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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.
Our upcoming season of "Earth Focus" examines how communities are transitioning and adapting from different energy sources and how the laws of supply and demand affect the environment and people in different ways.
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S2 E1: Fueling Change - Oil Extraction in Alaska and California
Season 2, Episode 1
The global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it.
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Earth Focus
S2 E2: Avocado Wars - The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile
Season 2, Episode 2
The global demand for avocados is having a devastating impact on a drought-stricken community in Chile.
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Earth Focus
S2 E3: Building A Future - Lumber Poaching In Oregon and Brazil
Season 2, Episode 3
Following groups like “Guardians of the Forest,” we explore illegal lumber poaching in the forests of Brazil and Oregon, where citizens and scientists are working together to combat the illegal lumber trade.
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Earth Focus
S2 E4: Dairy Alternatives - Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya
Season 2, Episode 4
The realities of milk production are forcing dairy communities across the globe to rethink the dairy production process.
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Earth Focus
S2 E5: Lighting A Path - Embracing Solar Power In California and Zanzibar
Season 2, Episode 5
Solar power is changing lives in unexpected places. This episode visits with unique solar power training programs in Zanzibar and Los Angeles.
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Clips & Segments
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On the outer skirts of Los Angeles County, solar power is generating the growth of green jobs for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering, bucking a tradition of entrenched gender roles and marginalization in the workforce.
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Kenyan farmers facing historic drought are turning to camel milk, a traditional alternative proving to be a sustainable solution.
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Dairy farms in California are facing a mandate to mitigate their large contribution to the methane emissions in the state’s atmosphere. This is what some of them are doing to meet this rule.
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Upcoming Airdates
Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska and California
Season 2, Episode 1
The global demand for oil and gas has long-lasting impacts on the communities that supply it. In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, powerful native communities are at odds over an oil exploration and drilling plan that will boost their economy but have long-term consequences on native species and their environment. In California’s Kern County, the mayors of two neighboring towns face off on the economic benefits and health risks of oil production and their vastly different visions for the most sustainable path to the future.
Avocado Wars: The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile
Season 2, Episode 2
The popular demand for avocados, once considered an “exotic” item, is having a devastating impact on a drought-stricken community in Chile. Lying within one of the largest avocado producing regions in the country, Petorca avocado plantations are in a battle over water rights, where claims of illegal water diversion are creating civil unrest.
Building A Future: Lumber Poaching In Oregon and Brazil
Season 2, Episode 3
Wood is found in countless products consumers use every day. In fact, lumber is closely connected to the world’s economy – a country’ s importation of lumber tends to rise in correlation with its gross domestic product. Following groups like “Guardians of the Forest,” we explore illegal lumber poaching in the forests of Brazil and Oregon, where citizens and scientists are working together to combat the illegal lumber trade.
Dairy Alternatives: Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya
Season 2, Episode 4
The realities of milk production are forcing dairy communities across the globe to rethink the dairy production process. In this episode, we travel to a village in Kenya where the commercialization of camel milk is proving a sustainable solution in the face of drought. In Northern California, the heart of the U.S. dairy industry is finding innovative alternatives to limit the use of water and manure emissions.
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When Peru’s President Martín Vizcarra came to power in 2018, one of his first priorities was to gain control over the devastating outbreak of illegal gold mining operations in the Amazonian state of Madre De Dios. In February 2019, the government launched Operation Mercury, a decisive action to shut down La Pampa, an entire town built around an illegal gold mine.
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Thanks to the work of many agencies, from California State Parks to the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as from plenty of lesser-known organizations and individuals, progress is being made in the revitalization at the Los Angeles River.
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A proposal to declare a climate emergency in Alaska has brought up long-running tensions over development and conservation among the groups that advocate on behalf of Alaska’s Indigenous people.
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State officials quietly gave away a significant portion of Southern California’s water supply to farmers in the Central Valley as part of a deal with the Trump administration in December 2018, potentially harming California salmon and L.A. County.
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Places like Taylor Yard give us a window to explore ways to balance the city's critical needs for green space, livable space and climate change strategies.
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California’s wildfires have become more destructive and frequent in recent years, leaving behind a profound impact on wildlife.
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The Thomson Reuters Foundation met Paulo Paulino Guajajara in the Amazon on a reporting trip for Earth Focus in January. This week he was killed, the latest fatality in an escalating battle between illegal loggers and indigenous tribes.
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