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Climate crisis

This gallery - curated under the Watching Videos Like a Historian project - features audiovisual heritage material related to the climate crisis.

Deutsche Welle

In Finland, record numbers of trees were felled in 2017. Environmentalists are outraged. The country’s trees capture the equivalent of about half the amount of CO2 it puts out. But lumber exports are vital to Finland.

Deutsche Welle

Scottish peatlands help store carbon dioxide and safeguard the climate. But protecting these moors can mean cutting down trees and culling animals.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change is causing Alpine glaciers to melt, destabilizing the mountainsides. In Austria, the warming is increasing the threat of landslides and floods.

Deutsche Welle

Greece is looking for strategies to better prepare for wildfires in the future. On the island of Evia, some residents say authorities have been negligent.

Deutsche Welle

Climate change poses a threat to France’s winemaking tradition. Hotter summers are causing grapes to ripen more quickly, which increases their alcohol content. Now vintners are hoping that new grape varietals can beat the heat.

Deutsche Welle

Marine researchers in Kiel are studying how climate change could affect the sea. In huge testing tanks, they’re simulating possible future scenarios. Their results show that if oceans grow too acidic, it will spell the end for many organisms.

Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

Air pollutants, climate change and ground-level-ozone are the main contributors to forest decline. Almost one third of Austrian woods have been damaged and the number of trees loosing their foliage and needles ahead of time has increased by 5 per cent wit…

Spanish Public Television and Radio (RTVE)

A documentary focusing on the birth of modern environmentalism, boosted by conscientiousness about peace and environmental protection. Personalities share their memories of the birth of these movements, as well as some of the environmental catastrophes th…

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Weekly column on various social issues. In this episode the environment with all its contradictions, especially various environmental taxes, nuclear power, Dutch position in relation to competition abroad. Conclusion: an enduring environmental policy is g…

TV3 Catalan Television

The dependence on oil and the oil crisis, together with environmental factors and political decisions, have led several countries to produce bioethanol, a substitute fuel source. Broadcast during TV3’s Thematic Week on climate change.

TV3 Catalan Television

The Viladecans Ecology and Alternative Projects Center is working on a selective trash collection project to use organic material to make compost and recycle inorganic products from waste treatment plants.

National Audiovisual Archive

Original language summary: A freonról áttérnek a propán-bután hajtógáz használatára a kozmetikai cikkek, vegyi áruk gyártásánál. A pumpás dezodorok elterjedésének kérdése.

Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

Eco-friendliness is the motto of the future. Breathable sheep's wool, resistant hemp and clay are trend-setting building materials at the moment.

Deutsche Welle

The draft for a law intends to leave the responsibilty for the collection with the local authorities. The recycling process shall be taken over by the producers.

RAI

WWF oasis of gardens and special Bottagone the reserve that is home to a power plant and steel, flora and fauna of the Oasis, installing artificial nests to encourage the reproduction of birds.

TV3 Catalan Television

In the United States, the accumulation of meteorologically atypical events is making even the sectors most reluctant to climate change theses begin to recognise that time is breaking statistics, and that this begins to have effects, for example, on econom…

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
TV3 Catalan Television

Currently, the Kyoto protocol is only ratified by countries that account for roughly 15% of global emissions. Instead, companies increasingly see that acting against climate change brings them benefits.

TV3 Catalan Television

We come from an anomalous spring in the sense that it has been very hot, the hottest of the last 70 years without counting that of 2011. There is talk, even, that may have been the hottest of the last 70 years because there are no reliable records before.…

RAI

The conference held in Viterbo to stop climate change, the damage recorded in the third world countries and the precarious economic situation in developing countries

RAI

Haiti earthquake, relief and reconstruction are not so easy. Climate change. The houses not registered at the Land Registry

National Audiovisual Institute France

Explanations using computer graphics of different catastrophic scenarios caused by global warming.

National Audiovisual Institute France

A UN conference on climate change was held in Bonn. To combat global pollution, some of the highest polluting countries, such as the United States, were prepared to pay for the continuation of their industrial practices.

Spanish Public Television and Radio (RTVE)

A report examining the signs of climate change in Spain and the places where its effects and consequences are most visible.

RTV Slovenia

Osrednja mozaična oddaja Uredništva oddaj o kulturi. Osmi dan je kozmopolitska oddaja, v kateri najdejo prostor vse oblike klasičnega in sodobnega umetniškega ustvarjanja, humanizem, kulturna dediščina, fenomenološko in sociološko obravnavanje tem in kult…