Nature en symbiose

So far from the sea and yet at the highest international level, Swiss sailors are everywhere and often on the top step of the podium. Five siblings, united by their passion for sailing, share the secrets that make them indispensable.

True hymn to nature, this docu-fiction retraces the fabulous history of the conquest of water through the construction of dams and legendary canals, the bisses, in the Valais Alps. To relive this saga, Marius accompanies his two children, Manon and Léo, in the footsteps of their grandfather.

For over 40 years, the waters of West Africa have been overexploited, largely by foreign fleets from Europe, Russia and Asia. The collapse of fish stocks is a direct threat to fishermen and their families and, more broadly, to a large section of Senegalese society.

Society is slowly but surely coming to an end. At least, this is what collapsologists, people who believe in the theory of global and systemic collapse, are predicting. What is the situation in Canada? We meet some of them who are leaving cities, engaging in activism, cultivating their gardens...

From making science easy to understand to some of our common everyday challenges, a programme to help us make better decisions when it comes to the environment.

It's summer 2021 and 24 year-old Noam Yaron is preparing to swim the length of Lake Geneva. The challenge, to cover 75 km in under 24 hours, demonstrates his passion for swimming and his desire to raise public awareness of the need to protect the water from plastic pollution.

The protection of biodiversity has become a priority! Nature is an immense reservoir of knowledge and solutions. This series presents and explores biomimetics, an approach that takes its inspiration from living things in order to design sustainable and effective technologies. En-route to tomorrow!

Global warming, melting glaciers, droughts, floods... "Présence de la Mort" (Presence of Death), written by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz over a century ago, presents a worrying reflection of the modern-day. His words set against current news footage, performed on a closed set by young actors, resonate like a prophesy.

A group of ordinary people join the sailing vessel "Atlas" for a 12,000 km journey to Greenland. A voyage during which they will be collecting scientific data, exploring new horizons, braving storms: a human adventure driven by participative science and a need to push themselves to their limit and beyond.