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100 years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. 100 |
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Now, over 6 billion crowd our fragile planet. |
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But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. |
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This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before. |
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Imagine our world without sun. |
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Male emperor penguins are facing the nearest that exists on planet Earth, winter in Antarctica. |
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It's continuously dark and temperatures drop to minus 70 degrees centigrade. |
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The penguins stay when all other creatures have fled because each guards a treasure. |
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A single egg rested on the top of its feet and kept warm beneath the downy bulge of its stomach. —— |
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There is no food and no water for them, and they will not see the sun again for four months. |
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Surely no greater ordeal is faced by any animal. As the sun departs from the Antarctic it lightens the skies in the far north. |