Multimedia animations
In this section you will find several animations designed and produced by the International Polar Foundation on different topics linked to the polar regions, the way our planet's climate functions, climate change, biodiversity and energy.
Most of these animations are available as CD-ROMS in various languages. Please contact us for more information.
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The benefits of biodiversity
8 Feb. 2008
The flash animation "The benefits of biodiversity" is part of the CD ROM "Biodiversity & Climate change".The aim of this flash animation is to illustrate the vital role assumed by biodiversity in maintaining an ecological ...
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The biodiversity: relocation of species
22 Jan. 2008
This animation shows that over the course of the Earth's climate's history, species have often had to move in order to benefit from the types of living conditions that suited them. It also demonstrates how, for various reasons, it is impossible for some ...
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The biodiversity: climate change
19 Jan. 2008
This animation deals with the topics of biodiversity and climate change. It lays out the main effects of climate change, i.e. the strengthening of the natural greenhouse effect phenomenon that has been caused by our way of life, and the unprecedented ...
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The biodiversity: introduction
13 Jan. 2008
This animation focuses on the concept of "biodiversity" and its importance for human beings. It also draws attention to the various pressures that people place on the natural environment through pollution, growing urbanisation, the destruction ...
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Various scenarios: choosing our future
14 Dec. 2007
It is only recently that we have come to realise that consuming energy willy-nilly can cause problems. Even today, a part of society continues not to take this into account. However, we are going to have to change this attitude over the next 50 years. ...
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Labels and technology: progress that gives us the choice
13 Dec. 2007
Awareness of the problems associated with the production and use of energy is a very recent thing. It was only in the 1970s that we began to worry about the problem of pollution and the idea that our natural reserves are running out.These days, ...
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Managing transport: getting about with minimum pollution
12 Dec. 2007
Over the past 200 years, with the invention of the train, car and aeroplane, we have become accustomed to travelling faster and further than ever before. Yet every time we travel anywhere, we consume energy. And some forms of transport use more energy ...
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Improving where we live: intelligent comfort
11 Dec. 2007
Some building materials require less energy than others to make, transport and install. This is a factor that is rarely taken into account at the moment when it comes to choosing the building materials we use.We can also design our houses and apartment ...
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Changing our habits: little things that can achieve a lot
10 Dec. 2007
It is possible to save a large amount of energy while still maintaining the same standard of living and comfort. All we have to do is save the energy that we use without it really being of any value for anything.We all make unconscious little choices ...
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Increase in the use and distribution of energy: we need to do more with less
5 Dec. 2007
People live very differently across the world. For example, someone living in Bangladesh uses an average of sixty time less energy to live than an American. In the same way, how people perceive the notion of "minimum comfort" is not the same ...
