国家地理-2008-01-03 Iceland Puffins

On a rocky beach in Iceland, two youngsters are on a mission of mercy. Inside their cardboard box, they have two orphans, fledglings plucked from the streets of town, baby puffins. The children of Heimaey have been saving young puffins called puffli

国家地理-2008-03-31 Equinoxes 春秋分

Twice a year, day and night, fall into balance, lasting for nearly equal length. Known as equinoxes, Latin for equal night, they occur in March and September and along with solstices mark the changing of seasons as Earth travels around the sun. Astr

国家地理:Reindeer Man 圣诞老人和他的驯鹿

There's a Santa's carrier. For Tom Scheib, today is one of those days he spends most of the year preparing for. Let's just put the harness out right here. This is his time to make any last-minute adjustments and see that his team is in good spirit an

国家地理:Gator in the Backyard 后院的不速之客

The lady, she has two small dogs and she was worried because the alligator finds the back of her house and just gets up there and he sounds itself and lays out there. She tries to chase him off and he don't move, because he opens his mouth. So she's

国家地理:Blood Diamond: Africa 血钻

There's a disturbing side to the diamond trade--- the traffic of conflict diamonds, otherwise known as blood diamonds. This is Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the West African coast, a country still emerging from ten years of war. During tha

国家地理-2008-05-17 Wenchuan Earthquake 汶川大地震

On Monday, an earthquake in China measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale occurred along a fault where south Asia pushes against the Eurasian Landmass, smashing the Sichuan Plain into mountains, leading to the Tibetan highlands. In 1989, the Loma Prieta

国家地理-2008-10-04 北极陷入“死亡螺旋”

According to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for the year at nearly 1.7 million square miles. A chilling fact, considering that this is only about 10 % more than the

国家地理-2008-10-02 人猴共处的新加坡

Transcript (by myconsent, for reference only) While some visitors to Singapore expect a high-tech city, there are also some parts of the island that still reflect how it used to look before urban development took over. In one of the main Central Nat

国家地理-2008-09-13 小鲸鱼错认游艇为母

Animal Conservationists in Australia expressed concern on Tuesday that a lost humpback whale calf separated from its mother could die within days, unless it finds its own mother or another mother to adopt it. The calf believed to be one or two month

国家地理-2008-09-08 澳洲农业每况愈下

In Australia, its not just livestock hit hard by draught, but the next generation of farmers. At 24, Robert Watt, a farmer from Alectown, a region of Australia, has had seven seasons on the farm, but not one year of profit. He says the draught, plus

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:Bite Force 咬合力

You get me a bigger one? We got one more guy to try. Alright. And he is, he is a locked animal, so let's see what we can do. Peggy takes me to the biggest most aggressive wolf here. He is over a hundred pounds. So that is a big male. This wolf lost i

国家地理:Sea Otters in Danger 拯救海獭

For several years something mysterious has been plaguing sea otter populations off the coast of California. The animal may have seizure s, it may shake, it may act like it's weak, uh, it may not seem like it's very aware of its surroundings, and it m

国家地理:Acorn Woodpecker 橡树啄木鸟

Tragedy has produced opportunity among the acorn woodpeckers here in California's Carmel Valley. The second of two breeding females in this particular communal group has been killed, probably by the birds of prey that kill one in five of the acorn wo

国家地理:Blue Cows 　印度蓝牛

Dusk in rural India, farmhands sweep the land trying to drive away an animal that is threatening their livelihood. It's called nilgai or blue cow. In Rajasthan, nilgai roam in the hundreds, consuming anything and everything in their path, especially

国家地理:Killer Lakes 　杀人湖

Volcanic gases escape from the magma . They percolate through the earth crust and into the atmosphere. Professional geologist, Charles Watson, investigates the risks at Horseshoe Lake close to Mammoth's main resort. There is a quiet, silent killer th

国家地理:Wild: Battle of the Bears 熊族内战

A steep sided forest, rapidly narrowing as it descended, it was a place that immediately made Madison nervous. It's a kind of place that just intrinsically leaves you feeling ill at ease because there's not much of an easy way to get out, once you ge

国家地理:South Pacific Surprise 走访东帝汶

Welcome to East Timor, one of the world's newest countries, and for the intrepid few, an emerging tourism destination with unspoiled natural beauty. And I just booked two weeks' holiday here. I went for three or four dives and I think it took us 36 h

国家地理:Survive the Sahara 走险撒哈拉

For centuries, nomads and traders have made their way here. George is determined to follow in their footsteps. There is a timelessness about this place. And desert ghosts seem to haunt the hills. But that's not the wail of lost souls echoing through

国家地理:Alaska: Bear Taxidermist 动物标本剥制师

Grizzly bears once roamed much of the United States. But two centuries of hunting and habitat loss have devastated their numbers. Today, less than 1,200 live in the Lower 48. If there is a last remaining stronghold for the North American Grizzly, it