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Aerial image of urban density in Freetown, Sierra Leone. | Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation

S1 E4: Adaptation to Global Water Shortages

25:44

A woman cleans her pen at a sea cucumber reserve in Madagascar. | Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation

Fueling Change: Oil Extraction in Alaska & California

25:52

Lighting A Path: Embracing Solar Power

26:30

Avocados from Chile | Valeria Cardi/Thomson Reuters Foundation

S2 E2: Avocado Wars – The Battle Over Water Rights In Chile

24:40

A guardian of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest watches as a fire burns the remains of lumber poachers. | Still from "Earth Focus"

S2 E3: Building A Future - Lumber Poaching In Oregon and Brazil

26:04

Dairy in California | Photo by Artifact for Earth Focus

S2 E4: Dairy Alternatives - Rethinking Milk In California and Kenya

26:40

S2 E6: Dying Oceans - Abalone Restoration In California

26:40

S3 E2: Coal Mining in South Africa

26:39

Earth Focus

Sea Level Rising: Living With Water

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.

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24:28

Earth Focus

S1 E6: Urban Habitat

Los Angeles is one of the biggest biodiversity hotspots in the world, despite its smog, urban sprawl and snarling freeways.

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25:44

Earth Focus

S1 E5: Future of Food

Communities and innovators all over the world are creating new sustainable food sources that are resilient to climate change and growing populations.

Canal along agricultural field near Los Baños, California. | Carla Pineda

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25:44

Earth Focus

S1 E4: Adaptation to Global Water Shortages

Anticipating future water needs, two regions on opposite sides of the world turn to technology for answers.

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25:26

Earth Focus

S1 E3: City Planning

Two cities, San Francisco and Freetown, brace for climate change using vastly different methodologies.

The border gate on the Tijuana, Mexico side of Friendship Park. | KCET

Episode

25:58

Earth Focus

S1 E2: Climate Migration

Droughts and floods are driving many people away from their rural, farming communities into big cities.

EARTH FOCUS “The Youth Climate Movement Around the World” features Alexandria Villaseñor from Paradise, California. Image courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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Earth Focus

S3 E1: The Youth Climate Movement Around the World

In-depth profiles of four young environmentalists: Alexandria Villaseñor in California, Carl Smith in Alaska, Ayakha Melithafa in South Africa and Litokne Kabua in the Marshall Islands.

A group of women in Zanzibar studies solar installation. | Nicky Milne/Thomson Reuters Foundation

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26:30

Earth Focus

S2 E5: Lighting A Path - Embracing Solar Power In California and Zanzibar

Solar power is changing lives in unexpected places. This episode visits with unique solar power training programs in Zanzibar and Los Angeles.

Episode

25:26

Earth Focus

City Planning (San Francisco & Freetown, Sierra Leone)

San Francisco's developers are building expensive real estate on floodplains, as officials try to heed expert future sea level projections. 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.

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27:18

Earth Focus

Tortoise In Peril

This documentary explores why desert tortoises are a threatened species and how people can change the environment through seemingly innocent actions.

Episode

26:40

Earth Focus

Vanishing Coral

“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.