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'Pulse' opens on the rock and ice of Greenland, where geologist Stephen Mojzsis shares a new theory on how water first arrived on Planet Earth.  See the world’s longest insect migration, and meet the Munoz family, who use cutting edge time-lapse rigs to show the rare spectacle of deserts around the world exploding from barren wastelands into rich carpets of flowers. But the pulse is under threat.

How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!

Episode 1: Pulse

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NOVA recommends the documentary, "H2O: The Molecule That Made Us," a three-hour series from WGBH Boston which dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence.How did water arrive on Earth? How did it come to underpin every aspect of existence from dragonflies to deserts in bloom to human life? Dive in! (Premiered April 22, 2020)"H2O: The Molecule that Made Us” is a production of Passion Planet for WGBH, with funding from <a href="http://www.draper.com">Draper</a>, <a href="https://www.avdf.org/">The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations</a>, Lynn Bay Dayton and Bruce C. Dayton, Anne Ray Foundation and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a>.

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How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!

H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: Pulse

Planet Earth

'Civilizations' turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. Starting in Ancient Egypt, it charts the critical role water plays in history, and around the world we see the birth of civilizations on the banks of the great rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and Yellow.  We end by asking if we can guarantee water supplies of the future?

Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.

Episode 2: Civilizations

NOVA recommends the documentary, "H2O: The Molecule That Made Us," a three-hour series from WGBH Boston which dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence.Travel into the past to see how water may have driven our own evolution—and created civilizations. But can the Earth’s water supplies guarantee our future? (Premiered April 29, 2020)"H2O: The Molecule that Made Us” is a production of Passion Planet for WGBH, with funding from <a href="http://www.draper.com">Draper</a>, <a href="https://www.avdf.org/">The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations</a>, Lynn Bay Dayton and Bruce C. Dayton, Anne Ray Foundation and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a>.

Travel into the past to see how water created the earliest civilizations.

H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: Civilizations

'Crisis' examines how the planet’s changing water cycle is forcing us to change our relationship with water.  An increasingly, globalized agricultural industry is turning precious water reserves into profit, “mining” water faster than it can be replaced.  As Chairman Emeritus of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says, “.... the water issue is more urgent than the climate issue."

Earth’s changing water cycle, and water for profit, are forcing changes across the globe.

Episode 3: Crisis

NOVA recommends the documentary, "H2O: The Molecule That Made Us," a three-hour series from WGBH Boston which dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence.Earth’s changing water cycle—and a globalized movement towards water for profit—is forcing changes in humans’ reliance on water. Can a geopolitical crisis be averted? (Premiered May 6, 2020)"H2O: The Molecule that Made Us” is a production of Passion Planet for WGBH, with funding from <a href="http://www.draper.com">Draper</a>, <a href="https://www.avdf.org/">The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations</a>, Lynn Bay Dayton and Bruce C. Dayton, Anne Ray Foundation and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a>.

How is Earth’s changing water cycle—and water for profit—forcing changes across the globe?

How is Earth’s changing water cycle—and water for profit—forcing changes across the globe?

H2O: The Molecule That Made Us: Crisis

Earth is alive because of water, and humanity’s relationship with this simple molecule is everything.NOVA recommends the documentary, "H2O: The Molecule That Made Us," a three-hour series from WGBH Boston which dramatically reveals how water underpins every aspect of our existence. Segments from across the planet, intimate documentary, and natural history cinematography combine to uncover dramatic discoveries and compelling characters and deliver important stories about this mysterious molecule."H2O: The Molecule that Made Us” is a production of Passion Planet for WGBH, with funding from <a href="http://www.draper.com">Draper</a>, <a href="https://www.avdf.org/">The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations</a>, Lynn Bay Dayton and Bruce C. Dayton, Anne Ray Foundation and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a>.

Earth is alive because of water, and humanity’s relationship with this simple molecule is everything. "H20, The Molecule That Made Us" is a three-hour series from WGBH Boston premiering, dramatically revealing how water underpins every aspect of our existence.

Earth is alive because of water, and humanity’s relationship with this simple molecule is everything. "H2O, The Molecule That Made Us" is a three-hour series from WGBH Boston premiering, dramatically revealing how water underpins every aspect of our existence.

H2O: The Molecule That Made Us

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Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are discovering that these mystifying phenomena add up to a ticking time bomb, as long-frozen permafrost melts and releases vast amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. What are the implications of these dramatic developments in the Arctic? Scientists and local communities alike are struggling to grasp the scale of the methane threat and what it means for our climate future. (Premiered February 2, 2022)

In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.

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A composite image of Jupiter using images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt.

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A transmission electron micrograph of HIV-1 virus particles (orange) replicating from the plasma membrane of an infected H9 T cell. Credit: NIAID, Flickr

Scientists have cured a handful of people of HIV by piggybacking on treatments they received for blood cancer. But does that bring a widespread cure any closer?

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