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Geological history of Earth

Desertification: A Walk Through West Africa

Each year, the world loses more grasslands, croplands and even forests to encroaching deserts. Desertification threatens one-third of the earth’s land area, and a billion people in the world’s poorer, arid regions. Patrick Gonzalez had a first- hand look at desertification during a five year stay in West Africa. Currently he works for the U.S. […]

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Advice Upon Travelling in the Rainforest

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Up in the Treetops

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Museum Message

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AIDS Medicine May Save Cameroon Rain Forest

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Visiting the Tropical Forest Canopy

Producer Bob Carty travels to the top of the Costa Rican rain forest with tropical ecologist Tara McCarthy. McCarthy is a former nurse who found her new calling in the tropical treetops.

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Fungal Fuel

Scientists find a relative of athlete’s foot  ? and truffles  ? that makes diesel fuel.

Rolling Rainforest

Students in Washington, DC are getting a chance to visit the rainforest  ? it’s right in their school parking lot. Living on Earth followed students at the Brent Elementary School as they forayed into the jungle.

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Brazil drills for oil in the rainforest

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Brazil wants to be energy independent, and one thing it’s doing toward that end is drilling for oil and natural gas in the Amazon rainforest, so The World’s Alex Gallafent visited the Urucu energy exploration facility in the Amazon and sent this report.

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Geo answer

Environment

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with paleontologist Paul Sereno from the University of Chicago about his discovery of a new kind of dinosaur fossil. The discovery took place in Africa’s Sahara Desert — which is the answer to today’s Geo Quiz.