Watch NOVA: Making North America Human on WSKG TV on November 18 at 9 p.m.In the third and final hour of Making North America, NOVA explores the intimate connections between landscape, the colonizing of the continent, and the emergence of our industrial world. From prehistoric tools to today’s oil and gas boom, North America’s hidden riches have been key to our prosperity. As a result, human activity has transformed the continent on a scale that rivals the geological forces that gave birth to it billions of years before. Even as we shape the continent to our needs, geologic processes inexorably continue and raise risks of catastrophe to human civilization.
Watch Making North America Origins here.Watch Making North America Life here.Interactive MapExplore stunning geological sites and search for clues about how the continent was made with the series-companion interactive digital map.