Sourlands
From award-winning journalist Jared Flesher comes Sourlands, a provocative tale of ecology, energy, and agriculture. In the Sourlands of New Jersey, a rampaging deer herd, invasive plants, and wholesale habitat destruction threaten the local ecosyst...
Pad Yatra: A Green Oddyssey
Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey weaves ancient Buddhist spiritual traditions, global environmentalism, and Tibetan and Himalayan culture into an award-winning documentary that spotlights the ways a community-based movement can begin to solve one of the m...
The living planet : a portrait of the earth: new worlds
Man has changed the face of the planet in many ways, causing willful damage and destruction while also creating new habitats for plants and animals. Adaptability is the key to success, and this program looks at the mixed fortunes of a wide variety o...
Ecology: Biosphere 2: The Mechanics of a Closed System
Biosphere 2 was built as a living laboratory to help explain how humans interact with the earth's systems and gauge their impact on the environment. The structure, located in the Arizona desert, relies on huge inputs of energy, sophisticated electro...
Is there a crisis?: biodiversity in decline
The most striking feature of life on Earth is its richness and variety. But research shows that the planet's biodiversity is seriously threatened with destruction by human activities. From the depths of the oceans to the tops of rainforest canopies,...
The future of life: searching for solutions
At the current rate of resource depletion, humankind stands to lose fully half of Earth's remaining species over the next 100 years. At this crucial point in world history, a choice must be made: will coming generations inhabit a healthy planet or, ...
Why is there a crisis?: environmental exploitation
Extinction is a natural process, and five times in the dim reaches of Earth's long history it has happened on a huge scale. Now, due to human activities, another mass extinction has been set in motion - and it is unfolding at an unprecedented speed....
Journey to planet Earth: Extreme Realities
About this title: This title investigates the link between severe weather, climate change, and threats to our national security.
About the series:The programs in the Journey to Planet Earth series explore the fragile relationship between people and...
Ecology: Biosphere 2: A Laboratory for Studying the Future
While Biosphere 2's efforts to duplicate earth's complex ecological systems were unattainable, this scaled-down model is ideal for studying the effects of man on ecosystems. It is possible, for instance, to elevate carbon dioxide to the levels predi...
Ecology: Biosphere 2: Studying Extinction First-hand
The accidental introduction of a common greenhouse ant into Biosphere 2 resulted in the loss of their pollinators. The impact of the loss was felt immediately in the miniature biosphere. The size of the earth and the redundancies that exist in the s...