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Costing the Earth — 331 episodes

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1

Introducing Rare Earth

2

Steve Backshall Goes Off Grid

3

Save the Microbes!

4

Gardens of the Future

5

Investigation DRS

6

Water pollution solutions

7

Losing Our History

8

Costing the Earth - The Power of Nature Writing

9

Energy Lessons

10

The Sound of Nature

11

Jobs for a Green Future

12

Greening the City

13

Prawn Free

14

Surrendering to the Waves?

15

A Greener Government?

16

Community Energy

17

How can I be a more sustainable parent?

18

COP27: Meeting the Promises

19

CSI Oceans

20

The Lost World of Ice

21

Saving Vietnam's Wildlife

22

The Prehistoric Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Change

23

An Environmental Paw Print

24

The True Cost of Energy

25

Wild Highway

26

Future Tourists

27

Steve Backshall Listens to the Whales

28

Ukraine: A War on Nature

29

Sustainable Sport for the Future

30

How Green Is My Money?

31

Green Power in the Far North

32

Timber!

33

Government Energy Strategy

34

The World's Toughest Conservationists

35

Rip It Up And Start Again?

36

Northern Ireland's Environmental Future

37

Energy Prices

38

Carbon Farming

39

Britain's Dark Waters

40

The Right to Swim

41

Seeing the Wood for the Trees

42

All Aboard the Sir David Attenborough

43

Canoeing the Cam

44

How green is my golf course?

45

My Toxic Cocktail

46

COP26: A Turning of the Tide?

47

COP26: The Unheard Voices

48

Six Months on St Kilda

49

Earthshot: The Winners

50

Earthshot: More Fresh Ideas for the Environment

51

Earthshot: Fresh Ideas For the Environment

52

Qasa’s Farm - Building Resilience in Bangladesh

53

Britain's Changing Flowers

54

Beaver Town

55

"Greenfinger"

56

New Grid for the New Age

57

The South Australian Miracle

58

Shipping

59

Landfill Legacy

60

Maritime Nation

61

Gene Editing Nature

62

Killer Kitties

63

The New Environmental Sheriff in Town

64

The Lorax

65

Lockdown Planet

66

How to Halve Emissions by 2030

67

China 2060

68

Too darn hot

69

The Future of Environmentalism

70

A short history of environmental protest

71

World on Fire

72

Bushfire Animal Rescue

73

The Great Leaky Loo Scandal

74

Swimming in Superbugs?

75

Build, Build, Build

76

Autopia to Utopia? Car-Free Cities

77

Forests of the Future

78

Flooding Britain

79

Is this something I should be doing?

80

Silencing with Noise

81

Zero Carbon Britain

82

Music's Green Day

83

Covid-19: the environmental impact

84

Fantastic Plastic

85

Plastic Burnout

86

Turning Japan Green

87

Eco Homes Now!

88

Fate of the Falcons

89

Mark Ruffalo vs Chemical Pollution

90

Election 2019

91

Vegan World

92

Dry Me A River

93

Iron Curtain Turns Green

94

Plastic Gardens

95

Powering Britain

96

Carbon Free Islands

97

The e-DNA Revolution

98

Ghost Fishing

99

Fire in the Amazon

100

Verity's Wild Garden

101

Insect Extinction?

102

Indian Impact

103

Eco Anxiety

104

The State of Nature

105

The Youth Are Revolting

106

The Environment after Brexit

107

The Wolf is Back!

108

Fast Fashion Slow Down

109

Dash from Gas

110

Clean Air for Kids

111

Tread Lightly

112

Hit the Gas!

113

The Future of Our National Parks

114

Heat from the Deep

115

Art and the Environment

116

March of the Wet Wipes

117

Wetland Wonder

118

The Real Cost of Chinese Medicine

119

Plasticphobia

120

Man vs Woman vs Planet

121

Helen Czerski's Arctic Expedition

122

Electric Dreams

123

Fertility and the Environment

124

Ending the Plastic Age

125

Verity and the Bees

126

The Future of the Countryside

127

Disappearing Alps

128

Run Rabbit

129

Antarctic Assault

130

Outback Outrage

131

Demolishing Dams

132

Shifting Spring

133

Undiscovered Colombia

134

Dunes into Bunkers

135

Superwood

136

Microfibre Detectives

137

A Greener Home For All

138

Coral versus Coal

139

Defenders of the Reef

140

Everything's Gone Green!

141

Bonn Climate Talks: Where Next?

142

America's Climate Resistance

143

Tony's Farm

144

Fish Farms of the Future

145

Where Does Our Waste Go?

146

The Future of Fashion

147

Dare to Share

148

Guardians of the Environment?

149

Fight the Power

150

Battery Powered Britain

151

Tourist Tide

152

James Wong on the World's Toughest Plants

153

Future Forests

154

Mekong Delta Blues

155

Exploding Penguins

156

Made to Last?

157

Insulation for the Nation

158

Sinking Solomon Islands

159

Reasons to Be Cheerful?

160

Fishing Future

161

Unfrozen North

162

Trump's Big Sell Off

163

Heroines of the Rainforest

164

Delivering Clean Air

165

Soil Saviours

166

Black Gold in Paradise

167

Rig Retirement

168

Fighting Fire

169

America's Energy Independence

170

Cruising: A Dirty Secret

171

Putting the Fizz Back into Planet Earth

172

Nuclear Futures

173

Forests of the Orangutan

174

The British Countryside after Brexit

175

Wildlife-Friendly Motorways

176

Spiritual Greens

177

The Growing Season

178

Fruits of the Forest

179

Cities Without Cars

180

Big Oil Big Trouble

181

The Sun King of China

182

Four Menus to Save the Planet

183

After Chernobyl

184

The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic

185

Digging Climate Change

186

From Iceland with Love

187

Beasts of the Border

188

Litter

189

The Environment after Exit

190

New York's Big Green Clean

191

Acoustic Ecology

192

The City That Fell into the Earth

193

Requiem for a King

194

Britain Disconnected

195

Murder in Cambodia

196

In Conversation with David Attenborough

197

River Quality

198

Antipasto Agony

199

Coast: 50 Years of Change

200

Paying For Our Parks

201

Lungs, Lies and Automobiles

202

Where Have All Our Gardens Gone?

203

Oceans of Acid

204

Britain Rules the Waves

205

Sounds of the Seas

206

Electric Island

207

The Ozone Hole Thirty Years On

208

Britain's Environment: The Debate

209

China's Water Revolution

210

Eco-Cities

211

Cycle City

212

Reds Return

213

Climate Change: Inconvenient Facts?

214

The Price of Cheap Oil

215

Lava: A Dangerous Game

216

Greening the Green Belt

217

Hunting the Beefalo

218

Bristol: Green Capital?

219

The Ice in Iceland

220

Taming Australia

221

Arctic Future

222

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

223

Making a Splash

224

Scuba Squad: Cleaning the Ocean

225

Saving the Caribbean

226

A Decade of Fracking

227

Power to the People

228

El Nino: Driving the Planet's Weather

229

When Mosquitoes Attack!

230

Texan Drought

231

The Diesel Decade

232

Britain's Overseas Wildlife

233

Energy Storage

234

The Future of Our Food

235

Chemical Weapons: 100 Years On

236

Power of Scotland

237

Living It Small

238

Flight from Disaster

239

A Resilient World?

240

Britain's Green Capital 2015

241

Feeding the Crops of the Future

242

Future-proofing Forests

243

Nuclear Waste's Final Destination

244

A Greener Way to Go

245

Britain Under Water

246

A Toilet for the 21st Century

247

The End of Plastic

248

Hot in the City

249

Our Neighbours Are Elephants!

250

Mind the Gap

251

CSI Landfill

252

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

253

Burn That Fat!

254

Sharks Attacked

255

Waste Watchers

256

The Palm Oil Palm Off

257

Electric Cars Recharged

258

GM Update: Pig 26

259

The Cost of Cruising

260

Bees Fight Back

261

Amphibian Extinction

262

Fish - The Next Fight

263

The Deepest Lake on Earth

264

CSI Rhino

265

The Urban Farmers

266

Exotic Pets

267

Green Babies

268

The House That Heats Itself

269

Electrifying Africa: Beyond the Grid

270

Electrifying Africa: The Power Beneath

271

Dash for Ash

272

When Nettles Attack!

273

Robot Farmers

274

Berlin's Big Gamble

275

Future Forests

276

Tsunami Debris

277

Wave Goodbye?

278

Apocalypse Then and Now

279

Cruel Harvest

280

Chinese Salmon

281

People Power

282

Britain's Wilderness

283

Britain in 2060: The Seas

284

Britain from 2060: The Land

285

Jellyfish Invasion!

286

Pushing Water

287

Return of the king

288

Genetically Modified Brunch

289

Cruise Ships and Creeks

290

Britain in Flames

291

What lies beneath

292

Frozen Fish

293

Sands of Time

294

Outbreak

295

The Power of Peat

296

Rebel Without a Car

297

Nuclear Power Without the Nasties

298

Tunnel Beneath the Thames

299

Bambi Bites Back

300

Adapting Insects

301

Bottle Bank Wars

302

Let it Snow!

303

March of the Pylons

304

Gold of the Conquistadors

305

High Speed Hell?

306

Waters of Arabia

307

A Very Large Hole in the Sahara

308

The Air That I Breathe

309

Bug Mac and Flies

310

Cave Carnage

311

Nature's Medicine Cabinet

312

California Gasping

313

The Real Avatar

314

Greening the Teens

315

Cocoa Loco

316

Peak Leak

317

Deepwater Horizon - The Real Damage

318

Fields Paved with Gold

319

Alien Invaders

320

Britain's Nuclear Future

321

Carbon Trading

322

Fur or Faux?

323

OK Coral

324

The Real Eco Warriors?

325

Digging Britain

326

Arctic Dreams

327

Into the Arctic

328

Spring Forwards, Fall Backwards

329

Grapes of Wrath

330

Can Lawyers Save The World?

331

Plastic Pollution