Even Jaipur's monkeys are affected by the global credit crunch. As money becomes tight for the human residents of Jaipur, free...

A holiday in paradise that takes a turn for the worse and ends in a foreign prison cell would be any traveler’s worst...

Fishing is a hard life, and harder with bluefin stocks depleted. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, there's a special breed of...

As National Geographic’s resident herpetologist, Dr Barr is the first person to ever capture and study all 23 species of...

Technology is all around us. From computers to cameras, cell phones to sat navs,  our dependence on technology has never been...

A family of demolition experts travels the world blowing down structures built to withstand time, gravity and natural...

Legends of the Ice World brings the northern polar cap to life by combining modern technology with traditional and beautiful...

Mysterious events, compelling figures and great unanswered questions from the past are explored.Mysterious events, compelling...

From toxic rainstorms to solar storms and winds that would send a lethal shock-wave like a nuclear blast around the planet,...

How many balloons could lift up a house? How high could a rocket reach that's made only from material bought at a hardware...

Philadelphia may be the city of brotherly love but, for some criminals, that sentiment doesn't extend to man's best friend.In...

Machine Gun unravels the history of the deadly rapid-fire weaponry favoured by both military and gangsters. We examine how 150...

Humanity may be losing half of its intellectual, social and spiritual legacy in a single generation, as the world loses a...

Britain's Greatest Machines: 1910sHost Chris Barrie kicks off proceedings with the 1910s - the decade that industrialised the...