Strange Days on Planet Earth -National Geographic

Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries; Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue by clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected; Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China; Vanishing forests in Yellowstone are linked to the disappearance of wolves; An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa; Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed; Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events? National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth, premiering in Spring 2005 on PBS, explores these questions; Drawing upon research being generated by a new discipline, Earth System Science (ESS), the series aims to create an innovative type of environmental awareness; By revealing a cause and effect relationship between what we as humans do to the Earth and what that in turn does to our environment and ecosystems, the series creates a new sense of environmental urgency; Award-winning actor, writer and director Edward Norton (Primal Fear, American History X, Italian Job) hosts the series; A dedicated environmental activist, Norton has a special interest in providing solar energy to low income families; Each of the four one-hour episodes is constructed as a high-tech detective story, with the fate of the planet at stake;

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