Episodes
Nuclear Dynamite
October 5, 2000
Breath of Life
October 12, 2000
Spare Parts
October 19, 2000
Lost Worlds: Wild South America
October 23, 2000
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Monkey Jungles
October 30, 2000
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Amazon Jungle
December 7, 2000
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Mighty Amazon
December 14, 2000
South America is a land of extremes. It boasts the world's longest mountain chain, the Andes; the mightiest river, the Amazon; the largest rainforest, the driest desert and the richest sea.
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Andes
January 3, 2001
Amanda's Choice
January 10, 2001
Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemma: whether or not to be tested for the faulty gene that will bring on Alzheimer's Disease by her mid-30s, as happened with her mother and other generations in her family. It is a disease that always leads to early death.
The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy
January 17, 2001
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores
January 24, 2001
PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazingly diverse topography of South America, and its remarkable denizens. The world's longest mountain chain stretches from the tropics to the massive Patagonian Ice Sheet of sub-Antarctica. Its icy power dominates the lives of the hardy animals that dare to call it home, making living there one of nature's greatest challenges.
Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Great Plains
January 31, 2001
Lost Worlds - A six-part series on the breath-taking natural world of South America takes viewers on a cross-continent grand tour - from the mighty Amazon to the spectacular Andean peaks and the world's driest desert - stopping to view the strange and wonderful array of animals, birds and other wildlife along the way. Produced by the BBC. Narrated by David Suzuki.
Coastal Forest/Salmon Forest
February 7, 2001
The Price of Salmon
February 14, 2001
Salmon are considered an excellent source of nutrition. And farmed salmon provide it inexpensively. But at what cost? The Price of Salmon explores the complex issues involved with aquaculture.
Surgeons of the Future
February 21, 2001
Maisin People In Papua New Guinea
February 28, 2001
Toxic Legacies
March 14, 2001
Hospital at the End of the Earth
March 21, 2001
Worst Case Scenario
April 4, 2001
Albertans have traditionally been proud of their mighty petroleum industry. But lately, they have begun to question how that industry works. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than along the Clearwater River in Central Alberta, near Rocky Mountain House. There, residents are opposing Shell Canada's plans to drill a sour gas well in their area. The sour gas from the well could generate $10,000 a day in gross revenue, to meet today's high energy demands.
