With a reputation as cold, forbidding and remote, Antarctica can also be a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges. Join National Geographic explorer Jon Bowermaster [...]

Over 350,000 people live 4 feet above sea level in the island republic of Maldives, yet most never learned to swim!

It’s estimated that 10% of commercial fishermen today work under conditions that classify them as slaves. Like sex slaves and indentured houseworkers, these shing slaves are recruited from small [...]

“Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution is Now” is a direct appeal to the President – and to all elected officials – to carefully consider the growing evidence proving that hydraulic [...]

California is the third-largest producer of oil and gas in the nation, with all the downsides and pollution that come with the fossil fuel industry. Drilling has been going on in California for [...]

Over 350,000 people live 4 feet above sea level in the island republic of Maldives, yet most never learned to swim!

With a reputation as cold, forbidding and remote, Antarctica can also be a fragile place, home to an incredible variety of life along its edges. Join National Geographic explorer Jon Bowermaster [...]

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the coast of Louisiana. Five years later the Deepwater Horizon exploded and spilled more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the worst [...]

With the news in the spring of 2012 that Governor Andrew Cuomo might lift the four-year moratorium against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New York State any day, a concert/protest was [...]

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The Antarctic affects all our lives through forces so deep and elemental that we’re not even aware of them. More than two decades ago scientists prophesied that one of the first signs of [...]

Though most of the Galapagos Islands are off-limits to tourism, man’s heavy footprint is being felt as thousands move there to try and cash in on the tourist boom. Illegal fishing, homesteading [...]

It’s estimated that 10% of commercial fishermen today work under conditions that classify them as slaves. Like sex slaves and indentured houseworkers, these shing slaves are recruited from small [...]