Xploration Awesome Planet

Philippe joins a safety team in Banff, Canada, and learns about different ways of avalanche control including dynamite blasts on mountains.

In this episode Philippe paddles out on a 6-man canoe and learns all about early Hawaiian navigation. 

In this episode we travel to the Bahamas where we take a look at the world's deepest saltwater blue hole and track baby lemon sharks.

In this episode we head to Florida where Philippe visits an antivenom lab home to hundreds of venomous snakes.

In this episode we learn all there is to know about animal migrations. We travel from Hawaii, to the Rocky Mountains, to the Delaware Bay.

This week we meet people who do whatever they can to help our planet, such as releasing sea turtles and cleaning up the coral reefs.

This week Philippe tags tiger sharks and examines ecosystem indicators through three different species of crab in South Carolina.

At Penn State University, Philippe learns about pollinators and joins a team that studies disease transmission of mosquitoes.

This week we head to the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, where Philippe uncovers insect fossils dating back 45 million years.

In this week’s episode Philippe heads to Key Largo to join a high school class getting up close with local sea grass habitats.

Philippe visits the University of Miami to check out a lab that can simulate a category 5 hurricane. 

Philippe visits the Congaree National Park where he catches and tags local bats and studies the flight patterns of wood storks.

Philippe breaks down the microscopic world of sand and learns how microscopic science plays a role in researching fire ants.