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Earth's Great Rivers II: 2022 Three-part series about the wildlife, landscapes, and humans of the Danube, Yukon, and Zambezi rivers. Sequel to 2019's Earth's Great Rivers. Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family: 2022 A series about canines, and how they have adapted to a wide variety of Earth's climates. Chris Packham (narrator) Earth: 2023
The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management: Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg: 2008: Great Barrier Reef: ISBN 978-0-643-09557-1: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable: Amitav Ghosh: 2016: Climate change: ISBN 9789386057433: The Green Bible: 2008: Religion: ISBN 978-0-06-162799-6
Seven Worlds, One Planet is a television documentary series co-produced by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, France Télévisions, Tencent Penguin Pictures and CCTV-9. The seven-part series, in which each episode focuses on one continent, premiered on BBC One on 27 October 2019 and is narrated and presented by naturalist ...
The "flow regime" of a river or stream includes the general patterns of discharge over annual or decadal time scales, and may capture seasonal changes in flow. [7] [8] While water flow is strongly determined by slope, flowing waters can alter the general shape or direction of the stream bed, a characteristic also known as geomorphology. The ...
Dendritic drainage: the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet, seen from space: snow cover has melted in the valley system. In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They are governed by the topography of land, whether a particular region is ...
Rivers get their alluvium from erosion, which carves rock into canyons and valleys. Rivers have sustained human and animal life for millennia, including the first human civilizations. The organisms that live around or in a river such as fish, aquatic plants, and insects have different roles, including processing organic matter and predation.
Each episode of the series focuses on a different human-inhabited environment, including deserts, jungles, the Arctic, grasslands, rivers, mountains, oceans, and the urban landscape. For the first time on a BBC landmark series, the production had a dedicated stills photographer, Timothy Allen , who documented the project photographically for ...
A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Some other possible benefits for the inhabitants are fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease of transportation.