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Thu May 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Global consumption of gas, coal and oil has doubled since the 1970s - and electrical generation has nearly tripled. Global energy demand is expected to double again by 2030. This week, Living Planet looks at classic sources of power: gas, oil and nuclear.
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Thu May 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Climate negotiators inch closer to a global pact, scientists track the Great White Pelican on its journey back to Europe and a cargo ship carries our correspondent from Brazil to Germany.
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Thu May 2, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Guatemalans accuse Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources of destroying the land, Abu Dhabi builds a massive aquaponics center and groundwater theft causes the city of Bangkok to sink.
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Thu April 25, 2013 at 7:30 PM
As the world remembers Chernobyl, Slovakia expands its nuclear program; a new climate protection plan targets cows that pass gas; and villagers in Myanmar protest against a Chinese mining project they say is polluting their lands.
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Thu April 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Protecting the world's food supply from desertification, more rights for Kenya's women farmers means better food security, Spanish scientists ask if improving air quality will lead to fewer hospitalizations.
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Thu April 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Northern Europe's long winter leaves migrating storks shivering in Poland, Spain pumps energy onto the grid from Europe's first wave-powered electricity plant and tourists tear through the dunes and mud flats of Jordan's Wadi Rum desert.
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Thu April 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Leopard attacks increase as India's urban areas grow, Vietnamese fishers in Lousiana leave the wild waters and turn to aquaculture, Sarajevo reclaims its green spaces, more than 2 decades after the city was destroyed by war.
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Thu March 28, 2013 at 7:30 PM
A volcanic colony living above molten lava, Ethiopian beekeepers take lessons from Italian apiarists and Rwandan women turn their village on to solar power.
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Thu March 21, 2013 at 7:30 PM
This week Living Planet patrols a Cambodian forest searching for illegal loggers, we swing through the trees with the Golden Lion tamarin monkey and we remember Egyptian convservationist Mindy Baha El Din, who died earlier this week.
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Thu March 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Rangers rescue scaly anteaters from poachers in the Cambodian forest, a global crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade and a new fish farm lands the Irish government in hot water.