Multimedia | film profile
Das Ding am Deich [The Thing at the Dike]
This film examines the life of a German town some decades after a nuclear plant inspired nationwide resistance.
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Multimedia | image
Photograph: Dome on Runit Island
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.
Multimedia | film profile
Leonid's Story
This animated film tells the story of a family which lived in the village next to the Chernobyl reactor, and whose lives were destroyed during the 1986 disaster.
Multimedia | film profile
Libby, Montana
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Donatella de Rita on "The Role of Geology in Urban Site and Development"
Donatella de Rita, Carson Fellow from April 2012 until June 2012, speaks about her research project on urban development and the associated hazard in volcanic areas, as well as on geoarcheology.
Multimedia | film profile
Take Shelter
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
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Das grüne Gold der Inkas [Big Spuds, Little Spuds]
This film examines the effects of mass monoculture farming and traces Idaho potatoes back to the Peruvian highlands.
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“The people had done it themselves” | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour stresses the urgency of the issues plaguing our planet, and the current generation’s pivotal role in tackling them. It features several leaders and experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Multimedia | film profile
Tipping Point
On a journey through the Northwest Passage, this film examines the devastating effects of the Arctic’s disappearing sea ice on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.