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Caterpillar Earthmovers at Work: A Photo Gallery
From building roads through dense forests, mining the earth for raw ore, laying pipe, constructing power developments, to creating golf courses, Caterpillar's earthmoving machines have played an important role in shaping our world.
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Three Gorges: Biggest Dam in the World DVD
From the land of the Great Wall comes the biggest dam on earth! Since the beginning of time, China has been plagued by a large, muddy, unpredictable killer: the Yangtze River. Now the Chinese have a plan to tame the river by building the monumental Three Gorges Dam.
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China's Mega Dam DVD
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is the largest public works project in the history of mankind. Its size, scale and potential are unprecedented in engineering history. The dam is in its final stages of completion – but will it work?
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Energy, Society and Environment
Whilst energy use is fundamental to human existence, it is also at the heart of many environmental problems we face in the 21st century. Deteriorating air quality and the global warming phenomenon can all be attributed to our use of fossil fuels.
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Lost in Mongolia
From the Yenisey?s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5, 500 kilometres of one of the world?s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.
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A Rare Passion
Linden Bradley, an American biologist, is invited down to Brazil to help rescue animals dislodged by flood when the biggest hydroelectric project in the world goes online. She meets Cole Dominguez, a rancher who dreams of beating Argentina's monopoly on the export of beef.
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