Earth Beat, necessary evils
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Earth Beat, 20 April 2012. Necessary evils, like the tar sands in Canada. The fact is, we could use the oil, but is it worth the obliteration of a once-pristine forest landscape? Hear from a woman who treats her painful arthritis with yet more pain, and the man who kills rabbits, to save an ecosystem.
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The True Cost of Oil - listen in new player
Canadian photographer Garth Lenz’s latest exhibition is called 'The True Cost of Oil'.
In it, he juxtaposes the tar sands area in Northern Alberta – an area which for the past fifty years has been dedicated to extracting oil out of sand – with its neighbouring landscape, the world’s largest boreal forest.
He talks to host Marnie Chesterton about what both landscapes look like, and how the tar sands are a metaphor for our current relationship with fossil fuels. View photos.
The bee’s knees - listen in new player
Orit Kaddar woke up one morning with horrendous pain.
Doctors diagnosed her with rheumatoid arthritis and she was told it was something she’d just have to get used to.
Orit begged to differ and after doing some research of her own decided on a radical course of action.
The answer to her pain and problems turned out to be a bee's sting. For more information contact Orit here.
Rabbit cull - listen in new player
Should you wipe out one species to save another? It might sound
harsh, but for Australian authorities dealing with a massive rabbit
population on a tiny island in the Indian ocean, it’s a no-brainer.
The rodents are causing so much damage to grass on Macquarie Island they’re changing the landscape of the place, and threatening the habitat for other animals. So hunters have been hired to kill every single one. Keith Springer, who is in charge of the project, tells Marnie about his mission to banish the bunnies. View photos.
New Scientist - Rampant rabbits trash World Heritage island.
The Beat of Kenya - listen in new player
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The dirtiest job in the world - listen in new player
More than half of India’s 1.2 billion population don’t have access to a flushing toilet.
They rely on what are known as 'dry latrines'.
Unconnected to the sewage system, they must be cleaned out by hand, a task which falls to the country’s manual scavengers. View photos.
It’s usually done by members of the lowest - Dalit - caste and it's dirty work in the truest sense of the word.
We sent our reporter Lakshmi Narayan along to find out more.
Scrap is gold - listen in new player
In Accra, Ghana, there's a section of the city called Sodom and Gomorrah.
It's where a great deal of waste from other places – including Ghana itself – winds up.
It's a bleak landscape of scrap and slums, with oil-soaked ground and plastic and sewage-clogged rivers.
But for the people who work there, it’s a place for opportunity. View photos.
Annoying noise - listen in new player
Imagine using one annoying noise to cancel out another – that's the philosophy behind the so-called Mosquito Device, which emits a peep at such a high frequency that only people under the age of 25 can hear it.
The idea is that the tone's so annoying they’re forced to move somewhere else.
Earth Beat’s Marijke Peters – who’s well over 25 – went on a late night trip to one of Amsterdam’s squares to find out more. View photos.
Earth Beat, 20 April 2012. Necessary evils, like the tar sands in Canada. The fact is, we could use the oil, but is it worth the obliteration of a once-pristine forest landscape? Hear from a woman who treats her painful arthritis with yet more pain, and the man who kills rabbits, to save an ecosystem.
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Dry Tailings. Shell's atmospheric fines drying field demonstration project at their Muskeg River mine.
In it, he juxtaposes the tar sands area in Northern Alberta – an area which for the past fifty years has been dedicated to extracting oil out of sand – with its neighbouring landscape, the world’s largest boreal forest.
He talks to host Marnie Chesterton about what both landscapes look like, and how the tar sands are a metaphor for our current relationship with fossil fuels. View photos.
Orit Kaddar
Doctors diagnosed her with rheumatoid arthritis and she was told it was something she’d just have to get used to.
Orit begged to differ and after doing some research of her own decided on a radical course of action.
The answer to her pain and problems turned out to be a bee's sting. For more information contact Orit here.
Slopes denuded by rabbits on Macquarie Island
The rodents are causing so much damage to grass on Macquarie Island they’re changing the landscape of the place, and threatening the habitat for other animals. So hunters have been hired to kill every single one. Keith Springer, who is in charge of the project, tells Marnie about his mission to banish the bunnies. View photos.
New Scientist - Rampant rabbits trash World Heritage island.
Beat of Kenya
Can you represent Kenya with an audio or video upload?
Music, dance, spoken word - whatever you do best, we want to see your originality and talent.
Click here for more information.
The dirtiest job in the world - listen in new player
A woman prepares to clean a dry latrine in a poor farmer's house, Mudali village, north India.
Unconnected to the sewage system, they must be cleaned out by hand, a task which falls to the country’s manual scavengers. View photos.
It’s usually done by members of the lowest - Dalit - caste and it's dirty work in the truest sense of the word.
We sent our reporter Lakshmi Narayan along to find out more.
Scrap dealer's workshop - young men separating scrap types, Accra, Ghana
It's where a great deal of waste from other places – including Ghana itself – winds up.
It's a bleak landscape of scrap and slums, with oil-soaked ground and plastic and sewage-clogged rivers.
But for the people who work there, it’s a place for opportunity. View photos.
Dutch police cycle past a Mosquito Device
The idea is that the tone's so annoying they’re forced to move somewhere else.
Earth Beat’s Marijke Peters – who’s well over 25 – went on a late night trip to one of Amsterdam’s squares to find out more. View photos.
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