[Photo: Juan Velasco]

The mayor of happy

And other tales about the emerging science of happiness from Bogota, Paris, Portland and around the world.

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Costa Rica's Big Cats

Two friends set out to confront--and save--the mysterious jaguars of Corcovado Park.

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Moving Mountains

Scientists discover that climate change is causing mountains to collapse in the remote St. Elias Mountains. Get ready to run.

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Heaven Can Wait
A leper prophet and his followers wait for miracles on a South Pacific island.
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Mr. Cool and friends

A coalition of government insiders, oil-patch geologists and PR pros are working to convince Canadians that global warming isn't happening.

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Driving Lessons
Everything you think you know about getting to work is wrong. Lon LaClaire has got some very big equations to prove it.
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The Blazer
A man, his axe and eighty kilometres of rainforest.
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High Tea in the Amazon
Sipping a brew that spawned three new religions.
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Fatal attraction
Lethal storms draw weather junkies to Canada's Pacific Coast.
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Return to the volcano
Searching Cuernavaca for the inspiration behind Malcolm Lowry's epic novel.
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Revolutionary Tourism
On the road with Mexico’s Zapatistas.
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City of Gold
A Canadian mining company makes the find of a lifetime--under a Peruvian town of 16,000.
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