Strict water restrictions come into force for millions of people in California as the US west coast continues to experience a crippling drought.

People are increasingly interested in seeing animals in natural settings, so traditional jail-like zoos are giving way to open-plan zoos, and to eco-tourism.

Barbary macaques are among the most popular tourist attractions in Gibraltar. The apes have a taste for junk food, which enables tourists to see them up close and allows scientists to easily capture them for research.

We leave the macaques in Gibraltar to travel to the Galapagos Islands to learn about marine and land iguanas.

The segment focuses on the alien striped iguanas of the Galapagos Islands, albinism in a variety of animals, and the peppered moth.

The last segment focuses on Australia. We visit the Warrawong Earth Sanctuary, where there are breeding programs to reintroduce such indigenous animals as bandicoots and quolls, creatures that came close to extinction.

The honey badger is described as the most fearless animal on the planet. Although barely a foot tall, they have a reputation for attacking just about anything—from venomous snakes to full-grown lions. And they are not exactly meant for captivity: Stoffel the honey badger escapes from his enclosure regularly using anything from balls of mud to a rake.

Justin Bieber shows BBC Radio 1 how he spends his free time at home.

The BBC looks at a new and innovative renewable energy invention, Kite Power Solutions. It is estimated that 30 kites could provide electricity for 75,000 homes.

New York-Berlin musician, songwriter, visual and multimedia artist Dana Schechter talks about what inspired her to become a musician.

There's been some bad news for the Great Barrier Reef, with experts declaring another mass bleaching—the fifth in just eight years. We find out what coral bleaching is and how it's impacting Australia's World Heritage-listed wonder.

Come listen as Bindni Karia, a woman working in film production in the Indian film industry in London, shares a bit about herself and the job she loves. Learn a bit about her hometown of Leicester, England, along with her love for London and the UK as a whole.

Many people living in cities yearn for a piece of nature in their life. Jean Barberis from Flux Factory and about a dozen artists are working together to create and maintain such a green refuge amidst skyscrapers.

By following honeyguides, a species of bird, people in Africa are able to locate bees’ nests to harvest honey. Research now reveals that humans use special calls to solicit the help of honeyguides and that honeyguides actively recruit appropriate human partners. This relationship is a rare example of cooperation between humans and free-living animals.

In the next 35 years, we’ll have to produce more food than all of the world’s production over the last 2000 years combined. So what will the farms of the future look like?