A reporter delves into Italy's lax system of game management that allows even songbirds and hawks to come under fire. A profile of one of the world's most colorful filmmakers explores how one man explains nature to the masses. A Hungarian bureaucrat and a dissident struggle to solve Hungary's huge environmental problems in their own ways. A scientist in Panama raises 18,000 lizards for the stew pot in a novel experiment in sustainable development that could help to save rain forests. By cutting a swath through their pristine environment, some ancient cultures might have prompted their own collapse.
Insects are the basis of a growing but grisly branch of sleuthing called forensic entomology.
New linkages between pollutants and gases in the atmosphere are raising unlikely questions about our daily activities and the world's climate. A restoration ecologist in Costa Rica is using time, wind, animals and the force of his own personality to return a dry forest back to its original state. How tourists watching the great apes in Rwanda are paying to save an endangered species.