In hot and dry conditions, Kenya's elephants are forced to forage for food and water along dry river beds. These majestic mammals are now under threat from the country's worst drought in twelve years. Despite desperate attempts to stay alive, many el...
As thousands of turtles arrive at a beach in Oaxaca, Mexico, to lay their eggs this season, federal and local authorities have been deployed to protect them against poachers. As the turtles nest on the Pacific coast, Mexican Navy patrols keep watch a...
A man from Turkey was officially crowned the world's tallest man on Thursday. Sultan Kosen measures 8-foot 1-inch and his status as the tallest man on the planet was verified by the Guinness Book of Records. The 27-year-old Kosen was given a tour of...
Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the countrys east coast Wednesday in a cloud of red outback grit. The reddish pall swept into the cities of Sydney and Brisbane overnight, bringing an eerie orange dawn to Sydney. The color was amazi...
Devil's Hole, where the earth opens to reveal a rare window into Death Valley's most implausible underworld, a universe of water. In twisted irony, the driest place in the hemisphere sits atop one of the largest aquifer systems in the United States,...
The picturesque Western Cape mountain range at the southern tip of Africa lays claim to one of the world's most diverse floral kingdoms. And researchers are scouring the mountains in search of the droppings and urine of a small local inhabitant which...
Sycomore figs are found throughout tropical Africa. In Southern Kenya they thrive along river banks. This is the story of one of those trees. Our African queen is a mature sycomore fig. She started life as a seed one hundred years ago. She provides f...
As five European foreign ministers meet in Copenhagen to prepare for an aggreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, scientists in Greenland are warning about accelerated glacier melts. Several years ago, scientists reported that the Helheim Glacier, su...
Autumn in the Rocky Mountains, a time of change. Aspens turn golden and the bull elk, in the midst of their mating season, work hard to catch the eye and ears of the ladies. Up in the highest peaks, another call rings out. It's the pint-sized prince...
A 16th Century convent in Mexico has reemerged as water levels in a dam reservoir have fallen to low levels. Low water levels at the Malpaso hydroelectric dam in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have uncovered part of the convent, which was subm...
Praised far and wide for the reputed healing powers of its minerals and waters, the Dead Sea has been luring visitors for thousands of years. But these days tourists see a very different lake from the one that others would have witnessed a few decade...
A familiar legend is that when people get lost in the woods, they walk in circles. Now, according to research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany, this is a natural human behavior. What we found was...
This week on Why? Tell Me Why! We are answering a viewer question as to why lightning bugs light up. Lightning bugs light up basically to find a mate. Its a way that lightning bugs communicate with each other, to call each other together, because som...
At 10 years old, Maddie the Great Dan is feeling her age, arthritis and damaged nerves in her spine weakened her hind legs and brought her pain. It got so bad she had trouble walking and spent months on steroids. She faced possible surgery, but then...
Every fall, this herd of pronghorn antelope treks more than 100 miles from Grand Teton National Park to their winter habitat in the Upper Green River Valley of Wyoming. This phenomenal migration, one of the longest in North America, has been taking p...
