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Earth

Series 1

Snowball

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 3 months

How Earth’s terrifying journey into the deep freeze started with fire, not ice. 800 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, indeed any animal life, the giant supercontinent Rodinia broke up. Earth’s vast powerful tectonic forces ripped the land apart, kicking off a series of events that resulted in huge amounts of carbon dioxide being sucked from the atmosphere and sending global temperatures plummeting. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris Packham
Executive Producer:
Andrew Cohen
Executive Producer:
Rob Liddell
Director:
Ben Wilson
Producer:
Kiki Lawrance
Line Producer:
Raewyn Dickson
VFX Producer:
Thomas Welch
Director of photography:
Julius Brighton
Sound Recordist:
Seb Blach
Drone and FPV Photography:
Zach Levi-Rodgers

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