California is one of the most progressive places on earth and has always started conversations about the big questions in society.,
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It is a deadly war in the desert, one we know barely anything about. Once the heart of the golden Mali Empire, home to the richest man of the 14th century, the northern town of Timbuktu has become the victim of political instability and terror.
In the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua were fighting vicious civil wars that claimed killed at least 100,000, saw 8000 people disappear, and left hundreds of thousands displaced. Still spearheading a global fight against communism, the US engaged.
In efforts to remove the Communists, the US conducted a devastating military operation, making Laos the most bombed country per capita - ever. The Laos Civil War has often been called America's “secret war.”
With Kashmir's special status removed in early August 2019 and terrorist attacks plaguing the region since earlier in the year, the India/Pakistani border-conflict has escalated once more.
Shows the devastating environmental, political, and economic effects of the degradation of the world's grasslands.
Examines how recent trends in globalization and the altering of ecosystems have led to dramatic increases in the spread of infectious diseases.
Looks at the spread of air and water pollution and how contamination in one area can affect people and animals living thousands of miles away.
Terry falls victim to Walter White in Breaking Bad, and Terry and Larry test 3 separate scenes from this iconic series, 2 of which need the help of Special Effects expert Andre Ellingson, including lighting a gas tank on fire and chemically burning through a steal door.
Discovering in 2013, new and puzzling finding of small-skulled fossils of Homo naledi have scientists trying to understand whether Homo sapiens lived at the same time as Homo naledi, and how Homo naledi communities may have lived.
The power of the ocean's tides is the last great untapped energy source on Earth. Teams of engineers race to perfect the technology to harness the vast flowers of water.
It is the greatest technological challenge ever undertaken by humankind. The quest to produce the ultimate energy solution... fusion.
The way we fly about to change, driven by a new breed of aviators not afraid to think differently. Could the days of the jet age be numbered?
This film follows the race to generate vast power from thin air - the wind. One of the world's biggest windfarms is being built off the English coast.
Doctors, chefs, and nutririonists show us how going green with fresh ingredients and flavors in our daily meals will improve out health.
Muller escorts viewers to the physical heart of the Internet, revealing the very first message sent by UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock, and demonstrating how Internet co-creators Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn devised a common protocol language.
27 species of turtles today are on the very brink of becoming extinct, with over 240 additional species being threatened or critically endangered.
Bears today are divided into 8 species with some considered the largest land predators, though many are in fact omnivorous. They survive in our grasslands and mountains, tropical jungles and the cold harsh climate of the Artic.
Despite popularity, it seems the future does not bode well for the penguins, finding themselves in a shrinking world of melting snow and ice. However, they remain on the shores of our beaches and on the unforgiving Antarctic ice shelves and oceans.
Over hundreds of millions of years, they existed here long before us. Surviving natural disasters and mass extinctions, the are now among the oldest animals on earth.
With populations steadily decreasing for decades prompting the forced reintroduction of wolves where the population has disappeared entirely, conservationists worldwide are struggling to keep the wolf alive and well.
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