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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The forgotten story of the hole in the ozone layer and how the world came together to fix it. The scientists and politicians who persuaded Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher to take action reveal how the planetary problem was solved.
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
For decades the head gardener of the mos famous 2000 acres on earth has toiled and tilled the soil and produces enchantment. It's an ecological paradise from the past that is rigorously kept alive in the present.
3) Denial
Publisher
Kinonation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Before Christine Hallquist became the first Transgender candidate for Governor in the USA, she was a CEO fighting climate change. Denial tells exactly the kind of complex, deeply personal story about climate change we need at this moment.
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THE STORY OF PLASTIC is a searing expose, uncovering the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary you’ve seen, THE STORY OF PLASTIC presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Battling subzero temperatures and forty-foot seas, an international team of scientists embark on a perilous winter expedition into the darkest regions of the Arctic. Their mission: to understand how trace amounts of light may be radically altering the mysterious world of the polar night. What they discover has implications for the global climate and the future of the Arctic.
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (42 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
With over 500 active volcanoes, the Earth is bursting at the seams with these forces of mass construction. The story of volcanoes is the story of the planet's creation and the story of us. With intrepid explorer Carsten Peter, dodge boulders at the edge of an active volcano in Indonesia, descend to a lava lake in Vanuatu and visit incredible acid ponds, geysers and mineral deposit fields in Ethiopia.
7) The Cove
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A team of activists, filmmakers, and freedivers expose a deadly secret hidden in a remote cove in Taiji, Japan. By utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, they uncover a horrible annual tradition of unparalleled cruelty. A provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure and arresting imagery makes this an unforgettable and courageous story that inspires outrage and action.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
THEY SAY IT CAN'T BE DONE follows 4 innovators pursuing breakthroughs to solve climate change, ocean pollution, factory farming, and exploding healthcare costs. Each faces the same roadblock - an outdated regulatory system impeding success.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
What drives people all over the world to hunt animals, often driving them towards extinction? How does hunting affect our relationship with nature and impact fragile ecosystems? And how do hunting lobbies influence law makers and the media? Through the personal story of one ex-hunter, ’ON THE WILD SIDE’ unites the global anti-hunting movement, while also providing an overview of hunting throughout history. Featuring interviews with activists,...
10) Current Sea
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A compelling testimony to the possibilities of local activism, CURRENT SEA follows investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous efforts to create a marine conservation area and combat the relentless tide of illegal fishing. Along the way a new generation of Cambodian environmentalists are inspired to create a better life for their people.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Everywhere, citizens are fighting for the right to air that is safe to breathe. But lacking tangible evidence, their calls for regulation are easily dismissed. Together with scientists, a team of journalists sets out to search for evidence of air pollution. In Poland, 75% of electricity is produced from coal. Rybnik, Poland, is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. Here, even before Covid, children wore masks to play outside and were advised...
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be.
13) Green Warriors
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (150 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A series of scientific investigations into environmental scandals facing the planet. Investigative journalist Martin Boudot tracks down the big environmental scandals around the world: contaminated rivers, air pollution, toxic waste, illegal exploitation of resources, poaching of endangered species… Armed with his drone, Martin gets around obstacles and outsmarts bans to reveal what some people are trying to hide — a factory that discharges its...
14) Critical Mass
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Things aren't looking too good for the world's population; as we multiply at an alarming rate there is not enough food, space... or sense. With the planet bursting at the seams the intelligence and physiological traits that make us human are now crucial to mankind's survival. This intelligent film interweaves a fascinating 1960s rat experiment with a slick snapshot of today's urban jungle. As a number of disturbing parallels emerge, you can't help...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this episode, we follow the uranium path from Niger to Europe to reveal the extent of the radioactive pollution created. In the Niger desert, home to some of the largest uranium reserves in the world, lies the Areva mine. Every year, Niger produces over 2,500 tonnes of yellow cake, a uranium concentrate, creating tonnes of toxic waste. Close to the mine is the village of Arlit, where radioactivity levels exceed those of the Chernobyl Prohibited...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
"ECHOES OF THE INVISIBLE" interweaves a mosaic of profound quests. A blind man runs alone through Death Valley as journalist Paul Salopek walks 21,000 miles across the world to retrace our ancestors' migration. Photographer Rachel Sussman struggles to capture the oldest living organisms on the planet while astronomers and physicists attempt to penetrate the furthest depths of time. These ambitious explorers, alongside monks journeying to the earth's...
17) Stormchasers
Publisher
MacGillivray Freeman Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (39 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
STORMCHASERS is a tale of scientific discovery and natural wonder that takes audiences on a journey around the planet to encounter the origins of the earth’s weather patterns, to experience our most extreme storms—monsoons, hurricanes and tornadoes—and to witness scientists who study and predict weather events. Using a combination of conventional IMAX documentary filmmaking methods, computer animation, and unique photography, the film depicts...
18) Meltdown
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
MELTDOWN presents an extraordinary convergence of art & science as it follows acclaimed photographer Lynn Davis and climate scientist Tony Leiserowitz to the town of Ilulissat, Greenland, considered "Ground Zero" for climate change.
Publisher
Maison 4/3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
From his Burgundy farm where, for several decades, he has observed the evolution of natural phenomena, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves is worried about the degradation of the planet. According to him, the Earth is facing the sixth extinction in its history, and it promises to be meteoric. Scientists, philosophers and activists also testify to the urgency to act and make proposals in this direction.
20) Beyond Pollution
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A thought provoking, in-depth look at the causes and effects of the most devastating man made environmental disaster America has ever experienced. BEYOND POLLUTION is a firsthand investigation into BP’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Traveling thousands of miles across the Gulf coast interviewing environmental experts, government officials, fisherman & distributors, scientists, drilling engineers, and key BP contractors, the film reveals,...
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