Endangered Places. Globe Trekker

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Our planet is under threat by human beings. Tourism, wars, pollution, development, mining, decay, and neglect daily threaten some of the most precious places on Earth. Our presenters take us on a trip around the world to explore some of our most endangered places and ask how we can help. Justine Shapiro shows us the beautiful, sinking city of Venice. Zay Harding witnesses how global warming melts chunks of glacier into the sea in Antarctica. Ian Wright travels to the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas where atomic bombs were tested in the 1950s. Adela Ucar visits the Turkish town of Hasankeyf before plans for a new dam destroy it. And in Portugal, Megan McCormick has to fight for a place on the beach in Algarve as she looks at the invasion of tourism that takes place there every year.