Earth Focus is an environmental news magazine that puts a human face on pressing global issues. This essential series features under-publicized stories on how changes to the Earth's resources and climate are affecting everyday people all over the world. Funded by the Wallace Genetic Foundation, the Marisla Foundation, the Park Foundation, the Isvara Foundation, the Farvue Foundation, & Link TV viewers.

Killing Bees
Killing Bees: Are Industry and Government Responsible? is the culmination of a year long project looking into the effects of systemic pesticides on honeybee colony collapse. The investigation revealed that the EPA gave conditional approval of the use...
Exposed: The Ugly Side of Food Production
Food and social justice. Human rights abuses, rape and corrupt practices in the Bangladesh shrimp industry. A report by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation uncovers the human and environmental cost of shrimp farming and shows why buying shrim...
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Maritime Pollution Exposed
Between 70-210 million gallons of waste oil are illegally dumped at sea by commercial ships each year. In fish, marine oil pollution is linked to cancers, tumors, reduced growth rates, genetic side effects, and death. It is also toxic to seabirds and...
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Biodiversity and Health
What do plants, snakes, molds, marine sponges, and cone snails have in common? They have helped develop medicines that save human lives. Biodiversity -- the variety of life on Earth -- is key to human survival. But plants, animals, and microorganisms...
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Women and the Changing Environment
This episode of Earth Focus looks at how and why women are disproportionately affected by climate change and features excerpts from the Population Action International film "Weathering Change" with stories from women in Nepal, Peru and Ethi...
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Envisioning The Future
City of the future? A look at Hamburg Germany, Europe's Green Capital 2011. And a future model for business? Vestergaad Frandsen, a Swiss medical textile company pioneers a an innovative new business scheme -- carbon credits for water -- that shows h...
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