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...
23 September, 2015
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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...
18 November, 2019
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...
15 January, 2016
The Water Lens
19-yr-old Deshawn Henry has invented a water purification device that requires no electricity...
12 April, 2015
Cleaning Debris from the Sea
Ghost Traps The Ocean Defenders Alliance is a group of California-based environmental activists who clean up the sea floor, one section at a time. Composed of a skilled and dedicated group of volunteers, this group works tirelessly to improve ocean health by removing debris, pollution and...
03 January, 2016
Irene O’Garden: Taking Risks Heals Trauma
[embed]https://youtu.be/3wuxM3VT3Og[/embed] Irene O’Garden: Risking the Rapids of Life Irene O’Garden and other members of her family took a whitewater canoe trip that skirted disaster. Along with the terror and trauma of that trip came an unlikely side effect: healing. The award-winning author and poet tells the story in...
11 March, 2019
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