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Earth Beat
Monitoring the Earth's heartbeat is our task. We look at our footprint on this big round world of ours and run stories of the people trying to make that footprint lighter. Marnie Chesterton is the host of the...
Radio Show: Awash in water
This week on Earth Beat we're awash in water stories to mark World Water Day. We take you from instant water purification in Amsterdam to waterless toilets in Mexico, and from water wars in India to disappearing water sources in...
Radio Show: The boy who harnessed the wind
This week on Earth Beat... the boy who harnessed the wind, "The Cove" - the Oscar-winning movie about dolphin slaughter - and a visit to a Dutch dolphinarium, and product labelling - fr...
Radio Show: Desert Warriors and Sustainable Sushi
This week on Earth Beat, sushi and sand. Not together - they don't mix well – so we'll start in the desert. We'll take you from Lagos to Timbuktu to hear from people trying to stop the desert spreading, those who say it's g...
Radio Show: The climate science battle
This week on Earth Beat, host Marnie Chesterton heads to the AAAS in San Diego - the world's biggest science conference - to hear all about the state of climate science. Also, urban farming from Kenya to Detroit, getting less for...
Radio Show: Green transportation
This week on Earth Beat we hit the streets for low-impact transport tales from around the world - from biking in Beijing, to pedal-powered garbage removal in the US, to floating aerodynamic travel pods in New Zealand. We'll also...
Radio Show: A Valentine's special
This week on Earth Beat, a Valentines day special. Love, lust, and how it affects the environment. Also, recycling to finance a wedding, and the Indiana Jones of seeds.
Radio Show: A rubbish show
This week on Earth Beat we bring you a rubbish show. From musical garbage in Taiwan to donkeys in Sicily, from a zero waste challenge in Vancouver to burning trash to run trams in Amsterdam, we span the globe in search of those w...
Radio Show: Bartering for a better environment
This week on Earth Beat: the business of bartering, the not so green side of lawn grass, food education at the Screaming Avocado, and hunting your own food. Listen to this week's programme in...
Radio Show: "Eating Animals" and where pig parts end up
This week on Earth Beat: "Eating Animals" with author Jonathan Safran Foer. Find out all the strange places a pig's parts end up. Also, environmentally friendly gyms and gadgets to make doing the laundry greener....
Radio Show: Mud graffiti and book pulp
This week on Earth Beat: we look at the cost of getting your message across. We see some different forms of graffiti and weigh the environmental impact of the printed word. And what happens to books that no one loves?...
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Shock and disbelief around the country this week as the lifeless body of a...
Unrepentant Imelda Marcos has more shoes than before
The widow of Ferdinand Marcos, one of the most corrupt dictators in Asia,...
China: Obama, stop nagging about our cheap yuan
China has had enough of the constant American and European criticism about...
You won't find Rotterdam's newest hotel in the guidebooks
There's plenty of work on the Maasvlakte, close to Rotterdam, but the...
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RNW - NEWS, ANALYSIS AND BACKGROUND IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24 HOURS A DAY, ON RADIO, TELEVISION AND THE INTERNET