Superquark S18E05 · Episode 5

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We can survive weeks without food, but only a few days without water. The eternal struggle for water and the ingenious solutions adopted in the most desert areas of the planet, in the documentary of the fifth episode of Superquark, of the BBC Human Planet series: Deserts. An army of 10 million interviewers for the largest census on the planet. The one that ended a few weeks ago in China. To count what is the largest population in the world and understand its dynamics in an era of colossal changes. In the report by Lorenzo Pinna. After the tragedies of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels and the seizure of the “Achille Lauro”, one of the flagships of the State has taken shape: the Crisis Unit of the Farnesina. A “handful” of officials and operators, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, prepares emergency and evacuation plans, “shaping” them on all possible scenarios, from natural disasters to health emergencies, to international political revolts. Structure copied by many other countries.

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1. 1 1. Episode 12011-06-16 · 2h 0mThe first episode of Superquark opens with a magnificent documentary from the USHUAIA series by Nicolas Hulot: a journey of contrasts between an extremely urbanized India and a Nep
2. 2 2. Episode 22011-06-23 · 2h 0mIn the second episode of Superquark a documentary from the new BBC series Human Planet: Rivers. The rivers of our planet provide many of the essentials for life: fresh water, natur
3. 3 3. Episode 32011-06-30In the third episode of Superquark another documentary from the spectacular new BBC series Human Planet: Jungles. Tropical forests cover only 2% of the planet, but half of living s
4. 4 4. Episode 42011-07-07 · 2h 0mFor the opening documentary of the fourth episode of Superquark, of the BBC Human Planet series: Oceans. The oceans support most of the species on Earth, although humans are not am
5. 5 5. Episode 52011-07-14We can survive weeks without food, but only a few days without water. The eternal struggle for water and the ingenious solutions adopted in the most desert areas of the planet, in
6. 6 6. Episode 62011-07-21The weather in the mountains can change suddenly and go from sultry heat to arctic cold. The higher you go, the less oxygen you have available. Nonetheless, millions of people arou
7. 7 7. Episode 72011-07-28 · 2h 0mIt is one of the most extreme places on Earth: dark and frozen for months in the winter, without trees or edible plants in the summer. Yet 4 million people have learned to live the
8. 8 8. Episode 82011-08-04 · 2h 0mPrairies feed the world. Over thousands of years, humans have learned to cultivate prairies and domesticate the animals that live there. The success of this operation has brought t
9. 9 9. Episode 92011-08-11It is a story that lasts 500 million years and that features some of the most exotic and wonderful marine creatures on earth. Coral is nature's greatest architect and coral reefs h
10. 10 10. Episode 102011-08-17 · 2h 0mIn the tenth episode of Superquark a very curious and funny documentary from the BBC series Seeing the Invisible about Speed ​​Limits. The human eye takes about fifty thousandths o
11. 11 11. Episode 112011-08-25The documentary in this episode, Story of a Baboon, tells the story of a young baboon whose father, the dominant male of the group, is deposed following a bloody battle and replace
12. 12 12. Episode 122011-09-01To close this year's Superquark series, a very special BBC documentary on the polar bear. Cameras hidden in icebergs, snowballs and more have spied on the life of bears in such a d