The environmental desolation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 sparked the largest coordinated oceanic research effort in history: as contamination spread across the Gulf of Mexico, an international […]

Director Helen Haig-Brown wonders whether her inability to maintain relationships might be connected to the traumas her mother suffered – along with much of the Canadian First Nations population – […]

Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, this film takes audiences on a satirically comedic, yet illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Documentarian […]

Over the course of 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has borne witness to the plights of marginalized communities the world over, from famines to civil wars to unsafe labor conditions. […]

Three radically different national parks within the Dominican Republic make up a UNESCO “Biosphere Reserve,” a cornucopia of biodiversity where countless endemic species inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems. The […]

In a remote Icelandic valley, two solitary brothers who haven’t spoken in 40 years tend prize-winning sheep descended from their family’s ancestral flock. When a devastating sheep disease takes hold […]

On the remote coastlines of Maine, Wales, and Newfoundland, scientists observe the annual life cycle of the Atlantic Puffin to discover what this intriguing little bird can teach us about […]

A most peculiar crime spree is spreading across the UK. A rash of egg thieves raiding the nests of rare birds has precipitated a police initiative named “Operation Easter,” which […]

A pro-coal activist joins forces with a veteran environmentalist to take on the massive coal company responsible for the death of her brother and 28 other workers in a fiery […]

Chewing gum might seem like an innocuous treat, but the moment its chemicals get digested by our bodies, or flattened onto city sidewalks, or dissolved into our rivers, it becomes […]