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Edward Norton Hosts Award-Winning "National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth," Premiering Spring 2005 on PBS (check local listings)
Source: WGBH
Mar 28, 2005, 10:30

BOSTON--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--March 28, 2005--This April, actor and environmental activist Edward Norton takes us around the globe as scientists race to solve a series of mysteries. 

Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and clue-by-clue, investigators around the world are assembling a new picture of Earth, discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China. Vanishing forests in Yellowstone are linked to the disappearance of wolves. An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa. Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events?
 
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth with host EDWARD NORTON, premiering in Spring 2005 on PBS, explores these questions.  By revealing a cause and effect relationship between what we as humans do to the Earth and what that in turn does to our environment and ecosystems, the series creates a new sense of environmental urgency.  Part X Files, the four-part series is constructed as a high-tech detective story, with the fate of the planet at stake.
 
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