The documentary How to Grow a Planet episode 2 reveals the profound and often overlooked story of how flowers initiated one of the most significant transformations in Earth’s history. Before their arrival, the world was a monotonous green landscape, dominated by a limited range of plants.
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How Earth Made Us – Fire: Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. Iain Stewart explores man’s relationship with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature – a walk right through the heart of a raging fire. Fire has long been our main source of energy, and Iain shows how this meant that the planet played a crucial role in Britain’s industrial revolution, whilst holding China’s development back. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier
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How Earth Made Us – Wind: Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. Iain sets sail on one of the fastest racing boats ever built to explore the story of our turbulent relationship with the wind. Travelling to iconic locations including the Sahara desert, the coast of west Africa and the South Pacific, Iain discovers how people have exploited the power of the wind for thousands of years. The wind is a force which at first sight appears chaotic. But the patterns that lie within the atmosphere have shaped the
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How Earth Made Us – Deep Earth episode 1 : Iain Stewart tells the epic story of how the planet has shaped our history. With spectacular images, surprising stories and a compelling narrative, the series discovers the central role played in human history by four different planetary forces. In this first episode, Iain explores the relationship between the deep Earth and the development of human civilisation. He visits an extraordinary crystal cave in Mexico, drops down a hole in the Iranian desert and crawls through 7,000-year-old tunnels in Israel. How Earth Made Us – Deep Earth episode
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