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Human Worlds

Air Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2022 8:00 PM
Watch Sir David Attenborough in The Green Planet: Human Worlds reveal how humans are helping plants, many of which face extinction. From projects in Africa to re-seeding the landscape to combating miconia in Maui, everyone can work to make our world a little wilder.
Picture Shows: Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), Sonoran desert, Arizona. A mature saguaro can store 5000 litres of water. To accommodate this it has pleats, like an accordion, that run up its trunk and along its arms. After rain the saguaro expands, and the pleats flatten, as the internal water tank is filled

Desert Worlds

Air Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2022 8:00 PM
Sir David Attenborough explores the hostile world of the desert, where plants can spend decades waiting for rain or travel to find it. Survival tactics include using weapons, camouflage and forming surprising alliances with animals.

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The Green Planet: Human Worlds

Air Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2022 12:00 AM
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On 7/26/22, we had an advanced virtual screening of The Green Planet: Human Worlds. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the episode featured the Maui Invasive Species Committee's work on miconia and the University of Hawaiʻi's native plant extinction prevention efforts.

Seasonal Worlds

Air Date: Wed, Jul 20, 2022 8:00 PM
Sir David Attenborough reveals the surprising and dramatic effects of the four seasons on plant life. In order to survive the huge challenges each season presents, plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering.
Picture Shows: The football sized flower of the giant water lily Victoria species, of the Brazilian Pantanal wetland, turns pink after it has been pollinated

Water Worlds

Air Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2022 8:00 PM
Sir David Attenborough discovers amazing water plants, some of which can count and hunt.
Picture Shows: Inside view of the flower of Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), the corpse flower, Borneo. It has no stem, or leaves to produce food, instead it grows out of a vine on which it feeds. This is the worlds biggest flower, a metre across. Its success depends on deception – it mimics the dead body of a mammal, from its texture and colour to the scent of rotting flesh. This attracts carrion flies, which lay eggs on dead flesh. As the fly searches inside the flower, the flower attaches a gloopy drop of pollen to the flies back, which it will carry to the next Rafflesia flower to pollinate it

Tropical Worlds

Air Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2022 8:00 PM
Sir David Attenborough explores plants in the rainforest, a world of beauty and fierce competition.