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National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth :: 0792292596
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Author: Guest
For anyone who tends to fall asleep during the normal documentary will be pleased with Strange Days. The information contained in these videos are key in changing the way things are. I hope more people will watch this.
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Author: Guest
This 2-DVD series powerfully shows how mankind is connected to nature and how far away events relate to one another.
The program's stories spans 9 countries - USA, Uganda, Trinidad & Tobago, Nigeria, Jamaica, St.Lucia, Australia, Canada, and Venezuela with vignettes on several others.
Four sections cover invasive species, climate change, predators, and rivers /ocean. In every section there is a discussion on how the action of man affects a place, and how that in turn affects us.
One story talks about how changes in the atmosphere cause increased dust to blow from the African Sahara desert, which causes asthma in children and reef degradation far away - in the Caribbean. Another story talks about how very low levels of pesticides causes sex changes in frogs - which if taken to the logical conclusion, one might wonder how this affects human sexuality. Some of the most haunting images come from a man made lake that destroyed a rainforest in Venezuela due to the construction of a hydroelectric dam.
After watching this, I suggest stepping back from the actual stories and consider how the theory applies to our current culture today.
I have seen alot of nature DVDs and traveled extensively around the world for many months at a time, this is easily one of my favorites to explain the current situation of the world. It should be handed out for free.
If you enjoy this you might be interested in these DVDs: NOVA - World in the Balance (Pollution from China reaching the US), NG Guns, Germs, & Steel, Shape of Life, BBC Blue Planet, Charcoal People(!!), Sacred Planet, Commanding Heights, Life & Debt, and Zapatista.
The Shape of Life 4-DVD set also has an interesting story on invasive species too - regarding the New Zealand Flatworm destroying farmland in Scotland by eating worms. Power of the small...
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Author: Guest
Edward Norton leads us through some fascinating shifts of earthly goings on in this attention getting documentary sponsored by the folks at National Geographics and currently in rotation on your local PBS station. Learn how shifts in temperature not only affects caribou migration in the northern frontier, but global wind paths which allow microspores to affect kids in the Carribean as well as coral reef growth. See what scientists do to respond to eroding forests in Hawaii, due to renegade flora. Will a plant mite keep the croc population from getting at the fishermen in Lake Victoria? And will planting trees in a few acres of farm land in Australia keep the Great Barrier Reef in the pink? This serves the answers. Spiced with some great computer generated animation and some hip special EFX, this is the best in enviromental documentaries yet. See it.
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Author: Guest
Strange Days on Planet Earth is one of the best DVDs I own at this time. It is very informative. Edward Norton was a great host. I had no idea all of this was going on in the world. It made me think about what the things I do might effect our plant.
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Author: Guest
Edited by Edward Norton, this PBS series takes a look at the ways in which man has unintentionally altered his environment for the worse. Some examples include hermaphrodite frogs resulting from water pollution, out of control plant life which threatens the survival of ecosystems, and overfishing and its relation to coral reef degradation.
While this series is quite informative, it is also entertaining. Norton lends a good, serious narrative to the series, and though the series presents the audience with disasterous (or potentially disasterous) scenarios, the segments usually end with a success story or a glimmer of hope. For instance, one scientist engineers a plant to absorb, or "eat", the mercury which is polluting the waters. Another segment ends with a private farmer demonstrating environmentally-friendly farming techniques to preserve local water integrity.
Highly recommended. I doubt this series has the entertainment value to hold a young teenager's (or younger) attention for long, but anyone with even a passive interest in biology and/or the environment should be pleased with this series.
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