The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

Documentary

Seasons

1. Why Is It So?

Air Date: 1960-11-06

2. The Roar of the Crowd

Air Date: 1960-11-13

Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, with Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. Herbert Jasper

3. The Future of Science

Air Date: 1960-11-20

Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists

4. Schizophrenia

Air Date: 1960-11-27

5. Engineering

Air Date: 1960-12-04

6. Man as an Environment

Air Date: 1960-12-11

7. Science Fiction

Air Date: 1960-12-18

8. A special Christmas edition

Air Date: 1960-12-25

9. The Aurora-Borealis

Air Date: 1961-01-01

10. Man as an Environment – Human Body

Air Date: 1961-01-08

11. Kept Alive

Air Date: 1961-01-15

12. Physics and Games – Laws of Probability

Air Date: 1961-01-22

13. The Face of the Moon

Air Date: 1961-01-29

14. Hibernation

Air Date: 1961-02-05

15. Man and His Environment

Air Date: 1961-02-12

16. Eclipse

Air Date: 1961-02-19

17. Animal Communication

Air Date: 1961-02-26

18. The Speed of Light

Air Date: 1961-03-05

19. Monotony

Air Date: 1961-03-12

Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind

20. The Chemical Senses

Air Date: 1961-03-19

21. The Mohole: Earth's Crust

Air Date: 1961-04-02

22. Laws of Conservation

Air Date: 1961-04-16

23. Photosynthesis

Air Date: 1961-04-23

24. Physics of Clouds

Air Date: 1961-04-30

25. The Sources of Science

Air Date: 1961-05-07

1. Looking Ahead

Air Date: 1962-01-04

2. Photography in Science

Air Date: 1962-01-11

3. To Educate a Scientist

Air Date: 1962-01-18

4. The Situation Is Fluid

Air Date: 1962-01-25

5. Gallstones

Air Date: 1962-02-01

6. The Upper Mantle Project

Air Date: 1962-02-08

7. The Physics of Music

Air Date: 1962-02-22

8. Survival

Air Date: 1962-03-01

An appraisal of the probable effects of a large-scale nuclear blast over a North American city. Dr. Tom Stonier of the Rockefeller Institute of Government discusses what can be expected to happen to people and property as a result of such a blast.

9. Man and the Moon

Air Date: 1962-03-08

10. Hibernating Molecules

Air Date: 1962-03-15

Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume talk about conditions at extremely cold temperatures, when matter 'hibernates' and molecular action slows almost to a complete stop, and how this allows physicists to study the basic structure of matter.

11. Monkey Curiosity

Air Date: 1962-03-29

12. Spermatozoa

Air Date: 1962-04-05

Lord Rothschild of the University of Cambridge describes the results of his research in the field of spermatozoa

13. Animals With Feathers

Air Date: 1962-04-12

Dr. William Swinton, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Life Sciences Department, and John Livingston, executive director of the National Audubon Society, trace the history of birds

14. Getting the Upper Hand

Air Date: 1962-04-26

15. Thinking about Math

Air Date: 1962-05-03

Host Lister Sinclair discusses the thinking that goes into the science of mathematics. Using animated film and studio demonstrations, he explains Mathematical logic

16. The Plague

Air Date: 1962-05-10

17. Instant Heat

Air Date: 1962-05-17

Co-hosted by Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey, of the University of Toronto. They show how electricity can be produced directly from heat, and vice versa, and discuss the difficulties of transforming thermal energy into electrical energy.

18. A Science Newsreel

Air Date: 1962-05-24

19. Learning

Air Date: 1962-06-07

20. A Bang-Up Job

Air Date: 1962-06-21

21. Out of Africa

Air Date: 1962-06-28

22. Count on Me

Air Date: 1962-07-05

Computers are given the once-over by Drs. Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.

23. Blood in the Balance

Air Date: 1962-07-19

24. Episode 24

Air Date: 1962-07-26

Examines work of Dr. William Sheldon, who has spent 30 years gathering statistics about the human physique, classifying body types, and correlating this information to medical and psychiatric studies

1. Episode 1

Air Date: 1963-01-06

Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items.

2. Brainwashing

Air Date: 1963-01-13

British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind.

3. Tubes To Transistors

Air Date: 1963-01-20

Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor.

4. From Water To Land

Air Date: 1963-01-27

Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.

5. Chemistry Of Salt

Air Date: 1963-02-03

Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial applications of salt and its components.

6. Ear Operation

Air Date: 1963-02-10

Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist.

7. The Way The Ball Bounces

Air Date: 1963-02-17

Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball.

8. Lie Detectors

Air Date: 1963-02-24

This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.

9. Smoking And Lung Cancer

Air Date: 1963-03-03

In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America.

10. Science Museum

Air Date: 1963-03-10

To commemorate the Canadian Centennial in 1967 it has been proposed that Canada build a national museum of science. The program includes filmed demonstrations of how science and technology can be made meaningful to the general public.

11. Tornadoes

Air Date: 1963-03-24

12. The Descent of Man

Air Date: 1963-03-31

Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist, unearthed fossil remains in the Olduvai Gorge that have extended the time scale of human evolution from 500,000 to two million years or more. A deductive story in anthropology and paleontology is told as Dr. Leakey describes his finds and interprets their significance

13. Isaac Newton

Air Date: 1963-04-07

Series consultant Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Sir Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture the spirit of the time through the words of Newton himself and those of his contemporaries

14. New Atoms For Old

Air Date: 1963-04-14

15. Car Crashes

Air Date: 1963-04-21

What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash?

16. Bird Migration

Air Date: 1963-05-05

17. Fact & Fiction

Air Date: 1963-05-12

Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis.

18. Code of Life

Air Date: 1963-05-19

Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity.

19. The Chemistry Of Bread

Air Date: 1963-05-26

Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in baking of one loaf of bread

20. The Infra-Red

Air Date: 1963-06-02

Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.

21. Human Overpopulation

Air Date: 1963-06-09

In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about future food supply.

22. Mars

Air Date: 1963-06-16

23. Spiders

Air Date: 1963-06-23

24. Hypnosis

Air Date: 1963-06-30

1. Einstein, Man & Mathematician

Air Date: 1964-05-05

An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.

2. About The Size Of It

Air Date: 1964-05-12

Scientist and broadcaster William Whitehead and Dr WE Swinton, Director of Royal Ontario Museum discuss how size differences in animal kingdom are result of their environment and their habits.

3. Standards For Comparison

Air Date: 1964-05-19

Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.

4. Excursion Into Hell

Air Date: 1964-05-26

Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.

5. Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease

Air Date: 1964-06-02

This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.

6. Science In Sports

Air Date: 1964-06-09

Host Lister Sinclair and guest Lloyd Percival, sports authority, discuss and demonstrate how various sporting activities can now be precisely measured and how they can thus be improved.

7. Lasers

Air Date: 1964-06-30

Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey explain recent developments of laser beam since 1960, how it works, and its potential uses in medicine, war and communications.

8. Blood, Sea And Tears

Air Date: 1964-07-07

Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.

9. Cartography

Air Date: 1964-07-14

Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.

10. The World Of Water

Air Date: 1964-07-21

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.

11. Immunology

Air Date: 1964-07-28

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.

1. "Good and Evil"

Air Date: 1965-01-03

2. "Viruses"

Air Date: 1965-01-10

3. "Survival"

Air Date: 1965-01-17

The problem of survival in extreme climatic conditions is examined by Dr. William Whitehead.

4. Eureka

Air Date: 1965-01-24

Discussion and demonstration of "accidental" scientific discoveries.[37]

5. Flight

Air Date: 1965-01-31

Lister Sinclair looks at the artificial flight techniques of man and some of the principles of flying used by other species.

6. "The Quaking Earth"

Air Date: 1965-02-07

7. Pain

Air Date: 1965-02-21

8. "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics"

Air Date: 1965-02-28

Professors Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey dispute Mark Twain's claim that: "There are lies, damn lies and statistics"; or in other words, "you can prove anything with statistics."

9. Photography

Air Date: 1965-03-14

Dr. Walter Clark of the Eastman-Kodak Research Laboratory, and host Lester Sinclair explain what happens after you push the button of your camera.

10. "Bird Strikes on Aircraft"

Air Date: 1965-03-21

At one time, collisions between aircraft and birds usually hurt only the birds. Now, with aircraft flying at supersonic speeds, the impact of collisions is greater. And birds ingested into the engines have caused a number of crashes. The Nature of Things looks at what is being done to eliminate bird strikes on aircraft.

11. "The Pacemakers"

Air Date: 1965-03-28

For the first time ever on television, part of the remarkable "pacemaker" heart operation is shown being performed at the Toronto General Hospital.

1. Animals And Man

Air Date: 1965-10-03

A series studying animal kingdom, and man's place in it, through comparisons of anatomy, function, and behavior.

2. Animals On Land

Air Date: 1965-10-10

How animals get from place to place, including burrowing, crawling, climbing trees, running,.

3. Animals In The Water

Air Date: 1965-10-17

"Animals In The Water" studies fish, crocodiles, seals and whales.

4. Animal Adaptation

Air Date: 1965-10-24

A look at how animals have developed special means of coping with environments - long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

5. Animal Adaptation

Air Date: 1965-10-31

A look at process of natural selection by which animals have developed special means of coping with their environments: long neck of giraffe, coat of polar bear.

6. Animals And Food

Air Date: 1965-11-07

How animals locate, obtain, process and eat food using "anatomical tools": beaks, claws etc.

7. Animals As Engineers

Air Date: 1965-11-14

Animals modify their environments in many ways: by building nests, damming streams.

8. Animals As Engineers

Air Date: 1965-11-21

Program shows how animals modify their environments in many ways; by building nests.

9. Animal Hands And Tools

Air Date: 1965-11-28

Man is known as "toolmaker", although certain other animals do use tools.

10. Animal Vision And Smell

Air Date: 1965-12-05

Different combinations of senses are dominant in activities of different animals: vision and smell in insects, smell and hearing in most mammals, vision and touch in higher primates.

11. Animal Territory And Aggression

Air Date: 1965-12-12

A look at various ways animals and man defend their homes and their young.

12. Animal Social Behavior

Air Date: 1965-12-19

13. Episode 13

Air Date: 1965-12-26

14. Animal Learning

Air Date: 1966-01-02

How much of animal behavior is inherent, and how much is learned?

15. Episode 15

Air Date: 1966-01-09

16. Episode 16

Air Date: 1966-01-16

17. Man And Animals

Air Date: 1966-01-23

Man, animal species, as he might be described by an objective zoologist from another planet: what is he.

1. The Sun

Air Date: 1966-06-20

An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.

2. Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge

Air Date: 1966-06-27

The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.

3. Air And Water Pollution

Air Date: 1966-07-04

This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are poured into air and water than these elements have capacity to deal with.

4. The Battle Against Biting Insects

Air Date: 1966-07-11

An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.

5. Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made

Air Date: 1966-07-18

This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.

6. The Physics Of Sailing

Air Date: 1966-07-25

The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific efforts to understand why sailing ships do what they do.

7. Epidemics

Air Date: 1966-08-01

Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.

8. Summer Storms

Air Date: 1966-08-08

A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.

9. Fishing And The Splake

Air Date: 1966-08-15

Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.

10. The Value Of Our Parks

Air Date: 1966-08-22

This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.

11. Forest And Fires

Air Date: 1966-08-29

This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.

12. Water On The Level

Air Date: 1966-09-05

There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.

13. Galapagos: Darwin

Air Date: 1966-09-04

First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.

14. Galapagos: The Islands

Air Date: 1966-09-11

A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.

15. Galapagos: New Beings

Air Date: 1966-09-18

An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding group of a plant or animal species can give rise to a number of new species

16. Galapagos: Ways Of Survival

Air Date: 1966-09-25

Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.

17. Galapagos: Living Laboratory

Air Date: 1966-10-02

This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.

1. Canadian Wildlife: Retreat to the Rockies

Air Date: 1967-05-11

"Retreat to the Rockies" with an especial look at bighorn sheep.

2. Canadian Wildlife: A Celebration of Swans

Air Date: 1967-05-18

A study of the rare and beautiful trumpeter swan, which was nearly extinct but has now returned to a reasonably healthy population of about 2,000 through efforts of federal and provincial conservation agencies.

3. Canadian Wildlife: Arctic Summer

Air Date: 1967-05-25

The authentic sights and sounds of wildlife activity in the Arctic during the summer. Animals seen include polar bears and seals.

4. Canadian Wildlife: Wild Alberta

Air Date: 1967-06-01

Wildlife in Alberta is the subject of tonight's episode. John Livingston narrates this final program in the special, four-part Centennial series about Canadian wildlife.

1. Thomas Edison

Air Date: 1968-09-26

Thomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.

2. Human Engineering

Air Date: 1968-10-03

3. Materials

Air Date: 1968-10-10

A review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.

4. Structure

Air Date: 1968-11-07

Defying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.

5. Communications

Air Date: 1968-11-14

Much of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.

6. Canals And Tunnels

Air Date: 1968-11-21

The great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, and sometimes lives.

7. Central Power

Air Date: 1968-11-28

One test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.

8. Man And Machines

Air Date: 1968-12-05

The Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.

9. Land And Water

Air Date: 1968-12-12

This program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.

10. Man Aloft

Air Date: 1968-12-19

This film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.

11. Portable Power

Air Date: 1968-12-26

Man's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.

12. Machines And Man: Transportation

Air Date: 1969-01-02

Are problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.

13. Machine And Man: Systems Engineering

Air Date: 1969-01-09

A system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.

14. Audubon

Air Date: 1969-03-18

A study of life and work of Jean Jacques Audubon, great painter-naturalist who captured beauty of American wildlife on canvas.

1. Up Close and Personal: The Ecology of David Suzuki

Air Date: 1998-10-08

The program is about the natural history of this invisible world: the things that float in the air around us, the microbes that live in the dish cloth on the kitchen counter, the fungi under our fingernails, and the visitors in the saucer under a house plant.

2. Reefer Madness 2

Air Date: 1998-10-15

There is a growing number of people who regard marijuana (cannabis) as a benign medicine, offering relief to people suffering from a variety of illnesses, including epilepsy, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma as well as lessening the side effects of medications and treatments given to cancer and HIV patients. CBC Television's THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki examines the medicinal uses of marijuana.

3. Grasslands

Air Date: 1998-11-05

4. Good Wood

Air Date: 1998-11-26

5. Look Who's Talking...How Animals Communicate

Air Date: 1998-12-03

It is only recently that humans have become aware that animal communication is often elegant, elaborate and subtle. Understanding how other species communicate tells us a great deal about the history and evolution of our species.

1. Phallacies

Air Date: 1999-10-04

2. How to Live to 100

Air Date: 1999-10-11

3. The Hidden Killer: Portrait of an Epidemic

Air Date: 1999-10-18

4. Parkinson's: Lynda's Story

Air Date: 1999-10-25

5. Lost

Air Date: 1999-11-08

We've all felt the terror of being lost - even for just a few moments. We lose our way; a child unexpectedly vanishes in the aisles of a supermarket.

6. Designing for Dignity: Engineering Body Parts

Air Date: 1999-11-22

7. Race for the Future

Air Date: 1999-11-29

8. Race for the Future, Part 2

Air Date: 1999-12-06

9. The Sleep Famine

Air Date: 2000-01-24

10. Do Parents Matter?

Air Date: 2000-02-07

How much are children influenced by their peers? The documentary Do Parents Matter? examines a controversial concept put forth by Judy Harris, a suburban grandmother and author of the explosive book, The Nurture Assumption.

11. Silent Sentinels

Air Date: 2000-02-21

12. Wild Goose Chase

Air Date: 2000-02-28

13. Humans: Who are We, Part 1 – The Birth of The Human Mind

Air Date: 2000-03-13

The Birth of The Human Mind takes viewers on an amazing journey back in time, exploring the use of language, tools and how our distant ancestors came to walk. Contrary to long-accepted belief, scientists now believe that Homo sapiens did not evolve from Neanderthals, but shared the earth with them for thousands of years. Our ancestors, the Homo sapiens, are the youngest members on the human family tree, about 150,000 years old. Homo erectus goes back 1.8 million years and Neanderthals about 200,000 years.

14. Humans: Who Are We?, Part 2 – The Human Invasion

Air Date: 2000-03-20

Paleoanthropologists, linguists, archeologists and other scientists offer the latest interpretations of fossil findings and genetic studies and posit intriguing theories on how Homo sapiens became the only existing human species. Did we kill off our cousins, interbreed and merge with them, or did they just die out? It took five million years for an upright ape to evolve into an agile, quick-thinking and inventive human being. But once our ancestors emerged in Africa, were we destined to dominate the globe?

15. Weather: Dragons of Chaos

Air Date: 2000-03-27

The nature of weather is so complex that it is really a system of chaos. Weather is often benign, but occasionally the chaos spawns fierce dragons. Severe weather - violent storms, floods and droughts - is largely beyond human control, and can be cruel. Few need reminding of the 1987 tornado that killed 27 people in Edmonton, the flooding of the Saguenay region in 1996 and the Red River in 1997, and the 1998 ice storm in Quebec.

1. Nuclear Dynamite

Air Date: 2000-10-05

2. Breath of Life

Air Date: 2000-10-12

3. Spare Parts

Air Date: 2000-10-19

4. Lost Worlds: Wild South America

Air Date: 2000-10-23

5. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Monkey Jungles

Air Date: 2000-10-30

6. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Amazon Jungle

Air Date: 2000-12-07

7. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Mighty Amazon

Air Date: 2000-12-14

South America is a land of extremes. It boasts the world's longest mountain chain, the Andes; the mightiest river, the Amazon; the largest rainforest, the driest desert and the richest sea.

8. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Andes

Air Date: 2001-01-03

9. Amanda's Choice

Air Date: 2001-01-10

Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemma: whether or not to be tested for the faulty gene that will bring on Alzheimer's Disease by her mid-30s, as happened with her mother and other generations in her family. It is a disease that always leads to early death.

10. The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy

Air Date: 2001-01-17

11. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores

Air Date: 2001-01-24

PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazingly diverse topography of South America, and its remarkable denizens. The world's longest mountain chain stretches from the tropics to the massive Patagonian Ice Sheet of sub-Antarctica. Its icy power dominates the lives of the hardy animals that dare to call it home, making living there one of nature's greatest challenges.

12. Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Great Plains

Air Date: 2001-01-31

Lost Worlds - A six-part series on the breath-taking natural world of South America takes viewers on a cross-continent grand tour - from the mighty Amazon to the spectacular Andean peaks and the world's driest desert - stopping to view the strange and wonderful array of animals, birds and other wildlife along the way. Produced by the BBC. Narrated by David Suzuki.

13. Coastal Forest/Salmon Forest

Air Date: 2001-02-07

14. The Price of Salmon

Air Date: 2001-02-14

Salmon are considered an excellent source of nutrition. And farmed salmon provide it inexpensively. But at what cost? The Price of Salmon explores the complex issues involved with aquaculture.

15. Surgeons of the Future

Air Date: 2001-02-21

16. Maisin People In Papua New Guinea

Air Date: 2001-02-28

17. Toxic Legacies

Air Date: 2001-03-14

18. Hospital at the End of the Earth

Air Date: 2001-03-21

19. Worst Case Scenario

Air Date: 2001-04-04

Albertans have traditionally been proud of their mighty petroleum industry. But lately, they have begun to question how that industry works. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than along the Clearwater River in Central Alberta, near Rocky Mountain House. There, residents are opposing Shell Canada's plans to drill a sour gas well in their area. The sour gas from the well could generate $10,000 a day in gross revenue, to meet today's high energy demands.

1. Me, My Brain And I Unmasking The Mystery of the Conscious Mind

Air Date: 2001-10-02

Bob thinks but doesn't feel. Christina feels but has trouble thinking. Virginia can neither think or feel as she's pulled down into a spiral of darkness that zaps her very will to survive. Kent lives within a 20-minute time span, unable to remember his past or plan for his future. Each of these people has had an injury to a part of the brain called the frontal lobes and their stories, told in Me, My Brain And I, are helping neuroscientists unravel the mystery of what makes us distinctly human.

2. Warnings from the Wild

Air Date: 2001-10-09

All over the planet, temperature increases are affecting wildlife. Some species are spreading to new areas. For others, climate change means extinction. THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents Warnings From The Wild, a documentary that draws together recent evidence of the effects of the biggest climatic upheaval in 10,000 years.

3. Touch: The Forgotten Sense

Air Date: 2001-10-16

A film about the amazing, but often overlooked sense of touch. The film takes us on an artistic and scientific journey from a woman who has completely lost her sense of touch, to a deaf-blind child that can understand speech through his fingers.

4. Psychopaths

Air Date: 2001-10-23

A documentary that looks at the understanding of this condition in the scientific community, and what hope there is for treatment, therapy or a cure.

5. Drug Deals: The Brave New World of Prescription Drugs

Air Date: 2001-11-13

Are our regulatory agencies doing their best to ensure drug safety? Or are they buckling to corporate pressure to market lucrative new drugs before they are adequately tested? These are questions raised in DRUG DEALS: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

6. Bioterror

Air Date: 2001-11-20

Since the September 11th terrorist attack on The World Trade Center, the news has been saturated with information about a new threat, bio-terrorism. But how new is it? THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents BIOTERROR, an exploration of the past, present and future of bio-terrorism.

7. Race Against Time

Air Date: 2001-11-27

It's an epidemic of staggering proportions. Thirty-six million people are infected with the HIV virus worldwide, with over 25 million of them in Africa. More than 21 million people have died of AIDS, nearly 17 million in Africa alone. THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents RACE AGAINST TIME, a film about the greatest challenge of the 21st century and the work of Canadian Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

8. Return of the Peregrine

Air Date: 2001-12-04

Adept at diving at speeds normally reserved for fighter pilots, the peregrine falcon is the fastest and most widely dispersed creature on the planet. A one-hour documentary, RETURN OF THE PEREGRINE chronicles this majestic bird of prey's journey back from the brink of extinction.

9. Living Forever

Air Date: 2002-01-08

Biologists have seen within our genes the possibility of extending human life spans to 300 years or more. In the 21st century, will scientists reach the Holy Grail? Will they find the secret of eternal youth? THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents LIVING FOREVER, a look at how far scientists have come in discovering the human potential for longevity.

10. Genetically Modified Foods

Air Date: 2002-01-15

In 2001 the Government of Canada approved the following genetically modified crops for food use: canola, corn, cottonseed, flax, potato, soybean, tomato, wheat, sugar beet and squash. Is enough really known about genetic engineering to ensure that genetically modified (GM) food products are safe for consumption?

11. Self-Experimenters

Air Date: 2002-01-22

Most major advances in medicine and science and are made by people who push the envelope. From morphine to cardiac surgery, we owe much to the risks taken by scientists of the past who have experimented on their own bodies to make new discoveries.

12. Morphine on Trial

Air Date: 2002-03-05

13. Cyberman: Canada's Original Cyborg

Air Date: 2002-03-12

14. Wired for Life

Air Date: 2002-03-19

15. Intuition

Air Date: 2002-03-26

16. Beluga Speaking Across Time

Air Date: 2002-04-09

17. Hot Flash on Menopause

Air Date: 2002-04-16

1. Up Close and Toxic

Air Date: 2002-10-17

1. The Ghosts of Lomako

Air Date: 2003-10-22

1. Sex, Lies and Secrecy: Dissecting Hysterectomy

Air Date: 2004-09-16

2. Terrible Lizards of Oz

Air Date: 2004-09-23

3. Selling Sickness

Air Date: 2004-09-30

4. Arktika: The Russian Dream That Failed

Air Date: 2004-10-07

5. Shipbreakers

Air Date: 2004-10-14

6. Clot Busters

Air Date: 2004-10-21

7. Killed By Care: Making Medicine Safe

Air Date: 2004-10-28

8. Tale of a Tiny Bird

Air Date: 2004-11-04

9. Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story (Part 1)

Air Date: 2004-11-18

10. Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story (Part 2)

Air Date: 2004-11-25

11. Bhopal: The Search for Justice

Air Date: 2004-12-09

12. Forbidden Forest

Air Date: 2005-01-06

13. Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Anger

Air Date: 2005-03-22

14. Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Love

Air Date: 2005-03-29

15. Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Fear

Air Date: 2005-05-11

16. Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain: Happiness

Air Date: 2005-05-18

17. Fighting Fire with Fire

Air Date: 2005-05-26

18. Being Caribou: Part 1

Air Date: 2005-06-02

19. Being Caribou: Part 2

Air Date: 2005-06-09

20. Whale Mission: The Last Giants

Air Date: 2005-06-23

21. Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory

Air Date: 2005-06-30

22. Origins of Human Aggression: The Other Story

Air Date: 2005-07-07

23. Five Seasons

Air Date: 2005-07-14

1. Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders

Air Date: 2005-08-31

The hair-raising journey to discover the secret lives of these ancient crawlers. They have been roaming our planet for more than 350 million years and survived to become the giants of the spider kingdom. And they have a reputation to match – their name alone provokes fear and loathing.

2. Nature Bites Back: The Case of the Sea Otter

Air Date: 2005-09-14

3. Earth Energy

Air Date: 2005-10-19

4. Change of Heart

Air Date: 2005-10-26

5. The Secret Life of Babies

Air Date: 2005-11-02

6. Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope

Air Date: 2005-11-09

7. Port Hope: A Question of Power

Air Date: 2005-11-16

8. Everyday Einstein

Air Date: 2006-06-18

Everyday Einstein provides a fast-paced and jazzy look at the extraordinary impact Einstein continues to have on our daily lives.

9. Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species (Pt.1)

Air Date: 2006-06-25

Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species will introduce you to the ultimate family tree. This story is the story of each one of us. It's the story of the birth of humanity and civilization.

10. Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species (Pt. 2)

Air Date: 2006-07-02

Homo Sapiens deftly employs both docu-drama and interviews with key scientists to illuminate the remarkable story of the origins and development of our species.

11. Ghosts of Futures Past: Tom Berger in the North

Air Date: 2006-07-09

12. Blue Buddha: Lost secrets of Tibetan Medicine

Air Date: 2006-07-16

A look at the rising interest in the ancient healing arts of traditional Tibetan medicine.

13. Beetalker: The Secret World of Bees

Air Date: 2006-07-23

Examining how bees communicate.

14. Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Pt. 1)

Air Date: 2006-07-30

Examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989.

15. Cuba: The Accidental Revolution (Pt. 2)

Air Date: 2006-08-06

In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success story around the world.

16. When Less Is More

Air Date: 2006-08-13

17. Stephen Lewis: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep

Air Date: 2006-12-06

18. Wild Caribbean: Hurricane Hell

Air Date: 2007-06-10

Every year the Caribbean paradise is turned into a hurricane hell. From the beginning of June until the end of November its hurricane season in the islands. With winds of over 150 mph, 5 metre storm surges and torrential rain, the destruction caused by hurricanes makes them one of the most feared forces of nature.

19. Build Green

Air Date: 2007-06-17

In a refreshing hour, Build Green advises making the sun, the wind, and the rain – along with dirt, straw, and sewage – your friends. By building a house using innovative practices and materials, you'll be doing the earth a favour too.

20. Wild Caribbean: Reefs and Wrecks

Air Date: 2007-06-24

The clear blue waters that surround the Caribbean islands are home to some of the world's most stunning underwater treasures. Coral reefs form beautiful underwater gardens visited by angels, horse eye jacks, blue tangs and stingrays.

21. Wild Caribbean: Treasure Island

Air Date: 2007-07-22

Take the island hop of your life. Discover the rich variety of islands that are the Caribbean, and what forces have shaped this violent paradise.

22. Wild Caribbean: Secret Shores

Air Date: 2007-07-29

The Caribbean is not just the islands. We explore the least known Caribbean, that area beyond the Sea. A journey along the greatest Caribbean shoreline of all, that of Central America.

23. Cuttlefish – The Brainy Bunch

Air Date: 2007-08-12

Imagine an alien with three hearts, blue blood and a doughnut shaped brain. In an instant it could become invisible, or switch on electrifying light shows. Then imagine this bizarre creature was real, and somehow connected to us.

24. Mystery of the Giant Sloths Cave

Air Date: 2007-08-19

Today's sloths rank highly among the most surprising creatures of the animal kingdom: living suspended to the Amazon rainforest's trees, they move about extremely slowly, as if from a world where time flows differently.

25. Geologic Journey: The Great Lakes

Air Date: 2007-09-09

26. Geologic Journey: The Rockies

Air Date: 2007-09-16

27. Geologic Journey: The Canadian Shield

Air Date: 2007-09-23

28. Geologic Journey: The Appalachians

Air Date: 2007-09-30

29. Geologic Journey: The Atlantic Coast

Air Date: 2007-10-07

1. The Bear Man of Kamchatka

Air Date: 2007-10-11

Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russian zoo and secrets them away to his home in the remote wilds of the South Kamchatka peninsula, in the former Soviet Union.

2. Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution

Air Date: 2007-10-18

Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.

3. Weather Report

Air Date: 2007-10-25

Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future and the fundamental values of our industrial societies.

4. Game Over: Conservation in Kenya

Air Date: 2007-11-01

Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.

5. The Man with the Golden Cells

Air Date: 2007-11-08

The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.

6. The Nature of Things Magazine

Air Date: 2007-11-15

Witness the exciting lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Station, in London. A look at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most sophisticated machine ever constructed by science. And an interview with musician and environmentalist, Sarah Harmer.

7. Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future

Air Date: 2007-11-22

Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.

8. Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City

Air Date: 2007-11-29

Hot Times in the City takes the pulse of three major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, as they grapple with one of the planet's greatest threats to human health: global warming.

9. The Nature of Things Magazine

Air Date: 2007-12-06

A look into the multi-billion dollar underworld of counterfeit drugs, the tale of the Lunokhod a self-propelled robot on the Moon that could be controlled from the Earth and an interview with Boston Bruins' defenseman, Andrew Ference.

10. The Edge of Eden – Living with Grizzlies

Air Date: 2008-01-06

11. The Science of the Senses: Hearing

Air Date: 2008-01-10

In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche.

12. The Science of the Senses: Touch

Air Date: 2008-01-17

In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors and up into the brain as we explore the hidden language of our most essential sense.

13. The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste

Air Date: 2008-01-24

In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.

14. The Science of the Senses: Sight

Air Date: 2008-01-31

This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters our eyes, to the way this information is transformed into electrical impulses and decoded by our brain - the domain of "visual perception". The act of "seeing" takes an immense amount of brainpower, more than 65% of the brain's neural pathways.

15. Wild China: Heart of the Dragon

Air Date: 2008-06-22

Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.

16. Wild China: Shangi-La

Air Date: 2008-06-28

Beneath billowing clouds in China's far southwest, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks and jewel-coloured birds and ancient tribes share forested valleys where wild elephants still roam.

17. Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau

Air Date: 2008-06-29

Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.

18. Wild China: Land of the Panda

Air Date: 2008-07-05

Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.

19. Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall

Air Date: 2008-07-12

Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.

20. Wild China: Tides of Change

Air Date: 2008-07-13

China's coast is an area of huge contrast-from futuristic modern cities jostling traditional seaweed-thatched villages to ancient tea terraces and wild wetlands where rare animals still survive.

21. Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge

Air Date: 2008-07-20

The SEDNA IV sails across the Polar Front, an area where cold turbulent Antarctic waters meet warmer water from the north - one of the earth's last great refuges for wildlife.

22. Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate

Air Date: 2008-07-27

Antarctica's inhabitants are telling us that their world is changing in complex and subtle ways. The once successful colonies of diminutive Adelie penguins are declining because of increased snowfall - one of the unexpected consequences of a warmer climate.

23. Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice

Air Date: 2008-08-03

A cold and mysterious world that is home to some of the toughest and most unusual creatures on the planet: giant ribbon worms, dragon fish, and ancient sponges.

24. Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent

Air Date: 2008-08-30

Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on the expedition to measure the threat posed by global warming in the Antarctic - a place where the Earth is particularly vulnerable.

1. The Hobbit Enigma

Air Date: 2008-10-16

One of the greatest controversies in science today: just what did scientists really find when they uncovered the tiny, human-like skeleton of a strange creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003? Since the discovery was made public a bitter dispute has split the world of anthropology.

2. Rodney's Robot Revolution

Air Date: 2008-10-23

Has the time come to meet an artificially intelligent robot? Engineer and inventor Rodney Brooks thinks so. Forget about all those shiny robotic home-helpers of the past-Brooks is out to design a robot that can think for itself!

3. The Adventurers: The Last Nomads

Air Date: 2008-10-30

Linguist Ian Mackenzie has tracked the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth - the Penan of Borneo. Their way of life is quickly disappearing as aggressive logging interests swallow up their forest habitat.

4. The Adventurers: The Everlasting Oasis

Air Date: 2008-11-06

University of Toronto archaeologist Tony Mills travels to the eastern desert of Egypt where he and other archaeologists have unearthed an untouched marvel: a site of over 500,000 years of uninterrupted human habitation.

5. The Adventurers: A Story Told in Stone

Air Date: 2008-11-13

Archeologist Edmundo Edwards pulls back the vines and trees of the jungle to find huge stone cities that sprawled across the interiors of Tahiti, Raivavae and the Marquesas Islands.

6. The Suzuki Diaries: Europe

Air Date: 2008-11-16

David Suzuki and his daughter Sarika head out on a road trip across Europe to see sustainability in action and meet the people who are working towards restoring the equilibrium between human needs and planetary limits.

7. The Adventurers: The Lost People of Baja

Air Date: 2008-11-20

Canadian paleo-pathologist Eldon Molto is leading the search for clues of the mysterious Pericu people of Baja California, Mexico - a fierce, primitive tribe that disappeared over a century ago, after being exposed to European disease. They left virtually nothing behind but their bones.

8. The Brain that Changes Itself

Air Date: 2008-11-27

Based on the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, a look at how we view the human mind.

9. Gone Sideways

Air Date: 2009-01-08

A light-hearted look at serendipity in science, from life-saving cancer cures to the x-ray machine and the discovery of North America.

10. Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez

Air Date: 2009-01-15

A saga about what happens when ordinary people struggle for justice against a huge corporation that has destroyed both their environment and their livelihoods.

11. Supercar: Building the Car of the Future

Air Date: 2009-01-29

Engineering professor Brian Fleck on a quest to meet the engineers, designers and even students who are trying to build the car of the future.

12. Living City: A Critical Guide

Air Date: 2009-02-05

What's wrong with Canada's cities? What's right? Award-winning urban affairs columnist Christopher Hume takes a cross-country journey to explore the sustainability, viability and liveability of Canada's population centres.

13. Inuit Odyssey

Air Date: 2009-02-12

Canadian Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson takes us on a visually stunning journey across the North, tracing the origins of the modern Inuit.

14. American Savannah

Air Date: 2009-02-19

Our lawns are one of our simplest pleasures. Grass is a luxury that represents relaxation, freedom, time off and of course, time away from the world of tarmac and concrete. A wild and quirky ride into the world of one of America's longest-standing obsessions, the perfect lawn.

15. Arctic Meltdown: A Changing World

Air Date: 2009-06-20

From new companies rushing to claim the Arctic's plentiful resources to the effect climate change has had on animals as well as plant life. As the Arctic meltdown continues at an ever accelerating pace, who will protect it?

16. Arctic Meltdown: The Arctic Passages

Air Date: 2009-06-27

Until recently, only a few ships braved travel through these ice-strewn waters. More and more ships cross these seas each year and with more traffic come higher risks.

17. Arctic Meltdown: Adapting to Change

Air Date: 2009-07-04

A look at two different Arctics - one that is the storybook land of ice, snow and polar bears and the other that is covered with petroleum plants and pipelines carrying fossil fuels.

1. A Murder of Crows

Air Date: 2009-10-11

A rare and intimate glimpse into the inner life of one of the most intelligent, playful and mischievous species on the planet.

2. Mini Monsters of Amazonia

Air Date: 2009-10-18

A look at the astonishing and complex relationships of the "mini monsters", insects of the Membracidae family - treehoppers that live amid one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, one so mysterious most people don't even know that it exists.

3. Broken Tail's Last Journey

Air Date: 2009-10-25

A personal quest to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a captivating tiger, one of the world's leading tiger cameramen, tracks the escape and subsequent wanderings of a male tiger, named Broken Tail, from Ranthambore National Park.

4. Darwin's Brave New World: Origins

Air Date: 2009-11-01

The extraordinary and often harrowing story of Charles Darwin's 30-year struggle to piece together the mystifying puzzle he saw in nature, and publish his theory on the evolution of life on earth.

5. Darwin's Brave New World: Evolutions

Air Date: 2009-11-08

6. Darwin's Brave New World: Publish and Be Damned

Air Date: 2009-11-15

7. Suzuki Diaries: Coastal Canada

Air Date: 2009-11-22

A father and daughter set out with hope on a journey of discovery to Canada's three coasts determined to find solutions for a troubled ocean and look signs of a sustainable future.

8. To Bee or Not to Bee

Air Date: 2010-01-07

Could bees be an early warning sign of a larger problem with our ecology? Are they the canary in the coal mine for the health of planet earth?

9. Bugs, Bones & Botany: The Science of Crime

Air Date: 2010-01-21

Meet nature's detectives; how bugs, plants, bones ... even dust can be formidable enemies of crime.

10. The Downside of High

Air Date: 2010-01-28

Is today's strong pot damaging young minds? That provocative question is at the heart of this new documentary on recent science discoveries about marijuana and mental illness.

11. Bat & Man

Air Date: 2010-02-04

Bats are scientifically extraordinary creatures. Now scientists have begun unlocking the secrets of the bat and are developing potential medical therapies based on their discoveries.

12. My Nuclear Neighbour

Air Date: 2010-02-11

What would you do if you discovered a nuclear plant might be built right next door? Two women from Peace River Alberta journey into Ontario's nuclear heartland, to find out for themselves about life with a nuclear neighbour.

13. Uakari: Secrets of the Red Monkey

Air Date: 2010-02-18

A journey into the rainforests of the Peruvian amazon to investigate the mysterious Red Uakari monkey, never before filmed in the wild.

14. One Ocean: Birth of an Ocean

Air Date: 2010-03-04

Explore the ocean's tumultuous history and how the ocean transformed the earth into the livable, blue planet it is today.

15. One Ocean: Footprints in the Sand

Air Date: 2010-03-11

Ancient traditional fisheries, over-development and the places of recovery that can give us hope for a healthy future ocean all intersect.

16. One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep

Air Date: 2010-03-18

Starting in the deepest part of the ocean, take a secret and magical world of bizarre creatures and new discoveries deep beneath the surface.

17. One Ocean: The Changing Sea

Air Date: 2010-03-25

Explore some of the most stunning underwater locations in the world and set sail on a scientific race to predict the fate of the global ocean.

18. Masters of Space

Air Date: 2010-04-01

Is space becoming a new war zone? A revealing look at the fine line between space-faring and space warfare.

1. Aliens of the Deep Sea

Air Date: 2010-09-23

The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-limbed creature is considered highly intelligent. From Spain to Vancouver Island to Capri, Italy, scientists are testing the brain-power of the mysterious and mythic octopus.

2. Changing Your Mind

Air Date: 2010-09-30

Once thought to be incapable of fundamental change, our growing awareness of the adult brain's capacity for neuroplasticity is opening new doors to treatments for diseases and disorders once thought incurable.

3. For the Love of Elephants

Air Date: 2010-10-14

An intimate look at the bond that is formed between humans and baby orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rehabilitation centre just outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

4. Geologic Journey 2: Tectonic Europe (July 8 1997)

Air Date: 2010-10-21

Traverse the Eurasian plate across Europe — from Iceland, where new land is formed - to the Alps, where old land is destroyed.

5. Geologic Journey 2: Along the African Rift (September 2, 1997)

Air Date: 2010-10-28

For millions of years the East African Rift has been widening at the seams, tearing the African plate in two.

6. Geologic Journey 2: The Western Pacific Rim (November 4, 1997)

Air Date: 2010-11-04

Focusing on the Asia-Pacific side of The Pacific Rim of Fire, which stands as a living testament to the beauty and danger that powerful geologic forces can deliver. The Pacific Rim is home to half of the world's active volcanoes and ninety percent of the world's earthquakes, yet nearly 800 million people continue to live within its violent edge.

7. Geologic Journey 2: The Pacific Rim: Americas (January 13, 1998)

Air Date: 2010-11-18

Nick Eyles continues to explore the Pacific Rim, this time looking at the west coast of North America.

8. Geologic Journey 2: The Collision Zone: Asia (March 17, 1998)

Air Date: 2010-11-25

The fiery unpredictability of Indonesia’s volcanoes at one end, the massive Himalayas at the other and millions of years of tectonic tension in between. The collision zone of the old world is about to be the hub of the new. India, the Himalayas and the island arc of Indonesia - these lands will form the centre of the world’s next supercontinent.

9. When North Goes South

Air Date: 2010-12-02

Learning and discussing the consequences of magnetic pole inversion.

10. Code Breakers

Air Date: 2011-01-13

Who were the first peoples of North America? Anthropologist Niobe Thompson embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery, using the latest in DNA analysis techniques to unlock the secrets behind humanity's earliest appearance in the Americas.

11. Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands

Air Date: 2011-01-27

Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time

12. The Last Grizzly

Air Date: 2011-02-03

Filmmaker Jeff Turner documents grizzly bears in the Northern Cascades of British Columbia.

13. Return of the Prairie Bandit

Air Date: 2011-02-10

Revisiting the 2009 release of nearly extinct black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan to see what happened.

14. Raccoon Nation

Air Date: 2011-02-24

Is your garbage can making raccoons smarter? Stunning footage shot in the deep, dark of night combines with groundbreaking research in this fascinating documentary to explore the remarkable ways that city life is changing raccoons.

15. The Real Avatar

Air Date: 2011-03-03

In James Cameron's film, Avatar, an alien tribe on the distant planet of Pandora fights the human invaders bent on mining their forest home. Instead of Pandora, think Peru.

16. Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

Air Date: 2011-03-13

David Suzuki, scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, delivers what he describes as 'a last lecture' interwoven with scenes from his life and lifetime – the major social, scientific, cultural and political events of the past 70 years.

17. Save My Lake

Air Date: 2011-03-17

Save My Lake is a TV documentary episode.

18. 50 Years of the Nature of Things

Air Date: 2011-03-24

A celebration of half a century of a landmark science and natural history series, and an unrivaled Canadian institution.

1. The Nano Revolution: Welcome to Nano City

Air Date: 2011-10-13

2. The Nano Revolution: More Than Human

Air Date: 2011-10-20

3. The Nano Revolution: Will Nano Save the Planet?

Air Date: 2011-10-27

4. Jungle Prescription

Air Date: 2011-11-10

One of the most powerful hallucinogenic drugs on the planet is in a tea made from medicinal plants: it's called ayahuasca. There are studies around the world that say that this indigenous cure may also provide answers as to how to treat Western drug addicts.

5. Emperor's Lost Harbour

Air Date: 2011-11-17

In Istanbul, Turkey, workers building a railway tunnel make a remarkable discovery - an ancient harbour, buried and shrouded in mystery ...until now. Will archaeologists be able to uncover the treasures of the past before it is buried again?

6. Myth or Science

Air Date: 2011-11-24

Scientist Jennifer Gardy turns her critical eye towards the myths, lies, misunderstandings and errors behind the headlines, putting the science of the daily news to the test both in the lab and on the streets.

7. Waking the Green Tiger

Air Date: 2011-12-01

Examining modern China's ideas about nature and the environment.

8. Autism Enigma

Air Date: 2011-12-08

A fresh perspective on autism research with the developing "Bacterial Theory" of autism. The fastest-growing developmental disorder in the industrialized world, autism has increased an astounding 600 per cent over the last 20 years. Science cannot say why. Some say it's triggered by environmental factors and point to another intriguing statistic: 70 per cent of kids with autism also have severe gastrointestinal symptoms. Could autism actually begin in the gut? The Autism Enigma looks at the progress of an international group of scientists who are studying the gut's amazingly diverse and powerful microbial ecosystem for clues to the baffling disorder.

9. Programmed to be Fat?

Air Date: 2012-01-12

New science links man-made chemicals to the global obesity epidemic. Man-made chemicals may be programming us to be fat - before we're even born.

10. Surviving :) The Teenage Brain

Air Date: 2012-01-19

A look at the science deep within the teenage brain and a celebration of evolution's masterpiece - the years that bring us judgment, adaptation and innovation. In short the years that make us human.

11. Mysteries of the Animal Mind

Air Date: 2012-01-26

Scientists explore the mysteries of animal consciousness and find growing evidence of compassion, cooperation, altruism, empathy, intelligence and communication in all sorts of different species.

12. The American Tiger

Air Date: 2012-02-02

Most tigers today are privately owned - experts estimate that the number of tigers living in the United States is nearly double of those in the wild. What's life like for the American tiger?

13. MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet

Air Date: 2012-02-09

Multiple sclerosis patients use social media to engage in an unprecedented battle with the Canadian medical establishment for access to a controversial treatment.

14. Suzuki Diaries: Future City

Air Date: 2012-02-16

In a new installment of Suzuki Diaries, David and his daughter, Sarika, set out to discover whether some of Canada's biggest cities are ready for the challenges of the future.

15. Journey to the Disaster Zone

Air Date: 2012-02-23

David Suzuki travels to the areas most affected by the tsunami on its anniversary.

16. The Perfect Runner

Air Date: 2012-03-15

Anthropologist Niobe Thompson explores the evolutionary past of humans.

17. Smarty Plants

Air Date: 2012-03-22

The secrets of plant behavior.

18. Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey

Air Date: 2012-04-08

Shot over twelve months, this blue chip wildlife documentary tells the story a young polar bear's epic migration through the icy waters of Hudson Bay and his subsequent adventures on land, where he must spend the ice-free season. It is his first summer alone without his mother to guide and feed him. His struggle to survive is set against the biggest environmental story of our time: climate change.

1. The Buffalo Wolves

Air Date: 2012-10-18

Wolves and Buffalo follows the fortunes of one pack of wolves, the Delta Pack. Will the pups survive their first year? Will the packs alpha animals retain their pack position to breed again next year? As they try to bring down the buffalo to keep themselves and their new pups alive what will the future hold for these ancient warriors?

2. Babies: Born to be Good?

Air Date: 2012-10-25

3. Nuts About Squirrels

Air Date: 2012-11-08

There are those of us who see squirrels as cute and fascinating, but there is also a large contingent who regard them as “tree rats” - little pests that never tire of wreaking havoc in our attics, gardens, and just about anything else that catches their fleeting fancy. So who’s right? Nuts about Squirrels reveals the secret world of the ubiquitous urban grey squirrel with squirrel robots, micro-chipped acorns and an army of citizen scientists.

4. The Norse: An Arctic Mystery

Air Date: 2012-11-22

Are we alone in the universe? We may be very close to finding out. For millennia humans studying the stars had no idea if there were any other planets in the universe, let alone ones similar enough to ours to sustain life. Now, scientists may be close to discovering Earth-like planets, using a new space telescope and a technique pioneered by two Canadian astronomers.

5. Lights Out!

Air Date: 2012-12-06

Twelve hours of light. Twelve hours of dark. For our entire history we have lived and worked in rhythm with the sun. But all that changed with the invention of artificial light. Light fixtures, computer and television screens - all of these have allowed us more time to live, work, play and shorten our nights. But at what cost? Are we putting our health at risk? We explore how the type of light we are exposed to in the hours between dusk and bedtime can play tricks on our bodies and cancel the healthful benefits naturally triggered by the absence of light.

6. David Suzuki's Andean Adventure

Air Date: 2013-01-10

7. Zapped: The Buzz About Mosquitoes

Air Date: 2013-01-17

People struggle to combat a blood-sucking little insect that is both delicate and deadly.

8. Shattered Ground

Air Date: 2013-02-07

9. Meet the Coywolf

Air Date: 2013-02-14

There is a new hybrid species which is part wolf, part coyote.

10. The Fruit Hunters: Evolution of Desire (Part 1 of 2)

Air Date: 2013-02-21

The exotic world of fruit and the story of nature, commerce and obsession.

11. The Fruit Hunters: Evolution of Desire (Part 2 of 2)

Air Date: 2013-02-28

12. Billion Dollar Caribou

Air Date: 2013-03-21

The conservation of the caribou and their environment is much-contested territory.

13. The Beaver Whisperers

Air Date: 2013-03-28

The national symbol has a new role as an ecological superhero.

14. The Beetles Are Coming

Air Date: 2013-04-04

15. The Man Who Tweeted Earth

Air Date: 2013-04-25

Through pictures, music and poetry, Canadian Commander Chris Hadfield brings us a view of earth from space that we’ve never seen before.

1. Carpe Diem: A Fishy Tale

Air Date: 2013-10-03

North America is under attack by a sly and wily aquatic invader. Introduced in the ‘70s for the purpose of cleaning up algae in fish ponds, the aggressive Asian carp escaped into the Mississippi river system during floods. The 50-kilogram bottom feeders have advanced north at a surprising rate, becoming a familiar sight with their frenzied and often physically threatening mass leaps into the air. Despite their fascination with this newcomer, scientists on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border agree this invader is a threat we need to take seriously.

2. Ticked Off: The Mystery of Lyme Disease

Air Date: 2013-10-10

Lyme disease, a mysterious tick-borne illness, has become one of the fastest-spreading diseases in North America. Tiny, dangerous and once uncommon, the population of ticks is growing at an alarming rate. The documentary explores how climate change has hastened the spread of the ticks and this devastating disease, one that is often misdiagnosed and mistreated, and is mired in medical controversy.

3. Myth or Science 2: The Quest for Perfection

Air Date: 2013-10-17

Dr. Jennifer Gardy is back. But this time, Dr. Gardy’s journey of scientific discovery will plumb our very hopes and dreams - our quest for self-improvement. Are raw vegetables really better for you? Can you be fat and fit? Should you ditch caffeine? Dr. Gardy puts her own body on the line in lively experiments and scientific investigations to discover whether many popular health claims are science fact or science fiction.

4. Brain Magic: The Power of Placebo

Air Date: 2013-10-24

What if each of us could make the symptoms of an illness disappear? Cast a spell so powerful it would actually heal our bodies, help us walk, or breathe better? For centuries placebos have been thought of as just fake medicine, but Brain Magic: The Power of Placebo explores the growing scientific evidence that placebos can have powerful—and real—effects on our minds and bodies.

5. Invasion of the Brain Snatchers

Air Date: 2013-10-31

6. Untangling Alzheimer's

Air Date: 2013-11-14

7. A Dog's Life

Air Date: 2013-11-21

8. Survival of the Fabulous

Air Date: 2013-11-28

9. Where Am I?

Air Date: 2013-12-05

10. The Great Butterfly Hunt

Air Date: 2014-01-02

Canadian scientist Fred Urquhart unravels the mystery of the monarch's winter home.

11. How to Be a Wild Elephant

Air Date: 2014-01-09

Orphan elephant Sities must learn how to be a wild elephant when she leaves the safety of a Kenyan sanctuary to begin her journey back to freedom.

12. Secrets in the Bones - The Hunt for the Black Death Killer

Air Date: 2014-01-16

The quest to solve a great mystery in history: Identify the Black Death killer and unlock secrets that could save millions of lives.

13. Trek of the Titans

Air Date: 2014-01-30

A rare look at the leatherback turtle as it migrates between the chilly waters off Eastern Canada and the sunny beaches of the Caribbean.

14. The Allergy Fix

Air Date: 2014-02-27

Scientists are attacking food allergies in new and inventive ways, driven by the alarming increase in the number of people, particularly children, who suffer from them – and can die from them.

15. Wild Canada: The Eternal Frontier

Air Date: 2014-03-13

A remarkable journey across Canada’s natural landscapes revealing the surprising influence early humans had on the land and its wildlife.

16. Wild Canada: The Wild West

Air Date: 2014-03-20

From the Rockies to the Pacific, western Canada has astonishing wildlife and landscapes, some of which have been influenced by early humans.

17. Wild Canada: The Heartland

Air Date: 2014-03-27

From the prairies to Canada's vast boreal forest that stretches almost from coast to coast, we reveal a huge wilderness of extremes that has been shaped over millennia by both humans and wildfires. Here pronghorn antelope, the fastest hoofed land animal on earth, still haunt the grasslands, the elusive wolverine thrives in the icy remote northern forests and beaver share their cozy lodges with grateful muskrats.

18. Wild Canada: Ice Edge

Air Date: 2014-04-03

In the country's harshest climate, the wildlife survive in the tundra of ice.

19. Making Wild Canada

Air Date: 2014-04-10

Making the incredible Wild Canada series. Meet Jeff Turner, the series director, and see stories from the field.

1. Stonehenge Uncovered

Air Date: 2014-10-09

The biggest archaeological survey ever conducted of the Stonehenge landscape finds new evidence of a lost civilization.

2. Gorilla Doctors

Air Date: 2014-10-16

Dr. Mike Cranfield looks at how he managed to be working in a Canadian veterinarian surgery to end up making house calls to some of Africa's most endangered mountain gorillas.

3. Dreams of the Future

Air Date: 2014-10-23

Dr. Jennifer Gardy tries out new technology and looks at fresh ideas of our relationships with nature.

4. The Cholesterol Question

Air Date: 2014-10-30

A investigation into whether or not Cholesterol really is the cause of heart problems.

5. Decoding Desire

Air Date: 2014-11-06

From preening peacocks to promiscuous primates, what do animals reveal about our own sexual behaviour? Explore how sexual diversity and the experience of pleasure itself may be the key to species survival.

6. Chasing Snowflakes

Air Date: 2014-11-13

Scientists are unraveling the delicate mysteries of the snowflake. And what they’re learning is amazing.

1. Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater

Air Date: 2015-10-15

Experience a calf’s first year of life as it grows up in Jasper National Park amid some of the most striking scenery on the planet.

15. The Equalizer

Air Date: 2016-03-03

Every year, athletes keep going higher, farther and faster, shattering previous world records and setting new ones. But are today’s record holders really better than those of the past? Or do modern athletes get their edge from their high tech gear? Top sports scientist Steve Haake sets off on a journey to investigate.

1. Pompeii's People

Air Date: 2016-10-06

Despite intense archaeological scrutiny, much of the ancient city of Pompeii still remains a mystery. Now a team of archaeologists, scientists, and historians are taking to uncover Pompeii's secrets.

5. Destination: Mars

Air Date: 2016-11-03

The race to get to Mars is on, seizing the imagination of the world. Every month there seems to be a new revelation.

1. The Wild Canadian Year: Spring

Air Date: 2017-09-24

The first days of spring sees Arctic fox pups take their first steps and black bear cubs learn to climb trees after the long cold days of winter.

2. The Wild Canadian Year: Summer

Air Date: 2017-10-01

Killer whales and blue sharks are on the hunt, while amorous fireflies light up the night forest with their dazzling display, as summer reveals Canada’s landscape at the peak of its splendour.

3. The Wild Canadian Year: Fall

Air Date: 2017-10-08

Fall chronicles a remarkable season of change: young northern gannets leap off perilous cliffs as chipmunks race to gather winter supplies, and prairie rattlesnakes give birth to live young.

4. The Wild Canadian Year: Winter

Air Date: 2017-10-15

Lynx hunt snowshoe hares in the boreal forest and the ancient dance between wolves and caribou on Canada's vast tundra reveal the harshest time of year when landscapes are transformed by winter.

5. Making the Wild Canadian Year

Air Date: 2017-10-22

Watch the incredible feats of endurance and technical wizardry needed to capture the sequences featured in the landmark series The Wild Canadian Year.

6. Lost Secrets of the Pyramid

Air Date: 2017-10-29

The Great Pyramid of Egypt may be humanity’s greatest achievement. It’s a skyscraper of stone built without computers or complex machinery. Now the secrets of the pyramid could finally be exposed, thanks to a series of astonishing new findings. Egyptologists are unearthing evidence across the country to reveal a story that tells of more than just how Egypt built a pyramid – they are discovering how the pyramid itself changed Egypt and the world. David Suzuki is joining the experts and scientists on the front-line who are unraveling new clues to the world’s greatest ancient mystery.

1. Equus: The Story of the Horse - Origins

Air Date: 2018-09-23

A journey around the world and back in time to discover why horses and humans make perfect partners.

2. Equus: The Story of the Horse - First Riders

Air Date: 2018-09-30

Travel back to the moment humans tamed the horse, and learn how horsepower made history.

3. Equus: The Story of the Horse - Chasing the Wind

Air Date: 2018-10-07

How did humans save the wild horse from extinction? And how did we create over four hundred specialized breeds today?

4. A Day in the Life of Earth

Air Date: 2018-10-14

From volcanoes to earthquakes & dust migration to meteorites — scientists reveal how much the Earth changes in 24 hours.

5. The Real T.Rex

Air Date: 2018-10-21

Join an investigative journey around the world to uncover the mysteries of the most famous dinosaur super-predator: the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

6. The Memory Mirage

Air Date: 2018-10-28

Can we trust what we remember about our own lives? Memory scientists say most memories are full of distortions and errors.

7. Spying on Animals

Air Date: 2018-11-04

A look at how innovations in remote unmanned cameras let us bear witness to animal behaviour 24/7 - almost anywhere on earth.

8. The Genetic Revolution

Air Date: 2018-11-11

Trailblazing scientists are making ground-breaking discoveries in the rapidly evolving world of genetic engineering.

9. Stay-at-Home Animal Dads

Air Date: 2018-12-02

From emus to penguins, meet some of the most devoted stay-at-home animal dads on the planet.

10. Food for Thought

Air Date: 2019-01-06

When it comes to diet, we swallow a lot of advice. Food for Thought sorts through the latest science to create a new recipe for health.

11. The Wonder of the Northern Lights

Air Date: 2019-01-13

The aurora borealis delights and amazes us, but we're just beginning to understand its beauty.

1. She Walks with Apes

Air Date: 2019-09-20

The epic story of three legendary women who fought to save the great apes — and inspired a generation.

1. Rebellion

Air Date: 2020-11-06

Global temperatures are rising and so are we: millions of young people rise up to demand their right to a livable planet.

2. Kids vs. Screens

Air Date: 2020-11-13

How screens affect our children's development, learning abilities and mental health.

3. Wild Australia: After the Fires

Air Date: 2020-11-20

Signs of life and hope emerge from the scorched landscapes of the worst wildlife disaster in modern history. of life and hope emerge from the scorched landscapes of the worst wildlife disaster in modern history.

4. The Covid Cruise

Air Date: 2020-11-27

3,711 passengers and crew. 14-day quarantine. 1 deadly infectious disease. Coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

5. Searching for Cleopatra

Air Date: 2021-01-08

Uncovering the truth about the richest and most powerful woman in world history.

6. Wild Canadian Weather: Cold

Air Date: 2021-01-15

Canadians push the limits of cold endurance while baby harp seals brave icy water and flying squirrels cuddle.

7. Wild Canadian Weather - Rain

Air Date: 2021-01-22

Rain brings unexpected benefits for spadefoot toads, grizzlies, and whitewater kayakers - but too much can be deadly.

8. Wild Canadian Weather - Wind

Air Date: 2021-01-29

The invisible element that shapes our lives; falcons, butterflies and spiders hitch a ride, while Canadians harness, and harvest, the wind.

9. Wild Canadian Weather - Sun

Air Date: 2021-02-05

The driving force behind all weather, sunlight creates a banquet for blue whales, helps vultures soar, and is essential for training some extreme athletes.

10. Making Wild Canadian Weather

Air Date: 2021-02-12

Crews go to great lengths to get amazing shots of wildlife people and weather. Working with scientists is essential.

11. The Real Neanderthal

Air Date: 2021-02-19

Neanderthals weren't brutish or dim-witted. New discoveries reveal they were more human than we ever thought!

12. Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Episode 1

Air Date: 2021-02-26

Veteran polar bear guide Dennis Compayre goes on a remarkable journey into the world of a polar bear mom and her newborn cubs as they leave the safety of their den for the first time.

13. Kingdom of the Polar Bears: Episode 2

Air Date: 2021-03-05

Veteran polar bear guide, Dennis Compayre watches as a mother bear teaches her young cubs to hunt and discovers how they are struggling to adapt to a rapidly warming Arctic.

14. The Last Walrus

Air Date: 2021-03-12

A filmmaker explores one man’s quest to save a walrus, as the debate around marine mammal captivity evolves in Canada.

1. Inside the Great Vaccine Race

Air Date: 2021-11-05

The inside story of the high-stakes race to defeat a killer virus and save millions of lives.

2. Nature's Big Year

Air Date: 2021-11-12

When humanity hits pause, nature reboots. Scientists discover the surprising ways pandemic lockdowns affected our planet.

3. The Machine That Feels

Air Date: 2021-11-19

Artificial intelligence is becoming more empathic, emotionally intelligent, and creative. So what does it mean to be human?

4. The New Human

Air Date: 2021-11-26

Disappearing tendons? Longer legs? Artificial body parts? What will humans look like in the future?

5. Chef Secrets: The Science of Cooking

Air Date: 2022-01-06

The secret ingredient to becoming a better cook? Science! Top chefs and culinary experts explain the chemistry, physics, and microbiology of cooking

6. Curb Your Carbon

Air Date: 2022-01-13

Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, Curb Your Carbon reveals the easy and effective ways we can all fight climate change ... and turn down the heat.

7. In Your Face

Air Date: 2022-01-20

We see faces in everything. Facial recognition is an evolutionary superpower unique to humans.

8. Ice and Fire: Tracking Canada's Climate Crisis

Air Date: 2022-01-27

Goodbye backyard ice rinks, mountain glaciers, and forest biodiversity: what Canada might lose due to climate change.

9. Why We Dance

Air Date: 2022-02-24

It may surprise you to learn that you are a dancer. In fact, we are all dancers. This film takes us into the beating heart of why humans simply must dance.

10. Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography

Air Date: 2022-03-03

The key element of life on Earth, it has the power to build and destroy.

11. How the Wild Things Sleep

Air Date: 2022-03-10

Unraveling the secrets of the most extreme sleepers of the animal kingdom. Why and how do animals sleep? How do they deal with sleep deprivation? And do animals dream?

12. The Teenager and the Lost Maya City

Air Date: 2022-03-17

A young Canadian is going on the adventure of a lifetime. He believes he knows the location of a lost Maya city, and he’s heading to Mexico to find it.

13. The Musical Animal

Air Date: 2022-03-24

We know that humans are a musical species. We sing, we dance, we groove. But are we the only musical species?

14. The Science of Success

Air Date: 2022-03-31

Success has little to do with performance, winners and losers are chosen by society. Now, scientists have discovered the secret to predicting success.

1. Last of the Right Whales

Air Date: 2023-01-06

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

2. Rat City

Air Date: 2023-01-13

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

3. Science & Cannabis

Air Date: 2023-01-20

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

4. Secret Agents Of The Underground Railroad

Air Date: 2023-02-03

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

5. Walking With Ancients

Air Date: 2023-02-10

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

6. Apocalypse Plan B

Air Date: 2023-02-17

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

7. True Survivors

Air Date: 2023-02-24

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

8. Grizzly Rewild

Air Date: 2023-03-03

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.

9. Bug Sex

Air Date: 2023-03-10

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

10. War for the Woods

Air Date: 2023-03-17

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

11. The Secrets of Friendship

Air Date: 2023-03-24

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

12. Woodpeckers: The Hole Story

Air Date: 2023-03-31

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

13. Suzuki Signs Off

Air Date: 2023-04-07

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.

1. A User's Guide to the Voice

Air Date: 2024-01-04

The human voice is the most sophisticated communication tool, but most of us don’t know how to unlock its potential.

2. The Mystery of the Walking Whale

Air Date: 2024-01-11

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki travels back in time to solve the evolutionary mystery of the walking whale.

3. Butt Seriously

Air Date: 2024-01-18

Anthony Morgan shines a light where the sun doesn’t usually shine. Why we have butts, how they evolved and how to keep yours healthy.

4. Jawsome: Canada’s Great White Sharks

Air Date: 2024-01-25

Shark nerds are on a mission to reveal the JAWSOME lives of Canada’s Great White Sharks.

5. I am the Magpie River

Air Date: 2024-02-01

A pristine river in Quebec is granted rights through legal personhood, protecting it and those who call it home.

6. Love Hurts: The Science of Heartbreak

Air Date: 2024-02-08

Find out if science can ease the human conditions of loss, rejection, and unrequited love.

7. Hairy Tales

Air Date: 2024-03-07

A hair-raising journey into the salon, the lab, a remote Chinese village, a baby nursery and even a wildlife sanctuary to explore the surprising new research at the root of it all.

8. Little Sapiens

Air Date: 2024-03-14

Thanks to cutting-edge technology, experts are finally learning the story of prehistoric kids and how they helped shape humans into who we are today.

9. Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary

Air Date: 2024-03-28

Mae Martin explores the science of gender and sexual fluidity.

10. Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs

Air Date: 2024-04-04

Anthony Morgan joins the fossil dig of a lifetime as palaeontologists discover why a tiny patch of land became a giant dinosaur graveyard.

11. Lost World of the Hanging Gardens

Air Date: 2024-04-11

ISIS destroyed thousands of ancient artefacts and buildings in Mosul. Now, archeologists are making incredible discoveries in the wreckage.

101. Secret World of Sound: Hunters and Hunted

Air Date: 2024-02-15

In nature, sound can mean the difference between finding a meal and becoming one.

102. Secret World of Sound: Love and Rivals

Air Date: 2024-02-22

Sound is used in extraordinary ways to impress, find a mate and fight off rivals.

103. Secret World of Sound: Finding a Voice

Air Date: 2024-02-29

Baby animals rely on sound to survive after they’re born — and even before.

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Rating

7.1/10

Release Date

1960-11-06

Episodes

444 (63 seasons)

Status

Returning Series

Cast

Sarika Cullis-Suzuki

Self - Presenter

Anthony Morgan