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The flock of ganders is swimming in the water. Caption: These ganders are far more adventurous.

Dry, brown grass and brush with crumbling rocks throughout and a flat-topped rocky hill in the background. Caption: punctuated by hills, badlands, and bluffs --

Still image from: Alaska's National Parks: Treasures Of The Great Land

Still image from: Alex in New York

Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.

Still image from: Ancient History: America's Prehistoric Civilizations--The Mound Builders

Still image from: Ancient History: Ancient Pueblo People--The Anasazi

Still image from: Around the World: North America--Mesa Verde

Still image from: Around the World: North America--The Statue of Liberty

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a Scientist: What's happening on Aug. 21st, 2017? And what can people potentially see?

Bright light appearing behind the horizon of a planet. Ask a scientist: Where can I see the eclipse in totality?

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: ¡Viva La Mexico!

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Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Harlem, USA

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Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Little Brazil

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Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Manhattan’s Chinatown

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Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: The Bright Lights of Broadway

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: The Lumbee Dance of the Spring Moon

Close up of a striped salamander mostly submerged and surrounded by plant life. Caption: (narrator) This pond is an ephemeral wetland.

A protected bay of light green water with a handful of buildings slightly set back from the coastline. Caption: Christopher Columbus landed in 1493

A burning ship. Caption: On the 22nd, it sinks to the bottom of the gulf of Mexico.

Still image from: Butterfly Effect: The Gold Rush--For a Fistful of Nuggets

Lighthouse with outbuilding and trees as seen through dense fog. Caption: The old lighthouse shimmers in and out of view--

Still image from: California: Climate Change Impacts

Still image from: California: Geography--Coastline, Mountain Ranges and Valleys

Still image from: California: Geography--Deserts, Rivers, Earthquakes, and Human Geography

Still image from: California: History--The First Inhabitants to the American Civil War

Still image from: California: History--The Wild West to the 21st Century

Rolling two-peaked hill and valley covered in trees. Caption: Inexplicably, Capulin Volcano is tree covered,

Tall, angular, light colored buildings with a wide central open-air walkway. Caption: What they created is alive and working today.

Cave with stalactites and stalagmites in light brown rock. Caption: and great cathedrals of rock

Still image from: Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story

A diver carries two oxygen cylinders and dives deep into the Floridian aqufier. Caption: It's the primary source of fresh, clean water.

Multiple multistory snow covered building complexes at the foot of snow-covered slopes. Caption: The winter sports industry supports more than 37,000 jobs

Two people at a glacier. Snow on the mountain in the background, one person standing on a rocky riverbank, the second person in the river with a measurement tool. Caption: Climate change impacts glaciers by a number of means.

Rough ocean lapping against dirt and sand embankment against a road with vehicles driving on it. Two houses over the water on stilts are starting to fall into the ocean. Caption: It's particularly vulnerable to sea level rise impacts.

Ocean shoreline on one side and rising water on the other encircle a strip of densely populated buildings. Caption: Also, sea level may rise slowly or rapidly,

Map of the United States with NE, IA, KS, MO, AR, OK, NM, and TX marked. Pawnee, OK is at the epicenter of a circle indicating an earthquake. Caption: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake northeast of Oklahoma City.

Still image from: Cowpens: A Battle Remembered

Narrow paved path spiraling to the top of a rocky conical structure. Caption: a great fissure opened up in Central Idaho

Whale fin breaking through the surface of the water. Caption: See nature, wildlife, glaciers."

Still image from: Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

A river with brush lining the banks winds down from a mountain through evergreen trees. Caption: Here there is no fancy visitor center.

Rock formation rises sharply from evergreen tree covered ground to end in a narrowed flat-topped peak. Caption: (male narrator) There's nothing quite like it.

Still image from: Drive Thru History: Boston & the Beginnings of the Revolution

Still image from: Drive Thru History: Jamestown & Yorktown

Still image from: Drive Thru History: Kosciuszko, Von Steuben & the Revolutionary War

Still image from: Drive Thru History: New Jersey and the Revolutionary War

Still image from: Drive Thru History: New York and the Revolutionary War

Still image from: Drive Thru History: Philadelphia & the Founding Fathers

Still image from: Drive Thru History: The Pilgrims of New England

Still image from: Drive Thru History: Virginia's Founding Fathers: Washington, Jefferson & Madison

Still image from: Drive Thru History: William Penn & Pennsylvania

Still image from: Exploring Communities and Geography

Still image from: Florida Geography, History, And Culture

An aerial view of the archipelago in Florida. Caption: It is spectacular scenery, and I can never get enough.

Still image from: Fort Frederica National Monument

Still image from: Fort Matanzas and Castillo De San Marcos National Monuments

Still image from: Fort Pulaski National Monument

Still image from: Fort Sumter National Monument

Still image from: Fort Union National Monument

Rolling hills lead into a wide valley. Caption: Known as Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument

Still image from: Geography Basics: Units of Place

Manmade dam as seen from below. Caption: to create even more complicated structures.

Still image from: George Washington Birthplace National Monument

Open field of dry, brown grass with mist hovering above it. Caption: The monument preserves the land where Carver was born--

A river runs through the grand canyon. Caption: A ribbon of water cuts through the rock,

Still image from: Great Lakes Region

Person talking with an inset picture of a laboratory. Caption: People usually think science happens in the lab.

Closeup of pinkish mushrooms. Caption: Lake Seminole Farms grows oyster mushrooms.

Sloped hills leading to a body of water. Caption: from which the Hagerman fossils have been excavated.

Still image from: Henry Hikes to Fitchburg

Still image from: Homestead National Monument

Cross section of earth showing deep fissures. Caption: separated by huge cracks running deep into the crust,

$View of the ground and lake partially covered by snow. Caption: But even that is just a fraction of the total flood$

Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.

Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area

Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.

Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,

A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.

Still image from: Ice Age Mysteries: Prehistoric to Present

Person standing in a boat holding an octopus. Caption: They actually come in to eat just the fish.

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Ice Age Trail--A Thousand Mile Footpath

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Ice Age Trekking

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Mysteries of the Driftless

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: The Physics and Chemistry of Karst Topography

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: The Science of Ice Caves

Still image from: Into the Outdoors: Wetlands Wisdom

People standing on an overlook in a cave. Caption: Even the average tourist is an explorer in this cave--

Map of the northwest United States showing John Day Fossil Beds in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Clarno Unit, Sheep Rock Unit, and Painted Hills Unit are in Oregon. Caption: preserve a continuous 40-million-year fossil record

Building on the banks of a river. A sensor is connected to machinery in the house and measures the river, sending information to a satellite. Caption: The stream gauges record the vertical rise or drop

Rock formations with straight sides rise above rocky red landscape dotted with trees. Spanish captions.

Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.

Still image from: Let's Talk Geography: 55 Geographical Terms Kids Need to Know

A lighthouse with the sails of ships in the background. Caption: the same natural enemy-- erosion.

Still image from: Little Bighorn National Monument

Two people looking at a tree. Caption: This is what a healthy tree looks like--this bark.

Still image from: Making an American Monument: An Epic Journey in Bronze

Still image from: Marvie's Trip to New York

Still image from: Mid-Atlantic Region

Still image from: Minidoka Internment National Monument

Still image from: Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin

Still image from: Mississippi River Region

Still image from: Mountain States

Wooden fence lining a path through a forest. Black and white photo of a man overlaid. Caption: bridges that the great John Muir once stood on.

Still image from: Museum Access: Mystic Seaport Museum

A coastal region on the geographic map of West America is shown as the background. A region on the map of America is highlighted. Caption: Monterey Bay California. Latitude, 36.80 degrees North. Longitude, 122.00 degrees West. Average Rainfall, 480 millimeters. Sea Temperature, 11 to 15 degrees Celsius.

A photo depicts a region with a large number of trees and small water pockets. Fog rises from the earth.

Still image from: New England

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Still image from: Ocmulgee National Monument

Domed, dripping rock structures line the wall of a cave. Caption: but only one that is a marble cave.

Still image from: Overview: Climber's Paradise Is the Last Refuge for an Ancient Species

Still image from: Overview: How a Mind-Blowing World of Ice Gets Made

Still image from: Overview: How Bison Are Saving America's Lost Prairie

Still image from: Overview: Meet the Fire Lookout of Big Sky Country

Still image from: Overview: Who Made These Giant Desert Figures...and Why?

Still image from: Pacific Northwest History

Forested hillside with a sign "Welcome to Pinnacles National Monument National Park Service Department of the Interior" Caption: is a place of great surprises.

Still image from: Pipestone National Monument

Still image from: Port Canaveral: Gateway to Adventure

Still image from: Poverty Point National Monument

Small light and dark brown butterfly with wings closed sitting on a leaf. Caption: (Sally) Some of these butterflies are challenging--

Fingers of land with inlets of water. A large flat bridge in the background. Caption: Ochlockonee Bay. (Sash) It feeds that huge marine estuary down there,

A tortoise being held in a pair of human hands. Caption: Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Look at their front feet. They're just like shovels.

Glowing lava as seen from above. Caption: Where exactly magma exits and turns into solid basalt

Still image from: Russell Cave National Monument

Person pointing to a spot on an image made of pixelated yellow to indigo spots. Caption: The USGS provides ready access to natural science information

Mountain lion in a tree. Caption: They are hard to study.

People on the deck of a boat, one at a large winch. Caption: Their mission: to learn all they can about large lakes.

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Small red animal swimming in a tank. Caption: (male narrator) These tiny, red shrimp might be perfect pets.

A lattice-work ladder leading to a platform. Instruments and cables are placed on the lattice and platform. Caption: to study an earthquake at ground zero.

Small rabbit in the snow. Caption: (Shipley) In the winter, it might eat 99% of its diet in sagebrush.

People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.

Small lizard on a hand. Caption: They are the same species but may be diverging into two.

Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.

3D graphic of a bright yellow cylindrical object with fins underwater. Caption: Barth is studying low oxygen, or dead zones,

Computer simulation of a fire moving through a forested area. Caption: to really mimic the real spread of the fire.

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Caption: The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Scotts Bluff National Monument

Oil drilling platforms in the ocean with many ships in the water around them. Caption: but they can make money because of our energy policy.

Still image from: Southeast Region

Still image from: Southwest Region

A handful of white birds with long legs cluster together near the edge of a pond. Caption: a second migratory flock of whooping cranes.

Person crouched next to an electrical box on the bank of a river. Caption: to issue timely and accurate river forecasts and warnings

Ash from an eruption filling the air. Caption: An eruption could be the largest natural disaster

Still image from: Talking Maps: Civil War, Part 1 & 2

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 1248)

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Still image from: The Alaska Experience

Still image from: The Big Park: Yellowstone National Park

Still image from: The Blue Ridge Parkway: America's Favorite Journey

Host Emily talks to Lance Grande at the Fossil Lake in Wyoming. Caption: One of the longest-lived lake systems we know of

Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana

The Kankakee Mallow flowers have bloomed at the apex of the plant. Caption: From extinction to several feet tall.

A large ship is in the water piping fossil fuels. An expanded view from the ship depicts a man researching in a lab setup. Caption: What happens over the last 70 million years.

Still image from: The Hard Road West: The Long Journey Begins

Still image from: The Hard Road West: The Shortcut to Disaster

Still image from: The Hunley

Still image from: The Insular Empire

Still image from: The Ironclad Endures

Still image from: The Lower Mississippi River

Still image from: The Midwest

Still image from: The Nature Makers

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Camping Adventure (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Camping in Myakka River State Park and Shark Encounters

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Camping in Myakka River State Park and Shark Encounters (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Canoeing and Airboating

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Canoeing and Airboating (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Cavern Hiking and Aquarium Adventure

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Cavern Hiking and Aquarium Adventure (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Feeding Animals at Homosassa Springs State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Feeding Animals at Homosassa Springs State Park (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Florida Cavern State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Florida Cavern State Park (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Geocaching and Farm-To-School

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Geocaching and Farm-To-School (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Mountain Biking in Oleta River State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Mountain Biking in Oleta River State Park (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Paddle Boarding and Turtle Rescue

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Paddle Boarding and Turtle Rescue (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: River Tubing and Wakesurfing

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: River Tubing and Wakesurfing (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Snorkeling and Bass Fishing

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Snorkeling and Bass Fishing (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Surf Fishing and U-Pick Farm

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Surf Fishing and U-Pick Farm (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Surfing at Sebastian Inlet State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Surfing at Sebastian Inlet State Park (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Trail-Hopping Hillsborough River State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Trail-Hopping Hillsborough River State Park (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Weeki Wachee Springs Park Top 5 Water Activities

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Weeki Wachee Springs Park Top 5 Water Activities (Spanish)

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Wekiwa Spring State Park

Still image from: The Outsiders Club: Wekiwa Spring State Park (Spanish)

Sea turtle grazing on the ocean floor. Caption: in the waters off the west coast of Florida.

Still image from: The Scrambled States Of America

Still image from: The United States: Geography of a Nation (2nd Edition)

Still image from: The Unknown Civil War--Shiloh Part One: The Tennessee River Campaign

Still image from: The Unknown Civil War--Shiloh Part Two: The Battle of Pittsburg Landing

Still image from: The World Heritage: Everglades and Yakushima

Still image from: The World Heritage: Mont-Saint-Michel & Hawaii

Still image from: The World Heritage: The Grand Canyon and Mount Huangshan

Still image from: Travel Thru History: Albany/Saratoga Springs, New York

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Still image from: Travel Thru History: Odds and Ends

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Still image from: Travel Thru History: Salt Lake City, UT

Still image from: Travel Thru History: San Antonio, Texas

Still image from: Travel Thru History: San Diego, California

Still image from: Travel Thru History: Savannah, Georgia

Complex of buildings and roads. Caption: (narrator) Stretching 72 miles down Florida's east coast,

Still image from: Travel Thru History: St. Augustine, Florida

Still image from: Travel Thru History: St. Petersburg, FL

Still image from: Travel Thru History: Toronto, Canada

Still image from: Travel Thru History: Wilmington, North Carolina

Still image from: Two Lane Traveller

Still image from: Underwater Archeology: Excavating the Wacissa River

Still image from: Uniquely New York: Foundations--Auburn

Still image from: Uniquely New York: Foundations--Big Flats

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Still image from: Uniquely New York: Foundations--Johnson City

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Still image from: Uniquely New York: Foundations--Seneca Falls

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Still image from: Uniquely New York: Foundations--Whitney Point

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Camera on a tripod next to other equipment, covered in ice and snow. Caption: We need instruments that survive and still transmit data

Sun setting between two rocky outcroppings over a body of water. Caption: Today the landscapes tell the story of Pangea's birth,

Still image from: Weathered: We Can't Stop Wildfires--But Here's How We Live With Them

Still image from: Wild Chronicles: 1872 Mining Act

Closeup of a frog. Caption: The bullfrog has turned out to be just an eating machine.

Dinosaurs running across a sandy expanse bordered by low trees. Caption: This area was home to some of the iconic dinosaurs --

Items such as broken lighters, bottle caps, plastic pieces, and other unidentifiable debris arranged in a circle. Caption: (female) I took everything in Shed Bird's stomach and arranged it.

Person in scuba gear swimming in a cave. Caption: Little by little, they are mapping this labyrinth

Rocky hillside with a few small plants. Caption: this barren desert was covered by a vast inland sea.

Microscopic view of an oval-shaped organism. Caption: But for the microbes that live here,

A nutria crouching in a pile of brush and eating. Caption: and they're wreaking environmental havoc.

People walking through green bushes with a building in the background. Caption: (female) this is a place where wildlife reigns.

Several adult and baby pigs drink from a small waterhole. Caption: a javelina already has her piglets,

Still image from: Wild Chronicles: Wakulla Springs, Florida

Still image from: Wild Chronicles: Wildfire Firefighters

Still image from: Wilder Than Wild

Still image from: World Explorers: Daniel Boone

Still image from: World Explorers: Louis Jolliet & Jacques Marquette

Still image from: Wow! I Never Knew That! (Episode 15)

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