The Blue Planet

THE EARTH IN SPACE: Venus: An Earth-Like Planet; Fellow Travellers in Space: Earth's Nearest Neighbours; The Sun, Giver of Life; THE EARTH BENEATH OUR FEET: The Way the Earth Works: Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior; Minerals and Rocks; The Heat Within: Magma and Volcanoes; The Principles of Plate Tectonics; The Earth's Evolving Crust; THE EARTH'S BLANKET OF WATER AND ICE: The World Ocean; Hydrology and the Hydrologic Cycle; The World of Snow and Ice; The Changing Face of the Land; THE EARTH'S GASEOUS ENVELOPE: Evolution of the Atmosphere; Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere; Winds and the Weather; The Earth's Changing Climates; THE DYNAMICS OF LIFE: How Birds Navigate; Dynamics of the Global Ecosystem; Biogeochemical Cycles; Evolution of the Biosphere; THE EARTH'S FUTURE: Resources from the Earth; Global Change: A Planet Under Stress.