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A look at the one environment that's been made by us for us - the city. Over half of the world's population now lives in the urban jungle. The city is built to keep untamed nature out - but nature can't be pushed away, and many animals have adapted to a life with us. In Dubai, the ancient art of falconry has offered a solu... 49:18 Expired
Rivers provide the essentials of life - fresh food and water. They often provide natural highways and enable us to live in just about every environment on Earth. But rivers can also flood, freeze or disappear altogether. In Laos, a man risks his life by crossing the Mekong during a flood, hoping to reach an island where he... 49:40 Expired
From lush cloud forests to bare summits that take your breath away, the higher you climb the tougher life gets on a mountain. This episode explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes, beginning on the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia, where the locals have forged an unusual hunting partn...January 2018
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Grasslands feed the world. Over thousands of years, we humans have learned to grow grains on the grasslands and domesticate the creatures that live there. Our success has propelled our population to seven billion people. But this episode reveals that, even today, life in the 'Garden of Eden' is not always rosy. In Kenya, t... 48:45 Expired
In the vast icy wastes of the Arctic very little grows. It's dark for months in the winter and the freezing temperatures make it particularly inhospitable. Yet four million people live there thanks to ingenious survival techniques passed down through generations. In Greenland, where food is hard to come by and dogs are a c... 49:42 Expired
We can survive for weeks without food, but only days without water: it is the essential element of life. Yet many millions live in parched deserts around the world. In this episode, we discover how the eternal quest for water brings huge challenges - and ingenious solutions - in the driest places on Earth. In Mali, a man b... 49:23 Expired
A landmark series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature in the world today. As an air-breathing animal, humans are not built to survive in water. But people have found ways to live an almost aquatic life so they can exploit the sea's riches. From a 'shark-whisperer' in the Pacific to Brazilian fishe...March 2015 48:17
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Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature. The city is built to keep untamed nature out, but nature cannot be pushed away.February 2015 49:27
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Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature. Meets people for whom rivers can be both a risk to life and a lifeline. 49:48 Expired
This program is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature. This episode explores the extraordinary ways in which people survive at extreme altitudes.January 2015 49:27
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Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature. A look at humans who live in the depths of the rainforest, a perilous environment. 48:57 Expired
Human Planet is an awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature. This episode tells remarkable stories of people who make their homes in the Arctic.October 2013
Cities are our greatest success story, made by humans for humans. Over half the world's population now lives in urban environments. They may have been built to keep wild nature out, but nature cannot be pushed away.
Rivers provide the essentials for human life: fresh water, food and even natural highways, but rivers are also often capricious and unpredictable, treacherous and demanding.
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Rainforests teem with more species than anywhere else, but for bipedal human apes they make an unforgiving home, demanding an intimate and complex understanding of nature's many secrets.
As land animals, we have not evolved to live in water, but against all odds, some people have found a way to immerse themselves in a life aquatic, reaping the ocean's rich bounties.
From lush cloud forests at lower altitudes to bare summits that literally take your breath away, the higher you climb, the harder life becomes when you make your home on a mountain.