The Nature of Things Season 47 Episodes

Episode 1

The Bear Man of Kamchatka

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.

Episode 2

Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution

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

Episode 3

Weather Report

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.

Episode 4

Game Over: Conservation in Kenya

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

Episode 5

The Man with the Golden Cells

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

Episode 6

The Nature of Things Magazine: 1

The launch of High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Station. A look at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most sophisticated machine constructed by science. And an interview with musician and environmentalist, Sarah Harmer.

Episode 7

Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future

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.

Episode 8

Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City

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.

Episode 9

The Nature of Things Magazine #2

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.

Episode 10

The Science of the Senses: Hearing

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.

Episode 11

The Science of the Senses: Touch

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.

Episode 12

The Science of the Senses: Smell and Taste

We explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. People assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another is the aroma.

Episode 13

The Science of the Senses: Sight

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".

Episode 14

Wild China: Heart of the Dragon

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

Episode 15

Wild China: Shangri-La

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.

Episode 16

Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau

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

Episode 17

Wild China: Land of the Panda

China's heartland is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization and home to the giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey and the golden takin.

Episode 18

Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall

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

Episode 19

Wild China: Tides of Change

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.

Episode 20

Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge

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.

Episode 21

Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate

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

Episode 22

Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice

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.

Episode 23

Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent

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.

Episode 24

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Sat, Aug 30, 2008

Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on expedition to measure threat posed by global warming in Antarctic.

Episode 25

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Sun, Jun 10, 2007

Every year Caribbean paradise is turned into a hurricane hell. From beginning of June.

Episode 26

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Sun, Jun 17, 2007

In a refreshing hour, Build Green advises making sun, wind, and rain - along with dirt, straw, and sewage - your friends.

Episode 27

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Sun, Jun 24, 2007

The clear blue waters that surround Caribbean islands are home to some of world's most stunning underwater treasures.

Episode 28

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Sun, Jul 22, 2007

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

Episode 29

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Sun, Jul 29, 2007

The Caribbean is not just islands. We explore least known Caribbean, that area beyond Sea.

Episode 30

Cuttlefish, The Brainy Bunch

Sun, Aug 12, 2007

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.

Episode 31

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Sun, Aug 19, 2007

Today's sloths rank highly among most surprising creatures of animal kingdom: living suspended to Amazon rainforest's trees.