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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 the 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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Human: Origins - S52 E12

Trace the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

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Follow the perilous journey of ancient humans into the Americas, where a frigid Ice Age landscape and fearsome beasts, like mammoths, tested their resilience.

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Egypt's Tombs of Amun - S52 E4

The discovery of a long-lost ancient cemetery in Egypt's sacred desert reveals details of a unique period when women had remarkable power.

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Angkor: Hidden Jungle Empire - S53 E2

Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the ruins of Angkor, a marvel of urban engineering and the seat of the once-mighty Khmer Empire. New discoveries are revealing how this ancient metropolis was built and what likely led to its devastating collapse.

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Asteroids: Spark of Life? - S53 E1

A look at whether giant asteroid impacts were actually essential for the creation of life on Earth.

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