The Longest Day Climate Change in Real Time

By 2025 half the worlds population will lack access to fresh water For millions across Asia this is already a reality Vietnams Mekong Delta is in the grip of the most severe water shortage in living memory Declaring a state of emergency the local government has begun transporting fresh water into the worst affected areas Over 24 hours we follow a young durian farmer Ms Nho as she races to keep

By 2050 rising sea levels will flood 200 million peoples homes across the globe For thousands across Asia this is already a reality In this episode we travel to some of the worst affected places on Asias coastline spending 24 hours with the families living at the whim of an unpredictable ocean Every day from the Bay of Bengal to Java Island families are facing flooding storms dwindling fish

Land use and climate stability are a delicate balancing act Get it right and you can reduce carbon emissions but get it wrong and you can fuel climate change while worsening food security and environmental problems We witness the impact on lives when the balance tips into disaster In Indonesias remote East Sumba Marten has been waiting for rain for 260 days He only has two days of food left and a

The past five years have been the hottest ever recorded on our planet and global warming is only set to increase By the end of the century 75 percent of the worlds population will experience extreme heat and if current trends continue whole regions of Asia will be rendered uninhabitable by direct heat But for many deadly heat is already part of their everyday lives