Meet The Real Tree Huggers

July 23, 2020 Environment, Global Issues

Science reporter Zach St. George joins us to talk about ecological efforts to protect woodlands and his hikes with experts to understand the path we’re on.

Grow A Garden, Tend Your Mind

July 21, 2020 Environment, Health

Psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith joins us to talk about the therapeutic qualities of horticulture.

Beyond Cattle: How Giraffes And Giant Antelopes Came To Texas

July 7, 2020 Environment

Asher Elbein joins us to talk about what happens when a nilgai meets the cow – and how these nonnative animals are affecting the landscape.

The Inner Lives Of Butterflies

July 2, 2020 Environment, Science and Technology

Journalist Wendy Williams joins us to talk about the colorful, weird and beautiful ways butterflies survive — and how they help humans live.

Building Cities That Climate Change Won’t Wash Away

June 30, 2020 Environment, Science and Technology

Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice covering science, medicine, health, drugs, and climate, talks to us about the hidden things that make a city run smoothly and why it’s not ready to face the reality of climate change.

Rethinking Our Relationship With The Natural World

May 1, 2020 Environment, Global Issues

This hour, we’ll talk about how people’s relationship to the natural world has evolved over time.

The Adolescence of Animals

April 23, 2020 Culture, Environment, Science and Technology

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, visiting professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, joins us to talk about how all animals — humans included — transition into adulthood.