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1: Island of Marvels | Madagascar
Series exploring Madagascar and its unique wildlife. David Attenborough reveals the most bizarre places and their inhabitants on this ecolo...
2: Lost Worlds | Madagascar
David Attenborough looks at the island's eastern coast, home to cyanide-eating lemurs and leaf-tailed geckos.
3: Land of Heat and Dust | Madagascar
This programme follows the animals' fortunes through the wet and dry seasons in this island of extremes.
Thieving lemurs | Madagascar
Ring-tailed lemurs steal nutritious but hard to catch cicadas from another hunter.
Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
From colossal farms in America to the destruction of the Amazon, Liz Bonnin investigates how our hunger for meat is killing our planet.
Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change: The Facts
A discussion of the devastating impact of burning fossil fuels.
Amazon deforestation | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
Liz Bonnin witnesses the devastation of the Amazon rainforest from the sky.
03: Destroying the Forest | Landmarks
By the next century, the rainforests of the world could have disappeared for ever, destroyed by outside influences and economic pressur...
9: The Rise Of The Mammals | Life On Earth
Mammals have proved to be one of the most adaptable products of evolution. David Attenborough looks at their evolution from reptil...
Plants in cold environments | The Private Life of Plants
David Attenborough describes how certain plant species adapt to cold weather.
Sustainable meat production | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
Liz Bonnin discusses the importance of understanding the process behind the meat we eat (warning: this clip conta...
The Blue Planet
David Attenborough narrates a natural history of the oceans. We travel to the depths of the seas to reveal a spectacular variety of life, some never filmed b...
The carbon cycle and global warming | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The carbon cycle process is being overwhelmed by the amount of carbon dioxide released into the at...
04: Saving the Forest | Landmarks
Despite the destruction, there are ways to save the forest, by careful harvesting, protecting, learning, replanting, policing - and campaig...
Carbon in the ocean | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Dr Helen Czerski explains how carbon is incorporated into the ocean and how the increase in carbon intake is impac...
The boiling sea | Blue Planet II
Lantern fish provide a rare banquet for some of the ocean’s top predators.
01: The Living Forest | Landmarks
The Living Forest looks at all the animals & plants that live in the forest on the ground to the forest canopy, & shows how they live in ba...
Cotton production and the Aral Sea crisis | Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley visits the Aral Sea Basin in Kazakhstan, which has almost entirely dried up due to cotton production.
Environmental impact on the Aral Sea | Stacey Dooley
Fossil fuels behind every day food | Natural World
Rebecca Hosking goes through the fossil fuels involved in creating a shop bought sandwich.
Importance of marine protected areas | A Perfect Planet
Spec references J247: B6.1b, B6.1c, B6.1d J250: B6.1b, B6.1c. How an increase of carbon dioxide and overfishing impac...
Life in icy environments | The Secret Life of Ice
Dr Gabrielle Walker investigates how life has evolved in icy underwater environments.
Polar bears' habitat under threat from glacial melt | Planet Earth
David Attenborough discusses the effects on polar bears of melting Arctic ice caused by global warming.
The smallest fox with the biggest ears! | Super Cute Animals (video)
The fennec's ears help it to survive in the heat of the desert dunes.
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