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Arctic Dinosaurs
Experts in Alaska investigate how dinosaurs
managed to thrive in polar regions.
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Balloon Race Around the World
Delve into the history and science of ballooning,
and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the
first to circumnavigate the globe.
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The Big Energy Gamble
Can California's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse
gases actually succeed?
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NOVA scienceNOW: Booming Sands
Scientists look into a generations-old conundrum:
how and why do certain sand dunes produce mysterious
noises?
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Cracking the Ice Age
Did the crash of continents that produced the
Himalayan Mountains also trigger the Ice Age?
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Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius
The shattered remnants of the Roman city of
Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of
Naples still face today.
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Descent Into the Ice
A team of "glacionauts" ventures into a labyrinth
of unexplored and hazardous glacier caves on France's
Mt. Blanc.
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Diamond Deception
Makeshift labs in China and Russia are turning
out synthetic gemstones that rival natural diamonds.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Diamond Factory
Visit a laboratory where entrepreneurs are
growing perfectly pure diamonds.
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Dimming the Sun
New evidence that air pollution has masked the
full impact of global warming suggests the world may
soon face a heightened climate crisis.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Dinosaur Plague
Insects caught in amber spark a controversial
theory about what killed the dinosaurs.
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Everest
Take a virtual climb of Mt. Everest through
panoramic photography and explore the personalities,
dangers, and history associated with the mountain.
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Extreme Ice
An acclaimed photographer teams up with
scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic
glaciers.
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Fire Wars
Wildland firefighters battle one of the most
destructive fire seasons in U.S. history.
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Flood!
The Great Flood of 1993 leaves a wake of
destruction across the Midwest. Can rivers ever be
contained?
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Hawaii Born of Fire
From their blistering beginnings as molten rock,
the Hawiian islands have grown into a verdant paradise
of unique lifeforms.
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Hunt for the Supertwister
Tornado-chasing scientists with an eye to better
forecasting risk their lives to plumb the secrets of
nature's most terrifying killer.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Hurricanes
Predicting a hurricane's intensity is notoriously
difficult, but new tools may make it easier.
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Into the Abyss
A daring expedition attempts to retrieve several
"black smoker chimneys" from the seafloor a mile and a
half down.
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Jewel of the Earth
David Attenborough probes the mysteries of
ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.
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Magnetic Storm
Is the magnetic field protecting Earth from
deadly radiation about to reverse direction or even
disappear?
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NOVA scienceNOW: Mass Extinction
What caused the mother of all extinctions 250
million years ago?
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Megabeasts' Sudden Death
Scientists propose a radical new idea of what
killed off mammoths and other large animals at the end
of the Ice Age.
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Mountain of Ice
Jon Krakauer and fellow mountaineers pioneer a
new route on a scientific expedition up Antarctica's
highest peak.
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Mysterious Life of Caves
Toxic caverns teeming with strange life-forms
spark a radical theory of how caves take shape.
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Mystery of the Megaflood
What unleashed a catastrophic flood that scarred
thousands of square miles in the American Northwest?
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Mystery of the Megavolcano
Researchers from Indonesia to Greenland unearth
clues to the greatest volcanic eruption of the last
100,000 years.
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Origins
Journey back to the beginning of everything: the
universe, Earth, and life itself.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Secrets in the Salt
Salt deposits that formed 250 million years ago
hold tantalizing hints of early life.
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Sinking City of Venice
Experts struggle to save the City of Canals
before it vanishes beneath the waves.
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Storm That Drowned a City
Experts and eyewitnesses reconstruct the
devastating floods that Hurricane Katrina unleashed on
New Orleans.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Lonnie Thompson
A climatologist struggles to save ancient history
preserved in ice that is now melting.
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Tracking El Niño
Scientists struggle to understand the El
Niño phenomenon, second only to the seasons in its
effect on global weather.
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Volcano Above the Clouds
Join a scientific expedition to the
glacier-capped summit of Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest
mountain.
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Volcano's Deadly Warning
A man obsessed with understanding volcanoes comes
up with a radical new way to predict eruptions.
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Volcano Under the City
A restless mountain threatens a bustling
metropolis perched on its flanks.
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Warnings from the Ice
What does it mean that over the past half
century, the coastal ice on the Antarctic Peninsula has
been gradually disappearing?
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Wave That Shook the World
Experts reconstruct the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
in an effort to prepare for the next big one.
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What's Up with the Weather?
FRONTLINE and NOVA take on a complex and critical
phenomenon—global warming.
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