Follows Sherry Hunter, a lifelong resident and community leader, in her tireless effort to secure safe, clean water for the historic town of Allensworth, California.

Long ago, red wolves roamed from the bayous of East Texas to the bays of coastal New York. Today, not even 20 remain in the wild—confined to a tiny pocket of habitat in far Eastern North Carolina. This short film uses over four years' worth of National Geographic Explorer Jessica Suarez's photographs to tell the imagined story of one young wolf. Raised in captivity, she's eventually released into that last remaining habitat, and in the wild she finds freedom, danger, and the possibility of a new future for her species. Long ago, the red wolf was America's Wolf, and with our help it could be again.

In a ribbon of saltmarsh in coastal New England, an intergenerational group of citizen scientists is trying to save the Saltmarsh Sparrow from extinction, one nest at a time.

Follows eight adventurers on a four-day river journey along the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in Montana, a rugged and beautiful landscape traversed by the Corps of Discovery in the early 19th Century.

An all female team of biologists sets out to collar black bears in South Florida on a quest to learn what the future holds for the species.

Set in Montana’s rugged Crazy Mountains, “Inaccessible” follows professional skier Griffin Post and a team of elite athletes as they venture into terrain shaped by history and the complex boundaries of public and private land. What begins as a ski expedition becomes a powerful exploration of who gets to access—and ultimately protect—America’s shared places. “Inaccessible” explores the boundaries that separate millions of acres of public land from the public, and Griffin Post’s search for something deeper than snow.

With ranch closures looming in Point Reyes National Seashore, a tight-knit community faces significant changes and a vanishing way of life.

As millions die each year from superbug infections, a Chilean scientist searches the hostile salt flats of the Atacama Desert for new antibiotics.

Two marine scientists’ discoveries about bizarre deep-sea rocks illuminate a growing face-off between science and capitalism on Earth’s last great wilderness.

DCEFF Advisory Council member Maggie Dewane sits down for a chat with Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory and filmmaker Nadège Laici.

George McKenzie Jr. traded the hard streets and violence of New York City for a life photographing some of the most elusive animals in North America for National Geographic. His next mission? Empower kids of color to access their own dreams and to protect the natural world.

The Clearing follows young Cambodian activists risking years in prison for exposing state-sanctioned environmental destruction, as they continue on their collision course with the authorities.

In memory of her grandfather, Nina Gualinga speaks to his legacy by calling out the commodification and extractivism of Indigenous lands in the Amazon Rainforest, and how this consumption has now extended to the ancestral medicine, hayakwaska.