From the filmmakers who created Wild Canada and The Wild Canadian Year, this fourth episode in the Wild Canadian Weather series illustrates how the incredible power of the sun fuels birth, growth and even flight. It is the driving force behind all weather. Watch the sun trigger an explosion of life in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and create an algae banquet for blue whales. Find out how turkey vultures and human paragliders both use sun-heated air called thermals to soar for hours. See how 24 hours of sunshine in the summer months above the Arctic Circle drives the incredible growth of tundra plants, as well as veggies in the Inuvik Community Greenhouse - the most northerly greenhouse in North America and the largest of its kind in the world.

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