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Can the forests come crawling back?

NATURE: Afforestation is the cozy climate solution everyone likes. Fred Pearce believes it is far more important to fight logging and rather let the forest grow back on its own. He points out that with 25 per cent more trees, these would be able to pull as much as 200 billion tonnes of CO000 out of the atmosphere – enough in itself to keep us below the target of a 2 degree temperature rise by 1,5.
Anders Dunk -

Lost in translation

ABORIGINES: Tromsø International Film Festival's opening film is a minimalist but profound study of the cultural clash between Inuit and government in Canada.
Aleksander Huser -

An extraordinary and endangered life

Yupik-Inuit: The Book of the Sea is a mesmerizingly beautiful close-up of a way of life that disappears in line with the melting of the Poles, showing a side of Russia we have barely seen before.
Nick Holdsworth -

The deadly soyamafia

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns shows the pollution and extinction that threatens Argentina's indigenous population, caused by the soy industry.
Dieter Wieczorek -

A shaman's return

Ex-Shaman is not only a film about Western influences on the lives of indigenous peoples in Brazil, but also a moving portrait of a shaman's struggle with his past and present identity.
Nick Holdsworth -

The Indians' last fight?

A Norwegian-financed, controversial oil pumping has led to a Native American revolt in the United States.
Hans-Georg Kohler -

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