Oceanographer Jack Barth has had plenty of bumpy rides off the Oregon coast, launching and retrieving these underwater gliders. From April to October, they gathered data to help answer questions about the hell of the world's oceans. Alright, buddy, w...
Smith Island is a lonely outpost, 12 miles out in the lower Chesapeake Bay. The shallow glassy waters around the cluster of islands that comprise Smith Island are some of the best blue crab habitat in the bay. For more than 300 years the people here...
On the northern prairie of North Dakota, the day starts with a distinctive rhythm. Bison prepare for the mating season. The bulls bellow challenges that echo across the badlands. Prairie dogs bark shrill warnings at the approach of an intruder. You w...
Unlike most Polish cities, Krakow's architecture escaped the ravages of World War II. Gothic churches exalt the heavens. Angels still dance over Baroque doorways. But these ancient monuments are threatened. High on a hill, Wawel Castle stands guard o...
In the waters of Andaman Sea, off the coast of Miyama, a group of sea nomads has made their life among these remote islands for centuries, known as the Moken. Their origins are mysterious. The Moken's extraordinary ability to reap the bounty of the s...
The tuareg people have a proud tradition as nomads, but prolonged drought forced some to settle and try their hand at farming. Here on the edge of Lake Garcy in Mali, they can make this hell bloom and in turn attract the plague of giants. In the dry...
Essaouira's fishermen are getting ready for another year out on the water. All through this Moroccan port, the sounds of boat building and the smell of fresh paint are optimistic signs. But a lot of these is just wishful thinking. Essaouira's sea cat...
At Victoria Terminus in Mumbai, India, it always seems to be rush hour. Everyday some 2 million passengers pass through this train station. Coming into Mumbai is often a very tense commute. But in this country of over a billion people, the best way t...
It was the drink that set 19th century Paris reeling. Banned for almost a century, absinthe is back. And already a new generation is developing a craving for its unique punch, a wallop some compare to marijuana, speed, even LSD. It casts a spell over...
Japan is crazy for fish. Each morning thousands of merchants crowd Tsukiji food market in Tokyo. At Tsukiji, no product has a higher price than the one that's most taboo, the puffer. It's the seafood version of Russian roulette, and it's extremely po...
They are mini-masterpieces, built with microscopic elegance, the small and hard-to-see life of the sea, microbes, larvae, burrowers, and they've been photographed and catalogued as part of a massive marine collaboration of scientists from across the...
Australian sea lions are lending a hand or maybe a flipper in the establishment of South Australia's marine parks. And along the way the national geographic Crittercam captured a never before seen act of predation，a sea lion capturing and eating a...
So our Thai colleagues began soon after the 2004 tsunami with a survey to map out the areas that had been covered by the tsunami. It must have been a horrible job for them because they're going into an area of such disaster and the so much loss of li...
Tsunamis infamously ignore international boundaries and so it is that tsunami science needs to ignore international boundaries. This is not the only one of its kind, dont be surprised if another one happens. Tsunamis are caused by major earthquakes o...
It's early morning in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The morning stillness is broken by the quiet puma helicopters. Their target is a herd of elephants. Within minutes, an expert team is on the ground. These elephants haven't been harmed, just...
