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The Alps’ majestic summits hide a mortal danger: Avalanches. These torrents of snow sweep away everything in their path with enormous speed and power causing loss of life and damage to property. Scientists across Europe are studying avalanches in order to forecast them better but climate change seems set to make the situation worse.

The White Death

The Alps’ majestic summits hide a mortal danger: Avalanches. These torrents of snow sweep away everything in their path with enormous speed and power causing loss of life and damage to property. Scientists across Europe are studying avalanches in order to give be able to forecast them better but climate change seems set to make the situation worse.

Avalanches

The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. This film documents the extinction of species currently happening around the world. But it also highlights hopeful initiatives as committed men and women on every continent fight to save endangered species and work towards improving biodiversity.

Mankind's Greatest Challenge

Biodiversity or Extinction

Our dependence on fossil fuels has never been more painfully obvious than now, as prices soar in the wake of the war in Ukraine. But the issue is more than economic and geopolitical. We're living in a climate emergency, and decarbonisation of the continent is urgent. The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

Energy For All

The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

Europe At A Crossroads

The largest store of carbon besides the oceans is the soil. If only 0.4 percent more carbon could be put into the earth every year, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions would stop immediately. This is called carbon farming. But whether carbon goes into the soil or not is decided by agriculture. In this episode of Roots, science journalist Pierre Girard meets Félix Noblia in the Basque Country and Fabrice Desjours in Burgundy.Félix uses a special grazing system that actively stores carbon in the soil. Fabrice Desjours from Burgundy combines forgotten herbs, trees and plants to transform meadows into forest gardens where everything is edible.

Carbon Farming

If only 0.4 percent more carbon could be put into the earth every year, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions would stop immediately.

Roots

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.

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.

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 Friederike Schmitz's workshops, schoolchildren act out how much space a fattening pig has on the floor of their classroom. In the discussion, it becomes clear that the children think in a similar way to adults: we all feel sorry for animals but changing our behavior is still difficult. Friedrich Mülln, the founder of SOKO Tierschutz, explains why he takes so many risks in the name of animal welfare. Activist Tobias Leenaert lives on a farm in Belgium with freed and rescued pigs, ducks, chickens and a turkey that loves to look in the mirror. He is convinced that the vegan movement cannot progress with moral arguments alone. Many people who reduce their consumption have more influence than a few hardliners. He explains why it is so difficult for people to change their behaviour.

The End of Meat

We all feel sorry for animals but changing our behavior is difficult. Moral arguments against meat are not enough to trigger lasting widespread change.

Who We Eat

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a climate scientist at NASA, explains why we can't just continue consuming meat the way we have. Research is being carried out all over the world into convincing meat alternatives. The episode takes a look behind the scenes of this industry, from the Rügenwald mill to the start-up Future Meat, which produces real meat in the laboratory with millions of dollars of investment.

Lab-Grown Meat

Cynthia Rosenzweig, a climate scientist at NASA, explains why we can't just continue consuming meat the way we have.

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Avalanches

The White Death

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Mankind's Greatest Challenge

Europe At A Crossroads

Energy For All

Roots

Carbon Farming

Roots

Resilient Biodiversity

Roots

Climate-Killer Cows

Roots

Sustainable Agriculture to the Rescue

Roots

Fighting Desertification

Who We Eat

The End of Meat

Who We Eat

Lab-Grown Meat

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