National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth (2005)

Around the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet, and, clue by clue, investigators are discovering ways that seemingly disparate events are connected. Crumbling houses in New Orleans are linked to voracious creatures from southern China. An asthma epidemic in the Caribbean is linked to dust storms in Africa. Scientists suspect we have entered a time of global change swifter than any human being has ever witnessed. Where are we headed? What can we do to alter this course of events? Hosted by actor Edward Norton, National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth seeks to answer these essential questions.