E08 - Cities: Surviving the Urban Jungle

Urban environments are man-made, so human design seems totally to overtake wildlife habitats. Yet animals abound in cities and suburbs, many as pets or working, but others exempt by ...

E07 - Rivers: Friend and Foe

Man always was attracted by rivers, not unlike seas, for water, fishing, irrigation, transport. And he deals in many ways with their dangers, ranging from torrents, frost and perilous ...

E06 - Grasslands: The Roots of Power

Grass lands cover vast plains, such as savanna, prairies and pampas. The many, almost indestructible grass species, for various types of soil and other conditions, feed huge herds, whose ...

E05 - Mountains: Life in Thin Air

Life in the mountains demands elaborate adaptations, for despite the extreme biological diversity people often have little choice of meat supply, despite elaborate hunting methods such as ...

E04 - Jungles: People of the Trees

Although a mall part of earth's landmass, tropical rain forests contain half the animal species, mainly on altitudes out of human reach, losing 100 a day, often undiscovered, trough rapid ...

E03 - Arctic: Life in the Deep Freeze

E02 - Deserts: Life in the Furnace

Deserts cover a third of the earth's land mass, yet harbor only some 300,000 inhabitants, many of which are (semi-)nomadic hunters/herdsmen, making navigation and adapted animals, such as ...

E01 - Oceans: Into the Blue