Episode
The Green Planet: Water Worlds
Overview
Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.
Details
- Series
- The Green Planet
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2022-01-16
- Runtime
- 58 min
Episode context
Water Worlds is Episode 2 in Season 1 of The Green Planet. It aired on 2022-01-16. The runtime is 58 min.
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Episode 1: Tropical Worlds
Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.
Episode 3: Seasonal Worlds
Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.
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Episode 4: Desert Worlds
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Episode 5: Human Worlds
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