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1. The magic of the Amazon: A river that flows invisibly all around us

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   On a typical sunny day in the Amazon, 20 billion metric tons of water flow upward through the trees and pour into the air, an invisible river that flows through the sky across a continent.

2. Paddle For The Planet celebrates 5th anniversary

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   The ground-breaking global Paddle For The Planet project will celebrate its fifth anniversary when the world-wide paddling relay in support of ocean and river environmental awareness takes place on 6 June.

3. Environmentalists tackle Dusi sand miners

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   A month of crackdowns on sand-mining syndicates operating on the uMsundusi and the uMngeni Rivers by the canoeist’s environmental group the Dusi Umgeni Conservation Trust (DUCT) and local municipal officials has blown the cover on many of these covert operations.

4. Surviving Progress

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   Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years.

5. The Ultimate Loop (not just a freestyle move!)

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   Beth Ripper: "We should all be taking more responsibility for the waste associated with our sport, so I hope that by reading this it will encourage paddlers from all disciplines to think about options for disposing of their plastic kayaks in a sustainable way and encourage manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to realise the commercial benefits associated with minimising waste and encouraging recycling."

6. Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t there

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   Life originates from the sea. The measure of salt in our blood is the same as the Ocean's. The Ocean is the largest place on earth, it covers 70% of the earth's surface.

7. Running out of clean water?

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   Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in this country of 11,000 people had dwindled to just a few days' worth.

8. Tapped - The Trailer

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   Tapped is a film that examines the role of the bottled water industry and its effects on health, climate change, pollution, and reliance on oil.

9. Small hydro power with Roy McPure

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   Follow Roy McPure as he walks you through his vision for damming whitewater rivers to generate a little electricity and make money. Support for small or "run-of-river" dams is seeing an increase as people explore new ways of making money with old ways of making electricity in an era of climate change related tax incentives.