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The Compass Living on the Edge, Sea Levels Rise Living On The Edge: Didi's World Tour

Didi Akinyelure travels the world to meet communities dealing with rapid change

  • Didi meets the scientist who hopes to save our glaciers
  • On the Diavolezza glacier in the Swiss Alps
  • Didi in Eko Atlantic
  • Water released from the Rossens Dam
  • The River Sarine, site of a new experiment in river restoration
  • Didi and Yin in a desert transformed
  • Yin Yuzhen presents a feast from her farm
  • Enjoying watermelon where once there was desert

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  • The Compass—Living on the Edge, Sea Levels Rise

    1/4 Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences

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  • Walking the Iron Curtain with Mary-Ann Ochota—Walking The Iron Curtain, Walking the Iron Curtain: Wild lands reunited

  • Living On The Edge: Didi's World Tour—Living on the Edge, Sea Levels Rise

  • In pictures: On the Black Sea—On The Black Sea

  • Italy's Migrant Crisis—Destination Europe, Italy: The Priest and The Mayor

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