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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The underground world of carnivorous plant smuggling
Wired contributor Brian Howey talks about the bug-eating nepenthes family of plants, the growers who can build their whole worlds around collecting these specimens, and how they sometimes run afoul of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Dying insects and migrating trees: our planet in peril
Of all the species on Earth, humans have easily had the biggest impact. We’ll look at how our actions have affected everything from the bug population to the plants and trees many animals call home.
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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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Artificial Solutions To Preserve The Natural World
New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert joins us to talk about how scientists are looking to address climate change by studying the ways plants and animals have already adapted to live alongside humans.
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