OffThe countdown to Copenhagen has started with the first round of climate talks, which are taking place in Bonn. World leaders, scientists and other experts are all putting their heads together to come up with an agreement to replace the Kyoto P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week Living Planet takes a look at water: from the melting polar ice, to a gathering to discuss the future of water, to the ways we use it in out everyday lives.Five Nations Meet to Discuss the Plight of the Polar BearThe five signatories to an agreement for the conservation of polar bears are meeting in northern Norway to come up with a way to save the great white predators of the far north. However, at the rate the glaciers are melting, it's possible they're too late.The town of Trom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World In this week's show we take a critical look at the IWC's plans to allow Japan to hunt whales off their coast, head over to Thailand to see the effects damming rivers in China is having on people downstream, and learn how the Vietnamese farmers are using the power of waste.Click on the links below to listen to the show or the reports in it. Japan Plans Hunts Closer to HomeThe IWC's proposal to allow Japan to hunt for whales in coastal waters if they scale back their hunt of the coast of Anta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World China Drought Threatens Farmers -- U.S-Norwegian Polar Expedition Heads Home -- The Tide is High in the Netherlands -- The Science of Sand Storms Chinese Drought Leaves Farmers Without WaterDrought is seriously affecting a number of provinces in northern and central China. While lackof rain is to blame for the drought, rapid industrialisation, pollution and the depletion of ground water reserves are making conditions worse.Snowfall and rain in some parts of northern China have eased what th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Getting hot under the collar for China’s lakes -- Discover the next generation of solar cell research – Bold Brits heading to the Poles – Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf in Germany?Listen online with our Audio on Demand or subscribe to our podcast. China’s White Collar Workers Go Green at Lashi LakeIn China there is often a vast cultural divide between the country’s urban population and their rural counterparts.Yet, a new generation of Chinese are trying to bridge the gap thro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Breaking down Germany's Environment Bonus -- Catching up with cyclists in Africa -- Investigating crocodile deaths in South Africa -- and -- Testing an eco-friendly jet fuelTune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Germany's Environment Bonus CriticizedThe German government is offering 2,500 euros to anyone willing to trade in their old car for a new, eco-friendly one. But whether they'll do any good is anyone' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Challenges establishing worldwide international agency for renewable energies -- Reducing forest depletion in Kenya with stoves -- Simple ways of thinking globally by acting locally Worldwide International Agency for Renewable EnergiesRenewable energy is seen as one of the key solutions to the current challenges facing the world's energy future. Is the world ready for this shift?A conference intended to establish an International Agency for Renewable Energies (IRENA) was held in Bonn, Germ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Balancing human use and ecosystems in the Arctic -- New device offers possibility of controlling electricity costs -- Animal species under threat in Asia -- Organic food industry on show at International Green WeekChallenges Facing the Arctic FrontiersArctic Frontiers is an annual conference taking place for the third time in the town of Tromsö, in the Norwegian Arctic from Jan. 18-23.The aim is to bring together scientists, politicians, environmental organisations and indigenous peoples ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World The Environmental Impact of Oil Sands Production in Canada -- Traditional Rice Farming Practices Under Threat in Asia -- Balancing Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development all in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.The Impact of Oil Sands Extraction in Alberta, CanadaOil sands or tar sands is a term to describe naturally occurring deposits of sand or clay, water and a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World In this special Living Planet feature "Unbaking Alaska" join a field-trip to the Arctic region of Alaska with the "Climate Change College".Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Unbaking Alaska -- A Living Planet Special FeatureThe Arctic is being affected dramatically by climate change. Melting sea ice and coastal erosion are having an impact on the traditional lifestyles of the indigenous population.In thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Building a Climate Bridge Between the US and Germany -- Biodynamic Farming in Morocco -- Dancing the Night Away for an Eco-Friendly Cause -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Climate Bridge Fosters Ideas Between Germany and AmericaAs of this week there is officially a bridge connecting Germany with the United States, and while it may not be a tradi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Breaking Away From Coal in Poland – Making a Case for Migratory Species -- Climate Witness Series: Australia -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Poland Dabbles in a Cleaner Burning FuelWarsaw hopes that a new bio-fuel power plant will be the future of its energy needs.The final stage of a United Nations climate change conference is now on in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World South-western Australia Under the Biodiversity Hotspot Microscope -- From Guns and Ammo to Green Gas -- Helping Out Man’s Closest Relative – Climate Witness Series: Kenya-- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Climate Change and a Biodiversity Hotspot: Southwest AustraliaClimate change is high on the international agenda, not only at the United Nation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World China Looks to Wind Power for Energy Production –The Impact of Climate Change on Oceans -- Securing the Safety of Marine Ecoregions—Global Initiative to Tackle Biodiversity Loss-- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Wind Farms Could Increase China’s Green Energy ProductionChina's growing wind power market has been encouraged by the domestic productio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the World Sustainable Cork Farming Under Threat in Portugal -- Climate Witness Series: Alaska II -- Talking to Bright Sparks About Energy Saving Lights -- Salmon Returning to Rhine River -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Innovation Threatens Traditional Portuguese Cork HarvestingThe cork industry is generally regarded as environmentally friendly but now ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Taking a tour of China’s new power valley -- Fighting an invasive species in Britain – and -- Counting birds with computers -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Touring China's Power ValleyWith over 1.3 billion citizens, China is the world’s most populated country. It’s also the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide after the United States, an h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Germany’s Bird of the Year -- Capturing usable water out of the air -- Spreading the word about animal welfare -- and -- Climate Witness: Indonesia -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Kingfisher Named Bird of the Year 2009While the bird itself is not endangered, it can tell scientists a lot about how the environment is doing.The Common Kingfisher ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe US Presidential Candidates’ Energy Policies -- Eyewitness accounts about climate change from South America -- Scotland’s Remote Communities Becoming Energy Self-Sufficient -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Examining American Presidential Candidates’ Energy PoliciesEnergy and climate change topics were a part of the political platforms of both Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Climate change opens the Arctic – Combating desertification – Using online activism to tackle big business – Eyewitness accounts about climate change – these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Climate Change Opens the ArcticBoth the Northwest and Northeast Passages were completely ice free this summer. Great for shipping, but how bad is it for the environ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe IUCN releases their Red List of Endangered Species – Sailing to Barcelona harbor for environmental awareness – Eyewitness accounts about climate change – these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet. Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.IUCN Publishes Red List of Endangered SpeciesThe IUCN is perhaps best known for its Red List of Endangered Species, which is a kind of health check for the pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe China introduces incentives to curb pollution -- Eye witness accounts about climate change – Sailing around the world raise awareness for whales and dolphins -- Artists and scientists come together to discuss climate change -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Chinese Government Cleans Up in ShanxiChina has topped the list of the world's worst CO ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Canadian Greens looking forward to election -- Eye witness accounts about climate change – Earth Overshoot Day and ecological debt -- Polish library inspires young children-- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Canadian Green Party ‘Looking Forward’ to ElectionCanada’s Environmentalist party, the Green Party of Canada made a big surge in the latest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Giving a face to climate change –Eye witness accounts about climate change -- Lowest ever sea ice level in Arctic -- World’s most energy efficient building in Germany -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet. Tune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. Environment Groups Giving a Face to Climate ChangeThe Climate Alliance in Germany unites more than 100 groups in a common goal to draw att ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe The Environment and the US Presidential Election -- Coastal engineers investigate ways to protect coastal cities -- The first Green European Summer University in Germany -- Axon working towards affordable eco-friendly cars -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. The United States Presidential Election and the ClimateBarack Obama is selling hims ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe UN make progress on deforestation reduction scheme -- What has Greece learnt from last year's forest fires? -- Swedish wind-powered cars could revolutionise farming in South America -- Sniffer dogs are trained to catch wildlife smugglers at German airport -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. UN Make Progress on Deforestation Reduction Scheme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week we bring you a water special with these topics: WWF says World Water Week deals with world’s most precious resource -- Do you know how big your water footprint is? -- The Expo Zaragoza calls itself the Water Tribunal -- How zero tillage can help reduce water consumption in agricultureThese topics and more in this special edition of Living Planet dedicated to our most precious resource: water. Tune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as podcast. Send your comments ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Tourists sight giant pod of whales off Alaskan coast -- International Youth Day puts emphasis on combating climate change -- Cyprus suffers worst drought in 100 years -- Eco-tourists flock to Switzerland's Entlebuch region -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or subscribe to the programme as a podcast. Send your comments to features@dw-world.de.On a Whalewatching Boat With Researchers in AlaskaCollecting data on cetaceans is difficult becau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Red List Update: Half of World’s Primates Could Disappear Soon -- Traditional Healers Help Protect Forests in Africa -- German Initiative Turns Church Towers into Homes for Falcons -- The Other Olympics: World Records in the Animal World -- these stories and more in this edition of Living PlanetTune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.Red List Update: Half the World's Primates Could Disappear SoonClose ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Tidal currents supply energy to the UK -- WWF project encourages a sustainable future -- Passing the "Eco-Driving" test -- Eco-friendly outdoor dining in New York -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. Tidal Currents Supply Energy to the UKMost people have heard of wind energy or solar energy, but what about electricity created by the ebbing and r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Beijing Olympics water demand puts farmers under pressure -- Climate change turns world’s drying wetlands into "carbon bomb“ -- A key region in biodiversity protection: the South American Pantanal -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. Beijing Olympics Water Demand Puts Farmers Under PressureBeijing says it will host "green Olympics" next month. B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Planned river deepening causes concern in Germany -- Danish houting project hopes to save fish from extinction -- China wins permission to import African ivory -- How do you celebrate a green wedding? -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet.Tune in via the live-stream or download Living Planet as a pocast. Send your comments to features@dw-world.de.Planned River Deepening Causes Concern in GermanyPlans to deepen the Elbe river in northern Germany are applauded by industry ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe German Nuclear Waste Storage Site Threatens to Contaminate Environment -- NGOs: G8 Climate Deal Nothing But Hot Air -- Dutch Save Energy By Lighting Up -- Brazilians Successfully Restore Atlantic Rainforest -- these stories and more in this edition of Living Planet. Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments to features@dw-world.de.German Nuclear Waste Threatens to Contaminate EnvironmentNuclear power is again making headlines in the global debate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Germany initiates solar energy - Cycling across Africa for the environment -- Researching methane's destructive properties -- these stories and more coming up in this edition of Living PlanetTune in via the live-stream or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. Germany Brings Solar Energy to Developing CountriesGermany is a world leader in solar energy production and research, despite the general lack of sun. So to get the most out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe EU Makes Energy-Saving Lightbulbs Compulsory -- Clean Technology Booms in China -- Nature Lovers Cause Soil Erosion in Britain -- these stories and more in this edition.Tune in via the live-stream or download the programme as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.EU Makes Energy-Saving Light Bulbs CompulsoryThe EU is drawing up a law to make the use of energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) compulsory. Environmental lobby groups are thrilled. But ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe The Rain in Spain -- Trading bikes for cars for the morning commute -- Meeting the Inupiat Eskimos -- these stories and more in this edition of Living PlanetTune in via our live stream or subscribe to the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de.The Rain in SpainThe Spanish government is currently showcasing water conservation at Expo 2008, while at the same time supporting the building of a massive, and potentially environmentally damaging, resort in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe UNFCC holds climate summit in Bonn -- Germany and France reach a consesus about EU emissions reductions -- How biofuels don't always have to be a bad thing -- and -- Plodding across the Alaskan tundra in search of caribou -- these stories and more in this edition of Living PlanetTune in via our live stream or subscribe to the program as a pobcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. UNFCCC Holds Climate Negotiations in BonnA new handbook lays out guidelines for reducin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe Kenya's Maasai resume poaching due to failing compensation scheme -- Researchers determine the origin of wood within radius of 200 kilometers -- Baked Alaska: we launch our series on young scientists checking up on climate change -- these stories and more in this edition of Living PlanetTune in via our live stream or subscribe to the program as a podcast. Send your comments and questions to features@dw-world.de. Kenya's Maasai Resume Poaching Africa's Big FiveFor those living around Kenya’s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment Matters Around the Globe This week on Living Planet we explore an area still trying to recover from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and then travel to the Antarctic to delve beneath the ice in search of the earth's past before learning about eco techniques being used by the Bedouin of Jordan.Exxon Valdez Continues to Affect Wildlife in AlaskaThe Exxon Valdez hit a reef in 1989, dumping millions of liters of crude oil and killing hundreds of thousands of animals, becoming the worst tanker accident in American history. 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Environment matters from around the world US authorities are overwhelmed by the scale of one of the country's worst-ever oil spills; a look at how life is flourishing in Chernobyl on the disaster's 24th anniversary; disturbing signs that an underwater volcano off the coast of Italy could erupt soon; and Tunisia reconsider an ancient approach to agriculture to improve the marketability of one of its top exports.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below to hear individual r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Planet: Electric cars, Russia's Khimki forest, health and climate, Canadian pipelines We get behind the wheel of a Nissan LEAF, as electric cars hit selected markets; The battle over Russia's Khimki forest resumes; The climate threat to human health; and indigenous Canadians resist an oil pipeline.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Electric vehicles enter the mass marketElectric cars have had many false dawns over the years. But their proponents in the motor industry say now their t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website