The White House offers billions to help build America’s first new nuclear power plant in more than three decades — and revive the industry. We’ll look at the pro’s, the con’s, and the politics.

We’ll get up close with the largest, loudest, longest-lived animals on earth with Philip Hoare, author of “The Whale.”

We’ll look at the “rewilding” movement – bringing back the wild – from the Rockies to Costa Rica to Nepal.

Back home from Copenhagen, with a deal that satisfies no one. We’ll talk with those who were there about what happens next.

Deal-making, or no deal-making, in Copenhagen — with hard negotiations by rich, poor, and in between. We dig into the showdown.

While Copenhagen talks carbon, the energy world is buzzing with talk of natural gas trapped in shale. We’ll look at what’s in the shale — and the cost of extraction.

As the Copenhagen climate summit opens, we’ll look at the battle over public opinion and stolen e-mails in the climate debate.

Can California’s new energy economy — green economy — save the Golden State? The nation? We’ll go to California to ask the questions.

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial changed how we remember war. We’ll talk with her about her latest and, she says, last public memorial — a monument to vanishing species.

In today’s first hour, Whole Earth guru Stewart Brand and energy expert Amory Lovins debated whether the U.S. should build more nuclear power plants in the effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Whole Earth Catalog guru Stewart Brand now says we need nuclear energy and genetically modified food. We’ll ask him if he’s selling out, or getting real.

Will China be the world’s clean-energy superpower? We’ll look at “Green China,” and whether the U.S. is losing the clean-tech race.

America’s super-hot electric car from Tesla Motors. We’ll talk with Tesla CEO, Elon Musk.

Actress, filmmaker, and model Isabella Rossellini on her new sex-in-nature project, “Green Porno,” and a life in front of the camera.

No cars. No waste. No gas or oil. We go to Abu Dhabi, where plans are underway to build the world’s first carbon-neutral city.

Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world’s coldest places.

“Icky” creatures. The joys of vultures, jellyfish, slugs and more, with gardener- journalist Constance Casey.

Scientists report that widely used chemicals — endocrine disruptors — are causing serious health problems in humans. We ask what the government is, and is not, doing about it.

Author Rick Bass walks us through the changing seasons of the Montana wilderness, in his new book, “The Wild Marsh.”