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Bison awaken and graze in Yellowstone National Park.

A colony of terns watches the sun rise in the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham, Massachusetts. This is the second-largest colony of terns on the Atlantic coast, with over 17,000 birds

Hot air balloons fly over Vermont's Green Mountains.

Alewives make the dangerous trek from the freshwater lakes of New England to the Atlantic Ocean.

Fisherman enjoy daybreak off the coast of Florida.

Sunrise over a sea cave full of young anemones and coralline algae.

Dawn in Yosemite National Park.

Early morning on the Penobscot River in Maine.

Giant sequoias welcome the sun in Sequoia National Park in California

Elephant seals crawl up the beach at California's Point Reyes National Seashore to soak up the first drops of sunshine at this seal colony at Chimney Point, California. Elephant seals play in the water after a hunt, and tule elk wander in a meadow.

Lobster fishermen begin their day in New Harbor, Maine

The Triangle X Ranch in Moose, Wyoming welcomes the new day as horses graze in the pasture and geese pass overhead.

Watch Tule elk at sunrise in the Tule Elk Preserve in California.

The sun rises over the incoming waves on the Atlantic coast at Coast Guard Beach at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.

Schwabacher's Landing, Moose, Wyoming — The nocturnal beavers have settled into a small tributary under the sheer cirque walls, rugged ridges and jagged peaks of the Teton Range. Their engineering skill has produced an 8-foot high dam and a new pond for those creatures of the day: a great blue heron fishing in the morning mist, ducks with their ducklings, trout, and a goldfinch feeding her chick. We witness these two communities as they pass each other during the crossroad of dawn.

The Homosassa Spring on the Gulf coast of Florida is home to West Indian manatees.

Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine — At 1,532 feet, this is the highest vantage point along the North Atlantic seaboard. During certain times of year, the summit receives the rays of the first rising sun within the United States. The pea, composed of pink granite, is perched above a forest of spruce and pitch pine. Among the granite slabs are tiny sub-alpine plants such as cinquefoil, squat, gnarled trees, wild blueberries and various sized boulders. The view of the Maine archipelago is unsurpassed, with the Cranberry Islands foremost in the southwest.

Eastern U.S. — The sun hits the Atlantic seaboard five hours after the western coast of Europe, and a wide range of habitats begin the shift from the nocturnal to the heat and light of day. We observe the changes, as naturalists, from the sub-tropical ecosystem of the Everglades to the northern lakes of New England, from the very first light atop Cadillac Mountain in Maine to the sabal palms of the Gulf of Mexico. These are great sunrise moments in nearly a dozen morning ecosystems of the East.

Western U.S. — Crossing the North American continent in a scant four hours, dawn settles on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the coastal ranges and beaches of California before departing the western shore. We witness the geo-dramas of Yellowstone geysers, herds of horses and bison on the open range, the spectacular lighting of the Teton Range. Then in California, we see the massive sequoia, tule elk, a rainbow of wildflowers, the Yosemite Valley, and elephant seals on the beach. These are the great sunrise moments in nearly a dozen morning ecosystems of the west.

After seven months of hibernation, the world's largest population of brown bears is ready for some sun in the Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. They begin the morning in the meadow, but as the sun rises and the tide goes out, the bears dig for clams in the flats.

Fog envelopes Beluga Lake in Homer, Alaska, but dissipates as the sun rises and seaplanes take to the sky.

Perched in the dawn hours along the terminal moraine of Kenai Fjords National Park's largest tidewater glacier are blue icebergs flowing toward the sea. Scattered on the jet-black beach are other bergs broken under the pressure of a four-mile river of ice.

The National Park of Tikal in Guatemala is home to Mayan Pyramids, where howler monkeys, parrots, and toucans welcome the new day.

A wide variety of birds mingle in the Tempisque Basin of Costa Rica's Palo Verde National Park.

La Paz River, Vara Blanca, Costa Rica — The crater lake of the Poas Volcano drains from 9,000 feet into this high altitude cloudforest ravine. Stepping downward through a series of five waterfalls, we descend as the sun rises. Rays of light catch suspended water particles from the falling water, as green threads of life cling to sodden cliff walls. From within its pupa, an owl butterfly emerges with the increasing warmth of day, pumping fluid into its silken wings. Through the last rock opening, the water and sun burst out and down towards a restful pool, the famous La Paz waterfall.

The moon sinks into the ocean in the Marino Las Baulas National Park in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

The temples of Angkor in Cambodia are lit by the rising sun.

Trained Cormorants catch fish for fishermen on the Li River near Xingping, China.

Frogs, spiders, and birds wake to the morning sun on a terraced farm near PingAn, China. Take in the morning activities of the Dragon's Backbone, a stunning sixty-six square kilometers of crop terraces hand-cultivated by 800 farmers that snake up over a thousand feet of vertical altitude. These are marks of the Zhuang people.

Morning exercises similar to Tai Chi in Elephant Trunk Park in Guilin, China.

A new day comes to Gullfoss, Iceland. Sunrise: Nature's alarm clock for the land, the sea, and the myriad of creatures who call our planet home. Accompany us on a tranquil journey into the landscape itself as we enjoy the sights and the ambient sounds associated with the first light of a new day.

The sun casts its light on a farming village in Aspendos, Turkey.

The Salisbury Plain in the United Kingdom is the site of one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Stonehenge is thought to be a sun-based calendar, so it's only fitting for a sunrise to be recorded here.

The sun rises on a port in Antalya, Turkey and the lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt.

A geyser in Iceland is shown in the first morning sunlight.

Day breaks in a slice of red over the Southern Atlantic Ocean Península Valdés, Argentina and a colony of southern elephant seals and its new pups.

The center of the Incan empire, Machu Picchu in Peru, is shown as the sun rises on this city high in the Andes Mountains

The largest colony of Magellanic penguins in the world welcomes a new day near Punta Tomba, Argentina.

A holiday-themed show featuring the last hours of sunlight, instead of the first. Locations across the United States are highlighted, from New York to Alaska.

The life-cycle of a solar eclipse and how it affects the world below.

Polar bears congregate in Cape Churchill, Manitoba in Canada.

Scientists are interviewed as an examination of the sun and its impact on the Earth and its inhabitants.

Hakeakala volcano, though large and potentially deadly, is one of the most peaceful places on earth.

Sunrise over Huahine includes a rainbow.

The Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu City.

The Arches National Park in Utah

The Svalbard group of islands in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole.

The dawn activities of wildlife in northern Vancouver.

Seven miles off the Irish coast stands a pair of imposing rocks known as Little Skellig and Skillig Michael, where early morning light sihouettes stone huts called "beehives" built by monks.

The sun jumps directly into the sky at the Tropic of Capricorn.

This program records the events of one total solar eclipse, that of March 29th, 2006 as it happens in two locations on the planet. We travel to Natel, Brazil (at the beginning of the eclipse) and observe a group of fishermen and wild native species along an open stretch of beach. We then shift to Antalya, Turkey (for the mid-point of the eclipse) and observe a peaceful village as the moon makes it's way across the sun. ** Possible duplicate of 1x52 **