France, Spain, Portugal and Greece are fighting wildfires, some of which are still out of control.
Eight stunning videos to celebrate Earth Day
What better way to celebrate the Earth Day than showing the extraordinary variety of landscapes and creatures of the Planet?
Lush, ancestral forests home to extraordinary biodiversity, inaccesible and inhospitable peaks, snowfields and oceans of sand. Our Planet offers us a huge variety of landscapes and environments, each with its own stunning beauty.
Here’s a selection of landscapes – one video for each continent (plus one showing the Earth from space) – that demonstrate the poetry of a wood or the stones in a brook. How can you not love a Planet like this?
North America
Arizona and Utah, United States
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Europe
Monte Teide, Canary Islands, Spain
[vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/22439234″]
Africa
Drakensberg, South Africa
[vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/33762677″]
Asia
Himalaya, Nepal and Tibet
[vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/32645004″]
South America
Patagonia, Argentina and Chile
[vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/21081887″]
Australia
Various places
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Antarctica
Various places
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Earth from space
From the International Space Station
[vimeo url=”https://vimeo.com/32001208″]
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