In 1991, botanists Calaway Dodson and Alwyn Gentry advanced a striking proposition. Surveying a rapidly deforested ridge in western Ecuador, they suggested that dozens of plant species known only from ...

A new PBS documentary, Henry David Thoreau, reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks — the abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker whose ideas still challenge a ...

Scientists are learning to dive beneath polar ice to study the flora and fauna below. The Finnish Scientific Diving Academy has designed a program in northern Finland for participants to ...

Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly “talented” specimen of humanity. He had some combination of “qualities” that ...

From high on a promontory in the Korannaberg Mountains, a mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) peers down to the west ...

This richly reported, visually striking package explored the complex reality behind mezcal’s global rise — an economic ...

If you’ve ever wondered why the 1980s and 1990s were replete with calls to “save the whales,” and shows like “Flipper” and “SeaQuest DSV” placed so much emphasis on the innate intelligence of dolphins ...

Demonstrating its continued excellence in global storytelling, leading broadcast company GMA Network secured nine finalist ...

Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, previously collaborated with Judd Apatow by acting in the director/producer’s Netflix series Love ...

A three-part documentary, executive produced by Ken Burns and with Jeff Goldblum voicing its subject, revisits the life and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Utopia Originals currently has the documentary The Way I Was Made: The Story of a Man Called E in the works. The docu follows the founder of the indie pop rock band Eels, Mark Oliver ...

Atop the majestic Crystal Mountain, at 4,921 feet high, lies Ivohiboro, a pristine tropical forest reigning over the rugged ...