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In a life after people, toxic materials leak into the environment without human intervention: spent nuclear fuel rods spontaneously burst into flames, chlorine gas spills out of tanks and turns lakes into deadly acid, and in New York City underground methane gas originates from Grand Central Terminal and leaks into the adjacent MetLife Building ...
Aftermath: Population Zero (also titled Aftermath: The World After Humans) [1] is a Canadian special documentary film that premiered on Sunday, March 9, 2008 (at 8:00 PM ET/PT) on the National Geographic Channel. The program was produced by Cream Productions.
The World Without Us is a 2007 non-fiction book about what would happen to the natural and built environment if humans suddenly disappeared, written by American journalist Alan Weisman and published by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books. [1] It is a book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". [2]
Humans move underground to survive, and to explore the Earth's surface, humans have to wear space suits. At 300 °F (149 °C), water begins to evaporate much faster than it does today. The concentration of water vapor increases in the atmosphere, displacing oxygen , but despite the intense heat, oxygen levels become so low that fires cannot start.
Human is a 2015 documentary by French environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of exclusive aerial footage and first-person stories told into the camera. It was the first film to premiere in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, to an audience of 1,000 viewers, including the UN Secretary General Ban ...
Imagine life with no humans. One group of researchers has done exactly that -- and they even made a map to show how the world might look sans homo sapiens. SEE ALSO: California drought may ...
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A Nepali farmer winnows rice grains to separate them from the husks in a field in Khokana, Lalitpur, Nepal, on Nov. 6, 2024. Credit - Subaas Shrestha—NurPhoto via Getty Images