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KUED Presents Green River: Divided Waters
Free Screening of Program Tuesday, November 3Mon, November 9th, 2009 - For millions of years, the Green River has carved its way through sandstone cliffs. It is the life source for generations of American Indians -- a boon for trappers and a mystery for explorers. It is the birthplace of river rafting and the mode...
NATURE: "Rhinoceros"
From South Africa, to India, to Indonesia, NATURE Trails Rangers in the Field as They Protect and Relocate Rhinos, and Features an American Zoo's Breakthrough Breeding of Them in CaptivitySun, October 18th, 2009 - They are hulking beasts from prehistory, virtually unchanged for over 25 million years. Once they roamed the Earth in millions, numbering hundreds of species of all shapes and sizes, but today the rhinoceros is one of the planet's rarest animals. The...
History of Sugar House Park
Harold Fabian Played Key Role in Creation of Many National and Local ParksMon, September 14th, 2009 - The National Parks: America's Best Idea is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence, and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyon...
NATURE Presents: "Silence of the Bees"
NATURE Presents Encore of Peabody-Winning Film; Program Contains Updates and Interviews With Experts and Farmers About Massive Bee Die-Off Since Film's PremiereSun, July 26th, 2009 - From crop fields to hi-tech labs, NATURE follows scientists and bee experts investigating a rapidly unfolding ecological nightmare of massive die-off of bees. A special encore presentation of "Silence of the Bees" airs Sunday, July 26, 2009, at 7 p.m...
NATURE Presents: "Kilauea: Mountain of Fire"
Hawaii's Explosive Power Is ReawakeningSun, March 29th, 2009 - Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Perhaps 100,000 years old, it is today generating some of the largest explosions experts have ever witnessed. Red-hot molten lava shooting into the air 1,000 feet or more i...
NATURE: "The Wolf That Changed America"
An Epic Duel Between a Man and Wolf Paved the Way for America's Environmental MovementSun, November 23rd, 2008 - In 1893, a bounty hunter named Ernest Thompson Seton went to the untamed canyons of New Mexico on a mission to kill a renegade wolf called Lobo. Lobo was the legendary leader of a band of cattle-killing wolves that had been terrorizing ranchers and t...
NATURE: "The Gorilla King"
Film Retraces Life of Titus, Silverback Leader, From Birth to Present Reign, Spanning a Tumultuous Period in History of a Species and of RwandaSun, April 20th, 2008 - In 1974, renowned primatologist Dian Fossey introduced a young researcher named Kelly Stewart to a gorilla family Fossey was studying. Stewart, daughter of actor Jimmy Stewart, was the first to see a tiny new baby gorilla, whom she named Titus. H...
NATURE: "What Females Want and Males Will Do"
Sex Education Goes Far Beyond the Birds and the Bees in Two-Part High-Definition SpecialSun, April 6th, 2008 - Lizards do push-ups for it. Gelada baboons show off their passion-flushed pectorals. Bowerbirds become interior decorators. From dancing spiders to drumming monkeys, the universal urge to mate has led creatures throughout the animal kingdom to evo...
NATURE: "Crash: A Tale of Two Species"
Sun, February 10th, 2008 - The humble horseshoe crab is an evolutionary marvel, virtually unchanged over the course of 350 million years. The small red knot shorebird each year undertakes one of the longest migrations of any species on Earth. The intersection of these two unas...NATURE: "Silence of the Bees"
NATURE's 26th Season Kicks Off with a Worldwide Investigation of Honeybee Die-Offs; Program Filmed in High DefinitionFri, October 19th, 2007 - November 2006. A Pennsylvania beekeeper reports his bees are gone without a trace. Within days, similar devastating reports are coming in from across America. Soon, news from abroad: major hive losses in France, mysterious vanishings in Spain. By Jan...
