
Earth
(0.00 / 0 votes)Of all the planets in our universe,
we know of only one
that can support life.
Just the right distance from the sun,
it has a perfect climate.
Earth rests at an angle
of exactly 23 and a half degrees
to the sun.
Without that crucial tilt,
everything as we know it
would be different.
For by it, the seasons are created,
the extremes of climate, hot and cold,
and landscapes of spectacular beauty.
We spend a year with our fellow creatures
as they struggle to raise their young
in a world that is ever-changing.
January.
It's the dead of winter in the high Arctic,
and there has been no sun
for over a month.
A father, alone in an icy wilderness.
He scavenges for food
in the permanent darkness.
Every living thing is waiting.
At long last,
the sun makes its first appearance
over the horizon.
And something else makes
an appearance for the first time too.
underground in her den the whole winter.
It's fresh-powder conditions up here,
under the snow for so long,
she can't help but enjoy the slopes.
But she's not alone.
They're 2 months old now,
and this is the very first time
they've seen the light of day.
It's breakfast time for the little ones.
Mom uses the promise of food
to coax them across the slopes.
But it's not the easiest place
to take your first steps.
Milk is the breakfast of choice here.
In fact, it's the only choice here.
It's all the cubs have known since birth.
Mom hasn't eaten for five months,
and she's lost half her body weight.
But still, she'll stay at home
on these slopes
and nurse the cubs
until they find their footing.
Which, as you can see,
might take a little while.
Every year at this time,
they need food desperately.
They'll have to get down
and join Dad on the ice
before it starts to melt
in the warming sunlight.
The sea ice is the only place
the bears can hunt for seals.
If they don't make it in time,
they'll lose their hunting platform,
So far, the ice is strong enough
But he won't be much help
to Mom and the kids.
Instinct leads him to hunt for himself.
This race to reach the sea ice
is more urgent than ever.
Our planet is warming,
and the ice is melting earlier every year.
It's ten days later
and time for Mom to lead
the growing cubs down to the sea ice.
but they seem to be taking them
in the wrong direction.
Unlike humans, polar-bear cubs
don't always listen to their moms.
Finally, everybody is pointed
in the right direction,
and the journey to the ice begins.
Just a few miles from the coast,
the ice is already breaking up.
Mom leads her cubs to start their life
at the edge
of this increasingly dangerous new world.
What they don't know
is the harsh reality of life in the Arctic.
It's unlikely that both cubs
will survive their first year.
A thousand miles south of the bears,
stunted conifers are still locked in ice.
They mark the tree line of our planet
and the start of the boreal forest.
This vast belt of trees
forms an almost unbroken circle
around the north of the globe.
These conifers
have needle-shaped leaves,
virtually inedible,
so the forest supports
In this silent world,
footprints rarely mark the snow.
And those who do live here
are so hard to glimpse,
they're like spirits.
The lynx roams hundreds of miles
in search of prey.
It may never visit
the same patch of forest twice.
This creature
is the very essence of wilderness.
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