Nature Highlights

Uzoo Presents some incredible facts about meerkats, like how far they can see and how their baby weighs.

Storm chaser Warren Faidley discusses how he documents severe weather.

Pigs are some of the oldest of all domestic animals, having been tamed over 6,000 years ago. Watch this video to learn some unusual facts about this fascinating animal, like why the roll in mud and how fast they run.

Farmer Panaiotis Manikis from Greece developed a method to protect seeds from bugs and birds without using any pesticides, by forming 'seed balls'. Seeds are covered with clay and are dried in the sun. When it's the right season, he sows these seeds.

Anyone who thinks that the common squirrel is boring doesn't know much about them, like the fact that they can fall 100 feet without injury. Learn more interesting facts about these animals.

The Gulf of Mexico continues to gush oil just as a whaling controversy threatens to land Australia and Japan in international court for killing protected species. Meanwhile, another less-publicized but arguably more cataclysmic oceanic disaster continues to worsen. Overfishing threatens to destroy most of the world's fisheries within a matter of decades.

The water that is being used for reforesting the Loess plateau in China, comes from the Yellow River. But the Yellow River is running dry.

Oroba's water treatment plant is old and the water it provides to 20,000 inhabitants is unfit for drinking. Children at school learn how to purify the water before drinking.

Every year 20,000 tons of marine litter is being dumped into Europe's North Sea. 15% floats on water, 15% is washed up to the beaches and 70% sinks to the bottom of the sea.

Lauren Ezersky caught up with the busy, and very private, Jane Goodall at the Hamptons Film Festival.

A look into how Indian farmers are growing organic cotton on their farmlands.

The gas and oil industry expects to profit from the Arctic ice melting, because it's opening new lanes in the sea to facilitate oil and gas exploitation.

Learn about desert plants and desert landscaping from Veronica Hill of CaliforniaTravelExpert.com as she tours the Living Desert botanical gardens in Palm Desert, California.

Take a look at a family of giraffes living at the Los Angeles Zoo and learn some facts about these tall animals.