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The Loneliest Whale review: A moving search for an elusive beast

30 March 2022

Film-maker Joshua Zeman searches for a singing whale that can’t be understood by its own kind, in a journey that says much say about the plight of the marine mammals

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Fire of Love review: An intimate account of life, death and lava

23 March 2022

A new documentary reveals the lives of Katia and Maurice Krafft, trail-blazing volcanologists who paid the ultimate price

Signs along River road on the Delta waters of the Sacramento River, Calif., as seen on Wednesday July 30, 2014., near Rio Vista, Calif. The Bay Institute, a well-regarded environmental group, has determined the the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to construct tunnels to send water south would cause two salmon species to die out and would

River's End review: Inside the battle for California's water

3 November 2021

When water is scarce, who decides how to divide up what's left? Documentary River's End shows that the winners and losers are all too predictable

Bakelite made the 20th century, but the plastic's legacy is sobering

30 June 2021

Bakelite was a breakthrough material when it was invented in 1907: industry loved it, and the public admired the stylish radios it made. But as a new documentary hints, it came at a cost

Fathom review: What happens when humans try to talk to whales

23 June 2021

Documentary Fathom on Apple TV+ tracks two biologists as they study how humpback whales talk to each other and try to get involved in the conversation

Plant Heist review: Succulent stealing is a big money game

21 April 2021

There is a mysterious black market for succulents poached from the California coast. A fascinating documentary follows the people trying to put an end to it

The Hunt for Planet B review: Tracking the James Webb Space Telescope

24 March 2021

With NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finally in sight, a new documentary charts its history and talks to leading scientists with a passion for the exoplanets and other worlds it may find