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"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.
"Earth Focus" presented the inaugural Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival, Los Angeles' first festival of its kind, free to the public on July 29 at Hollywood's iconic Egyptian Theatre, presented by KCET and Link TV in partnership with Washington, D.C.'s renowned "Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital." A full day of screenings and panels Included "Water & Power: A California Heist," "Rise: Sacred Water- Standing Rock," "Tomorrow" and "The Age of Consequences" with films Introduced by celebrity activists Raphael Sbarge, Ed Begley Jr., Patrick Fabian and Sharon Lawrence. Stay tuned for more information on the 2018 Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival.
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Tortoise In Peril
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This documentary explores why desert tortoises are a threatened species and how people can change the environment through seemingly innocent actions.
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Earth Focus: The Fight to Save 'Vanishing Coral'
Episode 72
“Vanishing Coral” presents the personal story of scientists and naturalists who are working with local communities to protect coral reefs that are being destroyed by warming seas, pollution, and destructive fishing practices.
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Can Religion Save The Environment?
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Illicit Ivory
Episode 71
Elephants have lived in the savannas and forests of Africa for more than two million years. They are the largest land animals on Earth – and one of the most intelligent. They feel emotions like grief and joy. Can they even survive in the wild anymore?
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Climate Change: The Rising Cost
Episode 70
The cost of climate change is rising and its consequences are increasingly threatening our national security.
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A documentary exploring the past, present, and visions for the future of Taylor Yard
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"M*A*S*H" actor Mike Farrell and Academy Award-winning actor James Oliver Cromwell share their thoughts on what the current state of capitalism means for the environment.
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Academy Award-winning actor James Oliver Cromwell shares his experience going to jail in light of refusing to pay an environmental protest fine.
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Tortoise In Peril
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Desert tortoises are a threatened species. Habitat destruction, diseases and other factors have reduced their numbers by up to 90 percent. Now flocks of ravens, that often live off human trash, are eating baby tortoises, reducing the odds of tortoise survival as a species. This documentary explores that impact, pointing out how people can change the environment through seemingly innocent actions.
Illicit Ivory
Episode 71
Every twenty minutes an elephant is killed to feed an insatiable demand for ivory. African elephants may be gone in as little as ten years. Behind the slaughter are the most dangerous groups in the world – organized crime syndicates, insurgents and terrorists. Ivory buys guns and ammunition for Uganda's Lord’s Resistance Army and Sudan's Janjaweed, both linked to mass atrocities and supports al Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate behind the attacks on Kenya’s Westgate Mall and Garissa University.
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2018-04-22T07:00:00-07:00Link TV
Vanishing Coral
Episode 72
“Vanishing Coral” presents the personal story of scientists and naturalists who are working with local communities to protect coral reefs that are being destroyed by warming seas, pollution, and destructive fishing practices. Featured in the documentary is the President of the Biosphere 2 Foundation Abigail Alling, marine biologist and coral expert Phil Dustan, captain of the Mir research sailing vessel Mark Van Thillo, and Nono Suparno, a leading conservationist in Bali.
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2018-04-22T07:30:00-07:00Link TV
Sea Level Rising: Living With Water
Episode 101
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.
Climate Migration
Episode 102
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.
City Planning
Episode 103
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.
Adaptation to Global Water Shortages
Articles
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"Adaptation” was until recently a bad word in certain environmental circles. Now we know that we are already beginning to see and feel some of the effects of climate change. That’s why we have to talk about adaptation.
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We invite our audiences to take action in helping elephants, one of the topics covered during our 2018 festival and in a recent episode of our series "Earth Focus."
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KCETLink thanks the various sponsors and partners supporting the 2018 Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival.
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The 2018 Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival will take place Sat., April 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at at Laemmle's Monica Film Center in Santa Monica.
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Una serie de proyectos han surgido para redesarrollar las céntricas áreas que rodean a este río. El temor es que los nuevos parques produzcan una "gentrificación verde."
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What happens at the 42-acre Taylor Yard parcel on the banks of the Los Angeles River will set the stage for the future of the river and the diverse communities surrounding it for decades to come.
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KCET OriginalThe 2018 event is open to the public, kicking off with an environmental shorts screening followed by four acclaimed films and closing with a screening of two all-new episodes of KCET and Link TV's "Earth Focus."
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Summer of the Environment
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Vanishing Coral
Coral reef populations are declining at a rapid pace in the wake of climate change. In honor of Earth Day, KCETLink is exploring coral reefs, one of the most valuable ecosystems on Earth.
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A Green Metropolis
The first storyline under the year-long KCETLink/LENS partnership focuses on the past, present and possible futures of Taylor Yard, an undeveloped and still-contaminated site adjacent to the L.A. River.
Greening An Urban River
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