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2) Maldives
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Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Maldives.
4) Maldives
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Lonely Planet's Maldives is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Encounter hammerhead sharks on a dawn dive, find your perfect luxury beach resort or family-run guesthouse, and hop around by seaplane for a view of coral atolls, blue lagoons and tiny desert islands -- all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Maldives and begin your journey now!
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Travel from one picturesque atoll to another and become familiar with aspects of the Maldives that sometimes differ from the picture postcard clichés. No matter how hard you try, though, there is no getting away from the fact that, here, you are in a picture postcard. The ever-smiling locals will confirm what you were already thinking: theirs is the most beautiful country in the world.
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More than 350,000 people live four feet above sea level in the island republic of Maldives, yet most have never learned to swim. National Geographic “ocean hero” Jon Bowermaster organized a learn-to-swim camp there to teach 50 3rd-graders and 20 of their burka-clad mothers how to swim. In a place more threatened by global climate change and rising sea levels than almost anywhere on the planet, it is important that its residents understand what...
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Home to some of the world's most beautiful beaches, the Maldives in the Indian Ocean show the tranquil end-stage of ocean islands built on hotspots. The volcanoes beneath this coral reef archipelago are long since dormant, and the islands themselves barely rise above sea level.
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Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher in need of adventure. Worn down by cold Chicago winters and a stagnant relationship, she jumps at the chance to spend the summer on a tropical island tutoring sixteen-year-old T. J. Callahan, who is catching up after a year spent battling cancer into remission. But en route to the Callahan's summer home their private plane crashes, stranding Anna and T.J. on an uninhabited island. And as the days turns...
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President Mohammed Nasheed of the Maldives is confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced - the survival of his country and everyone in it. Nasheed, who brought democracy to the Maldives after decades of despotic rule, now faces an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives and make them uninhabitable.
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Professor Davies visits communities in Southern Greenland being affected by rising temperatures and melting sea ice. Siwan leaves the arctic climate of the North and makes the journey to the middle of the Indian Ocean where she visits vulnerable communities who are at risk of losing everything.
14) Water Worlds
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This program begins high in the mountains of Iceland and ends at the coral reefs of the Maldives in an exploration of aquatic biomes that includes mountain streams, wetlands and swamps, coral reefs, and deep ocean. Along the way, viewers discover South America's Pantanal, the world's greatest wetland, and the Sundarbans - an immense mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Ganges in Bangladesh. Finally, sailing far out into the deep ocean, the video explains...
15) Sand Wars
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Sand Wars is a surprising investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet. Due to the high demand for sand, the planet's reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters of the world's beaches are in decline and bound to disappear as victims of erosion and sand smuggling. Triggered by building construction, smuggling bands, or "sand mafias," plunder beaches and rivers for this highly prized commodity. This film will take us...
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In the 15th century, China was already a political and economic powerhouse in Southeast Asia, when the reigning Ming emperor decided to launch sea expeditions to countries beyond the horizon. This film explores this unique chapter in the China's history through the adventures of Admiral Zheng He: Hui-Chinese court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral, who commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East,...
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"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--