Any fan of superb documentary Planet Earth should find many qualities found in Earth The Biography.  Presenter Iain Stewart takes us on a tour of the forces that have shaped the earth over the last four and a half billion years: volcanoes, atmosphere, ice and oceans. A basic understanding of the material shown should be part of everyone's education.  The shows are broken down very well into five categories - 1: Volcano 2: Atmosphere 3: Ice 4: Oceans 5: Rare Earth. Each segment goes into detail about that system and how it affects the planet.

Every content is presented with very precise scientific data and with Bleeding edge, nice Graphics even being watched in Standard Definition.  If we don't already know, we learn that Earth was completely icebound for millions of years, that ice ages have come and gone, that the Mediterranean has repeatedly disappeared when land movements closed the Straits of Gibraltar, that the global oceanic currents have stopped again and again causing massive extinctions, and much more.

The final episode explains how unusual and possibly unique our planet must be despite the billions of stars in our own galaxy and the billions of galaxies elsewhere. There are plenty of references to climate change that might be the result of human activity, but life on earth will survive with or without modern homosapiens.

Minor complaint is that it is not in high definition format.  It is presented in standard definition format.  Regardless, if you own Blu-ray player this is the edition to get.

Any fan of superb documentary Planet Earth should find many qualities found in Earth The Biography. Presenter Iain Stewart takes us on a tour of the forces that have shaped the earth over the last four and a half billion years: volcanoes, atmosphere, ice and oceans. A basic understanding of the material shown should be part of everyone's education. The shows are broken down very well into five categories - 1: Volcano 2: Atmosphere 3: Ice 4: Oceans 5: Rare Earth. Each segment goes into detail about that system and how it affects the planet.

Every content is presented with very precise scientific data and with Bleeding edge, nice Graphics even being watched in Standard Definition. If we don't already know, we learn that Earth was completely icebound for millions of years, that ice ages have come and gone, that the Mediterranean has repeatedly disappeared when land movements closed the Straits of Gibraltar, that the global oceanic currents have stopped again and again causing massive extinctions, and much more.

The final episode explains how unusual and possibly unique our planet must be despite the billions of stars in our own galaxy and the billions of galaxies elsewhere. There are plenty of references to climate change that might be the result of human activity, but life on earth will survive with or without modern homo sapiens.

Minor complaint is that it is not in high definition format. It is presented in standard definition format. Regardless, if you own Blu-ray player this is the edition to get.

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