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This is a short video about Morocco, a beautiful country basking in sunlight but banking on its future with a massive solar power investment. Morocco is a gateway to Africa, and a country of dizzying diversity. With epic mountain ranges, ancient cities, sweeping deserts like the Sahara it really is ...
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November, 2017
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19 November
Full Steam Ahead – Kenya taps into Energy beneath it’s Feet – Part 2
Kenya is a country in East Africa with coastline on the Indian Ocean. It encompasses savannah, Lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands. It’s also home to wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos. Now Kenya wants to tap into the geothermal energy that’s buried beneath its feet. The ...
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19 November
BBC Electrifying Africa in Kenya
This video sees BBC investigating journalist Tom Heap traveling Africa and discovering how they intend to get electricity to satisfy demand which currently massively exceeds supply. Science is at the core of the solution with Geo thermal energy production potentially solving the country’s electricity problems. When traveling around the Great ...
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19 November
Suriname – Land of Many Colors
Suriname is a warm, dense convergence of rivers that thumps with the lively rhythm of ethnic diversity. From Paramaribo, the country’s effervescent Dutch-colonial capital, to the fathomless jungles of the interior, you’ll get a genuine welcome to this tiny country – whether from the descendants of escaped African slaves, Dutch ...
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19 November
South Suriname Conservation Corridor ENG
Conservation International is an environmental organization that has worked in Suriname for the last 25 years, and 30 years internationally in 40 countries to protect nature for the benefit of people. Suriname is a small country on the north-eastern coast of South America. It’s defined by vast swaths of tropical rainforest, Dutch ...
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18 November
Drone training Conservation International Suriname ENG
For nearly 30 years, Conservation International (CI) has been protecting nature for the benefit of all. As a company they completely realise that human beings are totally dependent on nature and that by saving nature, we’re saving ourselves. To that end, CI is helping to build a healthier, more prosperous ...
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18 November
Wave Chasers
With a team of six scientists, engineers, and PhD students who make up his Wave Chasers group, Alford travels to undersea hot spots—areas around the globe with strong tidal currents, where many internal waves are formed—and deploys torpedo-shaped instruments to the ocean floor, where they are able to record the ...
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18 November
Scripps Oceanography – CO2 Increase
This video gives you a brief explanation of the “Keeling’s curve” and how it came about. The Keeling Curve is a graph that plots the ongoing change in concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere since the 1950s. It is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii ...
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18 November
The Surfboard Fin That’s Saving the Ocean
This video tells us all about the very special “smart fin” which has been designed again by some forward thinking scientists. There is already a plethora of detailed information from the deep sea out there however very little data exists about the sea shores. It’s a great invention because it ...
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