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New to Our Collection! My City, Your City: A Senegalese Mayor Fights Sea Level Rise
Item# 52139
© 2011
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-486-7
During the annual rainy season in Saint-Louis, one of Senegal’s largest cities, thousands of people face upheaval from flood devastation linked to rising sea levels. There are no funds to build a ceme...
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Waves, Tides, and the Coastal Environments
Item# 44887
© 2011
25 Min.
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From the gentle ebb and flow of a neap tide to the crashing force of mammoth breakers, the Earth's ocean waters are constantly at work, shaping and eroding beaches, fjords, sea cliffs, and other geogr...
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New to Our Collection! The Big Bloom: Tara Oceans
Item# 52087
© 2010
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-551-2
In this program, the Tara takes on a new group of researchers in Abu Dhabi, then sets sail for the Indian Ocean—home to at least a third of the world’s oil reserves—to search for algal blooms. Describ...
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New to Our Collection! Man and the Oceans: Tara Oceans
Item# 52088
© 2010
53 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-552-9
With no obvious predators to curb the population, humans are experiencing a growth in numbers that stands outside the laws of nature. What role does man play in the decreasing biodiversity of the eart...
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New to Our Collection! The Sacred Pact: Tara Oceans
Item# 52086
© 2010
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-550-5
The long-held belief that different life forms compete with each other for domination has been giving way to a more nuanced view-that in certain environments, species may instead cooperate, maintainin...
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New to Our Collection! The Secret World: Tara Oceans
Item# 52085
© 2010
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-549-9
The Tara Oceans research team came together to better understand the marine world, arguably the most important ecosystem on Earth. This program lays the groundwork for their three-year expedition, int...
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New to Our Collection! Tara Oceans: A Scientific Odyssey
Item# 52084
© 2010
209 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-548-2
In 2009, Tara Oceans, an international collaboration of oceanographers, ecologists, physicists, biologists, and geneticists, began a global study of marine plankton-a form of life key to the monitorin...
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Plankton Planet: Harmed by Humans
Item# 47370
© 2010
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-223-7
Plankton fills an essential niche in Earth's food chain and a vital role in the health of the planetary ecosystem. For several decades, however, a growing level of human impact on the biosphere has be...
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The Earth Video Clip Collection
Item# 44014
© 2010
71 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-865-6
Any study of planet Earth, with its surface area of approximately 200 million square miles, will obviously have a lot of ground to cover! Using high-quality film footage and detailed animations, this...
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The Arctic Circle
Item# 42243
© 2009
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-042-1
Most people think of it as remote and empty, but the Arctic—more than any other region on the planet—suffers painfully from the impact of global warming. Filmed in some of the world’s most beautiful a...
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