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1) Life stories
Series
Language
English
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Addressing climate change is the existential question of the time, but climate change and biodiversity loss are two sides to the same coin. The Land of Azaba is the first feature documentary on the subject of ecological restoration, and it is set in one of the world's first hot spots for increasing and maintaining bio-diversity, Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Western Spain. It immerses the viewer in a magical world where humans and wildlife...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The show offers a blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from the land's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights, and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives...
6) Life
Publisher
BBC Earth/2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Explores the variety of tactics plants and animals use to survive in their environments.
Publisher
Cambridge Educational
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Explains the problem and its possible solutions through a compelling futuristic drama reminiscent of Hollywood science fiction but packed with scientific fact. Viewers meet a time traveler from the eco-distressed distant future who returns to the present to find out what went wrong. Through the time traveler's work with a young scientist, viewers learn how species invasions occur, about their impact and control, and how citizens at the local level...