\nThis episode explores how water, a life-giver, becomes a destructive force in a world without humans. Due to the invasive Nutria population, and several hurricanes, the levees of New Orleans fail, while in the Thames Estuary, the explosives left in the SS Richard Montgomery are triggered, causing London to flood. The episode also highlights the impact of water on infrastructure, like the collapse of Louisiana's Superdome, along with the collapsing of GERD and the Aswan Dam, both leading to the flooding of the Nile. It features the sinking of Adventure of the Seas and the struggle for survival of Nile Crocodiles moving into Lake Nasser in a world without human intervention.

\n222\"Shop ’Til You Drop\"July 21, 2025 (2025-07-21)\n

\nExplores the fate of human-made structures related to shopping and shipping after people disappear. The Mall of America's K9s are kicked out by wolves, the top floor collapses on a display car, causing its battery to explode. The Port of Shanghai is destroyed by a roaming Cargo Ship. The HMM Oslo crashes into a tanker of Jet Fuel, and loses lots of its cargo. Grocery stores are infested with rats, and later Barn Owls. After the ignition of the Port of Shanghai, arrives of the South China Tiger. It also examines the impact on food storage, like freeze-dried food.

\n233\"Urban Jungles\"July 28, 2025 (2025-07-28)\n

\nIn 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. With the failing of its Tuned mass damper, Central Park Tower, housing the Snow Monkeys that escaped from Central Park Zoo, collapses onto Billionaires' Row. What's left of the Statue of Liberty falls. Landslides crash into Rio's Favelas, Lightning strikes Christ the Redeemer, and Tijuca National Park reclaims lots of Rio's coast. The natural gas pipelines underground send Orlando into flames. Orlando is weakened and slowly succumbs to the surrounding swamp and Kudzu population.

\n244\"Sands of Time\"August 4, 2025 (2025-08-04)\n

\nIn 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. The Imperial Valley is both flooded by the All-American Canal and scorched, and the Salton Sea completely dries up, All of the collected toxins from the Imperial Valley are put into a sandstorm, and crashes into Los Angeles. Las Vegas is swarmed with Moths and Grasshoppers, its transformers are ignited and the city goes dark, and later goes on fire. Without quicklime, Caesars Palace deteriorates. The generators used to protect the structural integrity of the Burj Khalifa turn off in weeks, Mesquite Trees surround its foundation, and one lightning strike lights it in flames, then its elevators fall during another sandstorm, causing its demise.

\n255\"Home On The Strange\"August 12, 2025 (2025-08-12)\n

\nAfter 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. One Thousand Museum and other condominiums in Miami fall. Many of them infested with cockroaches. Domestic Pigs break out and go feral. The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station explodes, spreading all of its toxins into nearby Mesa.

\n266\"The Underground Rises\"August 19, 2025 (2025-08-19)\n

\nWhen 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.

\n277\"Built to Last\"August 25, 2025 (2025-08-25)\n

\nHumanity’s strongest structures were engineered to defy disaster—but in a world without people, even the mightiest begin to crack.

\n288\"Ticking Time Bombs\"September 13, 2025 (2025-09-13)\n

\nHidden 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.

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