For some Colombian cyclists from humble backgrounds, cycling has been a manner for them to travel the world and better themselves.

The people of the Chapare region are harassed by military coca-eradication patrols that not only destroy their crops of coca but also frequently injure, insult, and even commit atrocities. But the will of the people and the culture fight on.

Conservationists in Gorgona Natural National Park monitor endangered sea turtles, capturing them at night and marking them before releasing them back into the wild.

A seasoned fisherman tells us about some tricks of his trade as well as what it is like to practice it in a protected area such as Tayrona Natural National Park.

Want to know what you didn’t know before? Here’s the first in our series of what you didn’t know about… electronic art. We talk to a veteran electronic artist who’s been playing around with computers since the old Commodore and Amiga machines connected to TV sets. He’s linking and looping, moving from one networked idea to the next. See if you can follow his rapid-fire monologue about his digital works.

Meet the volunteers of Faithful Friend Patrol, a dog rescue organization in Otavalo, Ecuador.

Yimi, a tour guide in training in the Colombian Pacific, gives us an up-close and personal look at the area's humpback whales, also known as the yubarta.

Meet Paulino from Paraíso in the Dominican Republic, who gives an inside look into the homes, food, education and lifestyle of his community's locals.

Our tour guide takes us on a search for blue anoles, a highly endangered species of lizard found only on Gorgona Island.

Welcome to Colombia's Gorgona Island, where more than fifteen species of snakes reside. Luckily, only four of them are poisonous.

This politically charged tune, rife with language that will get you sent to the principal’s office on at least three continents, won the Latin Grammy award for best video in 2003. Note that native speakers instantly recognize that much of the Spanish is sung in an exaggerated “gringo” accent, so you may not want to imitate it!!

Crew members of Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior III, from Spain and Argentina tell us a bit about their duties and give us a tour of some areas of the ship where they are performed.

Sub30 continues with Jimmy, who tells us about some of the challenges and rewards of being a single parent.

Part four of this seven-part series about Colombia's Tayrona National Park explains a bit about the importance of its coral reefs and how they are studied.

María Cecilia continues her exploration of Tayrona Park, embarking upon her first scuba dive to explore its underwater ecosystem.

In part two of this seven part series about Colombia’s Tayrona Park, María Cecilia Sánchez escapes her frenetic city life to explore this natural national park from the standpoint of nature conservation, enlisting the help of field expert, José Castro, who explains geographic, historical and touristic aspects of the park's terrestrial ecosystem.

After a dramatic, illegal entrance into a Colombian world heritage site, the Tayrona Natural National Park, our hostess explains the reasons why this is damaging to the park's ecosystems as well as giving us an introduction to the many adventures that await us in future episodes of this seven-part series.

Martin, Eduardo and Karla travel around Chubut province in Argentina, learning about and filming each area’s fauna. Here, they are on the Valdes Peninsula to learn about this precious protected area. The Patagonian peninsula is a breeding ground for elephant seals and penguins. It’s like a big maternity ward each spring!

Political campaigns are tough (and they can get even tougher after the voting). In this video documenting Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidential race, we learn some of the tricks of the trade in Mexico.

The effort to de-mine Central America is truly an international one, with assistance coming from the U.S., Germany, Spain, France, England, Japan, Canada and Sweden (who’s ambassador is featured here, speaking eloquent Spanish). Also we hear from soldiers on the pleasure of serving a mission of peace, as opposed to one of war.

Not only does our filmmaker continue with his diatribe against the state of society as he finds it in Nicaragua, but the story takes an investigative turn. We find that not only doesn’t sponsored-child Christina del Carmen match the photo that had been supplied by Ayuda en Acción, she is also not yet enrolled in a school.

In this installment of the dispute documentary we hear Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata quoted over a protester’s loudspeaker. As Zapata said: “¡Victoria o muerte!” (“Victory or death!”). To protest the taking of their farmland, the people of Atenco are using stronger and stronger language. Listen in.

You know what a calavera is, no? If you see one, especially on a sign in a former war zone, be very, very careful. Soldiers from Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the U.S. came together to reduce the need for these signs in Central America… reclaiming fields filled with anti-personnel mines so that farmers can return to using them for crops.

Imagine the horror of stepping on a landmine while gardening. This is what happened to farmers José Moncada and Reinaldo Herrera. Through great courage they survive to testify of the enduring evils that are minas antipersonales.