CHEM3500: Environmental Chemistry

List of BBC Horizon Episodes

2006

Nuclear Nightmares
To what extent is nuclear power's risky reputation deserved?
We Love Cigarettes
A day in the life of the planet's favourite vice.

2005

Malaria: Defeating the Curse
How science is tackling malaria.
Global Dimming
Horizon producer David Sington on why predictions about the Earth's climate will need to be re-examined.

2004

Thalidomide - A Second Chance
Horizon explores why thalidomide seems to be making a comeback and investigates clues to why it caused such terrible damage to babies in the womb.
The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön
Horizon explores the possibilities of nanotechnology, and investigates how far we really are from a breakthrough.

2003

The Big Chill
Is Britain heading for an Ice Age?
The Mystery of Easter Island
Archaeologists piece together the rise and fall of the world most isolated civilisation

2002

Killer Lakes
The deadly natural disaster waiting to bubble up from west Africa's deep lakes

2001

The Lost World of Lake Vostok
Snowball Earth
Killer Algae

1993

Assault on the Male

1991

Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus