CNN's Becky Anderson hosts a debate from University College, London in April about the safety of nuclear energy.
Earth's Frontiers gathers a panel of experts to ask them if we can survive without nuclear power.
CNN's Becky Anderson asks a panel of experts about how nuclear power can be made safer.
With the world's population set to reach the seven billion milestone later this year the challenge of feeding our planet has never been more urgent.
If you ate fish for dinner last night, there's a 50% chance it was not caught in the wild.
Scientists in Uganda have injected banana plants with a protein to make them resistant to deadly bacterial diseases.
Omnivorous tilapia are one of the easiest and most profitable fish to farm - and they're sustainable.
Vertical farming is a revolutionary idea that would enable cities to feed themselves.
"Banana in Uganda, it means everything," says Ugandan farmer Arthur Kamenya.
Built from the rubble of the 2010 earthquake, new homes are slowly taking shape in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Architects are in Haiti helping villages build eco-friendly homes that are entirely water and energy self-sufficient.
Earth's Frontiers reports on the knowledge that NASA has discovered and developed for sustainable living.
Earth's Frontiers reports on Finland's first eco-logical neighbourhood, which have super-insulated buildings.
In five years time, all new homes built in the UK will be required to be zero carbon, with no net carbon emissions over a year.
An eye-catching spiral skyscraper with a garden on every level is being planned for Abu Dhabi.
Waste-burning power stations rarely pass for stylish weekend resorts. But in an industrial town on the fringes of Copenhagen, an old incendiary plant is set for a seductive alpine makeover.
Waste-burning power stations rarely pass for stylish weekend resorts. But in an industrial town on the fringes of Copenhagen, an old incendiary plant is set for a seductive alpine makeover.
Earth's Frontiers visits two new solar energy facilities that aim to sufficiently power thousands of American homes.
Five Congolese women have travelled to India to take part in an initiative to become experts in life saving solar technology.
Earth's Frontiers travels to Cardiff, Wales look at a new type of solar cell which recycles ambient light and turns it into energy
Turning grandmothers into solar engineers is one of Sanjit "Bunker" Roy's favorite jobs.
Test your solar powers with our quiz on the sun's energy, solar panels and more.
Cheaper and lighter compared to its more expensive, cumbersome silicon cousin, plastic photovoltaics (PV) could herald a revolution in the solar power market, according to a UK solar panel expert.
A solar-powered car which produces the same amount of energy as a household toaster has smashed the world speed record for a solar vehicle.
Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.
Private businesses are better placed than governments to tackle global warming because they can act faster, according to panelists at CNN's climate change debate.
CNN's Becky Anderson asks a panel of climate change fighters about what they're doing to tackle climate change.
CNN's Becky Anderson asks a panel of climate change fighters who is to blame for global warming?
CNN's Becky Anderson asks a panel of climate change fighters who is to pay for fighting climate change?
Forests covering an area almost the size of Russia could be restored around the world, according to a global partnership of scientists.
Researchers have found new evidence on how tough survival can be for big predators such as tigers, lions, polar bears and leopards.
Cyprus is running low on drinking water and experts worry the island is turning into a desert.
Many of Africa's natural and cultural sites are under threat from uncontrolled development, poaching and civil unrest, UNESCO has warned.
More than half a million people a year flock to the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia's most accessible wilderness, to see its impressive peaks and ancient rainforest.
Rainforest covers 60 percent of Indonesia, yet this developing country is among the world's highest carbon emitters.
CNN's Becky Anderson reports on the levels of deforestation in Brazil that are actually dropping.
Indonesia has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world. CNN looks at the issues as a result of this.
Earths Frontiers looks at what the New South Wales government has done to preserve the Blue Mountains National Park.
Only when flying over the treetops of the Brazilian Amazon was I finally able to comprehend the scale of the forest.
An international team of climate scientists is calling on the public to help with a new initiative aimed at predicting how the climate will change during the 21st century.
Traversing the infamous Northwest Passage was an experience unlike any other I've been through.
Brazil has begun to auction parts of its rainforest to private companies for logging.
Adventurer Bear Grylls takes Earth's Frontiers on an expedition to see the declining glaciers of the Northwest Passage.
Jay Leno explains why cars in the early 20th century had a 'mother-in-law' seat and shows us the 1909 Baker Electric car.
Jay Leno recalls the day he bought his first set of wheels and shows us a car that represents conspicuous consumption at its best.
Top U.S. talk-show host Jay Leno loves cars but also considers himself an environmentalist.
CNN journeys to Bolivian lithium mines to take a look at the mineral that will power electric cars of the future.
"Back to the Future" is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. While we don't yet have the time-traveling Deloreans, the world is getting ready for the next automotive revolution.
Jay Leno shows CNN around his garage where he attempts reconcile his love of cars with his concern for the environment.
Say goodbye to gasoline and hello to the AirPod. CNN takes a look at the car of the future that will run on compressed air.
American comedian Jay Leno gives CNN's Earth's Frontiers a tour of his environmentally friendly garage.
Major car manufacturers are poised to launch their electric vehicles and expectations are so high Nissan says it has closed its U.S. waiting list with 20,000 pre-orders.
Air travel could be powered from vast seas of algae growing close to airports within four years, according to researchers and airlines hoping to find a green future for aviation.
As recently as 100 years ago, Montana's Glacier National Park had more than 150 glaciers throughout its more than one million acres.
CNN's Earth's Frontiers visits a national park in Montana that is melting away and the man with the photos to prove it.
Earth's Frontiers travels to Cyprus where the country has become the first in the European Union to run out of water.
Cyprus is an island of one million people in the Mediterranean Sea and it's facing a water crisis.
Many people in Cyprus feel that we are already seeing a lot of changes in our climate.
While the eyes of the world have followed the effect of Haiti's devastating earthquake on Port-au-Prince, an ecological disaster has been quietly unfolding elsewhere in the country.
Some of the world's smallest organisms are hard at work on the biggest environmental problems.
What can be done to balance the desire for progress with the need to protect delicate ecosystems?
From oceans to forests, preserving biodiversity is key to saving our future.
The Earth's Frontier debate panel discuss the value and importance of biodiversity.
How biomimicry works in nature and how it's now being applied to architecture. CNN's Becky Anderson reports.
From the Earth's Frontiers debate, Philippe Cousteau warns that overfishing is a major threat to all life on the planet.
The UN's biodiversity chief tells the panel at the Earth's Frontiers debate the value of international cooperation.
Scientists research ways eels may help spinal injury patients in the near future. CNN's Becky Anderson reports.
The extinction of species like the dodo, elephant bird, Tasmanian tiger and pink pigeon have made little impact, but more charismatic species, such as the panda, gorilla and tiger currently stand on the brink.
Life as we know it would simply not exist without plants.
The volcanic eruption in Iceland has given scientists a unique opportunity to study its effect on marine biology.
A ten year study of sea life has revealed just what lives beneath the waves.
German marine scientists in Kiel use new technology to scour the oceans' depths and learn how they are changing.
Oceans have become so depleted by over-fishing and climate change they can only be saved by a large network of reserves.
Scientists are exploring how the secret to cleaning up pollution in our oceans lies within nature.
The oceans have become so depleted by over-fishing, pollution and climate change that they can only be saved by a large global network of reserves, according to a growing consensus among marine scientists.
Using high-tech robotic cameras, a team of scientists is getting a rare first glimpse of marine life in the North Atlantic that could shed light on the ocean's ecosystem and climate to as far back as 1,000 years.
It's not just animals and plants that can flourish by protecting biodiversity but the bottom line of businesses, according to a new report.
"The largest bird on Earth that can fly weighs 15kg", said Michel de Gliniasty, Scientific Director at ONERA the French Aerospace Lab. "A condor, and it is something like less than four meters in wingspan."
From airliners to robotic drones, the next generation of flying machines are inspired by nature's experts.
Architects, once inspired by nature, are looking at the possibility of creating buildings with lifelike characteristics.
By studying lamprey eels, scientists are developing life-changing therapy to help people with spinal injuries walk again.
The innate characteristics of animals, birds and insects are helping inform a growing number of science and engineering projects all over the world.
If you're in need of inspiration for a design project you might traditionally peruse a textbook, or perhaps visit a local design exhibition.
Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon region is thought of as the most biologically diverse forest in the world.
You used to know them as maps, but in a Web 2.0 world they're now called geographic information systems (GIS) and they could play a key part in saving the world's endangered coral reefs.
A proposed dam could create abundant electricity but wipe out one Turkish town and threaten the area's ecology.
The most impressive thing about Yusufeli is the people who live there.
It was one of those moments when almost immediately you realize separating probably wasn't very smart.
On the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan the country is trying to repair one of the World?s worst environmental disasters.
Earth's Frontiers travels to the Kackar Mountains in north eastern Turkey where local conservationists fear for their wildlife.
Earth's Frontiers travels deep into the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in the equatorial western Amazon to research endangered species.
How can we balance progress and conservation?
The biodiversity of small mammals in North America may already be close to a "tipping point" causing impacts "up and down the food chain" according to a new study by U.S. scientists.
You used to know them as maps, but in a Web 2.0 world they're now called geographic information systems (GIS) and they could play a key part in saving the world's endangered coral reefs.
Scientists have discovered a "treasure trove of new species" including a frog with a "Pinocchio-like" nose in a remote section of Indonesian rainforest in Southeast Asia.
The world's eco-systems are at risk of "rapid degradation and collapse" according to a new United Nations report.
The world's eco-systems are at risk of "rapid degradation and collapse" according to a new United Nations report.
From the forests of Ecuador to the shore of the Aral Sea, in the coming months Earth's Frontiers will be exploring the rich diversity of life on our planet and the challenges of conservation.
Earth's Frontiers debate panel discussed how real solutions could be found to combating climate change.
Should business, governments or individuals take the lead in the drive to a sustainable carbon-neutral future?
Climate skeptics are indicative of societies in decay.
As an intrepid producer for CNN, I have been in some strange situations. Possibly the strangest, however, was on a recent trip to France to produce a piece on nuclear energy for the latest episode of Earth's Frontiers. We were about to be taken on a rare behind-the-scenes tour of Tricastin Nuclear Power Station's nuclear reactor.
Engineers claim to be close to a breakthrough that could make coal less polluting. Earth's Frontiers investigates.
It is one of the most abundant natural resources, providing around a quarter of the world's total energy and powering over 40 percent of our electricity supplies.
The first shock in new eco-documentary "Dirty Oil" comes in the first few seconds when a question is asked: where does most of the U.S.'s oil come from?
Earth's Frontiers spoke to Sam Ori on the future role of oil and how it could clean up its act.
Norway is the world's third largest exporter of oil and gas. We find out why they say their product is the greenest oil in the world.
Earth's Frontiers travels to France where the country has shown such a commitment to nuclear energy like no other.
Nuclear power is inadequate, hugely expensive, unnecessary and dangerous.
We need three things from global energy and electricity supplies. They should be as economic as possible, as reliable as possible -- power cuts are very expensive -- and do as little damage to the environment as possible.
If I had to sum up our week in Norway with one thought, it would be "boiler suit". We were there to film our segment for Earth's Frontiers on oil and we quickly realized that there's not much to see in the oil and gas industry that doesn't require some hard-core protective clothing.
Cresting the brow of autovia A-49 in Andalusia, 10 miles outside of Seville, the world's first commercial solar "power tower" appears on the skyline like a giant obelisk.
There is an undeniable excitement attached to the launch of a new series. With the rough brief being that Earth's Frontiers was to be an environmental show, a host of warm and exotic locations sprang to mind.
Wind power provides a fifth of Denmark's electricity, most of it generated by giant wind farms built on land and in the country's coastal waters.
What are the practical implications of harnessing the sun? Earth's Frontiers travels to southern Spain to investigate.
Earth's Frontiers meets the people responsible for supplying 20 percent of Denmark's electricity through wind power.
Earth's Frontiers travels to Hawaii, where the U.S. military and Ocean Power Technologies to harness wave power.
Anytime you're assigned to a story in Hawaii, you can expect the next few days around the office to be unpleasant. The chiding is constant. "When did we start getting to pick where we do stories?"
Producing electricity using the power of the oceans could start a new wave in renewable energy. But some fear that "wave farms" could damage the livelihoods of fishermen by rendering coastal waters off limits.
Over the next three months Earth's Frontiers will report from around the world on cutting-edge energy technology and fuel the debate on the future of energy.
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