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Untold Earth
This Is Not a Forest
Season 2
Episode 1
Pando, Latin for 'I spread,' appears to be a forest but is actually one massive tree. Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is one of the world’s largest living organisms. It has thrived in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, spreading across 106 acres with 47,000 stems. Find out how human intervention has both threatened its survival and sparked a passionate mission to protect it.
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7:11
How are truffles key to the survival of the forest ecosystem at large?
6:49
What does it mean to preserve a place that is defined by it's impermanence?
5:57
Microbial warfare has been raging for thousands of years deep below the Chihuahuan Desert.
9:12
What does one of Earth's harshest environments teach us about planet survival?
6:41
At 87º Celcius, the Grand Prismatic Spring is a beacon of microbial life and discovery.
6:57
At 50 million years old, the origins of Devils Tower or Bears Lodge remains a mystery.
8:26
An ancient and modern mystery, what about bioluminescence inspires such obsession?
8:54
Over half a million years old, the story of Mono Lake is one of survival.
5:44
At 450 million years old, moss may hold the key to surviving our rapidly warming planet.
7:05
What are icebergs doing so close to land and why must we keep an eye on them?
7:30
What makes the Coast Redwood, a tree as old as the dinosaurs, epically singular in nature?