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1062) Danube: cyanide spill
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Discusses the disastrous year 2000 overflow of a Romanian reservoir that held heavy metals and cyanide, pouring the deadly mix into rivers that feed the Danube and killing all living creatures in its path.
1066) Atlas básico de ecología
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Discusses various types of ecosystems with particular attention to the influence of human activities on nature.
1067) Fracknation
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Journalist Phelim McAleer searches for the truth about the alleged dangers of fracking, a method of extracting natural gas from shale rock by drilling deep underground, specifically challenging claims made by activist Josh Fox in his film Gasland. Interviewing scientists and individuals directly affected by fracking, McAleer presents a different side to the fracking debate.
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Max Einstein volume 2
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"Conoce a Maxine Einstein. Valiente. Creativa. Brillante. Los únicos superpoderes que necesita una chica."--
Max y sus amigos de CMI intentan usar su inteligencia para encontrar soluciones a una crisis de agua, mientras que una corporación codiciosa con el objetivo de capturar a Max parece conocer todos sus movimientos.
Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye...
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Long before the tragedy of the 2011 nuclear disasters in Japan, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl experienced an explosion, meltdown, fire, and massive release of radioactivity. Twenty-five years later, we still know very little about the event and its aftermath. Few of the professional papers describing the aftereffects of the disaster have been translated from Russian into English or distributed in the West. This is now remedied, with the publication...
1072) Silent river
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Following the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico's Santiago River became the site of increased American and Japanese industry, resulting in negative impacts on the environment and the health of people living in the region. This film presents the testimony of those directly affected by this state of affairs.
1073) Un mar de plásticos
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Organic waste that ends up in the sea quickly dissolves. Plastic survives much longer and never disappears completely. A plastic bag may take 10-20 years to dissolve, foam plastic make take 50 years, a disposable diaper and a plastic bottle may take 450 years and a fishing line 600 years. In the Pacific, a huge garbage dump has been located. The Earth's revolution and ocean currents push the waste together into the Pacific Ocean. It is a toxic soup...
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Hannah West is not your ordinary twelve-year-old. She's artistic, full of street smarts, and best of all, she's a budding detective. She and her mom are technically homeless, but thanks to a series of house-sitting jobs, they always have a place to stay. In the first story, Hannah and her mother move into the swanky Belltown Towers in downtown Seattle, where a neighbor's stolen piece of artwork pulls Hannah into Seattle's thriving art scene and on...
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