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The Molecule That Made Us Season 1
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Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
Civilizations
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Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
Pulse
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How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!
Episode 2: Civilizations - Preview
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Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.
Episode 3: Crisis - Preview
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Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us - Preview
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H2O: The Molecule that Made Us tells the human story through our relationship to water.
Episode 1: Pulse - Preview
0:30
How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!
Water is Life
4:32
Life has perpetuated the liquid water on the surface of our planet for geologic time.
The Foamy Rio Tietê
4:40
Mega-droughts in Brazil lead to toxic foam polluting the Rio Tietê.
Extreme Flooding
2:59
Photographer Gideon Mendel has spent 12 years documenting floods all over the world.
Cracks in the Earth
2:41
Our demands on groundwater are creating huge cracks, across the earth’s surface.
Resurrection Plants
2:17
How could a plant be the key to producing food security in a drought?
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