“A hundred years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen […] Read more

Like animals, plants need food and water. But what sets them apart is their struggle for light. Plants must have light in order to grow and will do anything to get as much as they need. The forest might appear to be the perfect place for plants to thrive yet down here on the forest […] Read more

Interior heat churns our living planet to self-renewal and drives its crustal plates. Earthquakes occur at their boundaries. Where an ocean ridge marks a spreading zone, upwelling molten rock makes new seafloor. Magma can also break through a plate at a hotspot, building volcanoes that plate motion carries away. When plates collide, continental crust crumples […] Read more

At the beginning of the century, Leyden Street and the Town Square were still the center of town activities. The Town Square had the old elms planted in 1784, the First Parish Church with its bell cast by Paul Revere (1801), and the Town House. Leyden Street was near the Town Brook and had been […] Read more

At the beginning of the century, Leyden Street and the Town Square were the center of town activities in Plymouth. The Town Square had the old elms planted in 1784, the First Parish Church with its bell cast by Paul Revere in 1801, and the Town House. Leyden Street was near the Town Brook and […] Read more

The Office of the President of the United States needed the biggest, fastest, most advanced plane available. In 1959 President Eisenhower would become a presidential traveler on the first of a line of presidential jets. So confident was the Air Force that Harry Truman would lose the 1948 presidential election that it remodeled a constellation […] Read more

For more than a century, Americans argued fiercely over what to do about the age-old problem of drunkenness. That battle would eventually lead to an amendment to the constitution of the United States – Prohibition – that would turn millions of law-abiding Americans into lawbreakers. Prohibition would pit the countryside against the cities, natives against […] Read more

They are all that remains of a an ancient super city. A civilization that rose from nothing to dominate a continent. Then vanished. These pyramids hold the secret to a spectacular rise and fall. Secrets that paint a picture of a lost paradise. A Dark Secret. And a chilling fate. Why would an entire civilization […] Read more

When the Gallaudet University women’s basketball team plays, it’s always the other side who’s got the handicap. This was clear even before Wayne Coffey, sportswriter and self-avowed basketball fanatic, had the idea that following the Lady Bison around for the 1999-2000 season would make a great story. A year earlier, this Division III school had […] Read more