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    How to be an eco-friendly traveller Jump to media player The Travel Show's Lucy Hedges looks at how you can reduce your carbon footprint when you travel.
    • 20 Mar 18
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  • People cleaning up a canal in Bangkok
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    The task of cleaning up Bangkok’s canals Jump to media player The Travel Show's Henry Golding finds out about the plans to clean up Bangkok’s polluted canals.
    • 07 Apr 17
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    Man planting trees to save a river island Jump to media player Jadav Payeng has been planting trees for several decades to help protect Majuli from erosion.
    • 31 Mar 17
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    How Dubai is embracing technology Jump to media player From hi-tech airport sensors to the solar palm tree that charges your phone and takes your picture.
    • 27 Nov 17
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    Dead Sea's sinkholes: Beauty from destruction Jump to media player There are about 6,500 sinkholes in the area which caused devastation in their wake.
    • 04 Feb 18
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  • America's battleship graveyard
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    Nature reclaims US battleship graveyard Jump to media player How what is potentially the largest group of WW1 shipwrecks in the world could become a nature sanctuary.
    • 12 Nov 17
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  • A bridge made from the roots of the India Rubber Tree (Ficus elastica)
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    The 'living bridges' made from tree roots Jump to media player The indigenous Khasi people created the bridges to prevent villages being cut off during monsoons.
    • 24 Mar 17
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