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Earth Focus

Season 1 2013 - 2018
TV-G

  • 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z on Link TV
  • 30m
  • 1h (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
"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.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

1x01 Sea Level Rising: Living with Water

Series Premiere

1x01 Sea Level Rising: Living with Water

  • 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z30m

Louisiana 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.

Toms River had a problem. Children in this coastal New Jersey town were coming down with rare types of cancer. And because of the unusual number of cancer cases, the town was designated a "cancer cluster." For more than 40 years, the town's drinking water was polluted by chemicals like styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) trimmer and by-products from dye manufacturing--chemicals thought to cause cancer. Their source? Dumping by Ciba Geigy and Union Carbide. But the town's people — like Linda Gillick and her son Michael, who was born in 1979 with neuroblastoma — fought back. And it's largely because of the heroic efforts of its citizens, that the water in Toms River today safe and clean. "Earth Focus" visits Toms River to tell the story.

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