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Air pollution layer, timelapse
produced by Science Photo Library (London, England: Science Photo Library, 2014), 26 secs
Timelapse footage of strong winds blowing clouds above and air pollution below. The pollution forms a visible layer above the ground. The source of this pollution is the city of Denver, Colorado, USA. The strong northerly winds associated with a cold front are blowing the pollution back to its source. Filmed in Co...
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produced by Science Photo Library (London, England: Science Photo Library, 2014), 26 secs
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Timelapse footage of strong winds blowing clouds above and air pollution below. The pollution forms a visible layer above the ground. The source of this pollution is the city of Denver, Colorado, USA. The strong northerly winds associated with a cold front are blowing the pollution back to its source. Filmed in Colorado, USA, in winter.
Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Instructional material
Contributor
Science Photo Library
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Science Photo Library
Topic / Theme
Ecology, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Architects of Change, Season 1, Episode 2, Nothing Is Lost
directed by Jean Bourbonnais, in Architects of Change, Season 1, Episode 2 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 52 mins
In this era when the number of consumer products available has exceeded the total number of species in nature, we have to ask ourselves just how far we should go in this reckless race of ceaselessly producing and buying goods. The trash we generate, our outmoded or broken gadgets, the water we waste - it is all th...
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directed by Jean Bourbonnais, in Architects of Change, Season 1, Episode 2 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 52 mins
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In this era when the number of consumer products available has exceeded the total number of species in nature, we have to ask ourselves just how far we should go in this reckless race of ceaselessly producing and buying goods. The trash we generate, our outmoded or broken gadgets, the water we waste - it is all thrown out into the environment after we have used it.
Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sven Eriksson
Author / Creator
Jean Bourbonnais
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
CinéFête
Series
Architects of Change
Speaker / Narrator
Sven Eriksson
Topic / Theme
Waste disposal
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 by Ciné Fête
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Architects of Change, Season 2, Episode 2, Water: Resource and Challenge
directed by Sylvain Braun, in Architects of Change, Season 2, Episode 2 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 55 mins
Water is a vital element of our planet and all that inhabit it. However, this essential resource has been poorly-managed, wasted and polluted for centuries by all mankind. We use it in the far corners of the world to supply our factories, take away our waste, wash ourselves, travel, or even simply for enjoyment. W...
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directed by Sylvain Braun, in Architects of Change, Season 2, Episode 2 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 55 mins
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Water is a vital element of our planet and all that inhabit it. However, this essential resource has been poorly-managed, wasted and polluted for centuries by all mankind. We use it in the far corners of the world to supply our factories, take away our waste, wash ourselves, travel, or even simply for enjoyment. We are becoming increasingly aware that any water unfit for consumption that returns to the environment is inextricably linked to the wa...
Water is a vital element of our planet and all that inhabit it. However, this essential resource has been poorly-managed, wasted and polluted for centuries by all mankind. We use it in the far corners of the world to supply our factories, take away our waste, wash ourselves, travel, or even simply for enjoyment. We are becoming increasingly aware that any water unfit for consumption that returns to the environment is inextricably linked to the water we consume. Even if we in the developed world are managing to clean our used water, in poor countries water which is fit for consumption is all too often an inaccessible resource, even a privilege.
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Sven Eriksson
Author / Creator
Sylvain Braun
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
CinéFête
Series
Architects of Change
Speaker / Narrator
Sven Eriksson
Topic / Theme
Water conservation, Water supply, Water pollution
Copyright Message
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Arctic Territories, 9, First to Go
directed by Vic Pelletier and Ole Gjerstad, fl. 1991-2015, in Arctic Territories, 9 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 28 mins
The majestic polar bear has sadly come to represent the symbol of climate change and its harmful effects. According to researchers, their numbers in the surrounding areas around Churchill have declined and the animals are loosing weight. In short, the noble animal is not doing well. However, the inhabitants of Arv...
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directed by Vic Pelletier and Ole Gjerstad, fl. 1991-2015, in Arctic Territories, 9 (Montréal, QC: CinéFête, 2009), 28 mins
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The majestic polar bear has sadly come to represent the symbol of climate change and its harmful effects. According to researchers, their numbers in the surrounding areas around Churchill have declined and the animals are loosing weight. In short, the noble animal is not doing well. However, the inhabitants of Arviat, a small inuit village located a few hundred kilometres north of Churchill, see things differently. To them, there are as many as b...
The majestic polar bear has sadly come to represent the symbol of climate change and its harmful effects. According to researchers, their numbers in the surrounding areas around Churchill have declined and the animals are loosing weight. In short, the noble animal is not doing well. However, the inhabitants of Arviat, a small inuit village located a few hundred kilometres north of Churchill, see things differently. To them, there are as many as before and appear in good health. Who is telling the truth?
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Tarzwell, fl. 1983-2005
Author / Creator
Vic Pelletier, Ole Gjerstad, fl. 1991-2015
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
CinéFête
Series
Arctic Territories
Speaker / Narrator
John Tarzwell, fl. 1983-2005
Topic / Theme
Climate change, Bears
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009 by Ciné Fête
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Australian Story, Part 1, Something In the Water: Part 1
directed by Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007; produced by Wendy Page, fl. 2000, in Australian Story, Part 1 (Ultimo, New South Wales: ABC Commercial, 2010), 29 mins
This program is about an unlikely alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist. They banded together to investigate mysterious water quality issues in one of the most beautiful areas of Tasmania. Faced with what they saw as government indifference, local doctor Alison Bleaney and marine...
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directed by Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007; produced by Wendy Page, fl. 2000, in Australian Story, Part 1 (Ultimo, New South Wales: ABC Commercial, 2010), 29 mins
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This program is about an unlikely alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist. They banded together to investigate mysterious water quality issues in one of the most beautiful areas of Tasmania. Faced with what they saw as government indifference, local doctor Alison Bleaney and marine ecologist Dr. Marcus Scammell spent tens of thousands of their own money. What they eventually found was the very opposite of what the...
This program is about an unlikely alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist. They banded together to investigate mysterious water quality issues in one of the most beautiful areas of Tasmania. Faced with what they saw as government indifference, local doctor Alison Bleaney and marine ecologist Dr. Marcus Scammell spent tens of thousands of their own money. What they eventually found was the very opposite of what they expected.
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Wendy Page, fl. 2000
Author / Creator
Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
ABC Commercial
Series
Australian Story
Topic / Theme
Aquatic ecology, Scientific research, Ecological integrity, Ecosystems, Cancer, Pollution prevention, Pollution, Pollutants, Clams, oysters and mussels, Australians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by ABC Commercial
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Australian Story, Part 2, Something In the Water: Part 2
directed by Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007; produced by Wendy Page, fl. 2000, in Australian Story, Part 2 (Ultimo, New South Wales: ABC Commercial, 2010), 56 mins
Local doctor Alison Bleaney was concerned about rare cancers among her patients. Marine ecologist Marcus Scammell had been called in to investigate oyster mortality and deformities. At the same time, the Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease was first found in the same small pocket of NE Tasmania. Was a connectio...
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directed by Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007; produced by Wendy Page, fl. 2000, in Australian Story, Part 2 (Ultimo, New South Wales: ABC Commercial, 2010), 56 mins
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Local doctor Alison Bleaney was concerned about rare cancers among her patients. Marine ecologist Marcus Scammell had been called in to investigate oyster mortality and deformities. At the same time, the Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease was first found in the same small pocket of NE Tasmania. Was a connection remotely possible and was there a link to something in the water? Faced with what they saw as government indifference, Bleaney and Sc...
Local doctor Alison Bleaney was concerned about rare cancers among her patients. Marine ecologist Marcus Scammell had been called in to investigate oyster mortality and deformities. At the same time, the Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease was first found in the same small pocket of NE Tasmania. Was a connection remotely possible and was there a link to something in the water? Faced with what they saw as government indifference, Bleaney and Scammell launched a private investigation, paying out of their own pockets for expensive laboratory testing. They expected to find pesticide contamination. But they were wrong. Instead, it is suggested, they 'stumbled across' something as significant as it was unexpected. Part 2 of this program exclusively reveals the results of the detective work in laboratories here and overseas… and the worrying implications.
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Wendy Page, fl. 2000
Author / Creator
Trudy McRobert, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
ABC Commercial
Series
Australian Story
Topic / Theme
Aquatic ecology, Scientific research, Pollutants, Ecosystem management, Ecological integrity, Cancer, Pollution prevention, Pollution, Clams, oysters and mussels, Flowers, Australians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 by ABC Commercial
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The Babushkas of Chernobyl
directed by Holly Morris, 1965- and Anne Bogart, fl. 1993; produced by Anne Bogart, fl. 1993 and Holly Morris, 1965-, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Hedgebrook and PowderKeg Studios (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 2015), 52 mins
The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth complete with military border guards. Surprisingly, a d...
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directed by Holly Morris, 1965- and Anne Bogart, fl. 1993; produced by Anne Bogart, fl. 1993 and Holly Morris, 1965-, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Hedgebrook and PowderKeg Studios (San Francisco, CA: The Video Project, 2015), 52 mins
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The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth complete with military border guards. Surprisingly, a defiant spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last surviv...
The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth complete with military border guards. Surprisingly, a defiant spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last survivors of a small community who refused to leave their ancestral homes after the Chernobyl disaster. The film follows the women for over a year, capturing their unusual lives in the Dead Zone as well as other extraordinary scenes -- from radiation spikes just a few feet from the nuclear reactor, to a group of thrill-seekers called “Stalkers” who sneak into the Zone illegally to pursue post-apocalyptic video game-inspired fantasies. Scientists in the area describe the extent of contamination in the Exclusion Zone and the continuing danger of radiation poisoning. Journalist Mary Mycio author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, studies the long-term impacts on humans animals and plants. A visit to the reactor itself shows a containment sarcophagus under construction which will need to last longer than the pyramids in Egypt to prevent further radiation releases. While the babushkas' spirit mirrors the determination of the Ukrainian nation – a country that continues to survive despite its ongoing conflict with Russia – it remains unlikely Chernobyl will be repopulated anytime in the foreseeable future.
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Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Anne Bogart, fl. 1993, Holly Morris, 1965-, Fork Films, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Hedgebrook, PowderKeg Studios
Author / Creator
Holly Morris, 1965-, Anne Bogart, fl. 1993
Date Published / Released
2015
Publisher
The Video Project
Topic / Theme
Women, Survivors, Radiation victims, Elderly people, Nuclear energy, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster, Pripyat, Ukraine, April 26, 1986, Ukrainians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 Speciality Studios, The Video Project
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Baymen
directed by Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986; produced by Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986 and Mario Congreve, fl. 1998, Desert Steel Productions and Pacific View Productions (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 1999), 30 mins
This video portrays the work of men who continue to earn a living by harvesting shellfish from Long Island Bay, near New York City, and selling them to local markets. It not only shows the peculiarities and hardships of this type of work but also reveals the threats to this traditional occupation from pollution of...
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directed by Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986; produced by Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986 and Mario Congreve, fl. 1998, Desert Steel Productions and Pacific View Productions (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 1999), 30 mins
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This video portrays the work of men who continue to earn a living by harvesting shellfish from Long Island Bay, near New York City, and selling them to local markets. It not only shows the peculiarities and hardships of this type of work but also reveals the threats to this traditional occupation from pollution of the local waters.
Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986, Mario Congreve, fl. 1998, Desert Steel Productions, Pacific View Productions
Author / Creator
Glenn Gebhard, fl. 1986
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
The Cinema Guild
Topic / Theme
20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1999 The Cinema Guild, Inc.
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The Big Fix
directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Joshua Tickell; produced by Jason Mraz, Maggie Wachsberger, fl. 2012, Peter Fonda, 1940-2019 and Tim Robbins, 1958-, Green Planet Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 1 hour 31 mins
On Earth Day, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in history. It was one of the largest man-made environmental catastrophes in American history.
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directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Joshua Tickell; produced by Jason Mraz, Maggie Wachsberger, fl. 2012, Peter Fonda, 1940-2019 and Tim Robbins, 1958-, Green Planet Productions (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2011), 1 hour 31 mins
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On Earth Day, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst oil spill in history. It was one of the largest man-made environmental catastrophes in American history. College Adult High School Junior High School
Field of Study
Science
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jason Mraz, Maggie Wachsberger, fl. 2012, Peter Fonda, 1940-2019, Tim Robbins, 1958-, Green Planet Productions
Author / Creator
Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Joshua Tickell
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Person Discussed
Barack Obama, 1961-, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., 1893-1935
Topic / Theme
Chemical engineering, Lobbying, Fish (Animal), Political corruption, Accidents (Physical health), Drilling platforms, Energy industry, Pollutants, Pollution, Ecological integrity, Aquatic ecology, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, April 20-July 15, 2010
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Copyright © 2011 Green Planet Productions. Used by permission of Filmakers Library.
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Clean-up, Deepwater Horizon oil spill
produced by Science Photo Library (London, England: Science Photo Library, 2010), 17 secs
BP workers cleaning up oil caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling accident inshore at a boat ramp. Filmed at Orange Beach, Alabama, USA, on 10th June 2010
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produced by Science Photo Library (London, England: Science Photo Library, 2010), 17 secs
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BP workers cleaning up oil caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling accident inshore at a boat ramp. Filmed at Orange Beach, Alabama, USA, on 10th June 2010
Field of Study
Environmental Studies
Content Type
Instructional material
Contributor
Science Photo Library
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
Science Photo Library
Topic / Theme
Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, April 20-July 15, 2010, Climate and the Environment, Ecology, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 Science Photo Library
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