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Investigates why so many of our ocean's animals are disappearing. Case studies focus on global issues including climate change, sea-level rise, over-fishing and habitat destruction. Antarctica: The Emperor penguin is dependent upon sea ice to reproduce and raise its young. But global warming is beginning to melt the sea ice surrounding the Antarctic, and it could lead to the extinction of the species. Melbourne Beach, Florida: Sea turtles have been...

Three pets set out across a wilderness to find their family and the children they love and miss.

Shows how hospice can provide an opportunity to find comfort, companionship, and peace before death for terminally ill patients and their families. The program sheds light on the decision-making process of the doctors, nurses, chaplains, social workers, and volunteers involved in the hospice.

"This program studies divergent points of view contributing to the global warming debate, untangling a morass of political and scientific concerns and providing a wealth of historical background on the issue."--Container.

The historic journey of how two Midwestern bicycle mechanics with no formal training prevailed over the world's leading inventors in discovering the secret of flight.

Nowhere is evidence of the economic boom in South America more apparent than in Brazil, but in this program Jonathan Dimbleby finds the road to riches is paved with dilemmas for both Brazil and the wider world. In the Amazon, architects and cattle ranchers are grappling with environmental tension. On the coast, descendants of runaway slaves are fighting to protect their land from the expansion of a satellite launch facility. And in Rio, Dimbleby joins...

"American abstract artist Joel Perlman has earned renown for carrying forward the great modernist tradition of welded steel sculpture established by Picasso and Julio Gonzalez, and elaborated by David Smith. Followers of contemporary sculpture may already be familiar with the examples of Perlman's work that reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture...