Nature Highlights

Learn about the national parks in Africa where gorillas are protected from poachers.

Something has been happening that concerns farmers, especially citrus and nut growers, everywhere: there’s less “buzz” in the air. Bees are disappearing. While apiarists -- bee farmers -- try to determine the cause of “disappearing hive syndrome,” some are seeing a new business opportunity in taking their bees on the road.

Under the National Water Act the new government has become custodian of the nation's water resources, shifting control away from the private owners. On the ground, little has actually changed as most black farmers still have little or no access to water.

The first ministry for the environment in the Dominican Republic created the conditions for development organizations such as IDDI (Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral) to work with local people to help improve their environment.

The climate impact on Alaska will become worse and worse in the future, unless the United States decides to stop using fossil fuels.

When the Aswan Dam in Egypt was built, it was meant to stop the annual Nile floods and to bring drinking water to the vast population. Unfortunately, the dam had undesirable side effects which caused contamination of the Nile Delta waters.

How do bees keep warm in the winter? Gardener Allen Smith opens his backyard beehive to find the answer to this question

When to prune as well as when not to prune, and how not to prune a tree. Here we see a conifer, the Blue Atlas Cedar.