Earth Focus | KCET
"Earth Focus" is an environmental news magazine that features investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment and how it affects people around the world.
Our upcoming season of "Earth Focus" examines how communities are transitioning and adapting from different energy sources and how the laws of supply and demand affect the environment and people in different ways. Premiering locally Tue. April 23 on KCET and nationally Wed. April 24 on Link TV.
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S2 E1: Fueling Change - Oil Extraction in Alaska and California
Season 2, Episode 1
The global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it.
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S1 E1: Sea Level Rising - Living With Water
Season 1, Episode 1
Forecasts are dire for Louisiana to experience the second-highest sea level rise in the world. How is the region adapting?
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Climate Migration
S1 E2: Climate Migration
Season 1, Episode 2
Droughts and floods are driving many people away from their rural, farming communities into big cities.
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S2 E3: City Planning
Season 2, Episode 3
Two cities, San Francisco and Freetown, brace for climate change using vastly different methodologies.
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S1 E4: Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
Season 1, Episode 4
Anticipating future water needs, two regions on opposite sides of the world turn to technology for answers.
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The mayors of the neighboring Kern County towns of Taft and Arvin face off on the economic benefits of oil and gas drilling versus the health of residents and their right to clean air and water.
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Community members in the North Slope of Alaska are divided over the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the impact oil and gas drilling could have on the environment.
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In the new season, "Earth Focus" examines how communities are transitioning and adapting from different energy sources and how the laws of supply and demand affect the environment and people in different ways.
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A documentary exploring human-created urban ecosystems through the raucous call of the beloved red-crowned parrot in Pasadena.
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Fracking Goes Global
Episode 52
(Earth Focus: Episode 52) U.S. domestic gas production is on the rise because of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock by pumping millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals underground at high pressure. Environmentalists say this gas boon threatens water supplies and pollutes air. Now, as fracking expands around the world, so does growing resistance. "Earth Focus" looks at three countries on the new fracking frontline: South Africa, Poland, and the UK.
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Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska and California
Season 2, Episode 1
The global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it. In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, powerful native communities are at odds over an oil exploration and drilling plan that will boost their economy but have long-term consequences on native species and their environment. In California’s Kern County, the mayors of two neighboring towns face off on the economic benefits and health risks of oil production and their vastly different visions for the most sustainable path to the future.
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Future of Food
Season 1, Episode 5
Communities and innovators all over the world are creating new sustainable food sources that are resilient to climate change and growing populations. In Madagascar, we see how villagers are closing off marine areas to allow the fish supply to replenish at a natural pace. In San Diego, California, aquaculturists are exploring open ocean farming as a more sustainable model for the fishing industry.
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Sea Level Rising: Living With Water
Season 1, Episode 1
Louisiana still is learning from Hurricane Katrina. Forecasts are dire for Louisiana to experience the second-highest sea level rise in the world. There is a big movement brewing in New Orleans to build adaptive "resilience zones." In Southeast Louisiana, the native peoples of the Isle de Jean Charles have become the first U.S citizens moving within their homeland displaced by climate change.
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Avocado Wars: The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile
The popular demand for avocados, once considered an “exotic” item, is having a devastating impact on a drought-stricken community in Chile. Lying within one of the largest avocado producing regions in the country, Petorca avocado plantations are in a battle over water rights, where claims of illegal water diversion is creating civil unrest.
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Climate Migration
Season 1, Episode 2
Populations are dramatically shifting as climate change drives migration. Droughts and floods are driving many people away from their rural, farming communities into big cities. We see how this is manifesting in Mongolia and examine the factors leading to the new community of Haitian people living in limbo at the border between Mexico and the U.S.
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Building A Future: Lumber Poaching In Oregon and Brazil
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City Planning
Season 2, Episode 3
Two cities, San Francisco and Freetown, brace for climate change using vastly different methodologies. San Francisco's developers are building expensive real estate on floodplains as officials try to heed expert projections on future sea levels. On the other side of the world, a deadly mudslide caused by torrential rains and deforestation in Sierra Leone shows the consequences of city planning that doesn't take climate change into account.
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Dairy Alternatives: Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya
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Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
Season 1, Episode 4
Anticipating future water needs, two regions on opposite sides of the world turn to technology for answers. Western Morocco, near the Sahara Desert, is currently facing unprecedented drought and groundwater mismanagement. But an ancient method of gathering moisture from fog is being taught to 13 villages, allowing people to have a level of local control over their most basic need. In Central Valley, California, the food basket of the world uses nearly 80 percent of the entire state's water supply.
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Lighting A Path: Embracing Solar Power In California and Zanzibar
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If you have eaten avocado or driven in a car fueled by gasoline recently, you could be personally implicated in some of the stories told in this season of "Earth Focus."
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Despite the Woolsey fire altering habitats in devastating ways, wildlife is adapting to survive.
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In the latest chapter of a 40-year battle over who gets access to the California coast, the tides could be turning in favor of the public; but not without a fight from private landowners.
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In the hands of artists and L.A. River advocates the role of invasive river weed, arundo donax, is questioned.
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Vanishing species, rising sea levels, devastating floods, and droughts are only some of the symptoms of a rapidly changing natural world. We explore 5 surprising ways people are reacting to environmental changes.
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A legal fight at Hollister Ranch could have lasting implications on the future of public access to the California coast.
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