HHMI TANGLED BANK STUDIOS WINS 4th KAVLI SCIENCE JOURNALISM AWARD
November 9, 2023 (Chevy Chase, MD) - HHMI Tangled Bank Studios’ Wild Hope series won the 2023 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award for In-Depth Reporting, which recognizes distinguished science reporting for a general audience.
Blue Carbon
Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated DJ and marine biologist, Jayda Guy, accompanied by a score from the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and featuring Seu Jorge, Blue Carbon is an environmental feature documentary that brings together music and science to uncover what could be our greatest weapon in the fight against climate change.
Flyways
Shorebirds fly thousands of miles each year along ancient and largely unknown migratory routes called Flyways. More than 200 species, such as Far Eastern Curlews, Lesser Yellowlegs, Red Knots and Hudsonian Godwits, travel from feeding grounds in the southern hemisphere to breeding grounds in the Arctic and back again, flying up to nine days non-stop without food or water.
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Two decades ago, Eske Willerslev had a radical idea: Could DNA, the fragile chemical code of life, survive intact in frozen sediment for millennia? Fellow scientists called him crazy, but the Danish biologist set out to prove everybody wrong, and his perseverance paid off. After years of failure, Willerslev and his team recovered the genetic traces of a lush forest ecosystem from before the ice age, more than two million years ago.
Every Little Thing
Amid the glamor of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
Wilding, this fascinating documentary, narrated by Isabella Tree herself, traces the story of rewilding the ecosystem at the estate at Knepp in Sussex, in the south of England.
Tree and Burrell's extraordinary project will give hope to anyone concerned about the challenges the earth faces after centuries of industrial farming.
“Some of the filming was a rival to Attenborough! A bird swooping on a dragonfly. An owl savouring a worm. And, most extraordinary of all pigs diving for mussels.”