The Nature of Things

January 6, 2023

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

January 13, 2023

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

January 20, 2023

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

February 3, 2023

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

February 10, 2023

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

February 17, 2023

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

February 24, 2023

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

March 3, 2023

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.

March 10, 2023

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

March 17, 2023

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

March 24, 2023

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

March 31, 2023

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

April 7, 2023

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.