Duration: 28'59''
Are we running out of energy resources?
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1: Population | World 2000
Examines tensions between population & resources. Are there too many people on the planet?
2: Climate Change | World 2000
How will climate change affect us?
3: Globalisation | World 2000
What is globalisation and how does it affect us?
4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000
Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.
5: Work and Technology | World 2000
Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.
6: Urbanisation | World 2000
Can cities sustain the amount of people living in them? How can people improve them?
7: Water: Global Differences | World 2000
Challenges the myth that we are running out of water and looks at water resource management.
Episode 3 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World
Professor Iain Stewart examines the situation in the 21st century, at which point the global consumption of oil...
1. The Great White Hope | The Compass
When Shell D'Arcy strikes black gold, there are celebrations on the Niger Delta creeks.
Episode 1 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World
From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transfor...
4: Canada | Arctic with Bruce Parry
Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. He then heads south to the...
3: Nuclear | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan meets the people working at Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 power stations in Lancashire, Britain's biggest operational nuclear site.
3. Black creeks | The Compass
How does oil pollution affect Ogoniland today?
4. The oil thieves | The Compass
We meet the people involved in Nigeria's vast illegal oil business.
Fracking: The New Energy Rush | Horizon
Iain Stewart investigates a controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground, sometimes right under the places pe...
Greenhouse effect | Making Scotland's Landscape
An experiment that demonstrates the greenhouse effect.
2. On trial | The Compass
Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.
4: Wind | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan heads 75 miles off the Yorkshire coast to see the building of Hornsea One, which is currently the world's biggest offshore windfarm.
Energy | Bang Goes The Theory
Jem Stansfield, Liz Bonnin and Maggie Philbin investigate how close Britain might get to running out of electricity.
Episode 2 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World
Professor Iain Stewart looks back at the 1950s, a time when the oil and gas fields of the Middle East became a ...
Episode 2 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve
The second leg of Simon's journey takes him from the stunning fjords of Norway to Iceland - the original land of fire and ice.
Episode 3 | Future Earth
Carl Nasman explores the challenges we face in the transition to renewable energies and explores some of the solutions. He finds out how the United ...
Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World
Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.
Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant
Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant is a 2021 documentary in which the comedian and presenter Joe Lycett protested against the oil company Shell plc. It ...
Rural Power | Countryfile
Ellie Harrison heads to Bethesda, in north west Wales, to see how the village has transformed itself into a growing community of energy self-suffic...
Why are we Still Searching for Fossil Fuels? | Panorama
Richard Bilton investigates why oil, coal and gas exploration is booming when almost every country in the world has c...
1: Biomass | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan takes a behind-the-scenes look at Drax near Selby, which is Britain's biggest power station.
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