Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve Episode 6 – Embarking on the final chapter of his grand global odyssey, Simon Reeve sets out to traverse the Earth along the Tropic of Cancer, the geographical line that delineates the northernmost boundary of the tropics. This expedition serves as the concluding part of a monumental trilogy, following his previous travels around the […]
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Islands of Evolution episode 1 – Hawaii: Richard Fortey investigates why islands are laboratories of evolution. On Hawaii he finds honeycreeper birds, carnivorous caterpillars and silversword plants. In the first episode, Fortey is on Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born island. According to some estimates, Hawaii has been successfully colonised by only one new species every 35,000
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Earth’s Tropical Islands episode 3 – Hawaii: This is a journey across Hawaii’s varied islands, discovering how they were made and the incredible wildlife that thrives there. Hawaii is the most remote island chain on earth, and its tropical shores are hard to reach. But for the hardy creatures that can make it here, like the waterfall-climbing fish,
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