Global warming : science and solutions: the science of global warming
We cannot predict the consequences of global warming without clearly understanding “how” and “why” global warming is occurring. This program takes you through the complexities and science of our atmosphere, the numerous biogeochemical cycles...
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...
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, ...
Global warming : the rising storm: predictions for a warmer planet
With the 21st century still in its formative years, the world's leading climate, atmospheric and weather scientists take a hard look at the consequences of climate change. Using sophisticated computer models and real time data, they reveal their pre...
Global warming : science and solutions: solutions
This program looks at new solutions that can change our energy sources away from fossil fuels. In ten years we can be free of our dependence on fossil fuels and at the same time reverse global warming. All of the solutions are dependant on the choic...
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....
The living planet : a portrait of the earth: the building of the earth
David Attenborough reveals how huge forces formed the earth, how continents move and how the planet has become so amazingly varied. He visits an erupting volcano in Iceland, finds giant plants on Mount Kenya and investigates the re-colonization of w...
Global warming : the rising storm: warnings from a warmer planet
This program examines the scientific evidence of the effect that the burning of fossil fuels has had on our fragile planet. As the 20th Century entered its final decades, scientists began warning that the world’s climate could shift as a result of...
The Nile River: Shared or Monopolized?
Were it not for the elemental forces of the Nile River, the great architecture of ancient Egypt and Ethiopia might never have been built. But in today’s water-starved world, the river could lead both countries down a destructive path. This program...