In the underworld of poaching in Africa, wildlife detective Adan Dullo plays a dangerous game of surveillance and subterfuge to try and break the rich Mafia organizations running these international operations.
At Venezuela’s Angel Falls world-class aerial cinematographer and BASE jumper (a person who parachutes off fixed objects) Tom Sanders is on a mission to capture the perfect skydiving moment and pay tribute to his wife, who died base jumping.
British-U.S. writer Marcel Theroux, son of U.S. writer Paul Theroux, takes to the skies over Siberia in 1940s-era biplanes with Russian pilots, landing on frozen arctic rivers and lakes to provide a lifeline to distant communities in the Arctic.
Racing to protect what remains of Venice from falling into the sea, Italian urban planner Fabio Carrera leads an epic survey of the city’s infrastructure.
Australian zookeeper Hayden Turner embarks on the ultimate camel trek, through southern Morocco. He’s out to understand the complex personalities of his 12 camel companions and gain insight from the people of the Sahara, who have depended on them throughout the ages.
American Luke Dollar is the world’s foremost expert on Madagascar’s elusive and little-known predator the fossa. He races to trap and study this rare animal before its habitat disappears. At his side is his girlfriend, Mireya Mayor, a primatologist who, ironically, studies the fossa’s primary prey: sweet-faced, slow-moving lemurs.
Sicily’s sleeping giant awakens, and the spectacular violence of Mount Etna becomes the focus of four driven individuals—two English scientists, a German photographer, and a Sicilian park policeman.
Rafting through raging white water into the tangled depths of the Amazon Basin, a small team of explorers—including photographer Phil Borges— seek out the Shuar Indian tribes that have been caught in the crossfire of an 80-year border war between Ecuador and Peru.
Arctic explorer Paul Schurke and his teenage daughter set off on dogsled across Greenland to follow in the tracks of the great explorers who trekked the sea ice before them. Among the native hunters they are traveling with is the Inuit grandson of Paul’s hero, African-American explorer Matthew Henson.
Meet U.S. marine biologist Tierney Thys, whose fascination with orcas (aka killer whales) leads her to Argentina’s Patagonia region. There she witnesses one of the most dramatic sights of the natural world: whales snatching sea lions off the beach.
Celebrated Indian photographer Raghu Rai enters the waters of the Ganges River to capture the spectacle of the Kumbha Mela festival. Here millions of Hindu pilgrims gather—the largest gathering of humanity in history.
In 1995 British volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer attempted an expedition to one of the wonders of the volcano world, the lava lake of Erta’Ale in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia. Then, armed Afar tribesmen turned him back. Now, after studying the Erta’Ale for six years through remote satellite sensing, he is determined to risk it all to finally reach his scientific holy grail.
On the eve of the closure of Chornobyl’s last working nuclear reactor, novelist Marcel Theroux investigates the ecological environment and daily human life on the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
At Lake Ravelobe in the African country of Madagascar, five crocodile deaths in two years have villagers terrified, and officials say killing the crocs may be the only solution. U.S. doctoral student Evon Hekkala, who specializes in crocodile genetics, arrives in hopes of saving both humans and crocs.
In the most distant villages of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, ophthalmologist Wondu Alemayehu and a handful of other eye doctors are performing "miracles" among the thousands of Ethiopians who suffer from curable blindness.
Join four top British cavers on a heart-pounding journey into the spirit realm as they search the areas under Mexico’s Zoquita Valley for a mysterious river that may bridge the gap between the living and the dead.
Renowned Swedish photographers Mattias and Monika Klum travel to coastal Norway in search of the enormous and rare sea eagle.
World-renowned forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his Guatemalan-born protégé Fredy Peccerelli lead an international team that uncovers a 19-year-old mass grave of men who “disappeared” during Guatemala’s civil war, bringing closure to the little town of Paxcabal Che.
In a race against time a Cambodian de-mining team scours the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge in search of what Cambodian leader Pol Pot called his “silent sentinels of death”—the estimated ten million landmines which imprison this land and its people.
An elite group of American Indian U.S. Customs Agents uses its ancestral tracking skills to find and capture drug smugglers crossing the U.S.-Mexican border into the Tohono O’Odham reservation in Arizona.
English photojournalist John Nightingale and his zoologist son Sune, on a mission to save the world’s disappearing sharks, travel to the protected Cocos Islands to dive with these misunderstood creatures.
Venezuelan herpetologist Jesús Rivas, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the anaconda, journeys to the delta of the great Orinoco River—the hideout, he suspects, of snakes that grow much larger than the 18-footers (6-meters) he finds at his research station in the flooded savanna.
U.S. biologist John Hoogland and his team return to the hills of Utah to play scientific voyeurs to what they consider the hectic and hysterical lives of a group of prairie dogs.
Could some African reed frogs become allies in the battle against cancer? Teaming with colleagues and working around the clock, Tyrone Hayes, a biologist, makes a mad dash around the southern portion of Lake Victoria to find some of these amazing amphibians and study them further.
Follow National Geographic staff photographer Mark Thiessen on a firefighting odyssey as he pursues a childhood interest that grew into an addicting fascination—wildfires and the elite group of people who fight them.
Get an intimate glimpse into the misunderstood world of the wolf through the eyes of hunter-turned-conservationist Volodya Bologov, who is raising a litter of orphaned pups.