How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
AdultsEnvironmentNatureToday's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.
Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ft. Richard Dawkins
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWhen evolution favours a stable ratio of traits rather than one dominant trait.
Meerkats
AdultsAnimalsNaturePhotographyBehind the scenes of my recent meerkat photography project in Botswana.
DC SHOES: ROBBIE MADDISON'S "PIPE DREAM"
AdultsFilmNatureSportsDC presents Robbie "Maddo" Maddison's "Pipe Dream," giving the world a chance to witness history being made as Maddo rides his dirt bike on the powerful and iconic waves of Tahiti. From his helmet to motocross boots, Maddo was dressed for FMX when he took his dirt bike into the unchartered saltwater terrain of the Pacific Ocean in French Polynesia.
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal WarmingNature"Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert," begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to about two-thirds of the world's grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it.
How Does A Canyon Become Grand?
AdultsEnvironmentHistoryNatureI was in Arizona recently for Phoenix Comic-Con, and had the amazing pleasure of seeing one of Earth's greatest natural wonders... the Grand Canyon. More than a mile deep, and several miles across, it just defies belief. But I couldn't help but think, the Colorado River down at the bottom isn't that big. How did it cut a canyon so massive? How old is the Grand Canyon?
This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
AdultsArtFoodNatureSam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses "chip grafting" to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits. The grafting process involves slicing a bit of a branch with a bud from a tree of one of the varieties and inserting it into a slit in a branch on the "working tree," then wrapping the wound with tape until it heals and the bud starts to grow into a new branch.