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Our Warming Oceans: Biosphere to Bahamas

Our Warming Oceans: Biosphere to Bahamas

Season 6 Episode 604
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Mexico’s Sierra Pinacate

Mexico’s Sierra Pinacate

Season 6 Episode 605
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Costa Rica: Laboratory of the Biosphere

Costa Rica: Laboratory of the Biosphere

Season 6 Episode 606
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Oregon: Violent Past and Verdant Present

Oregon: Violent Past and Verdant Present

Season 6 Episode 608
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Cuba's Far East

Cuba's Far East

Season 6 Episode 609
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Chiapas Highlands: Mexico's Indian Empire

Chiapas Highlands: Mexico's Indian Empire

Season 6 Episode 610
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Slickrocks and Monuments in the Four Corners

Slickrocks and Monuments in the Four Corners

Season 10 Episode 1001
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Ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau

Ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau

Season 10 Episode 1002
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The Northern Jaguar Preserve

The Northern Jaguar Preserve

Season 10 Episode 1004
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In the America's with David Yetman

Mexico City: 600 Years of Urban Glory

Season 6 Episode 603

Six centuries ago the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was the world’s grandest urban center and its market the world’s busiest. Now home to more than 20 million souls, Mexico City’s museums, monuments, galleries, public celebrations, and vast ethnic mix reflect its past and present glories, and make it Latin America’s most vibrant city.

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1492: Americans Discover Europe
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Exploring the resistance and reception of Europeans to the Americas.
Christopher Columbus, his time and his plans
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Understanding Columbus and the influence and destruction heaped on the Americas.
Colon’s Spain and the Quest for Western Lands
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Exploring Huelva, its surroundings and its wealth of cultural and historical influences.
As the Waters of Lake Powell Recede
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The falling water levels of Lake Powell reveal fragments of ancient peoples.
Whales and Their Offspring in San Ignacio Lagoon
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Protecting whales and cultivating the friendship between people and the gentle giants.
The Salton Sea: Life and death in an inland ocean
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Exploring a once booming tourist mecca that is now a nearly dead body of water.
The Northern Jaguar Preserve
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Conservation groups work for the ideal habitat for jaguars, mountain lions and ocelots
The wild and explosive past of northwest New Mexico
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The natural monuments that define the territories of native peoples in New Mexico.
Ancient peoples of the Colorado Plateau
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Explore how southwestern U.S. native peoples established the Colorado Plateau.
Slickrocks and Monuments in the Four Corners
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Explore the Four Corners portion of the Colorado Plateau.
Arizona Volcanoes
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Arizona's landscape is the product of millions of years of volcanic explosions.
Mexican Carnival
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Mexico has two Carnival parades like no others in the states of Puebla and Morelos.
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