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Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, Moko and Mei-Lei are resting in the shade of a tall tree. Mei-Lei is wondering whether Moko will be leaving her and saddened by this thought she walks away. Moko sets off to try to find her in the tropical forest. Droplets of water stream down from the trees like rain. Night falls and Moko can no longer see anything. He decides to wait until morning to go on. The next morning, Mei-Lei has returned and she is smiling because she sees that she must mean a lot to Moko since he came all this way to find her. He thinks that the trees have stopped crying now that Mei-Lei is no longer sad.
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Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, it is night time and Moko is watching the shooting stars from Totemie's village and is remembering how he once thought that a lady blew the stars in the sky from the embers of her bonfire. And suddenly, an immense star, a huge ball of fire, appears from the sky and falls to the depths of the forest. Totemie and Moko take off to see where the meteorite has landed and discover that a huge flaming rock has made a hole the size of a volcano's crater in the ground and is setting fire to the forest around it. Totemie is scared that the sky is angry and Moko, who remembers Mei Li begins to dance like she did while playing Alarick's flute. It begins to rain and slowly the flames die down. Moko thinks that the clouds must have seen him dance and heard his flute and come to save his new friend's land.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, Moko wants to know what lies beyond the forest and decides to go find out. Totemie comes along and after a long walk they find a mountain village. Moko, who hasn't seen the ocean in a long time, is dreaming of seeing it again, but realizes that it will be awhile before they cross this mountain and see the sea. But then, they see boats and barges. Why would there be boats on a mountain? An old man comes to them and tells them that if it is the ocean one seeks, sometimes it can be found even on a mountain. Curious, Moko and Totemie walk on into the forest and discover what can only be an ocean atop the mountain, only here they don't say ocean or sea, but rather they call it a lake. Moko believes that this lake is here in order to console the people who cannot live beside the ocean.
Ten 10-minute programs explore temperate and tropical habitats and their abundant diversity of life. Tape one: compares temperate and tropical forests, their habitats, the effects of rain on them, and shows how size can generate great diversity. Tape two: uses butterflies to represent species diversity, compares how people relate to temperate and tropical environments, explores humans' impact on diversity, and investigates issues of threatened and endangered species.
The Serengeti, in East Africa, is a vast grassland that is home to some of the greatest concentrations of herbivores. How does this environment support such large numbers of wildlife? What is the key to this exceptional grassland that allows such density and diversity? Part of the "Nature's Microworlds" series.
Journey to the Scottish Highlands, home to some of the most iconic British wildlife. Since the Ice Age, the Highland landscape has undergone a transformation from dense forest to large areas of open space, and the wildlife there needs both of these habitats to thrive. Part of the "Nature's Microworlds" series.
Journey through the marine ecosystem of Monterey Bay, California, where a giant kelp forest hosts one of the most diverse marine ecologies in the world. The secret to the balance of this ecosystem is a keystone species: the sea otter. Part of the "Nature's Microworlds" series.
The importance of forests cannot be underestimated. Humans depend on forests for survival, from the air they breathe to the wood they use. Besides providing habitats for animals and livelihoods for humans, forests also offer watershed protection, prevent soil erosion, and mitigate climate change.
Kelp forests can be seen along much of the West Coast of North America. NOAA scientists study kelp forests by visiting the same locations over and over to assess the presence and abundance of a variety of organisms. Monitoring allows marine scientists to determine if the kelp forest is changing over time and to identify the cause of those changes, whether natural or human. Healthy kelp forests maintain the existence of thousands of plants, animals, and fish stocks. All of these require a thriving ocean ecosystem.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, Mei-Lei takes Moko to the rice fields. The sky is blue and Moko thinks that in this country there just aren't any clouds. Mei-Lei tells him to wait until nightfall, that the rains will dance over the village. Moko doesn't believe her, there isn't a cloud in sight! Suddenly, the sky darkens and Mei-Lei wants to return to the village, but Moko wants to know more. He climbs the hill behind the village to get a better look at the sky. The wind picks up and a great wave of rain washes everything in its wake. Moko and Mei-Lei take shelter from the monsoon behind a rock. To make the rain stop Mei-Lei starts to sing and dance. Bit by bit the rain subsides and the two friends decide to return to the village. Moko thinks that Mei-Lei's dancing was magical and had the power to stop the rain.
A maritime forest is a forest that is on the coast and is influenced by sea spray. These areas are not found in very many places, and they serve as an oasis for wildlife. They are important for coastal resilience, and they help stabilize the shoreline.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, having spent the night up in the giant tree, Moko is woken up by the sound of an arrow piercing through an enormous fruit. Afraid that a giant must be coming, he climbs down the tree and tries to flee, but gets lost in the Amazon Forest. This is when he meets Totemie, a young Amazonian girl who knows the forest better than anyone. She invites Moko to her village and they walk through an incredible maze of plants, roots and trees of all kinds. Without Totemie, Moko would be completely lost. He believes the forest introduced his new friend so that he could learn a few of its secrets.
Moko is an explorer. As he travels the world continent by continent, he makes many friends and discovers many natural phenomena which sometimes delight him, and other times scare him. Each animated episode recounts an adventure and takes an "original story" approach to explaining these natural phenomena. In this episode, Moko wonders why all the clouds come and cry over his village at the same time. What makes them so sad? He questions the wise old man of the village, who suggests that he wait till the end of the rainy season for the answer. Once the rains are over, Moko goes back to see the old man. The old man tells him that the answer lies in the fields and the crops. Moko sees that the rain has allowed so many things to grow, and that the village has all the food it needs. So he realizes that the clouds are not sad when it rains, but rather that they give all their water to fertilize the soil.
What is the largest living thing on earth? What are the four levels of a forest? Bill Nye explores a forest, its purpose, and its by-products. Visit different kinds of forests, a timberline, and a forest fire.
Madagascar has lost almost all of its forests, and the islands population is beginning to encroach on the pristine Makira Forest. Dr. Helen Crowley and her team set off to explore and record the biodiversity of this forest before environmental damage occurs. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
One might never know it, but the seemingly quiet Harvard Forest in Massachusetts is actually hard at work. Like other forests, it’s busy doing some serious global housekeeping, which is being monitored by scientists at Harvard University. With support from the National Science Foundation, researchers are studying forest ecology. That research includes determining how the forest responds to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe that humans, animals, and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people attended the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France to make sure their voices were heard.
The first in a series of five documentaries plots the course of the river, from its source to its delta. In a succession of spectacular images we see the extraordinary geographical route that the Mekong takes, from the Tibetan plateau, down the mountains of the Yunnan Province in China, then through the tropical valleys and virgin forests of Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand before reaching the green plains of Vietnam. In the tropical forest, nature abounds with wild animal species, rare plants and flowers. In Laos', whole villages still pray to the Gods of Trees while in Thailand a hunter shows how the hunting of Asian elephants for preservation, now forbidden, was practiced. Series: The Soul of Southeast Asia
Year after year massive fires continue to rip through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in Colorado. Some scientists fear that the forests may not be able to recover due to a warming climate. Colorado University PhD student Monica Rother investigates post-fire ecosystems in an effort to predict what the Colorado Front Range might look like in a warmer, drier future. Part of the WildFire PIRE series.
The Boreal Forest in Northern Canada is the bird nursery for North and South America. The birds and ducks that migrate to the forest are in danger from logging and mining in the area. Conservationists have seen numbers decline over the years, and they have established the Boreal Songbird Initiative to track the health and numbers of the birds’ migrations. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
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