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Ann Bancroft

[embed]https://youtu.be/Etuu5_TcgYw[/embed] Ann Bancroft to keynote White House Arctic Science Ministerial September 23, 2016 Story Transcript Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is a beautiful world. President Obama: "Now Climate Change is no longer an abstraction. It's not an issue we can put off for the future, it's happening now....

Pristine Seas

National Geographic and Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Enric Sala, who launched the Pristine Seas project to identify, survey, protect, and restore the last truly wild places in the ocean...

Protecting roadless wilderness

[embed]https://youtu.be/tKITbbJOQng[/embed] There’s an incredible place in Alaska called the Tongass National Forest. At 16.7 million acres, it’s the largest national forest in the United States. It provides critical habitat to innumerable species of wildlife and ecosystems, including one of the world’s last intact temperate rainforests, which...

People are Good! World Travel with No Money

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ6QxwZQVeA[/embed] Rob Greenfield had a simple idea, that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one-way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not...

Paul Bogard – The Earth Beneath Your Feet

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, an Indian scholar, an environmental activist and an anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books and is  passionate about soil health and alternative farming solutions. "After being fooled for about 75 years, that the soil is...

Atlas Obscura

[embed]https://animoto.com/play/17cROXSRecp9u4ypbMAm1w[/embed] Transcript Heather McElhatton: I'm Heather McElhatton and this is A Beautiful World. Dylan Thuras: Life is more worth living, more deep, enjoyable, meaningful when you're engaged with the world in a curious open way and you're willing to take chances, go wandering, a little bit with the hope...

Inner City Farming

by Heather McElhatton Food Deserts Nikki Collins and her six kids live in a public housing complex on Cleveland’s near east side,  where she says buying healthy foods for her family is an ongoing struggle,  because they live in an urban food desert. A food desert is...

The Water Lens

19-yr-old Deshawn Henry has invented a water purification device that requires no electricity...