VIDEOS

Leave it to Beaver! Learing how to restore rivers from our furry river friends

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen's YouTube video "Face-Off With a Deadly Predator," an account of his scary encounter with a leopard seal in the Antarctic, has been downloaded more than a million times.

NAKED...Drifting in Antarctica takes the viewer to the coldest and most isolated continent on Earth, through the lens of Photographer Clare McClelland. Tania Rose's haunting soundtrack (DRIFT) sets the emotional platform as we enter this extraordinary world of stillness and might.

Time-lapse footage of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights. This is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.

Filmed during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base, where the sun is below the horizon for 4 months of the year. Most of the individual clips here were each taken over about a 10 minute period to give you an idea of how much they were moving in real time.

The specific music used is by Danny Elfman from the Black Beauty soundtrack, the track is called "Memories"... available at most music retailers.

Faint disturbances in the heart of Antarctic waters gives way to breathtaking images of Whales hunting Krill in this fantastic video from BBC natural history masterpiece, Planet Earth.

Conservationists and scientists are still learning new polar bear habits and are constantly surprised by their coping skills in a hostile arctic habitat.

Seals make multiple breathing holes in the Arctic ice to avoid attack by a polar bear when they need to resurface for air. Hunting is a waiting game for the majestic ice bear. Fish and other marine animals make the best meals.