Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) è un'ex cacciatrice di uragani segnata dall’incontro devastante con un tornado durante i suoi anni al college. Kate, che ora studia i percorsi degli uragani al riparo nel suo ufficio di New York City, viene spinta a tornare in campo dal suo amico Javi per testare un innovativo sistema di tracciamento. Il suo percorso incrocia quello di Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), un'affascinante e spericolata superstar dei social media che si diverte a postare le sue avventure a caccia di tempeste con il suo gruppo: più sono pericolose, meglio è! Con l'intensificarsi della stagione delle tempeste, si scatenano fenomeni terrificanti mai visti prima e Kate, Tyler e le loro rispettive squadre si ritrovano sulla traiettoria di molteplici sistemi temporaleschi che convergono sull'Oklahoma centrale e che metteranno a dura prova la loro sopravvivenza.
Jo Harding, una cacciatrice di tornado, si lancia insieme all'ex-marito Bill, meteorologo, e a una strampalata squadra di storm-chasers (cacciatori di tempeste) in un grande progetto: immettere all'interno di un tornado (in inglese detto anche twister) uno speciale strumento scientifico che permetterà di ricavare tutte le informazioni necessarie per costruire un piano di emergenza al verificarsi di tali violenti fenomeni. Nel film si susseguono tornado sempre più forti e i primi tentativi di Bill e Jo falliscono. Alla fine riusciranno a far funzionare il loro strumento all'interno di un devastante tornado di categoria F5.
Il paleo-climatologo Jack Hall, dopo essere rientrato da un carotaggio antartico, fa un appello al mondo, in particolare al presidente degli Stati Uniti che poco gli da ascolto. Jack ha scoperto che, la continua immissione di acqua dolce negli oceani causata dal progressivo disgelo dei poli, potrebbe causare l’inversione delle correnti, e determinare le condizioni di una nuova glaciazione sulla terra. Non viene data importanza alla notizia e ben presto si verificano delle catastrofi: chicchi di grandine delle dimensioni di un ananas flagellano Tokyo, uragani di una violenza mai registrata si abbattono sulle Hawaii, Nuova Delhi è sepolta sotto la neve, e Los Angeles viene spazzata da una serie di tornadi devastanti. Mentre tutti fuggono in direzione sud, Jack deve riuscire a raggiungere New York travolta da un freddo gelido, per salvare suo figlio Sam che si trova nella Public Library di Manhattan.
La condizione del paneta e i rischi che corre a causa dei gas serra è la scomoda verità che Al Gore si è impegnato a diffondere di persona attraverso un tour che si è esteso ai quattro angoli della terra avviato dopo aver perso (momentaneamente) la corsa alla Casa Bianca. Conscio di andare incontro allo scetticismo delle persone ma forte delle sue ricerche nel campo e di vent'anni di esperienza (già nel 1992 aveva pubblicato il libro Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit sul quale si basa la sua attuale "predicazione") Gore espone una serie di dati scientifici inattaccabili, tabulati, previsioni sul nostro prossimo futuro e risposte alla domanda su come affrontare il riscaldamento globale del pianeta.
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse
Un gruppo rivoluzionario di attivisti, scienziati, agricoltori e politici si uniscono in un movimento globale di "agricoltura rigenerativa" che potrebbe bilanciare il clima, rifornire le nostre vaste riserve idriche e nutrire il mondo.
This film illustrates how a revolution in one of the most basic of all human enterprises – the making of maps – is shedding new light on our planet's evolution as global temperatures rise. This original MagellanTV documentary explores the dynamic processes causing glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica to melt, and shows how rising seas could threaten coastlines around the world.
Aftermath: Population Zero investigates what would happen if every single person on Earth simply disappeared. Explore the interactive world without us.
Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive.
Paris to Pittsburgh brings to life the impassioned efforts of individuals who are battling the most severe threats of climate change in their own backyards. Set against the national debate over the United States' energy future - and the Trump administration's explosive decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement - the film captures what's at stake for communities around the country and the inspiring ways Americans are responding.
After one of the hottest years on record, Sir David Attenborough looks at the science of climate change and potential solutions to this global threat. Interviews with some of the world’s leading climate scientists explore recent extreme weather conditions such as unprecedented storms and catastrophic wildfires. They also reveal what dangerous levels of climate change could mean for both human populations and the natural world in the future.
Using nature shots with narration and a musical score, this documentary tells the story about the Moken, Myanmar's last sea nomads.
An eye-opening documentary that asks the question: Are we going to let climate change destroy civilization, or will we act on technologies that can reverse it? Featuring never-before-seen solutions on the many ways we can reduce carbon in the atmosphere thus paving the way for temperatures to go down, saving civilization.
Climate change is taking place. Will we have the wisdom to survive? The film features thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics and spirituality discussing how we can evolve in the face of climate disruption. Interviewees include Bill McKibbin, Joanna Macy, Roger Payne and young pioneers like Herschelle Milford and Quincy Saul.
In Over the Cattle Grid you follow to Robert, Rinke and Ytzen, who spend every day in the woods between the villages of Odoorn and Exloo. Ytzen and Rinke because they live in the middle of the woods, Robert because he cycles through the woods every day to get to work. Behind the grid time seems to pass in a different way. Or as Ytzen says "there is no time, there is just being". They also see things they have never seen before, such as trees that lose their leaves in September and plants that want to start growing in the middle of winter. You will also see Wietse de Haan and Evert Prummel, they build instruments from dead trees. All the music you hear in the film was played on these tree instruments and recorded in the forest. Okki herself also occasionally passes by. She has been coming to this piece of forest all her life, which is a kilometer from the house where she grew up. Not only has she known the forest, but also Robert, Ytzen and Rinke for most of her life.
A growing group of Dutch people in their twenties see the earth becoming less livable. They join the climate group Extinction Rebellion and campaign to fight the climate crisis. There is little they shy away from in their struggle: nightly campaigns, high-altitude actions, and even arrests or a criminal record. Everything for a better planet.
A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic experience like no other.
Thule, Greenland, also called Qaanaaqis, one of the northernmost towns in the world. As the climate warms and the ice caps begin to melt, the gentle balance of life for the people of this community is in jeopardy. On the other side of the globe, the melting ice caps are raising sea levels around the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu, threatening to wipe the island right off the map. Though a world apart, these two communities are intricately connected as environmental balance begins to tip and traditional ways of life are threatened. 'ThuleTuvalu' is a stunning documentary addressing the high price of a hundred years of development and how two very different communities are now bound together in facing an uncertain future.
Amol Rajan talks to 19-year old Greta Thunberg, the climate activist who has become the unlikely voice of a global youth. Thunberg isn't a politician or a scientist, nor is she the first to campaign against climate change. However, since overcoming severe childhood depression to focus the world's attention on the plight of the planet, the Swedish student has become symbol for a generation which - as she puts it - is not being listened to by older people who won't suffer the consequences. In a challenging and wide-ranging conversation, Rajan discusses with Thunberg her latest book and interrogates some of the solutions it posits to tackle climate change. They explore green policy, climate justice, greenwashing and the role of both politics and protest in effecting change. Thunberg also shares the personal cost she has paid in being a global game-changer and offers a rare insight into the real Greta Thunberg.
Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. When a fracking mega-site gets moved from a White neighborhood to a BIPOC neighborhood, a concerned mother fights to try and stop it. This is an investigative exposé about the harms of fracking, the lengths to which the government is complacent with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics that the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.