Environment

A New Morning: Building Hope for Haiti

6 months after the earthquake hit the people of Haiti are putting their lives back together.

A film from Save the Children:- 6 months after the devastating earthquake hit the Caribbean island, the people of Haiti are still trying to put their lives back together. But as this film testifies, there is hope.

Length: 2.59 mins

Pakistan Appeal

Pakistan Appeal from Save The Children

Save the Children's spokesperson in the Swat Valley has recently returned from aid mission in the worst affected areas in the North. Roads are blocked or washed away and the only way of reaching the area is on foot or helicopter. Save The Children's response is already underway but many thousands of children and their families are in desperate need.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/secure/51_12232.htm

Length: 1.58 mins

Haiti Earthquake: Derchine's Story

13 year old Derchine wants to be a doctor, but she hasn't returned to school since the earthquake.

13 year old Derchine wants to be a doctor, but she hasn't returned to school since the earthquake destroyed her home and her school. She takes us on a tour of her new temporary home. The children devised, directed and recorded this film themselves.

Length: 3.24 mins

Haiti Earthquake: Jean Welcomes You to Leogane

Jean shows around the camp where he and his family are now living after the earthquake.

Leogane was hit badly by the earthquake on January 12, 2010. 80-90% of the buildings in the town were destroyed, making almost all of the population homeless. 11 year old Jean shows around the camp where he and his family are now living. The children devised, directed and recorded this film themselves.

Length: 0.34 mins

Haiti Earthquake : Meet the Filmmakers

Meet the group of children making films about the earthquake with Save the Children

Meet the group of children from Leogane - the epicentre of the earthquake - who are taking part in the film-making project, and documenting their own lives in the following 12 months. Watch out for their individual films on Ethical TV.

Length: 1.05 mins

Chasing Windrows

Around the world plastic pollution is a growing plague creating Windrows - junk piles in the ocean.

Windrows are linear junk piles in the ocean. While chasing them the 5 Gyres team found bottle caps, shotgun shells, and a boot among their recent findings in the Sargasso Sea.

5 Gyres focuses on plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action.
http://5gyres.org/

Length: 0.33 mins

Plastic Sushi

Some plastic with your sushi anyone? Marine pollution and your lunch !

Around the world, plastic pollution has become a growing plague, clogging our waterways, damaging marine ecosystems, and, explain the 5 Gyres team, entering the marine food web.

5 Gyres focuses on plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action.
http://5gyres.org/

Length: 0.47 mins

Night Trawl in the Saragasso Sea

Marine pollution - a night trawl by the 5 Gyres team contained a ton of sargassam and plastic.

More from the 5 Gyres team's exploration of the Sargasso Sea. About 100 miles south of Bermuda, a night trawl was pulled in and it contained a ton of floating mats of sargassam and plastic.

5 Gyres focuses on plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action.
http://5gyres.org/

Length: 1.11 mins

Tale of a Bottle with a Tail

Exploring the Saragasso Sea,finding plastic everywhere,the 5 Gyres team uncover a tale with a tail!

The 5 Gyres team explored the Sargasso Sea, which is smack in the middle of the North Atlantic Gyre. They found plastic in every research trawl. They found floating mats of sargassum full of plastic, and one bucket. In the bucket they found a trigger fish, too big to get out... imprisoned in plastic.

5 Gyres focuses on plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action.
http://5gyres.org/

Length: 1.50 mins

Atlantic Garbage Patch

This film, made by 5 Gyres, focuses on the North Atlantic gyre and plastic pollution.

The North Atlantic Gyre is one of 5 subtropical gyres in the world that are filling with plastic pollution. These gyres are rotating currents that carry plastic to the center where it lies forever. The 5 Gyres project travelled there in Jan. and Feb. 2010 to study the impact of plastic pollution on marine life and ultimately ourselves.

5 Gyres focuses on plastic marine pollution through exploration, education and action.
http://5gyres.org/

Length: 1.32 mins

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