Celine Cousteau Movies  As emceed by Jean-Michel Cousteau -
eldest son of the late French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and
his wife Simone - this PBS documentary springboards from the
assumption that one of the Earth's most immense bodies of water,
South America's Amazon River, will dramatically reshape (and is
now dramatically reshaping) the entire global climate and
ecosphere. It is scarcely a coincidence, as Cousteau reminds us,
that the said river flows through some of the planet's most
immense rainforests - home to the broadest ecological diversity
imaginable, where evolution has literally run rampant. Now, a
quarter century after Jean-Michel and Jacques first visited the
Amazon, destructive and potentially irreversible consequences
have unfurled, including the "deforestation" of an immense area
of land that can be equated geographically, with the size of
Texas. Along with his children and the Ocean Adventures team,
Jean-Michel travels to the Amazon and takes stock of the
ecological damage wrought ther