S1 Ep 2 - Extinction Earth
Xploration Awesome Planet: The Entire Collection • 21m
Philippe Cousteau explores Yellowstone National Park, the site of a potential super-volcano. Fifty miles of magma lurks near the surface, and if it were to erupt, its ash would cover the earth and damage crops worldwide as well as our drinking water. Then Philippe visits Meteor Crater in Arizona, the site where a meteor once struck 50,000 years ago. We’ll examine the damage it caused, and wonder if it could happen again. Then we travel to the Hawaiian Island of Maui, where powerful telescopes search the universe for meteors that might be heading our way. We explore the possibility of another meteor reaching our planet.
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S1 Ep 3 - Ecosystems
Philippe Cousteau visits the Everglades of Florida and travels these waters by airboat to discover wildlife. Then we visit Yellowstone and explore this unique ecosystem that remains relatively undisturbed. We’ll also look at planet Earth as one giant ecosystem, and examine the inter-dependency ...
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S1 Ep 4 - Extreme Weather
Philippe Cousteau ventures to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, a place known as the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather.” We visit the “Wall of Wind” in Florida where scientists simulate hurricane force winds. In Colorado, we follow a scientific research team pursuing a tornado. We travel to Te...
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S1 Ep 5 - Plants
Philippe Cousteau takes us to the Poconos of Pennsylvania, where we find a variety of plants, including some that eat insects. We explore a lush forest and uncover several plants that are edible. We visit a laboratory that has made groundbreaking discoveries in the way plants communicate.
