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Investigative reporter Donal Maclntyre is blasted, roasted, frozen and soaked on his expedition to the heart of the weather. Wind: What can wind do at its worst? Tornado and hurricane survivors recount scene s of incredible devastation, while Donal meets force-12 winds head on in a wind tunnel. Two balloonists entrust their lives to the fickle forces of the jet stream, and we learn how it was put to deadly use by the Japanese during World War II. Wet:...

A tour of the Earth's turbulent atmosphere, revealing the forces that make a day fair or foul.

Experience the beauty and dangers of Tornado Alley with two experienced stormchasers during Storm Season, 2003. Find out what meteorologists think of stormchasing and find out what to do when put face to face with an actual tornado.

"A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather."--JFDB

Bill unearths the hard facts on volcanoes, landslides, tectonic plates, rivers, weather, and their varied effects on the creaton of rocks and soil. Check out how to unearth fossils in sedimentary rocks and soil and discover why there's a piece of quartz in watches.

Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.

The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...

Students will learn introductory concepts about the earth's components and dynamics, the atmosphere, and the solar system. Fossils & dinosaurs: State-of-the-art animatronic dinosaurs help to recreate what life was like 60 million years ago. Students will discover how fossils are formed and learn how to look for the clues that reveal how dinosaurs lived and died. Floods, fronts & the water cycle: Live-action video vividly and dramatically conveys...

Weather is one of the most evolving and exciting areas of science--one that we experience every day. In Stormchasers, we join storm-chasing meteorologiss who track extreme weather conditions in order to understand how they form.

In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's Days of Rage. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building,...