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Soil Threat
Green Warriors - S2 - E1
Over the last 50 years, our use of phosphate based fertilizers has quadrupled. These are essential to modern agriculture, used especially for growing potatoes. A team of journalists, in collaboration with European scientists, set out to search for evidence of the extent of pollution in Morocco. They also want to see if the cadmium in these fertilizers is contaminating potatoes and entering the food chain. Their revelations will make the news and change the law. In this investigation, the Green Warriors team reveal the implications of our addiction to cheap fertilizer.
Green Warriors: Season 2 - 3 Episode s
2x1 - Soil Threat
September 19, 2021
Over the last 50 years, our use of phosphate based fertilizers has quadrupled. These are essential to modern agriculture, used especially for growing potatoes. A team of journalists, in collaboration with European scientists, set out to search for evidence of the extent of pollution in Morocco. They also want to see if the cadmium in these fertilizers is contaminating potatoes and entering the food chain. Their revelations will make the news and change the law. In this investigation, the Green Warriors team reveal the implications of our addiction to cheap fertilizer.
2x2 - Coal in the Lugs
September 19, 2021
Every year, 500,000 Europeans are meet a premature fate due to air pollution. One of the main causes of this pollution is coal – a fuel that is still used in many European countries. And this air pollution has no borders – it spreads its contamination throughout the continent, where citizens fight every day for their basic right to breathable air. Many doctors have raised the alarm, but there is a lack of evidence to make real change. Together with scientists and citizens, a team of journalists sets out to search for evidence of air contamination. They will carry out a unique, one-of-a-kind scientific study: comparing the levels of carcinogenic pollutants found in the bodies of European children. Despite the hardships and an arrest by the police, after a year of investigations, their results make the headlines, force a government to act and will draw the attention of the European Parliament. Will the powerful coal lobby resist these revelations?
2x3 - Cursed Uranium
September 19, 2021
In this episode, we follow the uranium path from Niger to Europe to reveal the extent of the radioactive pollution created.