2007-10-20, Ospreys of Yellowstone - 鱼鹰

In the skies above the Yellowstone River, an osprey scans the waters below for its next meal. Osprey have exceptionally acute vision and can pick out the movement of fish one hundred feet below. It's not easy to haul a struggling 3-pound trout out of

2007-10-23, Blue Whale Calls - 蓝鲸的声音

Our oceans are alive with sound. Sound that most of us never hear. But there is one man who is definitely listening. The blue whales in the eastern North Pacific off the California coast make two primary types of calls. You know one is this very puls

2007-10-25, Salt Mine Cathedral - 盐矿大教堂

Where once only salt miners traveled, today, tourists track through tunnels hundreds of feet deep into the caverns of Zipaquir mountain in Colombia. Their destination, a Catholic cathedral carved from the mineral deposits of the old mine. More than 1

2007-10-27, Egypt: King Tut's Wet Nurse -图坦卡门王乳母之墓穴

French archaeologist Alain Zivie is about to make an exciting discovery. Zivie's team has found tombs belonging to Egypt's rich and famous and they've just uncovered another one. There was sound and with I had a small lamp with me and I saw the, the

2007-10-30, Burning Trees to Save the Forest 焚树育林？

It's been protected from human impacts since 1909. With 3 million acres, nearly a half million under water, Superior National Forest is largely unspoiled. But now the survival of this national treasure rests with those who would see some of it burned

2007-11-03, Walmart: Muscling Manufacturers 沃尔玛困局

I wanted to see how this bold new world of retail power it changed the game for established brand-name manufacturers, so I headed to Wooster, Ohio, a small college town, and a long-time home to one of the American's best known brands - Rubbermaid, ma

2007-11-06, FBI Takedown

Miami, April 11th, 1986, one of the bloodiest days in FBI history, special agents, including 25-year veteran Benjamin Grogan, and his young partner Jerry Dove, corner a car driven by two violent bank robbers. An intense gunbattle ensues. Over 100 rou

2007-11-08, New Zealand Adventure

My name is Maurice Manuwatu, and I am from here, Kaikoura. It's an amazing place and historically Maori have been here for over 800 years. Matakoura was a god that had this magical sword. And he carved the mountains, he shaped the peninsula around he

2007-11-10, Walmart: Low Costs and Go Global

... morning associates. Need all available associates, all department managers. Back at a supercenter in Bentonville, employees gather for the morning meeting. ... please for the morning meeting. A daily ritual at 5,000 Wal-Mart stores all over the w

2007-11-13, Nubian Wedding

It is modern, yet firmly rooted in the past, the Nubian wedding ritual shared by the entire village for seven days and nights. The air is perfumed by incense and filled with the sound of beating drums and joyful Nubian songs. Two years ago, Sherrie's

2007-11-15, Horse Logging - 以马代车,环保伐木

Cool, alright. He's always been around horses. I've had him ever since he was a 2-year-old, now he is 15. Lester Courtney has always loved to load up and head to the great outdoors. He and his wife Carol have spent a lot of time at their horses, not

2007-11-17, China's View of Wal-Mart: Big Partner 1

To see first-hand how the promise of a vast new market for America was playing out. I headed for China and the heart of its new industrial revolution, Shenzhen, south China's miracle city. Twenty years ago, this was all rice fields. Today, it's a sop

2007-11-20, Eating Dog - 古老神秘的祭狗仪式

In northern Benin, humans revere dogs for their loyalty and bravery. But here dogs also figure in an unusual ritual. Every 4 years, the Bessarabia people initiate boys into manhood. The process, a series of ceremonies including circumcision, hinges o

2007-11-22, Moroccan Adventure: Fes - 修复Merdes

This monument to Islamic heritage is getting a new lease on life. The Bou Inania Medersa or Koranic school was once an architectural jewel of the medieval city of Fes. But centuries of neglect have taken a toll. Restorers are cleaning layers of white

2007-11-01, National Park Secret - 大盆地国家公园

A stretch of road known as America's loneliest highway seems the perfect place to ignore the speed limit. But for those who slow down, Nevada's high desert reveals its unexpected side. Great Basin National Park is home to Lehman Caves. Lehman Caves w

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -4

Why is a boy so important? A girl is a person, too. I was angry. I told him, If you want to send me back to Hubei, I can't stop you. You think boys are so important, you can just stay here alone. That's what I told him then. 'If I have a girl, I'll t

国家地理:Tornadoes 龙卷风

Call them twisters or tornadoes. They're nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of th

国家地理:Penguin Safari 企鹅远行

Penguins have their own waterproof down survival suits. They replace their feathers each year in one short burst. Indeed, Kings completely replace every single feather. New feathers grow through underneath to push out the old and there is lots of the

国家地理:Jamaican Maroons 牙买加黑人历史

During Jamaica's colonial era, the English capitalized on the island's mild weather and rich soil, planting sugarcane , making Jamaica England's largest supplier. But the riches of the sugarcane came with a price. Thousands of Africans were enslaved

国家地理:Octopus Mating 章鱼交配

OK, we are back in the world of the Cyanea octopus. It's mating time. Here's your potential conquest. She doesn't know you're alive. She's too busy cleaning trash from her house. Now you are the perceptive type. You use your sensitive disks for any s