Wild World with Scott Solomon

Watching Whales in Southeast Alaska with Heidi Pearson

Wild World S2E13 - Watching Whales in Southeast Alaska with Heidi Pearson Alaska is a place of superlatives. It’s by far the largest state in the US. It’s home to the hi

Watching Birds in New Zealand with Brent Stephenson

Watching Birds in New Zealand with Brent Stephenson  New Zealand is famous for its epic landscapes. It’s become a favorite place for filmmakers who want dramatic scenery

Climbing into Volcanoes in the African Rift Valley with Kayla Iacovino

There are more than 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth. But rather than being spread evenly across the planet, they tend to be clustered in particular locations. A cluster o

Tracking Glaciers in the Andes with Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña

The Andes are the longest mountain chain in the world and the second highest mountain range in the world after the Himalayas. There are over a hundred peaks in the Andes

Observing Wild Chimpanzees in Senegal with Jill Pruetz

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. In fact, chimps are more closely related to you and I than they are to other apes, like gorillas. That means we can learn a

Stalking Snow Leopards in the Himalayas with Prasenjeet Yadav

The Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world. They span some 1,500 miles through the heart of Asia, from Afghanistan to China. Having such enormous mountains make

Fossil Hunting in the Canadian Arctic with Neil Shubin

The emergence of life on land was one of the most important moments in the grand saga of life’s evolutionary history. Many of the characteristics of our bodies– like our

Sailing The Open Ocean with Grant Terrell and the Darwin200 Expedition

The 3-masted topsail schooner Oosterschelde is on a two-year journey around the world, following the route taken by Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle nearly 200 years

Protecting Madagascar's Lemurs with Jonah Ratsimbazafy

Madagascar is home to some incredible wildlife. Many of the animals in Madagascar occur nowhere else on Earth. Among them are lemurs– a group of primates that resemble mo

Australia's Lesser Known Wildlife with Mark Moffett

Australia is famous for its strange creatures. And rightfully so. They’ve got kangaroos, koalas, echidnas, and of course one of the wackiest animals anywhere– the platypu

Digging Up Bones in Olduvai Gorge with Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo is a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Rice. His research focus is paleoanthropology and the archaeology of human origins, with methodologica

They Might Be Giants In The Pantanal with Dr. Arnaud Desbiez

 At more than 42 million acres, the Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland. It spans parts of three countries, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. If you visit the

Special Wild World Announcement

Wild World live broadcast from Antarctica! Saturday, December 14 at 1 pm ET Scott will be traveling with the Rice University Traveling Owls aboard the National Geograph

Bonus episode - The Future of Galapagos

Before signing off on our first season, we wanted to share a little more of the conversation Scott had with nature and wildlife photographer Tui De Roy. Tui has lived i

Wild World Presents "WCS Wild Audio"

We’re stepping away from our regular podcast this week to bring you an episode from our friends at WCS Wild Audio—a podcast of the Wildlife Conservation Society. WCS Wild

Searching for Meteorites in Antarctica with Mini Wadhwa

Antarctica is famous for gigantic ice sheets and charismatic animals, but Antarctica is also one of the best places to search for meteorites– rocks that have traveled thr

Launching to Space with Scott Parazynski

We can learn a lot by exploring the edges of the biosphere, where conditions can just barely support even the most hardy organisms. And by venturing beyond the biosphere–

The Silent Forests of Guam with Haldre Rogers

Around the world, wildlife is in decline. We know that animals play important roles in their environments, but it’s often difficult to know how exactly the natural world

Digging for Ants in the Brazilian Cerrado with Ted Schultz

Brazil is one of the most biologically diverse nations on Earth. In the center of Brazil, between the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Coast Rainforest is an ecosystem

Investigating Moorea's Coral Reefs with Adrienne Correa

Corals– tiny animals that form structures so large they can be seen from space– provide food and habitat for a quarter of all marine life. Half a billion people worldwide