environmental

To give some context to the big 3 U.S. car companies’ plea for a bailout, we are rerunning this 2006 documentary film (92:25 min, 10 segments) that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of GM’s battery electric vehicle.

Blending drama and documentary, BBC’s If The Oil Runs Out investigates a scenario many experts fear will come true - when the cheap oil we depend on starts to run out. (56 min in 6 segments)

A short virtual tour (5:40 min) plus a Discovery Channel documentary (40 min in 4 segments) on the engineering achievement of the California Academy of Sciences, believed to be the greenest museum in the world.

The world’s second largest coral reef is crumbling as cruise ships full of tourists anchor off Mexico’s Cozumel Island. Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports on the fears for the region’s fragile ecosystem. (2:27 min)

Al Jazeera examines the devastating events of Bhopal, India in 1984, when a cloud of poisonous gas released over the city killed thousands in the world’s worst industrial disaster. (22:20 min in 2 segments)

Beautiful animated information and stats about water. (2:31 min)

The Tuareg people of Niger struggle to maintain their nomadic way of life in the face of uranium mining (4:23 min) and desertification (4:15 min)