Two scientists wade through the Everglades, evading alligators, one of its many wonders, while other investigators explore its topography and history. Human intervention in the last century had good intentions (hurricane control, swamp drainage) but resulted in increased storm damage, loss of natural water cleansing, and other unintended consequences. More Details

Scientific technologies and techniques are starting the restoration of the Everglades wetlands to nearly its pristine, natural state. Newly introduced and engineered plants are being used to cleanse the water of fertilizer chemicals and pollutants before reintroducing it back into the wetlands. More Details

A team of diver/scientists explores Florida’s St. John’s River from its source and along its tributaries until it empties into the Atlantic. They go below and above the river to show how humans have damaged watersheds. More Details

Gripping and enlightening, this program shows the interconnection of surface and subsurface waters. Two expert diver/scientists enter a Florida spring, floating crystal-clear waters over a heart-stopping tunnel drop into the black depths, and then follow an underground river for several miles. More Details

Drinking water pollution can cause many deadly diseases, especially in children of poor countries around the world. Learn how student fundraisers and field scientists from the U.S. have helped indigenous peoples develop water treatment systems using their own technologies. More Details

A huge bottled-water industry has recently emerged, with the U.S. its largest consumer. A blind taste test by young students suggests that most people cannot tell the difference between tap and bottled water. This program poses questions to the theory that bottled water is better for us and the environment. More Details

In the U.S., polluted waters can have damaging economic and social effects, as well as destroy environmental habitats. The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most polluted watersheds in America, but Baltimore-area students are working with commercial crab catchers and scientists in the Baltimore area to help restore its health. More Details

The Rio Grande is one of our longest rivers, its Texas section forming a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico. Competing human claims for it are viewed through the eyes of two young women: a whitewater rafting guide in upstream New Mexico and a teenager downstream near El Paso. More Details

Fair distribution of water has long been a worldwide problem. The Great Lakes contain 20% of the world’s fresh surface water, but that water is currently available to only a small portion of our population. Should other water-scarce regions have access to this water? What effect would the piping of Great Lakes water to other areas have on the lakes and on Midwestern environments? More Details

Despite its wonders, Earth's water cycle does not spread water evenly around the planet. The Ogallala Aquifer’s huge underground reservoir of water gives states such as Nebraska a large but limited irrigation source. Experience how one progressive farm family uses technology to conserve water while producing higher food yields and profits. More Details

The mysteries of ocean ecology are evident in the annual spawning of coral, the molting of lobsters, the feeding habits of sharks and cuttlefish, and the deadly attacks of squid. Live-action footage captures opalescent squid as they lay their eggs then die in vast numbers. These are the creatures that come out when twilight falls. More Details

Live-action underwater footage captures the ecological balance between animals and plants on a Caribbean coral reef. More Details

Live-action underwater photography captures the lives of predators and prey in the world’s oceans. More Details

Live-action underwater footage reveals the hunting habits of the oceans’ deadliest predators, sharks. More Details

Live-action film captures the lives of sea stars (starfish) inhabiting the ocean bottom. More Details

This colorful program shows the hunting habits and defenses of tuna, hammerhead sharks, snake eels, lobsters, hermit crabs, and several other species. More Details

Live-action underwater footage captures the lives of several whale species, including blue whales, southern right whales, humpback whales, sperm whales, and California gray whales. More Details

Live-action footage captures the mysteries of venomous marine creatures such as nudibranchs, sea anemones, jellyfish, moray eels, and scorpion fish. More Details

Six case studies show how young students and professionals are helping to solve the growing problems of widespread overuse and abuse of our planet’s most precious and limited resource: water. Both the positive and negative scientific and social implications of water's utilization are explored in this cross-curriculuar resource. More Details

A spectacular, award-winning portrayal of the negative and positive effects humans have had on the aquifers, springs, streams, rivers, wetlands, and oceans that comprise over 2/3 of our planet. Each program is a case study of these water ecosystems in Florida, showing scientific and social processes that apply to water ecologies in all states and regions of the U.S. and beyond. More Details

This series, produced by the award-winning company that made the IMAX feature Deep Sea, uses stunning underwater footage to show the diverse world of the ocean. More Details

Cattle were among the earliest animals domesticated by humans due to their lack of flight response and to their herding behavior. Their ruminant stomach biology, which allowed them to eat almost anything and convert it into the food, milk, clothing, and fertilizer that humans need, also made them essential to the rise of civilization. More Details

Death Valley is the largest National Park and the most extreme desert biome in the lower 48 states. Its hot, dry landscape and climate force plants and animals into extreme adaptations for survival. Some animals such as kangaroo rats recycle their own moisture, while the jackrabbit has developed huge ears that wick away heat. More Details

New scientific evidence suggests that some wolves evolved into dogs by domesticating themselves, and not by humans taming them. This program features stunning evidence that dogs have travelled, and been buried, with humans since prehistory—adapting to every climate and evolving into many subspecies or types of the same dog species (Canis lupus familiaris). More Details

Winner of the Peabody Award, this fascinating program explores one of nature’s most baffling ecological mysteries: Why have millions of honeybees recently disappeared? While not as publicized as climate change, the effects of this crisis on human life could be felt sooner and more severely, with billions of dollars of crops at risk and our most healthful & colorful food supply threatened. More Details

Underwater cameraman Bob Cranston captures mesmerizing footage of one of the most ancient animal classifications on earth: Cephalopods, marine mollusks related to snails and clams. Their complex behaviors, astonishing body adaptations and, especially, their compelling eyes, could be from an alien science fiction world. More Details

Most people think of venom as something to be avoided at all costs since some animals use it to kill other animals or humans. But modern researchers now use scientific methods to study animal toxins, and they have discovered that the thousands of venom types on planet earth may help cure or control many human ailments, from chronic pain to life-threatening bleeding to cancer and Parkinson’s disease. More Details

The Grizzly Bear, America’s largest, most spectacular predator, was on the brink of extinction in Yellowstone National Park until the 1975 Endangered Species Act made its recovery the biggest success story in conservation history. More Details

The Druid clan, so-named by scientific researchers, had been one of the largest and most powerful packs ever studied. When their dominant alpha leaders are killed, their reign over Yellowstone National Park’s spectacular Lamar Valley comes to a sudden end. More Details

The many aspects that makes the Yellowstone National Park one of America's scenic treasure. More Details

The geological features that make Grand Canyon National Park a scenic wonder with its rich habitat that lives within the park. More Details

The geological history of tourist spots and the environmental conditions of Yosemite. Presented as a vast ecosystem with over 300 species of wildlife. More Details

The United States of America became the first country in history to put aside public lands solely for the enjoyment and education of its people, and not for economic purposes, when Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon National Parks were established. This idea also led to the Conservation Movement, another American first that has inspired parks and Ecological-Environmental thinking worldwide. More Details

NATURE is television’s longest-running and most acclaimed natural sciences series. These programs will enthrall students with their stunning visuals, dramatic narrations, and engrossing true stories, as well as please educators with their strong instructional and content designs. More Details

The United States of America became the first country in history to put aside public lands solely for the enjoyment and education of its people, and not for economic purposes when Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon National Parks were established. This idea also led to the Conservation. More Details

The program is about showing children how plants are like humans, since they need water and air, and they grow and reproduce, but different in that they make their own food. More Details

This program is about showing how plants grow using still pictures to create a time-lapse sequence of plants maturing. Animation, live-action film, and children demonstrate clearly (without advanced terminology) how photosynthesis works. More Details

With live-action seasonal changes and an animated wheel of plant stages, Mr. Rotovator shows children how plants fit into the life cycle. Extreme close-ups, time-lapse video, and costumed children illuminate how pollination and plant ecological relationships work. More Details

Showing a group of students all they need to know about plants. Using time-lapse and extreme close-up videography and animated graphics to illustrate concepts, visits to the gardens, parks, and schools to do experiments. More Details

There is a lot of wildlife in the city. The featured school has a nature reserve, a garden, and a pond, all self-contained habitats. These change with the seasons and viewers witness how life survives through them. More Details

Explore the hedges that contain many interlinked food chains, from green plants to insects, birds to small mammals. More Details

Woodlands contain a great diversity of life, whether they are mixed and managed woodland or mono culture pine forests. There are four layers of growth and a myriad of birds, squirrels, and other wildlife. More Details

Explore the habitats found in farmland. Piglets, sheep, calves, barley, and weevils are all featured as parts of farmlands’ natural and man-made habitats. More Details

Discover which animals bury themselves for protection against predators. Life in the estuary is risky; both natural and industrial changes can cause loss of life. The estuary is a rich but fragile habitat. More Details

Each program in this series focuses on one of five different, representative types of habitats. The inter-relationships between plants, insects, birds, animals, and people, and the complicated food web that sustains them all. More Details

Around the globe, unique and fascinating species face extinction from hunting and habitat destruction. George, a Pinta Island tortoise from the Galapagos Islands, is the very last of his kind. Other species were on their way to joining George as the last of their kind -- until help arrived. More Details

In Hawaii, where new land is born as volcanic rock, another birth takes place. A baby humpback enters the world and joins 3,000 or more whales that congregate here each winter to mate and give birth in protected bays and coves. This is the story of her first year of life. More Details

Frogs have inhabited planet Earth for more than 250 million years. Today, however, all their remarkable adaptations and survival tactics are failing them. More than a third of all amphibians--most of which are frogs and toads--have already been lost. More Details

Ejecting fire, molten rock, giant boulders and poisonous gases, Kilauea can be a hazard, but it doesn't just leave destruction in its wake. Twists and turns in the lava's flow leave some patches of original ecosystems, called kapukas, undisturbed. These oases of life provide a haven to many rare creatures, but remain in constant danger from the volcano and from invasive species. More Details

The natural world is filled with "moments of impact" -- the split seconds when animals come into contact with one another and the world around them. This program reveals what’s behind these remarkable moments, and cutting edge animations illustrate the animal bioengineering that allows each moment to take place. More Details

Filmmaker Allison Argo tells the fascinating story of nature's amazing ability to create fragile connections among the most unexpected creatures. Each year, the red knot, a small shorebird that instinctively times its migration to coincide with the annual spawning of the horseshoe crab. More Details