Sunrise Earth

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Moose in the Morning
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The sun rises as a mother grazes beneath Maine's Kidney Pond surface while her playful calf watches from the shore, under the shadow of the 4,000 ft. peak of Katahdin Mountain
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Yellowstone Geysers
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The geysers of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, welcome the sunrise with steam and shooting water. Locations include Black Sands Basin, Firehole River, Midway Geyser Basin, Lower Geyser Basin, and Riverside Geyser.
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Gator Hole
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Alligators, egrets, wood storks and ravens enjoy the first rays of sunshine from a gator hole in the Everglades National Park.
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Bison Before Breakfast
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Bison awaken and graze in Yellowstone National Park.
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Sea of Terns
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A colony of terns watches the sun rise in the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham, Massachusetts. This is the second-largest colony of terns on the Atlantic coast, with over .. show full overview
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Vermont Balloons
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Hot air balloons fly over Vermont's Green Mountains.
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Alewive Eternal Return
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Alewives make the dangerous trek from the freshwater lakes of New England to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Tropical Palms
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Fisherman enjoy daybreak off the coast of Florida.
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Swallow Sea Cave
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Sunrise over a sea cave full of young anemones and coralline algae.
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Yosemite Dawn
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Yosemite Valley sunrise in California's Yosemite National Park, with views of Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, and Half Dome. Yosemite's dramatic waterfalls, rounded domes and massive .. show full overview
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Cribworks Kayak
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White water roars and mist erupts as the sun's first rays hit the West Branch of Maine's Penobscot River.
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Sequoia Light
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Ancient giant sequoias encircle a meadow and filter the early morning sunlight in the Sierra Mountains of California's Sequoia National Park.
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Sunrise Seal Colony
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Elephant seals crawl up the beach at California's Point Reyes National Seashore to soak up the first drops of sunshine at this seal colony at Chimney Point, California. Elephant seals play in the water after a hunt, and tule elk wander in a meadow.
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Lobster Village
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Lobster fishermen begin their day overlooking a peaceful ocean in New Harbor, Maine.
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Western Ranch
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The Triangle X Ranch in Moose, Wyoming welcomes the new day geese pass overhead, and horses graze in the wide-open pasture land overlooking the Snake River and the Rocky Mountains.
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Everglades River of Grass
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Pahayokee, Everglade National Park, Florida. Savannah-like open sawgrass prairie stretches as far as the eye can see, punctuated by the occasional cypress tree. Beneath the apparent .. show full overview
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Wildflower Elk
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Watch Tule elk at sunrise in the Tule Elk Preserve in California.
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Edge of the Atlantic
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The sun rises over the incoming waves on the Atlantic coast at Coast Guard Beach at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.
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Milk Cows in the Morning
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San Francisco Tai Chi
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Teton Beaver
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Schwabacher's Landing, Moose, Wyoming — The nocturnal beavers have settled into a small tributary under the sheer cirque walls, rugged ridges and jagged peaks of the Teton Range. Their .. show full overview
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Manatee Spring
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The Homosassa Spring on the Gulf coast of Florida is home to West Indian manatees.
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Island First Light
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Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine — At 1,532 feet, this is the highest vantage point along the North Atlantic seaboard. During certain times of year, the summit receives the .. show full overview
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Sunrise East
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Eastern U.S. — The sun hits the Atlantic seaboard five hours after the western coast of Europe, and a wide range of habitats begin the shift from the nocturnal to the heat and light of .. show full overview
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Sunrise West
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Western U.S. — Crossing the North American continent in a scant four hours, dawn settles on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the coastal ranges and beaches of California before .. show full overview
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Glacier of Kenai Fjords
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Nearly 40 glaciers flow from the Harding Icefield, Kenai Fjord's crowning feature. Perched in the dawn hours along the terminal moraine of Kenai Fjords National Park's largest tidewater .. show full overview
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Katmai Bears
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Halo Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska. After seven months of hibernation, the world's largest population of brown bears is ready for some sun in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, .. show full overview
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Volcano Lagoon
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Alaska's Augustine volcano is featured in this sunrise.
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Homer Takeoff
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Fog envelopes Beluga Lake in Homer, Alaska, but dissipates as the sun rises and seaplanes take to the sky.
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Ninagiak Island
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Mayan Pyramid
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The National Park of Tikal in Guatemala is home to Mayan Pyramids, where howler monkeys, parrots, and toucans welcome the new day.
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Birds of Palo Verde
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A wide variety of birds mingle in the Tempisque Basin of Costa Rica's Palo Verde National Park.
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Cloudforest Waterfall
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La Paz River, Vara Blanca, Costa Rica — The crater lake of the Poas Volcano drains from 9,000 feet into this high altitude cloudforest ravine. Stepping downward through a series of five .. show full overview
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Playa Grande Moonset
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The moon sinks into the ocean in the Marino Las Baulas National Park in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
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Dawn of Cerro de la Muerte
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Total Eclipse
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This program records the events of one total solar eclipse, that of March 29th, 2006 as it happens in two locations on the planet. We travel to Natel, Brazil (at the beginning of the .. show full overview
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Angkor Temples of Khmer Kings
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The temples of Angkor in Cambodia are lit by the rising sun. Published by Discovery Channel broadcast as part of DC Sunrise Earth International series in 2006.
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Li River Cormorants
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Trained Cormorants catch fish for fishermen on the Li River near Xingping, China.
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PingAn Rice Paddies
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Frogs, spiders, and birds wake to the morning sun on a terraced farm near PingAn, China. Take in the morning activities of the Dragon's Backbone, a stunning sixty-six square kilometers .. show full overview
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Buddhists of Wat Svay
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Every culture has its own connection to the natural world at dawn. In Siem Reap, Cambodia, the chants of monks echo from within a Theravada Buddhist monastery, called a "wat." These .. show full overview
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Elephant Trunk Park
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Morning exercises similar to Tai Chi on the banks of the Li River in Elephant Trunk Park. Guilin, China.
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Foothills of Turkey
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The sun casts its light on a farming village in Aspendos, Turkey.
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Scandinavian Waterfall
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A new day comes to Gullfoss, Iceland.
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Stonehenge Dawn
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The Salisbury Plain in the United Kingdom is the site of one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Stonehenge is thought to be a sun-based calendar, so it's only fitting for a sunrise to be recorded here.
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Mediterranean Port
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The sun rises on a port in Antalya, Turkey and the lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Icelandic Geysir
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A geyser in Iceland is shown in the first morning sunlight.
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Polar Bears
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Polar bears congregate in Cape Churchill, Manitoba in Canada.
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Argentinean Seal Pups
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Day breaks in a slice of red over the Southern Atlantic Ocean Península Valdés, Argentina and a colony of southern elephant seals and its new pups.
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Peruvian Rainforest Canopy
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Tambopata, Peru Two hundred feet high in the canopy of Peruvian rainforest, a pink and distant light encroaches. The dense forest holds the dawn air. The fervent life of the rainforest .. show full overview
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Andean Dawn at Machu Picchu
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The center of the Incan empire, Machu Picchu in Peru, is shown as the sun rises on this city high in the Andes Mountains
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Amazon Parakeets
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Patagonian Penguins
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The largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world welcomes a new day near Punta Tomba, Argentina.
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Christmas Lights
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A holiday-themed show featuring the last hours of sunlight, instead of the first. Locations across the United States are highlighted, from New York to Alaska.
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The Skelligs of Ireland
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Seven miles off the Irish coast stands a pair of imposing rocks known as Little Skellig and Skillig Michael, where early morning light sihouettes stone huts called "beehives" built by monks.
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Venetian Canals
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Venice, Italy Many have called this Old World maritime center the most beautiful city on earth. Millions visit each year, attracted by the image of a romantic sunset serenade on a .. show full overview
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Japanese Garden
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The Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu City.
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High Desert Arches
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The Arches National Park in Utah is toured.
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Midnight Sun of Svalbard
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The Svalbard group of islands in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole.
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Vancouver Inside Passage
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The dawn activities of wildlife in northern Vancouver.
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Great Barrier Reef
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Sunrise over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The sun jumps directly into the sky at the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Haleakala Crater
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Hakeakala volcano, though large and potentially deadly, is one of the most peaceful places on earth.
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Society Island Sunrise
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Sunrise over Huahine includes a rainbow.
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New Zealand Frost
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Dawn pierces a lavender sky on the South Island of New Zealand. We are alongside a serene glacial lake in the Southern Alps, called Lake Wakatipu, and are entirely ringed by looming .. show full overview
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Secrets of the Sun
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Scientists are interviewed as an examination of the sun and its impact on the Earth and its inhabitants.