3 episodes

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures - 2020: Planet Earth: A User’s Guide

First aired Dec 28, 2020Season 55

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Episodes

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Episode 1

Engine Earth

7.0
Dec 28, 202059 min1 votes

Professor Chris Jackson reveals how, for billions of years, volcanic activity drove climate change on planet Earth. Now, it is humans.

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Episode 2

Water World

7.0
Dec 29, 202059 min1 votes

Dr Helen Czerski explains why the ocean is so vital to life on earth and what we need to know to be good citizens of our ocean planet.

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Episode 3

Up In The Air

7.0
Dec 30, 202059 min1 votes

Dr Tara Shine takes a deep breath and explores the gases that make up the air we breath. One of them might provide the answer for heating and transport in the future.