Scotland looks like tartan, castles, and empty glens, but the postcard hides one of the most valuable stretches of ground and seabed on Earth. From three-billion-year-old rock and the world's first oil industry to Europe's biggest carbon-storing bog and the North Sea's emptied reservoirs, its real worth has been rediscovered in layer after layer. This is the story of how the same rock that made Scotland an oil nation is now being turned into a vault for carbon, and why the land itself is quietly on the move. Watch to the end, because one fact changes what all the others mean.


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