Harper’s Magazine contributor Suzannah Showler discusses the night sky, how light is polluting it and the effect that has on all animals, and the profound connection humans have to darkness.
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The next disaster is coming. Are you ready?
Juliette Kayyem, a lecturer at Harvard and faculty director of the Homeland Security Project and the Security and Global Health Project, discusses her approach to crisis management.
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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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Beyond batteries: What we need to store renewable energy
New Yorker contributing writer Matthew Hutson explains why there needs to be 100-times more storage for renewables by 2040, and why that goal is currently out of reach.
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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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The fossil fuel industry gaslit us about climate change
Dan Edge discusses his new Frontline documentary, which looks into what scientists, politicians, lobbyists and the public knew about climate change and how oil companies cast doubt on global warming to influence policy to their benefit.
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Corporations are people — what about animals?
Lawrence Wright examines human rights and how activists are fighting to extend them to animals, turning away from previous animal welfare models.
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Bugs are disappearing (and that’s not a good thing)
Oliver Milman considers the collapse of the insect world, how insects connect intrinsically to the human world, and why our planet will be in peril without them.
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The ugly history of fast fashion
Sofi Thanhauser of the Pratt Institute discusses her research into linen, cotton, silk, synthetics, and wool, how they shaped civilization and why, today, fashion has become a leading producer of pollution on the planet.
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Could we bring back mammoths?
Beth Shapiro, an associate professor of evolutionary biology, discusses cutting-edge DNA research and decisions about which animals might be brought back.
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Did humans evolve to need meat?
Roanne van Voorst is a futures-anthropologist, and she joins us to discuss her vision for a world not reliant on meat for food or clothing.
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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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