Featured Episodes
Monica Gagliano
On plant intelligence and human imagination
J. Drew Lanham
On finding ourselves magnified in nature’s colored hues
Rebecca Giggs
On the world in the whale
Daniel Pauly
On why overfishing is a Ponzi scheme
Valérie Courtois
On indigenous-led land and wildlife stewardship
Gay Bradshaw
On Charlie Russell, grizzly bears, and discovering PTSD in animals
Sonia Shah
On how animal microbes become human pandemics
Ed Yong
On telling the grand and urgent stories of animal worlds
Ian Urbina
On lawlessness on the high seas
Amanda Hitt
On why the animal agriculture industry needs whistleblowers
Gene Baur
On changing hearts, minds, and laws about farm animals
Bathsheba Demuth
On capitalism, communism and Arctic ecology
Ferris Jabr
On reviving the Gaia Hypothesis
Irene Pepperberg
On revolutionizing what humans think of bird brains
Peter Godfrey-Smith
On what the octopus can teach us about consciousness
Charles Siebert
On translating nature’s symphony.
Fabrice Schnoller
On free-diving with sperm whales.
Lisa Margonelli
On the big ideas termites raise about science, technology and morality.
David Wolfson
On pioneering the field of farm animal law.
Gale Ridge
On bringing peace to humans’ befuddling relationships with bugs.
Thomas Seeley
On the lives of wild honey bees.
Christopher Quinn
On “Eating Animals” and the hidden costs of factory farming.
Natalie Kofler
On CRISPR and questioning the role humans should play in editing nature.
Nicholas Christakis
On the evolutionary origins of human and animal friendships.
Dale Jamieson
On love and meaning in the age of humans.
Rick McIntyre
On the stories of Yellowstone’s greatest wolves
Edie Widder
On the ocean’s spectacular light
Bernie Krause
On saving the music of the wild
Michelle Nijhuis
On the history of the wildlife conservation movement
Margaret Renkl
On finding wonder, grief and inspiration in backyard nature
Hugh Warwick
On hedgehog highways and how manmade lines impacts wild animals