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Transcripts and details of all Earthbeat programs, from 1995 to 2005, are available by year and by subject. Final Programs Saturday 22 January 2005Parched Lands: Desert Fire - Fanning the Flames Part Three - AustraliaIn the arid heart of Australia, fire has been a major force in shaping the landscape and its inhabitants for millennia. Indigenous people still use fire in the Australian desert, but traditional burning practices have changed since European settlement. Without this age-old influence, some believe the country is waiting to detonate – at risk of an onslaught from hot, huge and uncontrollable wildfires. Saturday 15 January 2005 Parched Lands: Inner Mongolia – Holding back the Desert Part Three - ChinaFor the residents of Beijing, the thick dust storms that can envelop their city have become an all too frequent event. Overgrazing and overploughing are driving the expanding dustbowl, as topsoil and livelihoods literally blow away in the north of the country. China’s neighbours, Korea and Japan, have complained about the oppressive billows of dust too. Saturday 8 January 2005 Parched Lands: Thirsty Communities – Harvesting Rains in Rajasthan In the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, the annual monsoon rains are often disappointing and communities face the prospect of devastating drought, with soils that are barely tillable. Here, water is a precious commodity and lies at the heart of a heated, nation-wide debate over water access and rights. Saturday 1 January 2005 Parched Lands: Water Wars - The Battle for California’s Owens’ Valley California’s capital, the busy metropolis of Los Angeles, owes its birth to a dry, dusty carcass of valley, and the death of the once healthy river that swept through it. In the early 1900’s the ecologically rich Owens Valley, became the site for one of the most ambitious engineering feats of its time.
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