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This epic documentary uses a brand new approach to delve deep into the natural world and explore its most critical dimension - time. 24 Hours on Earth travels moment by moment through a virtual day and celebrates the most extraordinary and spectacular examples of how animals and plants are adapted to exploit the 24-hour cycle. Featuring cheetahs, wrinkled lipped bats, nocturnal insects and lions, it shows the huge highs and desperate lows they face...
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A look at one of the most famous habitats on the planet, the Serengeti in East Africa, a vast grassland that is home to some of the greatest concentrations of herbivores on the continent. But what is the key to this exceptional grassland that allows such density and diversity? A BBC Production.
86) Weather
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"Why does it rain? How hot is a bolt of lightning? What makes hurricanes form, and how does climate change affect the weather? What happens when a cold front rolls in? Become a meteorology expert and set up your own home weather station, and learn to read nature's own signs of changing weather. Eyewitness Weather shows you what weather looks like, from a tropical storm cloud seen from above to close-ups of snowflake crystals. Learn about what weather...
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Public media is awash with the deteriorating state of our planet. Every new climate report shows a worse scenario than the one before, and the prophesized outcome is always the same-worldwide disaster.
In A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse, Vítězslav Kremlík delivers a refreshing and objective analysis of the history and science behind climate change. Books about climate change frequently endorse a narrow, often malicious angle of total indoctrination...
93) Weather watcher
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Presents photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions for more than thirty weather study activities, covering such topics as solar energy, air pressure, fronts, wind speed, morning dew, and ice.
95) Precipitation
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Discusses the different forms of precipitation and how rain and snow are measured.
97) Weather
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Illustrations, simple text, and dramatic photographs describe all kinds of weather, including hurricanes and tornadoes.