Lesson 701 – Father Kino and the Southwest In the late 1600s, the Spanish Crown sent Catholic missionaries to northwest Mexico to pacify Indians and make the way...
Lesson 702 – Brazil’s Pantanal: Wetlands and Wildlife In southwestern Brazil, the Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater swamp is home to a startling variety of wildlife, especially birds...
Lesson 703 – Pororoca: Brazil’s Famous Wave The Amazon is famous for being the world’s largest river, but less well known for the massive tidal bore, a...
Lesson 704 – Baracoa: Cuba’s Outpost on the Atlantic About 700 miles east of Havana, Cuba’s capital, sits the old town of Baracoa. Nearly cut off from the rest...
Lesson 705 – The Road from Oaxaca to Chiapas The states of Oaxaca and Chiapas in southern Mexico are culturally different from the rest of the country. We descend...
Lesson 706 – Dry Times in the Southwest: The New Realities Nowhere are the realities of climate change more sharply defined than in the American Southwest. Here rivers are drying, and...
Lesson 707 – The Blue Ridge Parkway: From Virginia to North Carolina Begun during the Great Depression as stimulus to the local economy, the 500 mile-long Blue Ridge Parkway is now part...
Lesson 708 – Galápagos: The Great Climatic Seesaw The Galápagos Islands are especially affected by climate changes. During El Niño years, the islands receive more rain and land...
Lesson 709 – Galápagos: Volcanoes and Nature on the Islands Volcanoes created the Galápagos Islands and made life possible there, and they continue to create and destroy. The islands force...
Lesson 710 – Havana: Cultural Treasure House of the Caribbean Havana, Cuba’s capital city is home to a prodigious wealth of colonial and nineteenth century architectural masterpieces. These are slowly...
