Human Footprint

Rusty-Patched Rescue: Saving America's Wild Bees

Wild bees like the rusty-patched bumble bee are vanishing — but not without a fight. Conservation photographer Clay Bolt shares how a rare sighting sparked a nationwide effort to protect native pollinators. Shane joins Clay in Wisconsin to witness one of North America’s rarest bees and uncovers how pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change are threatening the future of wild bees.

Rusty-Patched Rescue: Saving America's Wild Bees

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    Vanishing Act

    S2 E6 - 55m 39s

    From fossils entombed in tar to cells frozen in hope, Shane Campbell-Staton traces the arc of extinction from prehistory to the present. On an epic global journey, he meets species at the brink of oblivion… and the people who won’t give up on them.

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    Dammed If You Do

    S2 E5 - 55m 8s

    Shane Campbell-Staton travels from ancient aqueducts to modern mega-dams, following our age-old quest to tame water. On a journey down the Colorado River, he discovers how humanity’s thirst for control has reshaped rivers — and civilization itself.

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    The Honey Trap

    S2 E4 - 55m 9s

    Everyone knows the honey bee, but it’s just one species – there are 20,000 others! Humans
    have depended on bees – both wild and managed – for millennia. But as bee populations
    collapse around the world, can we save them before it’s too late?

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