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Global resources stock check

If we fail to correct current consumption trends, then when will our most valuable natural resources run out?

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Beating our consumption habit

Our appetite for consumerism is escalating at an uncontrollable rate. How can we stop it from irreversibly damaging our planet?

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Population overload

With seven billion humans living on Earth and rising, Gaia Vince asks whether there is a limit to how many people can be sustained on a finite planet.

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Will we ever... give up gas?

Despite greener alternatives Steven Ashley explains why gas-guzzling internal combustion engines will still be on roads for the foreseeable future.

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The quest to recreate the Sun

Gaia Vince watches the construction of the world’s biggest fusion energy reactor and wonders whether this ambitious and expensive project will actually work.

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Enriching the soil?

Billions of us rely on artificial fertilisers to provide our food, but it comes at an environmental cost. So how do we feed the world and sustain the planet?

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Hi-tech fight against fake food

From mislabeled meat to fake fur, a global industry thrives by supplying shops and markets with fraudulent products. Is DNA barcoding the answer?

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Cycle to recycle old gadgets

Our desire to buy the latest gadget comes at huge health cost to the people who deal with our electronic waste. But could pedal power offer a solution?

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Are we running out of fish?

Global fish stocks are exploited or depleted to such an extent that without urgent measures we may be the last generation to catch food from the oceans.

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Nature’s water purifiers

More and more of our waterways are being starved of life through pollution. One simple, yet improbable, solution? Cover rafts in plants.

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Fake trees to clean the skies

Scientists are looking at ways to lower the global temperature by removing greenhouse gases from the air. Could super-absorbent fake leaves be the answer?

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China's city of the future

Adam Shaw visits Tianjin Eco-City

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Will age of man be set in stone?

Gaia Vince talks to scientists to find out if our impact on the planet will be preserved in history in the same way as major events like ice ages or asteroids.

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China gets on its electric-bike

China’s cities are becoming more and more congested with cars. But, as Adam Shaw discovers, the bicycle is staging a comeback.

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A looming mass extinction

Conservationists fear many animal and plant species will vanish forever thanks to our impact on the planet. The big question is what we can do to prevent it.

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Turning poo into plastic

The innovative firm using an unusual – and unappetizing - raw material to produce useful plastics.

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The cost of our throwaway culture

In the second of a two-part series, Gaia Vince explains how consumerism is draining the planet of its resources, and why it is time to act more responsibly.

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Greening the concrete jungle

The growing number of cities on the planet could provide a solution to many of our environmental and social problems – if we re-think the way they operate.

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2012: Visions of the future

Images of some of the tech of tomorrow, from handheld attack drones to lab-grown burgers.

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Will we lose all our coral reefs?

All over the world, reefs are being killed off to such an extent that the question is not whether things will get worse but whether we will lose them entirely.

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