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Building better and cheaper

CNN's Ben Wedeman looks at an Egyptian project to provide cheaper and greener homes to those in need.

Choking on plastic waste

Beach trash? A poor catch in a fishing net? Take a look at the arresting and disturbing images photographic artist Chris Jordan recorded on Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Employing the fun theory

Making a set of subway stairs into a piano and a bottle bank into an arcade game; just two clever ways to get people to take time to do the right thing and have fun.

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With reports every Monday and a monthly show, Eco Solutions takes viewers around the world to meet people with solutions to preserve the planet who are putting them into practice.

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Cloud ships to fix the planet?
Cloud ships to fix the planet?

In order to stop dangerous climate change we may be forced to construct giant solar shades, cloud-making ships and cover great swathes of land with artificial trees that suck up carbon dioxide. But will these idea work, or just distract from cutting emissions?


Voyage to the plastic vortex
Voyage to the plastic vortex

A salty soup of seawater, microscopic pieces of plastic and marine debris. That's the ingredients in the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean vortex estimated by Greenpeace to be the size of Texas, contaminated with the floating detritus of our modern lives. Project Kaisei aims to clean it up.

Costing the Earth
Costing the Earth

Coral reefs around the world are worth a staggering $172 billion dollars a year to the global economy. But does putting a price on nature mean coral reefs, coastal mangroves and virgin rainforests are more likely to be exploited rather than less?


Beyond the barbed wire
Beyond the barbed wire

While the world remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, one frontier of the Cold War remains intact; the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea. And it's become an accidental paradise for rare wildlife.

Sailing the Northwest Passage
Sailing the Northwest Passage

Silent Sound completed her voyage through the Canadian Arctic on October 10, four months and four days after slipping her moorings in Victoria, BC. Captain Cameron Dueck gives CNN a report on his epic journey.


Action man of adventure
Action man of adventure

Professional explorer Mike Horn has been to the ends of the Earth and back. Now his new challenge is inspiring a new generation to preserve the planet.

Award-winning reporting
Award-winning reporting

Eco Solutions has won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's award for Climate Change reporting. Watch Kyung Lah's winning report on vanishing sea ice off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, and how it is transforming local communities.


Autumn ideas
Autumn ideas

From salt water irrigation to a meat-free diet, Eco Solutions' October show took a closer look at the different ways being formulated to conserve the planet.

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Don't miss out: Eco Solutions archive

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