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13:50
Greg Asner
Ecology from the air
Posted
Nov 2013
13:59
Victoria Gill
What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology
Posted
Feb 2020
14:22
Kirsti Abbott
The ants that run the world
Posted
May 2019
4:43
Mike Gil
Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?
Posted
Jan 2018
13:44
Danae Wolfe
Why we need bugs
Posted
Jan 2019
19:26
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
Posted
Nov 2015
16:38
Charles Anderson
Dragonflies that fly across oceans
Posted
Dec 2009
17:08
Marcus Byrne
The dance of the dung beetle
Posted
Dec 2012
14:37
Martin Hanczyc
The line between life and not-life
Posted
Nov 2011
14:24
Paul Greenberg
The four fish we're overeating — and what to eat instead
Posted
Dec 2015
14:37
Francesco Sauro
Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science
Posted
Oct 2015
6:34
Jonathan Drori
Why we're storing billions of seeds
Posted
May 2009
8:27
David Gallo
Deep ocean mysteries and wonders
Posted
Mar 2012
11:56
Mary Ellen Hannibal
How you can help save the monarch butterfly — and the planet
Posted
Apr 2020
13:41
Mohamed Hijri
A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis
Posted
Oct 2013
14:11
Paul Hessburg
Why wildfires have gotten worse — and what we can do about it
Posted
Nov 2017
15:16
Tasso Azevedo
Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
Posted
Jan 2015
12:27
Latif Nasser
You have no idea where camels really come from
Posted
Mar 2016
16:51
Craig Venter
Sampling the ocean's DNA
Posted
Apr 2007
22:35
E.O. Wilson
My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life
Posted
Apr 2007
6:49
Jill Heinerth
The mysterious world of underwater caves
Posted
Jan 2016
15:10
George Monbiot
For more wonder, rewild the world
Posted
Sep 2013
20:42
Willie Smits
How to restore a rainforest
Posted
Mar 2009
16:14
Sara Seager
The search for planets beyond our solar system
Posted
May 2015
16:37
Penny Chisholm
The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet
Posted
Jul 2018
17:25
Michael Pollan
A plant's-eye view
Posted
Feb 2008
16:46
Simon Berrow
How do you save a shark you know nothing about?
Posted
Feb 2012
4:18
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
The secret language of trees
Posted
Jul 2019
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
Posted
Feb 2013
12:54
Noah Wilson-Rich
How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
Posted
Mar 2019
6:41
Munir Virani
Why I love vultures
Posted
Nov 2012
9:02
Daniel Pauly
The ocean's shifting baseline
Posted
Feb 2012
16:25
Emma Teeling
The secret of the bat genome
Posted
Oct 2012
15:49
Andrés Ruzo
The boiling river of the Amazon
Posted
Feb 2016
7:44
Al Gore
What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
Posted
May 2009
18:19
Suzanne Simard
How trees talk to each other
Posted
Jul 2016
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