Population Pressure 32 items | updated Apr 3 2009
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The Homeless Count
How do you count homeless people? Why would you count homeless people? 7 years old is the average age of someone homeless in... more-
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Galapagos Now!
The "last paradise on earth" is currently endangered by the very things that may actually save it: economic growth and a... more-
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Toxic Seas
Abnormally high levels of toxic algae in the waters off the California coast are harming some of the ocean's top mammals.... more-
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Elixir of the Toxic Frog
Current's Mariana van Zeller heads to the Brazilian Amazon to search for the fabled Kambo frog, one of many organisms that... more-
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Hong Kong Prepares
Hong Kong was hit with the firist H5N1 influenza outbreak in 1997 and successfully brought it under control. In the wake of a new... more-
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Battle Against Bird Flu
Laura Ling looks at the battle against bird flu in Vietnam and how poor poultry farmers are dealing with having to kill their... more-
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Laura Ling Reports On Amazon Tribe
Laura Ling visits a native tribe in Brazil's Amazon forest.-
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The Amazon Frontier
A look at how the Amazon forest is being developed and how this is affecting preservation efforts.-
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Slaves of the Amazon
Laura Ling travels to Brazil to see how indentured servants are being used to deforest the Amazon.-
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Hard Labor
Laura Ling heads out with Brazil's anti-slavery task force in the Amazon jungle.-
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Texas Oil Rush
As the price of oil and gasoline skyrocket, sucking money from the pockets of Americans, that money has to be going somewhere.... more-
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Texas Oil Man
Elizabeth Chambers goes to the hometown of George W. Bush to meet the most famous independent oil man in Texas, to talk about why... more-
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Glacier
Adam Yamaguchi travels to Alaska to witness some of the dramatic effects of climate change.-
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Goodbye Shishmaref
Adam Yamaguchi looks at how global warming is threatening the existence of a village in northern Alaska.-
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Bangladesh on the Brink
Flood-prone Bangladesh may be on the frontline of global warming--a possible sign of things to come for the rest of the world.-
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Diving Too Deep - Part 2
As scientists warn of an alarming decline in ocean resources, Current's Mariana van Zeller travels to the Miskito Coast of... more-
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Rebels in the Pipeline
Current's Mariana van Zeller travels to one of the most unstable regions in the world - Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta.... more-
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NY Oil Spill: 1950-?
Greenpoint, Brooklyn is a quiet residential neighborhood in New York CIty. But underneath part of the neighborhood lies the... more-
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Dam of Progress & Doom
Modernization in China Adrian Baschuk looks at the Three Gorges Dam that displaced millions, but provides clean electricity for... more-
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