This corridor of trees unites 20 countries
BBC Earth Podcast
Jenkins Laura
4.6 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week on the BBC Earth Podcast, we are sharing stories of unity. Hear the story behind the international mission of 20 African countries to hold back the desert and plant trees to reclaim the once lush oasis of oasis and greenery. We also discover the unique relationship between a toad and tarantula who choose to be roommates as well as a migration miracle: a three-thousand mile oceanic journey across the Sargasso Sea is made by a transparent animal half the width of a pencil.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from BBC Studios. |
| 0:04.0 | A commercial subsidiary of the BBC. |
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| 0:49.7 | One of the classic places that I went to, which was extraordinary and was it was a real honour to go to the volcano called Nerta Ali, |
| 0:57.0 | which is a lava lake. |
| 0:58.0 | There's only three, four lava lakes in the world. |
| 1:02.0 | You'd have to travel for several days to get there across this Ethiopian wilderness. |
| 1:06.0 | One of those desolate places in the world. |
| 1:11.6 | It's a pond, a surface pond of bubbling lava. |
| 1:14.6 | And you can see the fumes coming out and it catches your breath so you sense it before you actually see it. |
| 1:19.6 | And I would just sit there and transfixed really, watching this surface of congealing and breaking lava moving around, |
| 1:31.5 | bursting off, you know, frothing a little bit. And you kind of realise that's exactly the same |
| 1:37.3 | as your planet. Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that's getting a bigger picture about life on our planet. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Emily Knight. |
| 1:48.1 | It was almost like I had stripped off the crust, the surface crust of the planet, the one that |
| 1:53.8 | we're also used to with the cities and continents on, and had kind of revealed this inner workings |
| 2:00.4 | of the planet. |
| 2:03.0 | So it was, it definitely was one of those moments of real revelation. |
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