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The Nature of Things

Season 62 · 13 episodes · Jan 6, 2023

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    Episode 1

    Last of the Right Whales

    Jan 6, 2023

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

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    Episode 2

    Rat City

    Jan 13, 2023

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

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    Episode 3

    Science & Cannabis

    Jan 20, 2023

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

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    Episode 4

    Secret Agents Of The Underground Railroad

    Feb 3, 2023

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

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    Episode 5

    Walking With Ancients

    Feb 10, 2023

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

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    Episode 6

    Apocalypse Plan B

    Feb 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.

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    Episode 7

    True Survivors

    Feb 24, 2023

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

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    Episode 8

    Grizzly Rewild

    Mar 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.

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    Episode 9

    Bug Sex

    Mar 10, 2023

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

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    Episode 10

    War for the Woods

    Mar 17, 2023

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

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    Episode 11

    The Secrets of Friendship

    Mar 24, 2023

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

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    Episode 12

    Woodpeckers: The Hole Story

    Mar 31, 2023

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

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    Episode 13

    Suzuki Signs Off

    Apr 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.