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Josh Dorfman discusses the trend of "green films." The movie An Inconvenient Truth raised environmental consciousness to new heights. Now Leonardo DiCaprio picks up where Al Gore left off with the release of The 11th Hour, the feature-length environmental documentary that he produced and narrates.

Sales of off-road vehicles have sky-rocketed recently. What environmental impact does this have? Should off-road vehicles be allowed in national parks?

Motor examines the controversial issue of off-road motor vehicle use on public lands and documents the heavy environmental damage that jeeps, ATVs, jet skis, snowmobiles, and all the other personal motorized transportation devices coming on the market cause in areas that Congress has set aside to be preserved land for future generations.

Mining is no friend of the planet: erosion, deforestation, groundwater contamination, silting, the list goes on. Here's a more direct look at another of its impacts: the human cost.

The Devil's Miner, a documentary by Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson observes the thousands of miners, hundreds of them children, scouring the silver mines at Cerro Rico, the "rich mountain" outside Potosi, Bolivia.

A scientific study reported on in the Times Online UK (here) and in the BBC News (here) suggests that by reading Agatha Christie you become hypnotized. Mesmerized by her repetitive phrases, the study claims that your brain secretes, in Skinner box fashion, “the chemical messengers… that induce pleasure and satisfaction”.

Who knew rebuilding stoves could save so many lives?

Documentary about the 300,000 homeless American Indians.