This week, NOW travels to the nation of Kiribati to see up close how global warming is affecting residents’ daily lives and how they are dealing with the reality that both their land and culture could disappear from the Earth. Watch.
Steven Chu currently runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the U. of California, and is a biofuels specialist. Read more about Chu’s research and experience, and about clean energy technologies…
Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea – retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back – and spent two incredible years of their lives filming the trip. Watch full documentary.
This four-hour documentary explores the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created Christianity. The film covers how Judaism and Roman cultures shaped Jesus’ life, to the growth of the Christian religion from 100 to 300 A.D. Watch.
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace, on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, December 10, 1901. Nobel, who was a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, created a fund for the prizes in his will.
Should grizzly bears be removed from the protection of the Endangered Species Act? Discover the complex issue of grizzly bear management and conservation from ranchers, conservationists, and government officials who share their stories and insights. Watch now.
On December 8, 1980, singer John Lennon was killed outside his New York apartment building, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, opposite Central Park.
As one of the most progressive voices in the Senate who also campaigned for President-elect Obama, what does Russ Feingold (D-WI) expect of the next four years? Watch.
The Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting recognize outstanding achievement in business & financial reporting telecast or webcast. Watch some of the Emmy-nominated programs, online now.
They’re everywhere around you—the jagged repeating forms called fractals. If you know what to look for, you can find them in the clouds, in mountains, even inside the human body. A group of maverick mathematicians are determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Watch now.
