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Illustration of a man wearing a waistcoat, hands on hips, standing next to a tree. Caption: The father of Arbor Day was J. Sterling Morton,

Still image from: All About the Holidays: Arbor Day (Spanish)

A person wearing a green shirt and an orange vest carrying a measuring stick works in a forest. Caption: I'm not stuck at a desk. My job changes.

2 women sit at a circular table; 1 in mid speech. Table has a cluster of yellow fruit, pomegranate and ginger, bottles and jars in varying heights and widths, bottle of water, and a white product box.

Closeup of a sundew plant made up of long yellowish leaves and red tentacles, each with a sticky gland at the tip.

A honey bee sucks nectar from a flower.

Closeup of a barely visible bee enveloped in a blurry light brown object.

Closeup of a light brown insect with a round flat body and short setae, or hair-like structures on its legs and mid-body.

Emily Graslie sits in front of a bookcase and looks at us while she talks.

Lots of Flypaper Traps with a bug stuck on one of them. Text reads, “Flypaper Traps, video courtesy of Deep Look - KQED. From their video ‘Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in A Sticky Situation.'”

Slow moving current passes by a grouping of rocks partially covered with moss.

Still image from: Fate and Fabled: Trees

Woman with shoulder-length brown hair parts her lips mid-speech in front of white bookshelves. Title card reads, "How Big Are Tree Genomes?"

A house plant. Caption: I decided to focus on plants for my new distressing techniques.

White title text reads, "Smell," against a black background.

Woman with shoulder-length brown hair and lips parted mid-speech. Title card reads, "How Wildfires Become Wildflowers."

Still image from: Hungry Planet: Feeding the Future--Saving Corn From Rising Temperatures

Still image from: Hungry Planet: How This Disease Could Wipe Out Citrus...Unless We Stop It

Still image from: Hungry Planet: Inside the World's Only Chile Pepper Institute

Still image from: Hungry Planet: Sweet Potatoes' Flavor Is More Complex Than You Think

Person handling tubes of materials stacked in metal shelves. Caption: We study endangered plants and how to conserve them.

Man sits and talks to us in a room filled with different lighting equipment and tools.

A scale shows world population. 2 billion people will be added by 20 50 to the 7 billion at present. A number, 2 X, is shown over the food crops, wheat and corn.

An aerial view of a canopy of trees.

Sunlight is shining through in a forest with large number of trees.

A photo depicts many branches of a large tree.

Three glasses are filled with leaves. To the second glass, isopropyl alcohol is added. Caption: Next, cover the leaves in isopropyl alcohol.

Black and white photo of an older woman wearing a Victorian-era dress laying on top of a dark wooden table.

Bird's eye view of dense forests full of leafy tree canopies that border either side of a paved and curved two-lane road on which one car is traveling.

Still image from: Overview: Inside the Fight to Save an Ancient Forest

Rural landscape with a red barn on a hill, in front of a vast forest of trees with bright fall colors, before a sloping mountain background. Scene begins to transition to a small town landscape embedded into an autumnal mountain valley.

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

Underwater view of billowing plume of pollutant. Caption: cleaning up oil spills and purifying water.

Two small seedlings with their roots in the soil. Caption: optimally suited to survive and thrive.

Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy

Closeup cross-section of a large tree with many rings. Caption: This is a cross-section of a redwood tree.

A large tree with bright green leaves as seen from below. Caption: The forests are working overtime.

A cultivated vegetable garden with inmates and razor-wire-topped chain-link fencing in the background. Caption: science and scientists behind bars as well.

Pine Reproduction 101. Pine tree, a male pinecone, and a female pinecone. Female pinecones have a long protrusion from the center and pine needles around the edges. Caption: Each tree has female pine cones and male pine cones.

Illustration of a Venus flytrap with a fly caught in one of the traps. Caption: and the predatory carnivorous Venus flytrap, of course.

Long grasses and shrubs. Caption: More than 100,000 natural compounds occur in plants,

Woman is signing in front of a 2-page view of a storybook illustration of a big tree, a deer, a fawn, and a gray squirrel. Story text appears on screen.

Four men wear black suits, gold paper crowns, and bug eyeglasses as they sing together. Text reads, "The Fly Guys Song."

Leaves and branches on a tree. Photosynthesis. Caption: In photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide,

Title card shows pale green pointy palm shapes intersecting and forming the background for the show's title, "The Outsider's Club."

Girl sits on a worktable with a friendly taunting smile directed at the boy standing near her. In the background, another kid is building something on the table using a drill and wood.

Large blue machine rolling out 3 strips of metal into a long steel tube.