All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil crisis in world agriculture—a plight that has already resulted in massive starvation.
1. Countdown to the Invisible Universe
Aired: Jan 20, 1987NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomic...
Aired: Jan 27, 1987 NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small grou...
Aired: Feb 3, 1987 Commercial airplanes have become much more reliable, but since 1975 the fatal...
4. Orangutans of the Rainforest
Aired: Feb 10, 1987NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutan...
Aired: Feb 17, 1987 Discusses Freud's methods of analysis, free association, transference, seduct...
Aired: Feb 24, 1987 NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a...
Aired: Mar 3, 1987 A very revealing interview of President Eisenhower's former science adviser G...
Aired: Mar 10, 1987 NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science c...
Aired: Mar 24, 1987 All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. N...
10. The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore
Aired: Mar 31, 1987In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert...
Aired: Apr 7, 1987 In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space pr...
Aired: Oct 6, 1987 Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of a...
Aired: Oct 13, 1987 On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, NOVA investigates the sp...
14. The Hidden Power of Plants
Aired: Oct 20, 1987Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against...
Aired: Oct 27, 1987 Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese indust...
16. A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama
Aired: Nov 3, 1987The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the build...
Aired: Nov 10, 1987 Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA ac...
18. How Good Is Soviet Science?
Aired: Nov 17, 1987Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secret...
19. Ancient Treasures from the Deep
Aired: Dec 1, 1987NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck eve...
Aired: Dec 8, 1987 A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecti...
21. Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People
Aired: Dec 15, 1987NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, abou...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
