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How does our country’s diverse landscape shape our experience of the outdoors? That’s the central question behind the new PBS digital series, America Outdoors: Understory. Join host, Baratunde Thurston, as he explores the unexpected places and ways Americans encounter nature, and how their time outside is impacted by climate change, equity, access, outdoor culture and more.

Discover the science behind this summer’s historic and devasting floods in Vermont.
Discover how bacteria could be the key to stopping mosquito-borne illnesses.
What happens when you remove dams that changed the Klamath River a hundred years ago?
Major support is provided by Anne Ray Foundation, a Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy and the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Support is also provided by John and Ruth Huss, Susan and Thomas McCarthy, Linda Willette and Jan Willette, and Mildred McLean and Daniel Waugh.
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In a state with long and icy winters, Mainers embrace the cold.
Discover the healing power of nature in Utah.
Discover Oregon’s wild landscapes and how they shape its outdoor culture.
Baratunde explores how New Mexico’s deep history shapes people’s outdoor lives.
Arkansas is on a mission to earn recognition as a wild mecca.
Baratunde journeys down one of the last wild rivers in America, the Suwannee.
Baratunde travels to northern Minnesota to find out what the wild means to Americans today
On the North Carolina coast, Baratunde discovers how history shapes the outdoors.
In Appalachia, Baratunde meets the people changing how we see and interact with nature.
Baratunde explores his adopted hometown of LA to connect with the outdoors in a big city.
Extras
Who is the mysterious woman at the funeral for Alison Wilson's husband?
Understanding eating disorders and anxiety through the eyes of teens and their families.
Barbara Jordan’s voice shook the nation. Discover her story in The Inquisitor.
Librarians across the U.S. examine how the review of library materials is impacting communities.
A professor seeks to prove Arthurian legends have roots in actual British history.
Experts search for evidence that female gladiators once existed in Ancient Rome.
Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night.
Elie Wiesel reunited with his sister in France.
Elie Wiesel vowed to always speak up whenever people were enduring suffering and humiliation.
Before meeting his wife Marion, Elie Wiesel "shunned love" and didn't see himself having children.