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Equator from the Air episode 4 - SE Asia

Equator from the Air episode 4 – SE Asia

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Equator from the Air episode 4 – SE Asia: Gordon Buchanan completes his equatorial journey in south east Asia, where booming economies put increasing pressure on the natural world.     Flying over Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, Gordon discovers this mega-city is sinking. In Sumatra, drones help to manage a dangerous conflict between elephants and farmers. In Borneo, which has lost more than a third of its lush forests, Gordon searches for orangutans at night, and he finds that aerial tech offers hope for endangered Siamese crocodiles.   Equator from the Air episode 4 – SE Asia   Sumatra is one […]

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Seven Worlds - One Planet episode 6

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 6

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 6: North America – a land of change where pioneering animals make the most of surprising opportunities.     Alternative stream and download     More than any other continent, North America is defined by extreme weather and seasonal change. For animals that live here this poses great challenges, but for those with a pioneering spirit it can also offer great rewards.   Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 6   In Canada’s Yukon, winter can be brutal – up to six feet of snow can fall in a single day. But lynx have

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Equator from the Air episode 3 - Pacific

Equator from the Air episode 3 – Pacific

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Equator from the Air episode 3 – Pacific: Continuing his equatorial journey, Gordon Buchanan crosses the Pacific. This rich source of life is under pressure from rising temperatures, pollution and overfishing.     In the Galapagos Islands, Gordon sees how drones are helping protect baby hammerhead sharks, and the iconic giant tortoise. On the other side of the Pacific, an aerial view sheds light on world’s richest marine habitats, and Gordon joins the search for clues about the future of our coral reefs in a mysterious tropical lake.   Equator from the Air episode 3 – Pacific   Galapagos Islands

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Equator from the Air episode 2 - South America

Equator from the Air episode 2 – South America

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Equator from the Air episode 2 – South America: Gordon Buchanan continues his journey around the equator, witnessing the fight to preserve the Amazon rainforest.     In Brazil, he joins an aerial police patrol hunting for illegal loggers, while a local tribe map their territory from the air in a bid to prevent its destruction. Crossing the Andes, Gordon sees how eyes in the sky keep tabs on Ecuador’s endangered condors and visits a reserve where new species are being discovered, high up in the canopy of a pristine patch of cloud forest.   Equator from the Air episode

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 - The Pale Blue Dot

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot: In this final episode Professor Brian Cox travels to Iceland, where the delicate splendour of a moon-bow reveals the colours that paint our world, and he visits a volcano to explain why the sun shines.     By exploring how sunlight transforms the plains of the Serengeti, drives the annual migration of humpback whales to the Caribbean and paints the moon red during a lunar eclipse, Brian reveals the colour signature of our life-supporting planet. Finally, at an observatory high in the Swiss Alps, he shows how

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 - The Moth and the Flame

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 – The Moth and the Flame

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 – The Moth and the Flame: Professor Brian Cox shows how Earth’s basic ingredients, like the pure sulphur mined in the heart of a deadly volcano in Indonesia, have become the building blocks of life.     Hidden deep in a cave in the Dominican Republic lies a magical world created by the same property of water that makes it essential to life. Clinging to a precipitous dam wall in Italy, baby mountain goats seek out Earth’s chemical elements essential to their survival. In the middle of the night in a bay

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 - Somewhere in Space-time

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time: Professor Brian Cox follows Earth’s epic journey through space.     He takes to the air in a top-secret fighter jet to race the spin of the planet and reverse the passage of the day. In Brazil, a monstrous wave that surges up the Amazon River provides an epic ride of a different kind – chased by a top surfer through the rainforest, this tidal wave marks Earth’s constant dance with the moon.   Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time   Greenland

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Seven Worlds - One Planet episode 5

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 5

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 5: Europe – a continent transformed by mankind, where extraordinary animals are found in surprising places.     Europe, a crowded continent transformed by mankind where extraordinary animals are found in surprising places. High above the city of Gibraltar, Barbary macaques – Europe’s only primate, live a life full of kidnappings and high drama whilst in the cemeteries of Vienna ‘grave robbing’ European hamsters do battle with each other for food. Come nightfall, the forests surrounding ancient Italian mountain villages become the hunting grounds for rarely seen wolves whilst deep underground in Slovenia’s caves,

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1 - The Universe in a Snowflake

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1 – The Universe in a Snowflake

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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1: Brian uncovers how the stunning diversity of shapes in the natural world are shadows of the rules that govern the universe. In Spain, he shows how an attempt by hundreds of people to build the highest human tower reveals the force that shapes our planet.     In Nepal, honey hunters seek out giant beehives that cling to cliff walls. The perfect hexagonal honeycombs made by the bees to store their honey conceal a mathematical rule.   Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1 – The Universe in a Snowflake  

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Seven Worlds - One Planet episode 4

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 4

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 4: Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth.     DOWNLOAD   Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth. In the north of this island continent is the Daintree, one of the world’s oldest tropical forests. It’s home to the most dangerous bird on earth – the cassowary. A dinosaur-like

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Seven Worlds - One Planet episode 3

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 3

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 3: South America – the most species-rich continent on earth. From the bone-dry deserts of the Atacama, where penguins weave their way through a minefield of snapping sea lions, to the lush cloud forests of the Andes, where Andean bears scale 30-metre trees in search of elusive fruits, South America is full of the unusual and ingenious.     In the far south of the continent, predators prowl the jagged Patagonian landscape. Underneath vertical spires of rock, a mother puma must draw on all her experience and strength to bring down a formidable prey.

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Seven Worlds One Planet episode 2

Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 2

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Seven Worlds – One Planet episode 2: Asia is the largest and most extreme continent on our planet, stretching from the Arctic Circle in the north to the tropical forests on the equator. The animals here face the hottest deserts, tallest jungles and highest mountains found anywhere on Earth. But the continent has not always looked like this.     These extreme worlds were created when India collided with the rest of Asia 30 million years ago, shaping the continent as we know it today. Animals here have adapted to the extreme environments in almost unbelievable ways.   Seven Worlds

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