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How Much Coal Do People Burn Each Year?

This visualization uses Washington D.C.'s National Mall to show the scale of human coal consumption—and how much CO2 it adds to our atmosphere.
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Season 47 Episodes

Cat Tales
S47 E3 Length 53:21 Premiere Date 02/19/20

Polar Extremes
S47 E1 Length 1:52:46 Premiere Date 02/05/20

Can We Cool the Planet? Promo
Preview Length 00:28 Premiere Date 10/28/20

How Much Coal Do People Burn Each Year?
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 10/28/20

How Much Coal do People Burn Each Year?
Clip Length 02:13 Premiere Date 10/28/20

What is Solar Geoengineering and Why is it Controversial?
Clip Length 04:16 Premiere Date 10/28/20

What is Solar Geoengineering and Why is it Controversial?
Clip Length 04:16 Premiere Date 10/28/20

Meet the NASA Scientist Who Uses Lasers to Study Forests
Clip Length 04:05 Premiere Date 10/28/20

Can Geoengineering “Undo” Climate Change?
Clip Length 04:41 Premiere Date 06/24/20

Cutting our Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Zero
Clip Length 04:52 Premiere Date 06/19/20

Three Solutions That Can Slow or Stop Climate Change
Clip Length 04:21 Premiere Date 06/04/20

What is it Like to Live in Antarctica?
Clip Length 09:41 Premiere Date 02/26/20

Why is this Antarctic Glacier “Bleeding?”
Clip Length 10:00 Premiere Date 02/11/20

How Antarctica’s Cutest Baby Seals Grow Up
Clip Length 10:50 Premiere Date 02/05/20

Antarctica: Journey to the Bottom of the Earth
Clip Length 14:11 Premiere Date 01/29/20

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Great Mammoth Mystery - S49 E3

Sir David Attenborough explores a unique site in southern England with rare traces of Ice Age mammoths and Neanderthals. How did humans survive the frigid climate, and did they have the tools and talent to hunt the giant beasts?

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Can Dogs Talk? - S53 E3

Scientists conduct the largest animal communication study in history to see if innovative word buttons truly enable dogs to talk.

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Wielding chainsaws to extract fossils frozen into the permafrost and flying drones to map thousands of footprints, intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the cold and dark of the Arctic Circle.

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Secrets of the Forest - S52 E8

Scientists gather data on how forests work and try to figure out how they can help tackle the twin threats of climate change and species extinction.

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Ancient Desert Death Trap - S52 E17

Archaeologists investigate strange Stone Age megastructures in the Arabian desert, built by a mysterious people 9000 years ago.

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Archaeologists investigate the dramatic origins of democracy in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Mass graves and ancient ruins where tyrants were murdered shine new light on the birth of a revolutionary form of government.

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Revolutionary War Weapons - S52 E7

American and British archaeologists and historians reveal the technology, innovation and luck that determined the outcomes of key battles of the Revolutionary War.

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