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Series 1: 5. Human
Today, Earth is a human world, home to eight billion people and counting. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth’s surface than many natural processes. Chris Packham explores how dramatic twists in Earth’s story enabled humans to go from being part of nature to controlling it and what can be learnt from this epic tale before it’s too late.
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Series 1: 5. Human
Today, Earth is a human world, home to eight billion people and counting. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth’s surface than many natural processes. Chris Pa ...
22-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 4. Atmosphere
When the Earth first formed from clouds of dust and gas 4.6 billion years ago, it was - like so many other lifeless worlds in the universe - devoid of an atmosphere, an inhospit ...
15-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 3. Green
Chris Packham tells the miraculous story of how plant life turned the Earth from a barren rock into a vibrant green world - a 4.5-billion year-saga of extraordinary highs and lo ...
08-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 2. Snowball
How Earth’s terrifying journey into the deep freeze started with fire, not ice. 800 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, indeed any animal life, the gi ...
01-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 1. Inferno
Chris Packham explores one of the darkest periods in Earth’s history: the worst mass extinction the planet has ever seen, when as much as 90% of all species died 252 milli ...
26-07-2023
BBC 2
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Earth
Series 1: 2. Snowball
How Earth’s terrifying journey into the deep freeze started with fire, not ice. 800 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, indeed any animal life, the gi ...
01-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 3. Green
Chris Packham tells the miraculous story of how plant life turned the Earth from a barren rock into a vibrant green world - a 4.5-billion year-saga of extraordinary highs and lo ...
08-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 5. Human
Today, Earth is a human world, home to eight billion people and counting. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth’s surface than many natural processes. Chris Pa ...
22-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 4. Atmosphere
When the Earth first formed from clouds of dust and gas 4.6 billion years ago, it was - like so many other lifeless worlds in the universe - devoid of an atmosphere, an inhospit ...
15-08-2023
BBC 2
Earth
Series 1: 1. Inferno
Chris Packham explores one of the darkest periods in Earth’s history: the worst mass extinction the planet has ever seen, when as much as 90% of all species died 252 milli ...
26-07-2023
BBC 2