A disagreement about COVID-19 precautions drives a wedge between Archy Jamjun and his partner, and Julie Grace Immink tries to hide her fear from her young son when her husband is hospitalized for COVID-19.
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Harvey, a brand-new nurse, is thrust into the hectic environment of a Brooklyn ICU at the onset of the pandemic, and in spring 2021, he begins to reckon with the trauma he’s experienced in the past year.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Roots
After a dangerous incident, Kalā Holiday begins to question his work as a tour guide in his ancestral land of Hawai’i, and Jeremy Richardson must reconcile his roots in coal country with his identity as a climate scientist.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Humility
After working in the Everglades, ecologist Stephen Smith expects his new gig in Cape Cod to be a piece of cake until one winter day in the sand dunes, and Henrique Bravo plans to travel the world in search of 30 endangered species, but after he departs on his journey, he begins to wonder if he has bit off more than he can chew.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories of Resilience
Tragedy strikes suddenly while Lindsay Cooper is in the field studying right whales, and Rachel Cassandra dreams of a life on the sea, but her captain makes unwelcome advances.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Hope
A U.S. customs agent asks Canadian climate scientist Simon Donner an unexpected question, and as a child, Victoria Gee becomes determined to rescue the wildlife in her neighborhood.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Perspective
As a young ecologist in Brazil's Mata Atlântica rainforest, Lauren Eckert struggles to find the monkeys she’s looking for, and marine biologist Dyhia Belhabib makes an unexpected connection at the port of Bejaia.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories About Courage
Dorothy Tovar faces her fear of nature when she embarks on a month-long safari trip in Botswana's Okavango Delta, and caving with her research team in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, Nompumelelo Hlophe finds herself in a tight spot.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Stories about Confidence
Kasia Majewski searches for a reticulated python that has gone missing, and Edith Gonzalez connects with the less-than-glamorous side of archeology.
Read MoreHuman Nature: Coming of Age Stories
A tumultuous trip to her grandparents’ farm sets Johana Goyes Vallejos on a path looking for the biologist inside her, and under pressure to fit in at summer camp, Misha Gajewski signs up for a canoe trip that she’s not ready for.
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