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Let’s Get Serious About the Anthropocene

Historian Iain McCalman’s Dangerous Idea? The Anthropocene — the idea that humans have fundamentally changed our global climate. It’s scary, but we’re also seeing people come together in unprecedented...

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How Bad Can Climate Change Really Get?

There’s a lot of scientific debate about the future of climate change. But have you ever considered the worst case scenario? David Wallace-Wells gives us one terrifying glimpse into the future.

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What If Your Best Friend Is A Wolf?

Legendary wolf biologist Rick McIntyre took a moment from his own wolf watching to explain the relationship between humans and wolves.

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How Coyotes Won The War We've Waged On Them

Unlike their canine relatives, coyotes have thrived in the U.S. Despite having been hunted just as intensely as wolves, coyotes have survived.  Somehow, coyotes just spread, everywhere. Dan Flores told...

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Rediscovering Henry David Thoreau

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.” Those famous lines from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” have inspired generations of people,...

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The Audacity of the World's Most Daring Climber

Alex Honnold stunned the world by climbing El Capitan without a rope. So how did he do it? And why take such a chance?

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Hanging Out On Top of Cliffs Is My Happy Place

Tommy Caldwell’s ascent of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall was the hardest rock climb in history. But it wasn’t his hardest ordeal.

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Alex Honnold’s Most Dangerous Adventure

He may have already conquered El Capitan, but Alex Honnold can dream up far more daring and dangerous adventures.

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Do Chimpanzees Have Spiritual Experiences?

African chimps store caches of big rocks to throw at certain trees. And some scientists wonder, are these sacred trees?

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How Animals Sound in Winter

Ok, some knowledge about animals surviving winter is good. But this is radio. How do animals SOUND in winter? For that we turn to Douglas Quin. He’s an award-winning sound designer and composer., and...

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Rediscovering Alexander Von Humboldt, The Largely Forgotten Father Of...

Before John Muir - even before Charles Darwin - there was Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist who shaped our modern understanding of nature. Today, he’s largely forgotten, but Humboldt was...

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How Animals Sound in Winter

Ok, some knowledge about animals surviving winter is good. But this is radio. How do animals SOUND in winter? For that we turn to Douglas Quin. He’s an award-winning sound designer and composer., and...

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Ingenuity of Animals in Winter

Depending on where you live, winter can be tough to get through.  It’s cold, it gets dark early, the weather’s messy.  Naturalist Bernd Heinrich shares some amazing stories about the ingeniuous ways...

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Rediscovering Alexander Von Humboldt, The Largely Forgotten Father Of...

Before John Muir - even before Charles Darwin - there was Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist who shaped our modern understanding of nature. Today, he’s largely forgotten, but Humboldt was...

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The Reindeer People

Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia.  They depend on the reindeer for their survival.  They keep herds of them for meat -  but their connection goes...

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Ingenuity of Animals in Winter

Depending on where you live, winter can be tough to get through.  It’s cold, it gets dark early, the weather’s messy.  Naturalist Bernd Heinrich shares some amazing stories about the ingeniuous ways...

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How Animals Sound in Winter

Ok, some knowledge about animals surviving winter is good. But this is radio. How do animals SOUND in winter? For that we turn to Douglas Quin. He’s an award-winning sound designer and composer., and...

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Women Hunting

Writer Kim Hiss discovered her own symbiotic relationship with animals in winter.  She was working as an editor for Field and Stream Magazine and it was her first hunt. 

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The Reindeer People

Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who studies the Eveny or Reindeer People of Siberia.  They depend on the reindeer for their survival.  They keep herds of them for meat -  but their connection goes...

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Rediscovering Alexander Von Humboldt, The Largely Forgotten Father Of...

Before John Muir - even before Charles Darwin - there was Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist who shaped our modern understanding of nature. Today, he’s largely forgotten, but Humboldt was...

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