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July 2016
We examine what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water and how forty percent of the Earth's surface is now devoted to growing food. (Final)
June 2016
We explore how we can travel further and faster than ever before - and how our desire to shrink the world is inspiring some of the most extraordinary engineering projects on the planet.
The spectacular story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. We visit the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
Expired
We examine what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water and how forty percent of the Earth's surface is now devoted to growing food.
Expired
We explore how we can travel further and faster than ever before - and how our desire to shrink the world is inspiring some of the most extraordinary engineering projects on the planet.
Expired
The spectacular story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. We visit the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
September 2013
We examine what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water and how forty percent of the Earth's surface is now devoted to growing food.
We explore how we can travel further and faster than ever before - and how our desire to shrink the world is inspiring some of the most extraordinary engineering projects on the planet.
The spectacular story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. We visit the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world.
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