This film recounts the story of activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic 30. Protesting against the first oil drilling in the Arctic ocean, they were jailed by Russia and charged with piracy and hooliganism, sparking a bitter international dispute.
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
This film examines the lives of the people affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
A couple competes to live with zero waste for a whole year, with comedic results.
This essay reflects on an incident in 1995, when 300 snow geese died in the flooded Berkeley Pit, a toxic open pit copper mine in the northwestern United States. In his analysis the author draws on new materialist theoretical approaches that reject anthropocentric thinking and instead emphasize the powerful materiality of cultural phenomena.
A supertanker suffers an explosion while offloading oil near Genoa, Italy, triggering a huge oil spill; quick action by Italian authorities limits the extent of the disaster.
The Hanford Site in the United States was the home of the first full-scale plutonium reactor in the world. It produced millions of gallons of radioactive waste and is now the site of massive cleanup efforts.
