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First Lightning Sprite Caught On Film

A sprite – upper atmospheric lightning – has been caught on film in extreme slow motion for the first time. Filmed at 10000 frames per second by Japan’s NHK television, movies like this of electromagnetic bursts called ‘sprites’ will help scientists better understand how weather high in the atmosphere relates to weather on the ground. [...]

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Tracking the effects of climate change

Al Jazeera has been tracking the effects climate change has been having on the world’s landscape and its people. As the ice retreats, a crucial environment is literally disappearing into the sea. In the third part of his series, Al Jazeera’s Nick Clark travels from Qaanaaq, in the west coast of Greenland, to Canada.

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Arctic Ice Drops To Record Low

Arctic sea ice has dropped to its lowest level on record, both a symptom and amplifier of a changing climate due to the effects of man. Read more on the Arctic sea ice level: www.nasa.gov Read the New York Times article: www.nytimes.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ [...]

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10-year-old’s Petition Convinces Jamba Juice to Stop Using Styrofoam

Mia Hansen thought it was asinine that smoothie company Jamba Juice, which bills its product as healthy and natural, serves your People Chow in an Earth-unfriendly giant styrofoam cup, so she started a Change.org petition to get the chain to stop using styrofoam — and it worked. Mia collected over 130000 signatures, and Jamba Juice [...]

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CrossTalk: Feeding Fat Cats

With one billion people starving every day, what is the solution to rising food prices? Could heavier regulation of financial markets be a step forward? Or is it all about subsidies and tariff policies? How much are biofuels menacing food security? And how many more food riots will we see before we find a solution? [...]

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Balkans hit by worst drought in decades

After suffering a harsh winter, the Balkans region in southeast Europe is facing one of its worst droughts in four decades. As crops wilt and die, the cost looks set to run into hundreds of millions of dollars. Hot, dry weather in eastern and southern Europe has piled pressure on world grain markets already reeling [...]

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The Man Who Stopped the Desert – 58 Minute Documentary Trailer

Watch full film on youtube here: www.youtube.com On Journeyman here: vodsite.journeyman.tv Or for downloads and more information visit: www.journeyman.tv In Burkina Faso, the rapid desertification of the once fertile plains of the Sahel caused droughts and ruined harvests, sparking a mass exodus of village inhabitants and famines that decimated populations. Yet remarkably, one illiterate peasant [...]

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US Drought: 8 Surprising Effects

The United States, a huge global food supplier, is experiencing the worst drought in more than 50 years. These are eight consequences of the drought. Take the poll, watch video reports and get the full story here: ywtv.tv Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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Bolivia’s glaciers offer climate change clues

Scientists at the world’s highest atmospheric monitoring station in Bolivia are studying the impact of climate change on the region. With the data gathered from South America’s chain of tropical glaciers, they hope to predict weather patterns in an area of the world heavily impacted by the effects of climate change. Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman [...]

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Data Shows Dramatic Earth Warming

This summer temperature time lapse shows the extreme temperature rise seen across the Northern Hemisphere in the last 50 years. Check out both graphs here: www.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Stormfront” incompetech.com Keywords: [...]

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How to Boil a Frog – 53 minute documentary trailer

Watch full film on youtube here: www.youtube.com Or on journeyman here: vodsite.journeyman.tv For downloads and more information: www.journeyman.tv Whether it is the environment, energy or the economy, we’re in a Big Mess. Driven by the fear of his daughter ending up living on a raft with the last polar bear, filmmaker and activist, Jon Cooksey, [...]

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Summer Temperature Data Proves Earth Is Warming

This summer temperature time lapse shows the extreme temperature rise seen across the Northern Hemisphere in the last 50 years. Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter www.twitter.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Stormfront” incompetech.com Keywords: More Proof Earth Is Warming Summer Temperature [...]

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