Ghosts of the EvergladesImmersive 07.11.2019Clinging to survival in shrinking swamps, ghost orchids are so elusive that their pollinators have remained unknown—until now. One team’s findings may help to save both the flower and its threatened home.
Spawning an InterventionImmersive 09.26.2018To help corals survive the myriad threats they currently face, an international team of scientists is mastering the art and science of raising coral babies.
A Grand Experiment on the GrasslandsImmersive 03.13.2018A decades-long debate over protection of the lesser prairie-chicken could usher the Endangered Species Act into a new and very different era.
Life on the RocksImmersive 11.21.2017To learn how life on Earth first began—and how it might evolve elsewhere in the universe—scientists are probing rocks deep beneath the ocean’s surface.
The Lungs of the PlanetImmersive 02.28.2017The Amazon rainforest faces myriad threats. But this iconic ecosystem—one of Earth’s most important natural resources—may be more resilient than scientists ever expected.
Last Tree StandingImmersive 11.22.2016Since 2011, drought and pestilence have killed more than 100 million trees in California. What does that mean for the fate of the world’s largest tree, the giant sequoia?
By Foot into Peru’s Lost WorldImmersive 06.14.2016A team of herpetologists treks into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovers animals found nowhere else on Earth.