Human impact: the percentage of human influence relative to the maximum influence recorded for each biome.
Data include:
human population density
land transformation (including global landcover, roads, and cities)
electrical power infrastructure (NOAA night-lights data)
access (via roads, avigable rivers, and coastline) to the land
Humans have been successful in their efforts to av
landscape. Flooded roads, half-destroyed
huts, broken trees... A dog picks its way through the mud.
FERNANDO (V.O.)
There was a time when the New World
didnt exist...
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. OCEAN - DAY
A vast stretch of ocean. It fills the screen. Unbroken,
infinite, luminous, mysterious -- it stretches away,
meeting and blending with the sky in pale ribbons of pearl
and misty light.
FERNANDO (V.O.)
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within the Amazon forest and beyond, including canoe trips, jungle treks, piranha fishing, visiting Amazonian native dwellings, swimming with pink dolphins, archipelago tours, helicopter rides, and the observation of nightlife animals. Guest can also observe the natural phenomenon of meeting of the waters, where the Rio Negro and the Solimoes river run side by side for 5 miles without mixing.
landscape too deliberate to be of natural origin.
Bisecting this country like a metallic ribbon -- or a scar,
depending on your point of view -- is the 800-mile-long
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline.
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Even the immensity of the pipeline is rendered insignificant
by the vastness of the land. It goes on, and on, and on...
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DISSOLVE TO:
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A lone MAN walks along the Haul Road, a one-lane gravel
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landscaping, in the shape of parks and lakes. The castle dominates itself, an enormous pile, compounded of several genuine castles, of European origin, of varying architecture - dominates the scene, from the very peak of the mountain.
DISSOLVE:
GOLF LINKS (MINIATURE)
Past which we move. The greens are straggly and overgrown, the fairways wild with tropical weeds, the links unused and not seriousl