Nature Highlights

Penguins are aquatic birds that spend nearly all of their lives swimming in or living near the water. Watch to learn more about these interesting animals.

Dr. Jack Dumbacher, Curator of Birds and Mammals at the California Academy of Sciences, talks about his field expeditions to Papua New Guinea.Some of the best discoveries in science are completely serendipitous. Dr. Dumbacher discovered, quite by accident, that a common New Guinea bird uses potent poisons for protection - a defense never before documented in birds.

Patti, the Garden Girl, moves her Bantam chicken tractor around her front garden.

Learn the difference between thunder eggs (aka geodes) and regular rocks.

Lilies are one of the most beautiful plants in the world. Pat McConahay explores the history of what’s become an Easter symbol and learns about a small group of farmers in southwest Oregon who grow almost all of the lilies in the United States. It’s a detailed process that involves many steps and takes years to go from bulbs in the field to flowers in your home.

Sangaredi in Guinea has natural resources for extracting bauxite, which is the main source of aluminum. But even after 40 years of mining bauxite, Guinea is still on the list of one of the poorest countries in the world. The Conservation International Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, CI-CELB, works together with Alcoa Guinea to build rural refineries.

Anyone who has been to the beach knows about jelly fish. Jelly fish are made up of ninety-five percent water. They do not have any brain structure or any organs. They are really simple creatures that float in the ocean and use their tentacles to help sting and catch prey.

As the largest land animals in the world, elephants are amazing creatures, surrounded by stories, myths and legends. Watch this video to learn 5 unusual facts about Elephants.

Learn about the effects climate change has had on the Greenland Ice shelf.

Make the most of your Garden, this video will show you how to prune a Grape Vine.

Learn about the Kamchatka Peninsula and how it has been preserved by an unlikely factor.

Learn about the effects of climate change

American farmer Joel Salatin, the star of the documentary Food Inc, has become a "pin up boy" for the growing food "re-localization" movement. On a recent visit to Canberra, he gives his take on food politics and what he feels about science based agriculture and how food safety laws are not enough.

Learn about how illegal logging has a devastating effect on the Peatlands.