The Nature of Things — Season 62

Jan 2023

North Atlantic right whales are on the brink of extinction. Follow the fight to save them.

Jan 202344m

Remarkable superpowers make rats the evolutionary heroes of the animal kingdom.

Jan 202344m

Is cannabis a medical cure-all or snake oil? Scientists distinguish the medicine from the myths.

Feb 202344m

How staff at a luxury hotel in Niagara Falls, NY helped ferry enslaved people to freedom.

Feb 202344m

New archaeological discoveries are challenging our understanding of when the first people arrived in North America, rewriting the human story.

Feb 202344m

Some scientists are proposing radical ways to cool our warming planet – but others say it’s time to restore nature on a global scale.

Feb 202344m

How have humans survived extreme environmental change in the past? And what will it take to survive what’s next?

Mar 202344m

Five orphaned grizzly bear cubs get a second chance at life in the wild, but can they survive without their mother? A groundbreaking study follows the bears to find out if rewilding works.

Mar 202344m

Broken genitals and cannibalism. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of how bugs get busy.

Mar 202344m

Thirty years after historic logging protests on Vancouver Island, the battle to protect old growth forests is still raging.

Mar 202344m

Step into the world of 'friendship detectives', who are unravelling the mysteries of social behaviours in humans and other animals.

Mar 202344m

Inside the secret and rhythmic world of one of nature’s best lumberjacks.

Apr 202344m

For 44 years, David Suzuki has taken us around the world to explore science, technology, and nature – and now for something completely different. End of series.