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- Australia, California, Siberia, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Amazonia...: for more than a decade, the litany of "megafires" has been in the news, so frequently now that one catastrophe chases the previous one in people's minds. Many have forgotten that in 2016, in the oil-rich city of Fort McMurray (Canada), uncontrollable forest fires reached the city, causing the evacuation of almost all of the 100,000 inhabitants and the destruction of thousands of homes. Each year, these fires destroy more than 350 million hectares of forest, six times the size of France, and are increasingly spreading to inhabited areas. In this global investigation, Cosima Dannoritzer meets firefighters, scientists and fire experts from Europe to Indonesia, including the United States and Canada.
- During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka ventures out into the wilderness in search of the world's starriest skies. His journey to photograph the celestial wonders takes him from his home amongst the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the wild, desert dunes of Namibia and remote ice caps of Greenland. Ever the adventurer, he must balance his work and passion for photography with his equal devotion as a family man. In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal of Paul's quest to capture the night skies, and what his time spent under the stars has taught him about life, love, adventure, and our place in the universe.
- Laurent Ballesta and his team of divers use tracking technology and sophisticated camera techniques to investigate a pack of 700 Grey Sharks, that hunt a Grouper spawning season in the Fakarava Atoll, near French Polynesia.
- It showcases the world and examines how stones, specifically granite, limestone, sandstone, basalt and clay, have not only shaped the planet but also inspired human civilizations.
- In the Jordan Rift Valley, men have been at war for more than a half century. This human tragedy has led to an unprecedented ecological tragedy, causing the death of almost all migratory birds that used this crossing between Europe and Africa. Against all odds and despite the persistent turmoil in this region, Israelis have taken action to save biodiversity. Today, these men and women are fighting to protect the birds and are successfully restoring the flyway of the great migration in the valley, one of the most wonderful natural events in the world.
- Since the most recent and historic flooding tragedies in Southeast Asia (in 2004 and 2011), researchers around the world are mobilized to study the complex mechanics of tsunamis.
- The apocalyptic 2019-2020 Australian bush fires were a dire warning: respect the environment and listen to indigenous wisdom, or our world will become a living hell.
- Asteroid Rush - Planetary Defense: What seemed like science fiction has now become reality: we are learning how to deflect asteroids from their celestial path.
- It showcases how scientists are discovering the interconnections of natural disasters and how one is triggered by the other.
- From the far north of Canada to the southern tip of Chile, through the southern United States, central Mexico and the Brazilian Mato Grosso, new concordant but still controversial archaeological discoveries have brought a new paradigm to the archaeology of American prehistory: the appearance of the first humans on the continent could date back to nearly 30,000 years before our era, that is to say, about 15,000 years earlier than the commonly accepted and taught thesis. Although there were a few mavericks in the past who disputed the scenario according to which the first ancestors of Americans arrived on foot through the Bering Strait 16,000 years ago, they were long kept out of the scientific community.
- Deep down at the bottom of the ocean lies the mysterious world of the abyss. In the midst of boiling, toxic geysers, a rich ecosystem flourishes. This miracle is possible thanks to bacteria, micro-organisms crucial to all living beings. How can bacteria survive in such extreme conditions?.
- The Giant Oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was known only by rare examples that died by stranding, as well as one sole fossil. Its extraordinary dimensions, as long as 15 meters, and shape in the form of a silver ribbon, inspired the myth of the sea serpent. For the past two years, scientific buoys, immersed at a depth of two thousand meters in the Mediterranean, off the French Riviera, have attracted countless species of pelagic fish; among them, the Giant Oarfish drifting vertically, alone or by pairs. With the help of the world expert in Giant Oarfish and logistic collaboration of enthusiasts, a scientific expedition reveals the biology of this enigmatic ambassador of the abyss. Entirely shot in Ultra High Definition, the film raises the veil on its paradoxical habits: why do all the adults self-mutilate and rid themselves of two-thirds of their bodies without being affected? How do they meet in the immensity of the ocean? Why does this fish not have any known predators?
- Marion Cotillard narrates the story of the 16 year old survivor of the super typhoon disaster in Philippines and her journey to spread awareness about the dangers of the climate change.
- Today, space debris has become the nightmare of telecommunications operators and space agencies. Since the beginning of the conquest of space at the end of the 1950s, the number of spacecraft launches has multiplied. Many of them, now useless, wander above the Earth and sometimes collide. Satellites carrying nuclear charges, stages or tanks of launchers have already fallen back to Earth, without causing any casualties until now. Faced with the danger, space actors are now constantly monitoring the clouds of waste, ready to divert their satellites or installations in an emergency.
- We now know that bees are an endangered species all over the world. 'Une Terre Sans Abeilles?' goes on a journey around the world to find out the different actors and discover the possible solutions.
- In the Southern Andes, a living being survives since 200 million years: the "Araucaria Araucana" with its incredible history, little known and forever linked to an Amerindian people of Chile: Pehuenches. This isolated community survived during centuries thanks to the Araucarias. A perfect harmony between man and nature, forever upset by the invasion of the Spanish colonists, the conflicts of territories and the increase of logging. Protected today, this sacred forests are the refuge of a unique and wild nature; but fires threaten this balance. What remain of these people and the link with this tree? What can they teach us about our environmental problems?
- Following the path of the only white shaman initiated among the Yawanawa, this film sets out to uncover urban shamanic rituals using a sacred shamanistic beverage, as well as to bring to light scientific research on the subject.
- The Amazon is the river of superlatives: the longest - 7,025 km, the most powerful, the most indomitable - no dam possible for hundreds of kilometres. Its waters cross the largest tropical forest in the world: the Amazon, "the lungs of the earth". Going against the current of this gigantism, this documentary is betting on approaching this extraordinary natural space through one of its tiniest productions: the cocoa bean. Scientists, chocolate makers, producers and farmers, many are those who, faced with the deforestation of this unique ecosystem, use this chocolate seed to recreate, on a small scale, human exploitation in harmony with nature. This film tells us about the fight of those who decided to make cocoa the spearhead of environmental defense in Brazil.
- Mit der Klimaerwärmung steht die Zukunft der jahrtausendealten Gletscher auf der Kippe. Der französische Regisseur Vincent Amouroux macht sich zusammen mit internationalen Experten auf, den zunehmenden Wasserabfluss an der Oberfläche der riesigen Eisschichten zu erforschen. Dafür reist er mit seinem Team nach Südamerika zu den über 5000 Meter hohen Anden, die dort teils wie Gottheiten verehrt werden. In den tropischen Breitengraden spielt sich das Abschmelzen der Gletscher mit besonders dramatischer Geschwindigkeit ab.
- Boris Jollivet, an acoustic ecologist, with whom we travel through remote areas so as to know whether there are still silent zones in France, zones where the noise of men is not heard any longer.
- Generation Greta interweaves the portraits of 9 young women from all around the world, aged 12 to 23, united in spite of cultural differences by one common cause: trying to finally achieve climate and social justice.
- -This series explains North-South issues and the challenges of fair trade.
- A researcher is on the trail of a puma which may have found refuge in the forest of Gévaudan, in France.
- 1947. The rush to the poles marked the beginning of an incredible human adventure to discover the last-remaining unknown lands. In France, Paul-E?mile Victor persuaded the government to finance expeditions to explore the Arctic and Antarctic. For the pioneers the conditions were Dantean, all in the name of science.
- Two brothers, naturalist photographers Frédéric Larrey and Olivier Larrey, brave the extreme conditions of the Tibetan highlands to obtain the most beautiful pictures of the snow leopard, an endangered feline.