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Living Planet: Gunning for forests Updated: 2011-07-28 16:30:00 Description: Environmental assassinations in Brazil; The pilot project that's turning poor countries' sewage problems into a source of fuel; European beekeepers' battle with the varroa mite; and thorium reactors.You can listen to the show online or subscribe to Living Planet as a podcast. Click on the links below for the individual items. Brazil fails to halt environmental assassinationsLast week police in Brazil indicted three people for the murders of two prominent environmental activists in the Amazon back in May – but the killers remain at large and judging by past form are likely to remain free. Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife were killed for opposing local landowners in the northern state of Para. It's thought that more than a thousand people have been killed in land conflicts over the country's rainforest since 1985. DW takes a look at why people are literally dying to save the forest in Brazil. Report: Milton Brigatti, BrazilUS and Ghanian engineers turn sewage to fuelKartik Chandran and Ashley Murray want to drastically change the way sub-Saharan Africa looks at waste water. A New York engineer and his counterpart in Ghana are hoping to turn sewage into fuel. The idea is tailored to the needs of developing countries. Report: Audrey QuinnEuropean beekeepers battle the varroa miteEuropean beekeepers have been struggling to cope with an invasion of varroa mite for more than two decades. Some are turning to high tech devices to deal with the problem.They are useful, are hard-working, and they are vital for our ecosystem and economy alike. But in summer time the European honey bee, Apis melifera, faces one of its biggest threats. Report: Julia HahnThorium reactors promise a different nuclear futureA look behind the scenes of the particle accelerator that promises to make thorium reactors viable.The Fukushima disaster in Japan has made countries around the world question their future reliance on nuclear power - Germany is abandoning it altogether. But what if you could build a nuclear reactor which could not suffer a melt down, using fuel which produced far less radioactive waste and which to top it all was a hundred times more efficient than uranium? Interview: Lars Bevanger LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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