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Known as one of the most remembered conquistadors of all time, Hernán Cortés conquered vast parts of Mexico for Spain. While Cortés brought about the end of the Aztec civilization, his legacy is marred by his brutal treatment of Mexican natives. Part of the "World Explorers" series.
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It has been 40 years since they've been seen with any regularity in the US, and jaguars have recently been spotted crossing the US-Mexico border. This is good news to conservationists working to create a permanent home in the feline's native range - a corridor that stretches from Mexico to Argentina. Segment of video from Wild Chronicles Series.
Focuses on animal life in four extremely inhospitable deserts: the Namib's adaptive elephant, a dromedary roundup in Australia's outback, fish in thermal lakes in Mexico's Chihuahua desert, and the Sahara's Ennedi crocodiles. Survival is an eternal challenge to any life in these places.
Rented by the BP Oil Company to drill an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes on April 20, 2010. It sinks into the ocean and causes a gigantic oil spill. At issue is negligence in the maintenance and in the tests carried out. On September 19, after months of unsuccessful attempts, the spill is finally declared sealed. However, this incident has generated the largest marine oil disaster in history. Part of the "Butterfly Effect" series.
Everywhere one looks in Southern Louisiana there's water: rivers, bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone in Cajun Country has a water story, or two or three or more. Its waterways support the biggest economies in Louisiana - a $70 billion a year oil and gas industry, a $2.4 billion a year fishing business, tourism and recreational sports. But these waterways are also home to some insidious polluters along a 100-mile-long stretch of the Mississippi known "Cancer Alley," the world's largest Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico and erosion that is costing the coastline twenty five square miles of wetlands a year.
Capulin Volcano National Monument was born of fire and forces continually reshaping its surface. It’s a dramatic landscape of mountains, plains, and sky and provides access to some of nature’s most awe-inspiring work in New Mexico.
This episode features the migration of the monarch butterfly from the forests of central Mexico to the mountains of Canada. Dr. Fred Urquhart details his 40-year quest to discover the secrets of these insects. Part of the "Journey With Dylan Dreyer" series.
Host Lisa Van Pay meets researchers who study life in caves. The team explores Snowy River, a bright white crystalline formation found deep within Fort Stanton Cave in New Mexico, finding life and energy in unexpected places.
Join Dr. Dominique as she journeys to Mexico on a shark research expedition with world famous conservationist Guy Harvey. She goes diving with Guy to help him study the fastest shark in the water, the mako. Part of "The Wildlife Docs" series.
This series explores the relationship between humans and the sea and focuses on the life of the sea turtle. Turtles worldwide face serious threats of extinction; however, conservation efforts are trying to preserve this species. Part of the "Turtle World" series.
Conservation efforts benefit everyone, and this episode explores the various efforts to protect the monarch butterfly. Today, the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States maintain a common political project in favor of the conservation of these insects. Part of the "Bios: Nature and Society" series.
Discovering a dinosaur is just the first step. Paleontologists Sterling Nesbitt, Mark Norell, and Danny Barta tell the story behind the treasure trove of Triassic fossils from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Part of the "Shelf Life" series.
A group of sea lion pups have been rescued along the California coast, their issues range from physical injuries to illnesses. The dedication of the rescuers and veterinarians has them on the road to recovery. They also rescues a stranded dolphin on a beach near the US-Mexico border.
Left for dead after decades of neglect, the Colorado River in Northern Mexico was once a vibrant wetland ecosystem the size of Rhode Island. People have come together in an attempt to restore the delta of the river. They have instituted programs and policies to reconnect a healthy river to the sea.
A new transmitter helps protect wireless data from hackers. Other features in this episode include bacteria using DNA to speed their evolution and a new next-generation water harvester that delivers fresh water from air. Part of the "4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About This Week" series.
Millions of monarch butterflies from the United States and Canada fly five thousand kilometers each year to hibernate in the forests of California and Mexico. This documentary explains their diet, as well as their protection against their predators, their migratory routes, the dangers they face due to deforestation, the effects of the ecotourism, and much more. Close-ups accompany descriptions of the metamorphosis and the life cycles of these curious insects. NOTE: Brief copulation scene.
The Very Large Array, or VLA, is a complex of 27 massive antennas on the Plains of San Agustin in central New Mexico, all pointing skyward to monitor radio emissions from the cosmos. With support from the National Science Foundation, astronomers use this facility to observe the most dynamic, cataclysmic events in the universe. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
Less familiar to residents of the US and Canada are several junco groups that inhabit the highlands of Mexico and Central America. In this segment, researchers from around the world travel to remote high elevation habitats to study unique junco groups. They explore the concepts of endemism, geographic isolation, and the role of genetic data in classifying species. Part of Ordinary Extraordinary Junco (Chapter 4).
Will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico create dead zones? That’s the concern of University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye. She’s headed to the gulf to investigate how the oil and methane gas discharged by the BP Deepwater Horizon spill is impacting the ocean microbes that live there. With funding from National Science Foundation, she is also looking at how the dispersants used to break up the oil are impacting marine life, including microbes, fish, and shellfish.
As shown on the History Channel. From Alaska to New Mexico, the Rockies are one of the great mountain belts of the world--caused by tectonic forces of the Pacific Plate pushing against the North American continent. They have formed as the earth's continental crust has been shortened under pressure, by around one inch a year. What's more, they are still rising and they are still young in geologic terms: when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth they had not even started to form.
