In Istanbul, Turkey, workers building a railway tunnel make a remarkable discovery - an ancient harbour, buried and shrouded in mystery ...until now. Will archaeologists be able to uncover the treasures of the past before it is buried again?
A growing number of scientists, conservationists and grass-roots environmentalists see the beaver as a much overlooked tool when it comes to reversing the disastrous effects of global warming.
In Alberta, woodland caribou's future is like the flip of a coin; heads we pay the price to keep them, tails we pay the price to let them disappear.
Did we run before we could think? As scientists discover that the first humans were endurance runners unparalleled on the Africa savannah, The Perfect Runner asks what today's runners can learn from our evolutionary past.
A remarkable new creature has slipped unnoticed into our cities. Part coyote, part wolf this new hybrid is both fascinating and baffling scientists. We share our parks, our streets even our backyards with these wild animals, but few of us have ever seen one. Meet your new neighbour.
In a new instalment of Suzuki Diaries, David and his daughter, Sarika, set out to discover whether some of Canada's biggest cities are ready for the challenges of the future.
From the deep jungles of Borneo, the plantations of Honduras, to our frozen fields in Canada, this story takes us around the world to learn what those passionate about fruit are doing to reintroduce diversity back to the produce section.
Fruit hunters scour the world looking for exotic or forgotten varieties of fruit, and in preserving each variety, they retain a living part of human history.
Fracking, while a bonanza for gas and oil production, is caught in a backlash of suspicion and alarm. What's happening underground it seems can shatter more than just rock.
The story a young polar bear's epic migration through the icy waters of Hudson Bay and his subsequent adventures on land.
Who would have imagined that some of the boldest and freshest thinking tackling major global issues would come from two little countries in South America? David Suzuki sets off to see first-hand the places that just may represent the cutting edge when it comes to taking on the world's energy, climate and economic crises.
Our planet is lit up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're addicted to light and we just can't get enough of it. But like anything else that's addictive, could too much be a bad thing?
Are we alone in the universe? Planet hunters are finding new planets far across our galaxy
The story of our ongoing struggle to conquer a little insect that is both delicate and deadly.
A lively look at the moral trajectory of children from the first months of life onward. Blending scientific research and scenes of children in their own environments, we explore the question: where does our moral compass come from?
A new documentary film reveals an archeological site that proves Europeans made contact with Native North Americans centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
Through pictures, music and poetry, Canadian Commander Chris Hadfield brings us a view of earth from space that we’ve never seen before.
Wildlife filmmaker Jeff Turner travels to Wood Buffalo National Park to witness the one place on earth where wolves prey on buffalo.
The great Northern Boreal Forest, one of the world's richest ecosystems and one of its greatest carbon sinks, is face to face with a grave threat - a plague of insects, each the size of a grain of rice.
The Earth's environment faces some great challenges, and it doesn't take much to realize there's no time to waste. Some scientists believe that nanotechnology may be the key to overcoming the biosphere's environmental problems. But are we creating a new kind of pollution?
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