{"id":156,"date":"2007-12-17T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/12\/17\/journey-to-planet-earth\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T02:01:38","slug":"journey-to-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/156","title":{"rendered":"Journey to Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming has been making headlines for a while now and has become a major issue on the radar of the world&#8217;s citizens. Believe or not, there are other global threats with which we should concern ourselves &#8211; like urban expansion and its effects on the surrounding areas or the current state of the world&#8217;s plants and animals.<\/p>\n<p>Conveniently enough, PBS, with support from the National Science Foundation, has released a ten-volume video series to help explain the issues that affect our planet. The series entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/journeytoplanetearth\/\">Journey to Planet Earth<\/a>, narrated by <a href=\"\">Matt Damon<\/a> and <a href=\"\">Kelly McGillis<\/a>, takes you on a trip around the globe to look at how nature is holding up. Topics include water and air pollution, extinction, land use and other environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>To check the status and location of the videos, do a keyword search for &#8220;journey to planet earth&#8221; in the catalog or use <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/22u8kf\">the following link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming has been making headlines for a while now and has become a major issue on the radar of the world&#8217;s citizens. Believe or not, there are other global threats with which we should concern ourselves &#8211; like urban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[203,489,185,228,267],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-dvds","tag-earth-science","tag-new-stuff","tag-science","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}