In a world often shrouded in shadows, where brutal realities dominate our screens, there are moments that pierce through the darkness. Moments that remind us of the extraordinary power of human ...

Until this year, nature documentaries generally found their homes at PBS and Animal Planet, enjoying modest audiences made up of children and scientists. Then came March of the Penguins, which earned ...

Perhaps nowhere on Earth like Antarctica tests the old wisdom of there being no bad weather, only bad clothes. For cinematographer Bertie Gregory and the National Geographic team that embedded around ...

To reproduce, emperor penguins of Antarctica must march across miles of ice. Now the tuxedoed, utterly dedicated parents have become the stars of a hot documentary. Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins ...

Alexander Abad-Santos is a former writer for The Wire.

Hundreds of emperor penguin chicks have lost their way and halted at the edge of a cliff on an ice shelf (a mass of ice floating on the sea) in Antarctica. These are young penguins around six months ...