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From the blackness of space
our home is a blue planet.
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But now satellite cameras
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capture a kaleidoscope...
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of extraordinary colours...
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surprising...
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and constantly changing...
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created by natural phenomena...
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by animals...
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and by people.
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These colours are revealing
new insight into the health
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of our fragile planet...
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transforming our understanding
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of our colourful home.
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The aurora...
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our planet's greatest
natural spectacle.
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Energy from the sun
interacts with our atmosphere...
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creating colourful light.
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In the Arctic,
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ribbons of green flicker overhead.
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But from space,
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the aurora is even more spectacular.
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It was only by looking down on the aurora
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that we discovered it forms rings
around the Earth's poles.
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The gentle ribbons become
towering vertical streaks
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hundreds of kilometres high.
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And scientists observed
a surprising colour.
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300 kilometres up in the atmosphere...
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clearly visible from orbit...
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the lights turn from green...
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to red...
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as solar particles react with oxygen.
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The view from space
reveals the sheer scale
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and power of this interaction
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between our planet and the sun.
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Satellite cameras are giving us
a brand-new perspective
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on many of the Earth's
most extraordinary natural spectacles.
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It's spring and, off the coast of Alaska,
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the ocean has been transformed.
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Vast swirls of green and turquoise...
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hundreds of kilometres across.
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A plankton bloom,
shaped by ocean currents.
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Despite their size,
these blooms are created
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by some of the tiniest life forms
on our planet.
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Microscopic plant-like organisms
have survived through the winter.
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And now they use the warming waters
and spring sunshine to multiply...
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in their millions...
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transforming the ocean on a scale
that can only be seen...
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from space.
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Many different animals are dependent
on these blooms for their survival.
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This sea lion mother has given birth.
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Her pup is just hours old.
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Spring means a baby boom...
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coinciding with
the plankton blooms offshore.
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Plankton feed
shoals of millions of herring.
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A feast for mothers with hungry pups.
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But these blooms form off the coast...
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and crossing open water is risky.
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The sea lions stay in close formation,
each keeping a lookout.
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Swimming away from the group
is dangerous.
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Killer whales.
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This pod are sea lion hunters
and time their arrival with the bloom.
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Sea lions have a powerful bite...
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but the killer whales' surprise attacks
aim to disable it
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so it cannot fight back.
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Stunned and immobilised,
there is no chance of escape.
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Fishing in these seas is dangerous.
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But it's worth the risk.
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The bloom will provide these mothers
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with enough fish to support
their hungry pups.
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All across the world's oceans,
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plankton blooms attract animals
in huge numbers.
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In the Aleutian Islands,
thousands of shearwaters
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launch a surface attack
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on vast shoals of fish...
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while below, humpback whales gorge
on up to one and a half tonnes a day.
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And in the shallow seas of South Africa...
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plankton feed millions of sardines...
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mattracting one of the largest
gathering of predators...
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anywhere on Planet Earth.
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But these blooms don't just support
ocean food chains.
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The tiny plant-like organisms
also produce oxygen.
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By studying the scale of these blooms...
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scientists now calculate
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they create up to 50%
of the planet's oxygen.
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And so it's not just forests
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but these oceanic swirls of colour
that are the lungs of our world.
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From space, we can monitor
the surface of our planet
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and see where life thrives.
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But these cameras
also reveal worrying signs
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that the natural world is under threat.
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In Greenland, the white of the icecap
is spotted with blue.
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The ice is melting.
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Temperatures are rising
due to climate change.
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Rivers of turquoise meltwater
are crisscrossing further...
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and further over the ice.
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These rivers flow into
depressions on the icecap...
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forming huge lakes of meltwater...
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each one up to seven square kilometres
of sapphire blue.
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Scientists have combined
satellite images of these lakes
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taken over the summer months.
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They fill and empty again and again.
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Every year, billion of tonnes of water
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drain off the icecap and into the sea.
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The Greenland ice sheet may soon become
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the largest contributor
to rising sea levels.
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260 billion tonnes of ice
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are lost every yea r.
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Hundreds of blue lakes
that tell us the icecap...
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is shrinking faster
than we've ever known before.
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Satellite cameras
are revolutionising the way
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scientists study the natural world.
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The tiniest splash of colour...
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can reveal animals
in Earth's most remote landscapes.
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In Antarctica...
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a speck of red.
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Blood on the ice...
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where a Weddell seal
has just given birth.
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The South Atlantic seas
surrounding Bird Island
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are so treacherous that satellites
are the safest way to study them.
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Scientists are looking
for these tiny white spots...
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each a vulnerable, wandering albatross.
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And on the Antarctic Danger Islands...
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patches of pink rock
have led to the discovery
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of one of the largest
penguin colonies on Earth.
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The activity of millions
of Adélie penguins
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has worn away the vegetation completely.
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Scientists now use colour
to estimate just how many penguins
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live on these remote islands
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without ever having to set foot there.
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In June, the lakeshores of
East Africa are flecked with pink.
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Flocks of thousands
of lesser flamingos.
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They gather here to find a mate...
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which is a flamboyant affair.
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The flamingos perform elaborate dances...
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which help each bird
to decide on a partner...
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although it's still not fully
understood how they make their choice.
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It's not easy to find
your one in a million.
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But trying to stand out from the crowd...
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isn't the answer.
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Flamingos are not born pink.
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Their feathers are dyed by a red chemical
found in the algae that they eat...
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holding their breath as they
reach for food in the deeper water.
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Throughout the year, these flamboyant
flocks move from remote lake to lake
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in search of food.
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Tracking them from the ground
is very difficult.
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But, from space, scientists can now spot
the pink as they arrive on lakeshores...
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monitoring their movements
and their numbers.
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But not all the colours
we can see from space are natural.
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Human activity can be
just as eye-catching.
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In Massachusetts,
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millions of cranberries
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are harvested from flooded ponds.
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In the deserts of Utah,
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bright blue mineral pools...
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full of potash,
used to make fertiliser.
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In the Gobi Desert,
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millions of red-hot chillies
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dry in the sun.
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The Bay Area of San Francisco
is like a rainbow.
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Water in evaporation ponds -
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each colour a different stage
in the production of salt.
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In spring, the fields of Holland
are painted with barcode stripes.
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Millions of tulips.
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60% of all the world's tulips
are harvested from these fields.
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Within a few weeks, all the flowers
and their colours are gone.
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And every spring in south-west China...
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a vast area becomes bright yellow...
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as millions of rapeseed flowers...
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bloom.
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These flowers will eventually
produce almost 20%
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of all the world's rapeseed oil.
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A colour transformation
on such a grand scale
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that the only way to capture it
in its entirety...
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is from space.
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Mr Dai and his son are nomads.
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They've travelled across China
just in time for the bloom.
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But they're not here for the oil.
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They've come to make honey.
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But the weather is not on their side.
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The view from space
is almost completely white.
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Thick cloud is blocking the sun.
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It's just too cold for the bees to fly.
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With a chill in the air...
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these bees aren't going anywhere.
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And time is running out.
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In two weeks, the rapeseed farmers
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will spray pesticides over the fields...
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making it a dangerous place
for the bees.
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They must move on
before the spraying starts.
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Thick cloud is blocking the sun.
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After three grey days,
the clouds finally part...
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and one and a half million bees
head out to work.
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They must visit two million flowers
to make just one jar of honey.
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The bees drink the sugary nectar
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from the flowers they visit...
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and transfer it to the hive,
where it becomes honey.
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Food for the long winter months.
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But bees are more than
just honey makers.
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They are one of the world's
most important crop pollinators...
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helping plants produce
fruits, seeds and vegetables.
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But now pesticides are contributing
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to a worldwide decline
in the number of honeybees,
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and their future is under threat.
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Mr Dai's window of opportunity
is short...
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but the bees have been hard at work.
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He has plenty of honey.
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And not a moment too soon.
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The fields will be sprayed in two days.
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It's time to move on.
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The effect of the passing seasons
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can be seen right across
the Earth's surface.
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Rain transforms a Californian desert.
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In New England, autumn changes
the landscape from green to russet red.
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And heavy snowfall
covers all of the British Isles.
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In some places, these seasonal
changes are so dramatic...
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that surviving them is a challenge.
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Each winter, these Japanese islands
turn from green...
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to bright white.
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Some of the deepest snowfall
anywhere on Earth.
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It takes powerful machines
to clear the mountain passes...
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creating walls of snow
up to 2O metres high.
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For one forest species...
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such a complete change
in the landscape
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requires an equally radical
survival strategy.
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A solitary squirrel.
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Atjust half the size
of a grey squirrel...
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this female is small enough
to fit in the palm of a hand.
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She spends most of the year
alone in the treetops.
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Being light allows her
to reach nutritious buds
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at the very tips of the branches.
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But at this time of year,
there's very little to eat.
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And the deep snow
makes it hard to get around.
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But she has a strategy.
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Flight.
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Siberian flying squirrels can glide
up to 50 metres from tree to tree
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in search of food.
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But even with this useful adaptation,
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it's a struggle to consume
enough calories to keep warm.
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For many years, scientists wondered
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how this tiny animal copes
in the harsh winter months...
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until they discovered
that this squirrel...
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changes its behaviour.
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Throughout much of the year,
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Siberian flying squirrels
are solitary animals.
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But now she needs extra body heat.
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And another female in her territory...
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is her chance.
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The new female is welcomed into her den.
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They will spend the winter together,
sharing body heat to survive the cold...
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parting ways when the island
once again transforms.
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The passing seasons
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have been changing the colours
of our planet for millennia.
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But off the coast of Australia...
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satellites are monitoring
a more sudden and alarming change.
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The Great Barrier Reef.
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At over 2,000 kilometres long,
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the sheer scale of this habitat
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makes satellites the best way
to appreciate it.
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It's thought that the reef has hugged
the coastline of east Australia
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for thousands of years.
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But now it's changing.
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This is an image of the reef in 2016.
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A year later, its colour is gone.
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Earth's changing climate
is warming the waters,
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affecting the reef...
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and bleaching its colour.
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Healthy reef coral is made up
of three different elements.
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A hard limestone skeleton...
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soft coral polyps
that live inside the skeleton...
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and microscopic algae
that gives the coral its beautiful colour.
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But the waters surrounding the reef
are now getting warmer.
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And this can cause the tiny,
colourful algae in the coral...
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to become toxic.
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The corals become stressed
by these toxins...
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swelling up to three times
their normal size...
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before ejecting a cloud
of the tiny, coloured algae
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out of their bodies.
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In just two years,
these beautiful coral gardens...
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lost their colour.
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The coral becomes overgrown by algae.
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Eventually, it dies...
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and then crumbles.
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On the northern reefs,
more than 80% of the coral
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has bleached due to warming waters.
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This has tragic consequences
for the thousands of animals
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that make the reef their home...
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including one
that's only just been discovered.
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Every winter, visitors emerge
from the deep blue.
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Dwarf minke whales...
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first discovered here in the 1980s.
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Each whale has its own unique markings...
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and a very distinct and unusual song.
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It's this calf's first visit
to the reef...
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brought here by her mother.
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At eight metres,
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the adult whales are one of
the largest animals on the reef.
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But, despite their size,
we still know very little about them.
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It seems they come to the reef
to socialise.
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And scientists are now using
satellite tagging technology...
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to follow the whales' movements.
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They slowly head south...
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before disappearing
into deeper waters.
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But if the reef changes,
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we may lose our chance to learn more
about these mysterious animals.
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In 2017, two thirds of the reef
suffered bleaching.
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That's more than one and a half
thousand kilometres of coral.
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If the oceans continue to warm
at this rate,
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then the coral will struggle to recover,
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and one of the world's most important
and colourful habitats...
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will be lost.
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Human activity is changing our planet.
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This is never more apparent
than at night.
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Now even the darkest nights glow
with the light of our cities and towns.
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The Thames snakes black
through the centre of London.
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Lights hug the bay of Tokyo...
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while China's largest city,
Shanghai, glows bright.
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In some places, even the darkest oceans
are lit by mysterious colours.
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Blue lights in the straits of Taiwan...
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a huge trail of green
in the waters off japan...
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and off the coast of South America,
a strange, glowing shape...
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hundreds of bright spots
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lined up along the very edge
of Argentina's waters.
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The lights from a fleet
of squid fishing boats...
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gathered here for an ocean bonanza.
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Every night across the world's oceans,
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millions of squid rise from the deep
to feed near the surface...
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navigating upwards from the dark...
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toward the light of the moon.
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Here in Argentina,
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fishermen take advantage by flooding
the ocean with powerful electric light...
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mimicking the moon
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and drawing the squid to their boats.
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Fishing this way is permitted
in international waters.
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But overfishing is leading to
many species becoming endangered.
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The Argentine coastguard
police these waters.
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Practising nightly drills means they are
always ready to intercept illegal boats.
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It's a huge challenge
for Captain Carlos Apablaza.
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There can be as many as 400 boats here,
across a vast area of ocean.
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They are all required
to carry a satellite beacon
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so the captain can keep track of them.
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A new satellite update comes in.
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A rogue fishing boat
has turned off its satellite beacon
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in an attempt to go off-grid.
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It was last seen heading towards
Argentinian waters.
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Captain Apablaza sets a course
to intercept the rogue vessel.
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But it looks as if the boat has also
turned off its fishing lights...
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attempting to sneak over the border
unseen, where the squid are plentiful.
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In the night,
there's a real risk of collision.
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But it looks like the fishing boat
has escaped them.
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Suddenly, their luck changes.
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A newly updated satellite picture
has relocated the rogue vessel.
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By analysing photographs
taken from space...
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it's now possible to spot the lights
of a single boat away from the fleet.
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Captain Apablaza orders his crew
to issue a warning.
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This is Argentine coastguard ship
Prefecto Derbes calling you. Over.
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Sefior capitén, informo se avista...
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This is often enough
to persuade rogue vessels
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to change course away from
Argentinian waters and back to the fleet.
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Satellite technology
is more important than ever
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to help combat illegal fishing...
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and protect our oceans.
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The view from space has forever changed
the way we see our planet.
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Satellites give us a new perspective
on its greatest...
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and most beautiful spectacles...
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allowing us to make new discoveries.
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We can watch landscapes
change through the seasons...
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and marvel in the scale
of their transformations.
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Now satellites are a powerful tool
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with which to monitor
the health of our planet...
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see where life is thriving...
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but, crucially,
where it is under threat.
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And as we have a greater impact,
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never has it been more important
to protect our colourful home.
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Next time...
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We are changing our planet.
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As cities grow...
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natural resources shrink...
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and Earth's surface changes
faster than ever in human history...
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only from space...
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can we fully appreciate
the impact we're having...
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on our fragile home.
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