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Nature & Environment
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Krishan Arora, consultant producer and former BBC commissioner, discusses the issues around commissioning environmental programmes in both the UK and abroad - including the once-upon-a-time industry reluctance to use the word "environment" - and outlines the ethical issues surrounding making archives open to the public.
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Nature & Environment
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Lisa Sargood, award-winning former Science and Nature Commissioner at the BBC, introduces to the debate around natural history broadcasting the question of how digital technologies, social media platforms and the overall infrastructure of information will be critical to the future of environmental programming.
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Nature & Environment
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Paul Williams of the BBC's Natural History Unit discusses how to make wildlife go viral and how to create awareness of environmental issues though natural history programming, as well as the creative opportunities of opening up the BBC's digital archive.
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Nature & Environment
James Smith - Earth in Vision
James Smith of the BBC's Natural History Unit talks about the experience of live broadcasting natural history content, as well as audiences craving the countryside in their homes, and how the NHU archival footage could be used to document the changing state of the UK's natural heritage.
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Nature & Environment
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Caroline Underwood, award-winning series producer for Canadian television, looks back at how the landscape of environmental and natural history programming has transformed over the last few decades, and the challenges it faces today and moving forward into the future.
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Nature & Environment
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
James Honeyborne, producer and director of award-winning wildlife TV documentaries for BBC, Discovery Channel and National Geographic discusses environmental issues, the Africa series and the upcoming Oceans series.
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Society, Politics & Law
Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Easily accesible phosphorus rock sources are starting to run out. As the mines empty, food production could be hit. Should access to the rock become a basic human right?
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Nature & Environment
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Doug Allan, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning cameraman, talks Blue Planet, changing technology and the changing planet.
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Nature & Environment
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Julian Hector, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit and former seabird biologist, discusses commissioning programmes, the difference between radio and television and the relationship between broadcast and digital.
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Nature & Environment
Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Scientific reports released for a conference today on disaster risk reduction warn that people are already dying and economies being hit by climate change − and that the dangers are growing.
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Nature & Environment
Soil could save Earth from overheating
New research shows that changing the way we farm and manage soils so they store carbon rather than lose it would help avoid dangerous climate change.
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Nature & Environment
Oil majors told to adapt or die
As profits and prices plummet, the oil conglomerates – some of the world’s biggest companies – have been warned they must change their ways or face extinction.