Returning to your screens this Thursday, Fíor Scéal will examine climate change and its deadly effects with the new documentary Disaster Diaries: 2017.

Fíor Scéal is back for the new year and as usual won’t be shying away from controversial or heavy subject matter.

Returning to your screens this Thursday on TG4 Fíor Scéal will examine climate change and its deadly effects with the new documentary Disaster Diaries: 2017. 

The year 2017 was marked by several major Atlantic hurricanes (including Harvey, Irma and Maria), flooding in South America and a serious earthquake in Mexico. In Europe, deadly forest fires struck Portugal. Madagascar was flattened by a Category 4 typhoon that wiped out the country’s infrastructure. The financial costs are unprecedented with billions of dollars of damage. Thanks to spectacular footage filmed at the heart of the action, this film shows a selection of the most notable natural disasters to strike in 2017.

 

Other Fíor Scéal documentaries airing this month include:

 

The Lost World of Lengguru 18/01 @ 22.30: Born after the violent collision of tectonic plates at the borders of the Indian Ocean, in West Papua, the Lengguru karst massif surged upwards suddenly 11 million years ago, raising insurmountable barriers. It has since remained closed on itself. This region has permitted the development of a myriad of species found nowhere else. A unique ecosystem about which everything, or almost, has yet to be discovered. This film recounts the most important scientific expedition ever conducted in Papua. 50 European and Indonesian researchers ventured for weeks in territories never explored before.

Airing Thursday 18/01 at 22.30, repeated Tuesday 23/01 at 00.15

 

Dynamic Salt 25/01 @ 22.30: Could we get all our energy needs from sea water and the salt it contains? Are we to witness a time when salt will power our engines and factories, and light up our cities? Could this be the final curtain not only for shale gas and oil, but also the burning of fossil fuels and the beginning of a gentler form of energy that is definitely renewable? This documentary explores the latest research on sea water and the way scientists all over the world are working on “Blue Energy”.

Airing Thursday 25/01 at 22.30, repeated Tuesday 30/01 at 00.15