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Episode 2 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart looks back at the 1950s, a time when the oil and gas fields of the Middle East became a ...

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...

Episode 3 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart examines the situation in the 21st century, at which point the global consumption of oil...

The Secret Science of Sewage | Horizon

George McGavin and Zoe Laughlin investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in sewage.

Sustainable cities | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart visits Masdar in Abu Dhabi, a city that relies on renewable energy.

Carbon dioxide levels | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart outlines the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson investigates the key greenhouse gases.

Carbon footprint of a loaf of bread | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine discusses the carbon emissions from the process of baking a loaf of bread.

Climate change in 50 years | Black Black Oil

Forecasts an extremely bleak future for the children of today where an unrecognisable landscape of the world is shaped by rising...

The world as a hydrocarbon-based infrastructure | Black Black Oil

Oil and gas companies maintain their products are necessary for the world to operate, however that view is ...

Carbon capture | Black Black Oil

Oil and gas companies hold stock in new technologies to capture carbon emissions but there is little evidence to suggest these work or indee...

Carbon capture and storage | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates CCS, a process that is attempting to reduce carbon dioxide...

Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.

North Sea oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the discovery of North Sea oil.

How is oil formed? | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the natural process in which over millions of years oil is formed.

Climate refugees | Black Black Oil

Hundreds of millions of people are expected to migrate from their countries by 2050 due to rising sea levels.

The future of North Sea Oil | Black Black Oil

How the future of the North Sea Oil rigs are being sold off to foreign state-run companies and what that means for the future o...

Carbon Entanglement | Black Black Oil

A description given by Angel Gurria of the OECD denotes the dependence the UK (and the world) has on carbon.

Oil, finance and pensions | Black Black Oil

Investment in oil companies has been at the forefront of pensions for a long period in time but now are returning less equity tha...

The UK's ''oil machine'' | Black Black Oil

How oil from the North Sea is pumped and distributed in the UK.