Monday is a national holiday, and Nihon TV is presenting a 90-minute documentary special at 4 p.m. on the state of the global environment. "Tenku Kara Shinkai e (From the Sky to the Deep Sea)" is hosted by actor Satoshi Nakamura and other celebrities who travel to places in the world where global warming is having its most noticeable effect.
In Tibet, a new railway is threatening the fragile ecosystem, which is already damaged since global warming has begun to melt the permafrost. In the ocean off the coast of Tasmania, the "seaweed forest" that supports the entire underwater ecology of the area is dying out. The program visits a research center in Okinawa where scientists are trying to develop microbes that can consume CO2 Other solutions are also proposed.
On Wednesday night, TBS will rebroadcast a re-edited documentary that was originally broadcast in several parts on its evening news program. The public reaction to the series was so strong that the network decided to combine the parts into one two-hour program, which is entitled "Ai to Inochi to Namida no Zenkiroku (The Complete Record of Love and Life and Tears)" (6:55 p.m.).