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Professor Iain Stewart explores the industrial history of coal production in Scotland.
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5: The Climate | Making Scotland's Landscape
Professor Iain Stewart looks at how Scotland is on the verge of a revolution - the transformation of a carbon economy to a green...
Greenhouse effect | Making Scotland's Landscape
An experiment that demonstrates the greenhouse effect.
Oil in Scotland | Making Scotland's Landscape
Professor Iain Stewart explores the history of oil in Scotland.
Scottish wind farms | Making Scotland's Landscape
Professor Iain Stewart discusses wind power in Scotland.
Trees and carbon dioxide | Making Scotland's Landscape
The important role that trees play in clearing carbon dioxide.
Arguments against wind turbines | Power to the People
Arguments for and against building more wind turbines in Scotland.
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Growing Up Green
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Stacey Dooley uncovers the shocking environmental impact caused by an insatiable appetite for cheap clothing.
3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water.
Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
From colossal farms in America to the destruction of the Amazon, Liz Bonnin investigates how our hunger for meat is killing our planet.
4: Canada | Arctic with Bruce Parry
Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. He then heads south to the...
Fruit and Veg | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day
Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. Ed is at London G...
Why Is Food So Expensive? | Panorama
Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze budgets, Panorama ...
Crop to Shop: Jimmy's Supermarket Secrets
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Episode 1 | Building Britain's Biggest Nuclear Power Station
Following the challenges involved in building Hinkley Point C, one of Europe's largest projects and the first ne...
Why are we Still Searching for Fossil Fuels? | Panorama
Richard Bilton investigates why oil, coal and gas exploration is booming when almost every country in the world has c...
4: Wind | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan heads 75 miles off the Yorkshire coast to see the building of Hornsea One, which is currently the world's biggest offshore windfarm.
4. The oil thieves | The Compass
We meet the people involved in Nigeria's vast illegal oil business.
The Secret Life of Your Clothes | This World
Documentary in which Ade Adepitan explores the afterlife of some of the clothes we donate to charity shops. He follows the trail...
1: Deep Earth | How Earth Made Us
Series telling the story of how the development of civilisation was influenced by planetary forces. Professor Iain Stewart explores the rol...
5: Rare Earth | Earth: The Power of the Planet
Life on Earth prospers because it enjoys the right amount of heat from the sun, and the atmosphere prevents meteorite bombardm...
Episode 1 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World
From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transfor...
Eurasia | Rise of the Continents
Professor Iain Stewart shows that where the south of Eurasia is today there was once an ocean and how, in 250 million years, all of the cont...
Iceland Erupts: A Volcano Live Special | Volcano Live
Kate Humble heads to Iceland and meets the scientists monitoring the country's most dangerous volcanoes. She also inves...
1: Life From Light | How to Grow a Planet
How plants have driven the greatest changes to the Earth. Prof Iain Stewart shows how they first harnessed light from the sun and c...
1: Scotland's Trees | Making Scotland's Landscape
Professor Iain Stewart reveals how Scotland's unique landscape was shaped. Here, he uncovers the devastating impact of mank...
3: The Big Freeze | Men of Rock
In the final episode of the series, Iain Stewart finds out about daredevil scientist Louis Agassiz, who first imagined the world had been gri...
1: Tsunamis | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Iain Stewart journeys across the oceans to explore stories about the most powerful giant waves in history, including how one...
1: Indonesia | Journeys into the Ring of Fire
Iain Stewart tours the Pacific rim to discover how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped human history. He visits the world's ...
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