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The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists. These 36 lectures tell the all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in a manner that assumes no background in science. At half an hour per lecture, you’ll cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second!

Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century. The combination of intensifying erosion caused by climate change and the increasing food needs of a growing world population is creating a desperate need for solutions to this crisis.

The complex ecosystem of the Amazon covers an area about the size of the continental US. Approximately one of every four flowering plant species on earth resides in the Amazon. A single Amazonian river may contain more fish species than all the rivers in Europe combined. The rain forest, which contains approximately 390 billion trees, plays a vital role in stabilizing the global climate by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide - or releasing it into the atmosphere if the trees are destroyed. 

Ranger Theo Wilder explores the hidden world of silt—tiny mineral particles that color rivers, build floodplains, and shaped human civilization. Discover how reading sediment reveals watershed secrets and created fertile landscapes that fed ancient empires. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you to Earth's permanent snowline, where year-round ice harbors extremophiles with antifreeze, climate change shifts ecological boundaries, and glacier country demands ice axes, crevasse navigation, and respect for nature's frozen edge. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder ventures into bogs to uncover how sphagnum moss engineers ecosystems, why plants evolved to devour insects, and what secrets lie preserved in landscapes accumulating for twelve thousand years. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder reveals how ancient windblown sand became stunning Colorado Plateau sandstone formations. Explore cross-bedding patterns, iron-stained canyon walls, and erosion forces sculpting slot canyons and natural arches. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you through the planet's most dramatic gorges, revealing how tectonic forces and rivers carve these vertical cathedrals of stone. Discover geology, microclimates, and raw beauty from Tibet's deepest chasm to West Virginia's adventure paradise. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder transforms ordinary rock outcrops into portals of discovery, revealing how exposed stone tells Earth's billion-year story while serving as navigation landmarks and micro-ecosystems. Each episode brings geology, backcountry skills, and ecological wonder together through Theo's enthusiasm for reading the land. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you through limestone's incredible story—from ancient sea creatures becoming mountains to vanishing rivers and cathedral-like caves. Discover how this sedimentary rock sculpts Earth's most dramatic landscapes and shapes the ground beneath your feet. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

El Ártico y la Antártida son mucho más que paisajes de hielo: son termómetros del estado del planeta y piezas clave en los sistemas climáticos globales. La pérdida de masa de los casquetes polares, la variabilidad del hielo marino, las corrientes oceánicas o los ecosistemas únicos que albergan estas regiones son solo algunos de los temas que Café con Hielo pone sobre la mesa. Con este podcast, la conexión Polar CSIC refuerza su compromiso con la divulgación científica rigurosa y accesible, en línea con las actividades educativas y de comunicación que desarrolla desde su ...

Melbourne, Australia. As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher, anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone. As the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.

Der Bestseller zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum komplett überarbeitet, aktualisiert und neu eingelesen. Alle Regierungen, alle Staatschefs unterliegen den Zwängen ...

برنامج وماذا بعد - يتطرق إلى النبوات وارتباطها بأحداث الساعة وما ينتظر العالم في المستقبل وحتمية تحقيق هذه النبوات وإشارتها إلى مجيء الرب يسوع المسيح

Elke Vlaamse Bodempioniers-aflevering zet een andere bodempionier in de kijker: landbouwers, onderzoekers, bosbouwers, ondernemers en doeners die werken aan gezonde bodems, veerkrachtige bodembouwsystemen en een regeneratieve toekomst.Van koolstofopbouw en bodemleven tot waterbeheer, agroforestry en innovatieve teelttechnieken. Deze podcast duikt diep in de praktijk én de wetenschap achter duurzame bodemzorg in Vlaanderen.Verwacht eerlijke gesprekken, concrete inzichten en inspirerende voorbeelden van pioniers die tonen dat herstel mogelijk is.Want wie de bodem herstelt, herstelt onze ...

أنظمة الطاقة ضرورة من ضروريَّات الحياة في مجتمعاتنا المعاصرة. وتشمل أنظمة الطاقة استغلال الوقود الأولي، وتحويله، ونقله إلى نقاط الاستخدام. لكن هذا الوقود يكون في الكثير من الأحيان وقوداً أحفوريـاً؛ يُلحِق ضرراً جسيماً بالبيئة. ولهذا السبب صار تغيير أنظمة الطاقة الحالية أمراً حتميـاً إذا ما أردنا حماية كوكبنا. في هذا الكتاب، يأخذنا نِك جينكنز في رحلةٍ نستكشف خلالَها الجهود التي بذلها البشر في استغلال موارد الوقود الأحفوري. ويناقش الكتاب أيضاً آثار استخدامنا المتزايد للطاقة، والتغييرات الجذرية في تكنولوجيا الوقود، الضروريَّة لمواصلة توفير إمدادات الطاقة على نحو مستدام. ويناقش أيضاً تأثير التحوُّل إلى أنظمة طاقة منخفضة الانبعاثات الكربونية وصديقة للبيئة، قائمة على العديد من مصادر الطاقة المتجدِّدة المختلفة.

A fascinating, entertaining dive into the long-standing relationship between humans and insects, revealing the surprising ways we depend on these tiny, six-legged creatures. Insects might make us shudder in disgust, but they are also responsible for many of the things we take for granted in our...

In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating theworld’s flood stories and - drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, and scientists - discovered the counterintuitive role Noah’s Flood played in the development of both geology and creationism.

From the author of the New York Times best-selling Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) comes Red Hot Lies, an exposé of the hypocrisy, deceit, and outright lies of the global warming alarmists and the compliant media that supports them. Did you know that most scientists are global-warming skeptics? Or that environmental alarmists have knowingly promoted false and exaggerated data on global warming?

In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.