Le sel - Fléau et ressource

Salz: Fluch und Segen

Salt: A Blessing and a Curse

Nowe wcielenie starej soli

Il sale: panacea o flagello?

<p>Salt is essential to life on Earth and is present on our planet in abundance. Whilst it can pose a risk to human health and the environment, it also could hold the key to our future energy needs.</p>

Essential to life and present on our planet in abundance, salt is a health risk but also a useful resource.

Fire in the Sky reveals how researchers have gained new insight into the impact of the Northern Lights on infrastructure and animal behavior. The documentary explains why solar storms can be a danger to humanity with the power to damage satellites, stop air traffic, and paralyze power grids and telecommunications networks.

Northern Lights have fascinated and disturbed our ancestors for centuries. But they could also endanger our future

Fire in the Sky

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Making chocolate for one euro, eco-friendly jeans at rock-bottom prices, fair-trade, organic, and cheap coffee - discounters and fashion chains are suddenly offering customers the opportunity to save the world. Is it all just greenwashing and deception?

The Privilege of Sustainable Shopping

Sustainable consumption: is it all just greenwashing and deception?

Agree to Disagree!

While scientists agree on the date (4 billion years ago), their opinions diverge on the place and conditions that saw the birth of life on our planet. Did the first cells emerge from a primordial soup rather than from primitive oceanic hydrothermal springs? Or could life on Earth have originated elsewhere? 42 attempts to explain it all.

The Origin of Life

Life emerged about four billion years ago, but exactly where and how it started is unclear. 42 tries to find out the answer.

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. We cultivate the language of touch from birth and it is essential for the development of our body and minds. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

The Power of Touch

Biodiversity is good for the environment but also for our taste buds. In Alsace, a winegrower practices "complantation", the mixing of several grape varieties on the same plot to avoid pesticides. In southern Italy, Mario relies on the coexistence of plants and livestock to enrich the biodiversity of his fields and produce a mozzarella with a unique taste.

Resilient Biodiversity

Biodiversity is good for the environment but also for our taste buds.

Roots

Just off the coast from the French Riviera, Port-Cros is the smallest of the Hyères islands. Since 1963, its 7 square kilometres have formed the heart of Europe's oldest national park on both land and sea. In this living laboratory, conservationists and researchers from all over the world come to study this spectacular untouched ecosystems.

The Island of Port-Cros

Just off the coast from the French Riviera, the island of Port-Cros forms the heart of Europe's oldest national park on both land and sea.

Fragile and Beautiful Mediterranean

A quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture. Factory farming and extreme use of fertilizers and pesticides pollute our air, pollute our water and destroy our soil. Every year, 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost worldwide. In Spain, two-thirds of the country is affected by desertification. But there are also soils further north that are similarly desolate. In this episode of Roots, science journalist Pierre Girard meets Remedios Arres in Andalusia and Johanna Häger in Brandenburg, the sandbox of Europe.

Fighting Desertification

What should Europe do about its damaged and depleted soil?

In this episode, we discover with the journalist Pierre Girard how cows can make the activity of a farm more respectful of nature and how sheep can improve cereal harvests. These unusual methods could offer a solution to agriculture's carbon emissions problem.

Climate-Killer Cows

In this episode, we discover with the journalist Pierre Girard how cows can make the activity of a farm more respectful of nature.

In France, in the Massif Central, Sarah Singla practices conservation agriculture based on three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent land cover and crop rotation. In Périgord, Benoît Le Baube also protects his fields by no longer plowing them. He also uses organic waste to fertilize the soil.

Sustainable Agriculture to the Rescue

In France, in the Massif Central, Sarah Singla practices conservation agriculture.

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120 years ago, a capitalist Eldorado emerged in the USA, paving the way for today’s billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. How did the power of the super-rich consolidate, especially during the depression after 1929 or during Ronald Reagan's policy of deregulation and tax cuts in the 1980s?

A Paradise for Millionaires (1870-1920)

How a capitalist Eldorado emerged in the USA 120 years ago, paving the way for today’s billionaires.

Capitalism in America - The Cult of Wealth (1/3)

The UN wants to put an end to the HIV pandemic by 2030. In Europe, some countries are lagging behind. We speak to a doctor who was in the medical team that managed to cure a man of HIV. He tells us why finding a cure isn’t as simple as it might seem. We also look at the obstacles facing the fight, including a surge in cases linked to the rise of chemsex.  

Is an end to AIDS in sight?

Four decades after HIV was discovered, the virus is still prevalent across the world. But prevention and treatment programmes are yielding results.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Deborah Feldman found worldwide fame with her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful Netflix series. In this extensive interview, she talks about the central and vital role books have played in her life, on post-war writing dealing with the holocaust, and also contemporary events, notably the Israel-Hamas war.

With Deborah Feldman

An extensive interview with writer Deborah Feldman, famous for her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful Netflix series.

The Book that Changed my Life

Why is femicide so prevalent across Europe? And what does it say about our societies? A look at the issue in Spain, France and Germany.

You Belong to Me!

How has the life of European Union citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago, on 1 November 1993? Documentary filmmaker, David Holland, born the same year as Maastricht travels the length and breadth of the continent by rail to find out.

A Journey through the Continent

How has the life of European Union citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago, on 1 November 1993?

Europe since Maastricht

PJ Harvey plays a typically magnetic, no-nonsense performance to a packed audience at the Paris Olympia, bringing together some of her older hits with newer material from her tenth album: I Inside the Old Year Dying.

L'Olympia Paris

Cult songsmith PJ Harvey takes Paris' L'Olympia by storm with material from new album I Inside the Old Year Dying.

PJ Harvey

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

ARTE Reportage

A history of American capitalism. Episode 2: Appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1921, aluminium magnate Andrew Mellon developed the 'trickle-down' theory. But the millionaires' paradise collided with the economic crash of 1929, which plunged the USA into the Great Depression and mass unemployment. Could Roosevelt save America from dire economic straits?

Making the rich pay (1921-1946)

A history of American capitalism. The 1929 crash plunged America into the Great Depression and mass unemployment.

Capitalism in America - The Cult of Wealth (2/3)

The Orchestre de Paris invites pianist Yuja Wang for a special concert conducted by Klaus Mäkelä bringing together works by Debussy, Ravel and Bartók. 

With Yuja Wang

Colour and emotion from l'Orchestre de Paris playing classics by Ravel, Debussy and Bartók.

Klaus Mäkelä conducts l'Orchestre de Paris

Beautifully grotesque, politically confrontational and utterly unique: Karin Dreijer's Fever Ray project has come a long way since the immaculate icebox of their eponymous 2009 debut. It's been a thrilling journey. Mournful explorations of parental paranoia and Scandinavian solitude crumbled under the force of a newly emerging identity straining to devour societal interdictions and accepted gender frameworks with 2017's Plunge. Splintered facets of a stridently non-binary personality were explored with 2023's Radical Romantics along with a very human need for intimacy, its most vulnerable moments still as steely and unsettling as a shark circling its prey. Experience the idiosyncratic Fever Ray vision for this exclusive Passengers session beamed in from an abandoned factory in northern France.

Passengers: Les Hauts Fourneaux d'Uckange

Trangressive art from the incomparable Fever Ray for this special Passengers session in an abandoned factory.

Fever Ray

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and the republicans pushed through policies of deregulation and tax cuts whilst Silicon Valley became the new Eldorado for young companies such as Apple and Microsoft. As the internet grew, capital flowed into big tech making huge fortunes and monopolies. The poor and middle classes paid their taxes and the rich paid less.

Who Wants to be a Billionaire? (1981 - Today)

The fallout after the oil crisi of 1973 led to the election of Ronald Reagan who brought in tax cuts and deregulation.

Capitalism in America - The Cult of Wealth (3/3)

Why is it that a comparatively rare disorder such as coeliac disease seems to have become widespread within a few years? With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible? An in-depth focus on gluten, gluten-free diets and the food industry.

With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible?

Gluten: Public Enemy Number One

Astor Piazzolla's only opera tells the story of María, born in the working-class districts of Buenos Aires. Between intoxicating tango and incantatory lyricism, this stunning work celebrates the vibrant spirit of the Argentine capital through the tumultuous life and tragic destiny of its emblematic heroine.

Grand Théâtre de Genève

An innovative opera recounting the tormented destiny of María and plunging the audience into the vibrant world of Argentine tango.

Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness by meeting Jean-Remy von Matt, a major figure in German advertising and Sister Katharine, who left her job in finance to become a nun.

The Time of Your Life

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness.

Unhappy

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn and many are no longer in control of their lives due to their sexual disorder. The problem is a taboo subject. But sex sells, especially on the internet: In Germany alone, online porn providers turn over an estimated 4.5 billion euros a year.

When Pleasure turns into Pain

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn with severe consequences for their lives and relationships.

Re: Porn Addiction

In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen imagined the story of an evil troll who wanted to drive the goodness out of the hearts of humans. To achieve this, he hangs a huge magic mirror in front of the moon. When it breaks, the people touched by its shards become insensitive to human kindness and see the worst in people.

After Hans Christian Andersen

A multidisciplinary work including ice hockey, figure skating, dance and acrobatics telling Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale. 

The Snow Queen

Far from being a mere material detail, our homes can have a real influence on our well-being... City or country? Flat or house? A philosophical exploration of how we live, hosted by Ronja von Rönne.

Happiness and Habitat

Far from being a mere material detail, our homes can have a real influence on our well-being...

Situated between the world's two biggest cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru, Ecuador was once a haven of peace and stability in South America. But in recent years, the levels of violence linked to the drug trade have soared.

Ecuador: A Narco State

Ecuador was once a haven of peace and stability in South America. But in recent years,levels of violence linked to the drug trade have soared.

Could the Spanish have conquered Mexico without the help of Malinche, a Native American slave who became Hernan Cortés' translator? Enslaved by the Mayas and then the Spaniards, doomed to be sacrificed, Malinche made herself indispensable by becoming the conquistadors' interpreter.

Malinche vs Moctezuma

Could the Spanish have conquered Mexico without the help of Malinche, a Native American slave who became Hernan Cortés' translator? 