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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
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 ...
Long-lived river systems can produce a series of terrace surfaces over the course of their geologic lifetime. When rivers flood, sediment deposits in sheets across the floodplain and build up over time. Later, during a time of river erosion, this sediment is cut into, or incised, by the river and flushed downstream. The previous floodplain is ...
Rivers have been described as "the gutters down which run the ruins of continents". [9] Rivers are continuously eroding , transporting, and depositing substrate, sediment, and organic material. The continuous movement of water and entrained material creates a variety of habitats, including riffles , glides , and pools .
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History, a non-fiction book by Paul Horgan; Great River, a 2010 Canadian film; Anduin, a river in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, is also known as the Great River of Wilderland; Great River of Narnia, in C. S. Lewis's fictional world
1. "Down to Earth" – Beginning by comparing surface conditions on the planets Venus and Mars with the living landscapes of the Earth to highlight how unique the Earth is, the episode describes the goal of the study of geology and introduces major topics the series addresses, including the Earth's heat engines, plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes and seismology, erosion, and natural ...
Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems that include the biological communities inhabiting freshwater waterbodies such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands. [1] They can be contrasted with marine ecosystems, which have a much higher salinity. Freshwater habitats can be classified by different ...