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At one time we hunted animals. Now we buy them in the supermarkets wrapped in plastic. Albert passes through Battery Hen Farms and meat production centers, before catching up with an unhappy boar behind bars. If animals don't graze on the land as their forefathers did, from where does their food come, and where does their waste go?
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A captivating 13 part series for children that educates as well as entertains. NATURE KNOWS BEST highlights environmental concerns and solutions. Thoroughly researched, these videos approach both local and global ecological problems in a positive way. Albert, the host, is knowledgeable and enthralls children with his ability to tunnel his way into any situation. Filled with high-quality animation, characters and content, this series deals with major modern day issues in a humorous and effective way.
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Albert and a mole follow the trail of rubbish. They tunnel to the depths of a dump and inspect an incinerator to see what happens to our day to day waste. Dealing with rubbish and waste is a multi-million dollar industry; it's not easy to get rid of things. But what can you do? Burn it and release dangerous gases into the atmosphere? Bury it underground and leak poisons into the ground water? How about blasting it into space? How does nature get rid of its waste?
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Ever notice that you can always hear something? Loud music playing. Cars hooting. Trucks crashing through city streets. We can close our eyes, but we can't close our ears. Albert's solar powered car breaks down in Transylvania. There's nobody anywhere to help.
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Albert proceeds to work out the value of a bird. How much is it worth to prevent the world from being over-run by pests and insects? If there were no birds, how would we deal with the problem? - pesticide? How much is it worth to spread seed over wide areas? Birds are tree planters; they keep the environment green. Would man be able to fly if hed never seen a bird?
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Snow in Florida, floods in California! Hail the size of tennis balls in the summer. Is the earth getting colder, or warmer? Albert checks out the global water cycles - which determine the weather. He also observes how the oceans act as earths central heating system, the importance of impenetrable jungles at the equator and looks at how man is affecting the weather.
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The planet's oceans are rapidly becoming the world's trash dump. Every mile of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A "plastic soup” of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and as chemicals trickle slowly up the food chain. In California, conservationists are seeing increasing numbers of whales and dolphins die agonizing deaths. Their intestines blocked with plastics and other trash.
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The ice on the Arctic Ocean continues to melt at an alarming rate. On Thin Ice focuses on the life of the ice-dependent seals, one of the key species in the Arctic and one of the first to suffer as the icy platforms for which they rely, melts away beneath them.
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Presented by young scientists, OUR EARTH is a seven part series which looks at: The science of geology; fossils; the molten core of the earth; tectonic forces; the impact of the sun, wind and water on the earth; the composition of rocks, and why we need to understand geology. Geology is the history of earth and life in rocks.
Rocks, and the materials that they contain, are as important to us as food. Equally important, with the more recent discoveries in space, we have begun to understand just how unique and isolated we are. Geology as a science is recent, beginning in the 18th century, but its heritage is prehistoric.
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The domestic daily water use of three families in different geographical locations in the world are shown. Different areas in the world together with the standard of life determine to a great extent how much water is available per household. Water is used from daily necessity to liquid extravagance, from simple chores to full-tilt recreation. Namibia is the only country in the world that purifies sewage water in a way that makes it potable, and then distributes it to consumers. Water is used in a spiritual role in different religious cultures, purification, baptism and cremation.
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Johan sets out to bring a frog back to its own habitat. Going from a snowy mountain to the hot saltwater summer beach, Johan finally found the little green amphibian's natural abode in the pond.
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Looking for a perfect way to recharge a fuel cell has Johan traveling to a solar power plant, wind generator power plant and hydropower plant.
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Johan looks for the largest animal on land that eats both meat and vegetables, omnivores. He also learns the difference between herbivores and carnivores.
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Earth, moon or the outer space? Johan and his friends will need to explore to find the difference between gravity and density.
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Johan must find a way to sink the helium-filled dinghy that floats in the air instead of on water.
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Searching for the origin of oil, Johan must navigate through swamps and offshore oil rigs in the ocean before striking a type of liquid black oil called petroleum.
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Explores the lives of farmers across the globe to see how water is managed and/or mismanaged. While irrigation seems to be the key to successful agriculture, it does however have severe drawbacks, such as over exploitation of existing fresh water reservoirs. There are industries that need huge amounts of water in their production process: paper, steel and beer. A Japanese steel company is leading the industry in its water conservation and environmental policies. A modern beer industry in Bangkok, Thailand uses water conservation and wastewater reduction techniques.
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Searching for rainwater's journey to the ocean, Johan takes a field trip traveling from gutters to drains and then to rivers and oceans.
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The issue of balance between Mother Nature and all living things; and what happens to that balance when man begins to intervene in nature's environments that depend on fresh water. How do species survive in the Nabib Desert in South Africa and at Glen Canyon in the USA.
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The nature and politics of water transportation affect a growing number of people and enterprises around the world who depend on the reliable delivery of water. In Africa, the ritual of water transportation is at the very core of life for the pastoral people who roam the Rift Valley - the Massai.
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A blackout in Johan's house starts a search to find a natural source of light that is the brightest, and also completely free.
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Johan learns the different states of water evaporation when it changes to steam; condensation occurs when steam changes to water; and snow becomes the frozen state of water.
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This episode is a close look at why three immense river systems like the Nile in Egypt, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya in Central Asia were dammed. This episode explores the role that water plays in world crises; yesterday, today, and most certainly in the future, when m ore people might be driven to war over water. However, water is also imaginable as a stake for peace negotiations. The negotiations over the water rights are still tense. In the Middle East, disputes over water are as old as the stones of Biblical times.
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Johan makes new discoveries about fish. Not every fish breathes the same way. He learns what gills are and how they work.
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With improved water management, water conservation campaigns and revolutionary techniques of water use, we can reduce the poential consequences of its scarcity. Technical innovations that create a stable production of fresh water out of seawater, brackish water and even wastewater are needed. New technologies are being developed that may one day help us preserve water both in space and on earth.
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The rise in the number and severity of weather phenomena and natural disasters over the past years furnishes ominous proof that the earth's climate is changing. The global demand for energy is mushrooming. Fossil fuels, the primary cause of the climate changes, will no longer be the leading sources of energy production. Earth-shaking visions and endeavors are needed to rethink, redefine and reshape the use of energy and its sources for the future. The choice of an energy source - solar, wind, biomass, nuclear or hydroelectric - is of prime importance. Crucial to the world climate will be how quickly ways to use the energy of the sun can be developed. This is the ultimate source of all forms of commercially viable energy on earth and an inexhaustible one.
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Camouflage is an art Johan will need to master while finding treasures in primary living colors.
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With each exploration Johan realizes some fun facts about birds; not every bird can fly! Johan must find a very unique type of bird that flies but not in the air.
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Hunting for rainbows turns out to be more than just sit and wait. Instead, Johan decides to make a colorful rainbow with garden sprinklers.
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This segment describes the formation of rivers and other waterways and the role they and natural resources have played in economic development throughout the years. This program shows how different landscape features such as rivers, land drainage, flood plains, tributaries, and canals impact transportation. Descriptions of "flashes,"swing," bridges, sluices, locks and counterbalance tanks and how they are utilized are also included.
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This 13-part environmental series examines the impact our way of living affects people, animals, plants and landscapes around the world.
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Water: The Drop of Life attempts to show how important and vulnerable the world's fresh water supply is. This six part series provides an in-depth look at water's role in agriculture, industry, pollution, religion, transportation, and more, around the world, such as Africa, Australia, Canada, England, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United States.
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Who's Got The Power?, a forceful, new documentary film, addresses head on the reality of global warming, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and gas, its attendant dangers in the form of carbon dioxide emissions---and presents genuine and workable solutions.
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Potential conflicts are brewing between the nations that share the Nile River Basin. The days of the Nile only nourishing Egypt's great demand for water might be rapidly coming to an end. Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda are geographically located in the larger Nile basin and control the sources of the river. In recent years they have been demanding a greater share of the Nile's precious resource as demand comes closer to overtaking this finite supply. All 13 countries with access will have to come to agreements on how to share the Nile. Will this be the cause of the next war?
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