Life After People: The Series (2009)
Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
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Episode 1 - Water World
Release Date: 2025-07-14In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer-flooding cities, collapsing dams, and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.
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Episode 2 - Shop 'til You Drop
Release Date: 2025-07-21When humanity disappears, the global retail machine collapses--malls rot, shipping lanes turn explosive, and ghostly grocery stores become battlefields for rodents, predators, and time. Yet from gold objects to jars of honey, some remnants of consumer culture might outlast civilization itself.
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Episode 3 - Urban Jungles
Release Date: 2025-07-28In the absence of humanity, the world's most iconic cities—from New York, to Orlando, to Rio de Janeiro—are reclaimed by nature, as forests rise, animals roam free, and fire and flood undo centuries of construction.
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Episode 4 - Sands of Time
Release Date: 2025-08-04In a world without humans, the deserts we once tamed rise to reclaim our greatest triumphs—from the glittering lights of Las Vegas to the soaring heights of Dubai's Burj Khalifa.
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Episode 5 - Home on the Strange
Release Date: 2025-08-11After humanity ceases to exist, the homes we built—from suburban mansions and Miami condos to rural farmhouses—face a relentless siege by fire, flood, wildlife, and time.
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Episode 6 - The Underground Rises
Release Date: 2025-08-18When humanity vanishes, the vast and fragile infrastructure hidden underground—from subways and pipelines to one of the biggest coal seams in the United States—begins to unravel.
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Episode 7 - Built to Last
Release Date: 2025-08-25Humanity's strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster—but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.
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Episode 8 - Ticking Time Bombs
Release Date: 2025-09-13Hidden dangers once held at bay by humans erupt with catastrophic force—from everyday objects ready to explode to chemical plants and locust plagues—as nature and human legacy collide, these ticking time bombs threaten to send the world up in smoke.