Deep Inside the First Wilderness | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

On assignment in the canyons of the Gila Wilderness, Nat Geo photographer Katie Orlinsky has a fireside chat with Overheard host Peter Gwin about telling stories through pictures. She chronicles how she found her way—from growing up in New York City to covering workers rights in rural Mexico and the world’s most grueling dogsled race in Alaska. Raw...

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The Rise of the Cali Drug Cartel | Narco Wars

The Cali Cartel rose to power in the early 1990s and took the cocaine drug trade international. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Narco Wars: http://on.natgeo.com/2LdVSyd About Narco Wars: Narco Wars explores how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with the power...

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Parking Lot Drug Bust | To Catch a Smuggler

Homeland Security Investigations works with an undercover agent to identify and stop a Methamphetamine sale in a strip mall parking lot. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more To Catch a Smuggler: http://on.natgeo.com/3k8iXiH About To Catch a Smuggler: Homeland Security at JFK International Airport deals with daily issues ranging...

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Unraveling a Mapmaker’s Dangerous Decision | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

For much of recorded history, maps have helped us define where we live and who we are. National Geographic writer Freddie Wilkinson shows us how one small line on a map led to a bitter conflict in another country, thousands of miles away. Photo Credit: Photograph Cory Richards, National Geographic Raw photo caption: Two soldiers, just back from...

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How One Community Saved Its Fish | National Geographic

When the local community in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, observed that their fish population was declining, they did something extraordinary—they worked to create a marine protected area to give the reef a chance to recover. Today, Cabo Pulmo National Park is home to a vibrant underwater world that draws eco-tourists from around the globe. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe...

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Joe Exotic and the Tiger Trade | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller

Mariana speaks with Joe Exotic and details just how rampant the illegal tiger trade is in the United States, and explores why someone even want to own a tiger. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: https://on.natgeo.com/3gLzuYd ➡ Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on National...

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The First Militaristic Drug Cartel | Narco Wars

After the North American Free Trade Agreement the wealth of the Gulf Cartel skyrocketed and the cartel's leader Osiel Cardenas, along with his militaristic Zetas became public enemy number one. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get more Narco Wars: http://on.natgeo.com/2LdVSyd About Narco Wars: Narco Wars explores how opportunistic...

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Breaking Bobby Bones Trailer | National Geographic

In each half-hour episode of “Breaking Bobby Bones,” Bobby Bones pursues his own mantra—Fight. Grind. Repeat.—by traveling to far-flung destinations across the country to find people with unique jobs, skills, hobbies and abilities. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination...

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Why War Zones Need Science | Podcast | Overheard at National Geographic

It’s a jewel of biodiversity, the so-called Galápagos of the Indian Ocean, and might also hold traces of the earliest humans to leave Africa. No wonder scientists want to explore Socotra. But it’s also part of Yemen, a country enduring a horrific civil war. Meet the Nat Geo explorer with a track record of navigating the world’s most hostile hot spots...

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Red Summer Trailer | National Geographic

National Geographic Documentary Films partners with filmmaker Dawn Porter on feature documentary Red Summer, which follows journalist DeNeen Brown as she digs into the events that lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in America's history. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is...

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