Restoring Our Rivers | Our Changing Planet

Duration: 58'20''

Synopsis

Liz Bonnin and Ade Adepitan investigate two ambitious river restoration projects: in the US, the largest dam removal in the world, and in France, the colossal detox of Paris’s River Seine.

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