Joan Maloof is the founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network and she joins us to discuss the role old-growth forests play in the ecosystem and the different approaches that are being taken to saving them.
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Do animals talk to each other?
Professor and bioacoustics expert Nicholas Mathevon discusses how animals use sound to intimidate, mate, emote and more.
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The surprising musicality of animals
New Yorker staff writer Burkhard Bilger joins us to discuss his profile of neuroscientist and musician David Sulzer, who is trying to define what music is and how studying animals’ connection to music is helping in that pursuit.
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When was the last time you touched nature?
Nikita Arora talks about how long walks touching the moss growing at her feet reconnected her with her sense of being, and how touch can be used as a way of connection – and sometimes oppression.
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Saving America’s wildlife will take more than national parks
Journalist Emma Marris talks about how preserving nature requires businesses and conservationists to better understand one another’s needs.
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Beyond the hive mind, bees are smarter than you might think
Professor Lars Chittka discusses the sentience of bees – from their ability to learn to having an emotional life – and the moral obligation we have to help them survive.
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How animals perceive reality
Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer on staff at The Atlantic, discusses what seems like animal magic powers – from magnetic fields and sonar to complex vision and heightened smell.
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From crickets to whales, the sounds of a healthy planet
David George Haskell explains sonic diversity and its importance to human and animal life – and how we are silencing those critical noises around us.
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Nature Is Our Nurturer
Lucy Jones joins us to talk about her story of overcoming addiction by forming a deep connection with the beauty of nature, and the biological reasons humans need to be outside.
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Plants have much to teach us
Beronda L. Montgomery joins us to discuss what plants “know,” how they overcome obstacles, and what we humans can learn from them.
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She fled money for the riches of the nature
Gloria Liu joins us to talk about how she’s not alone in choosing to live close to nature without many creature comforts – and about realizing that money can be both a path to freedom and a trap.
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Nature’s Most Elusive Color Might Surprise You
Kai Kupferschmidt, contributing correspondent for Science magazine, joins us to discuss why we so often overlook the rarity of the color blue and his trek around the globe to better understand it.
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