A crew of women embarked on an ambitious sailing expedition around the UK to raise awareness of ocean plastic and sample the water to see what damage is being done. Hannah Thomas-Peter joined them on the month-long voyage and documented their voyage of discovery.
The discovery of the Marianas trench was one of the first puzzle pieces that lead to the understanding of the most massive process that shapes the geology of the Earth; plate tectonics and the creation of new crust in the mid-ocean ridges and its subduction under the continents.
S1E2 • How the Earth Was Made • 2009 • Environment
Film which explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes.
5/8 • Human Planet • Environment
The Venus Project proposes an alternative vision of what the future can be if we apply what we already know in order to achieve a sustainable new world civilization. It calls for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. More at thevenusproject.com
The discovery of the San Andreas Fault and efforts to understand it are described.
S1E1 • How the Earth Was Made • 2009 • Environment
Plastics have transformed how we live, but progress comes at a high price: 7.8 billion tons of waste. Are plastics a miracle or a catastrophe?
S1E4 • History 101 • 2000 • Environment
When humanity hits pause, nature reboots; scientists discover the surprising ways pandemic lock downs affected our planet.
S61E2 • The Nature of Things • 2021 • Environment