Synopsis
Naturalist David Bellamy examines the six elemental cycles vital to life. This episode covers carbon, on whose cycle the earth's future depends.
- Programme: Bellamy Rides Again
- Episode: The Carbon Cycle
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 1991
- Science
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