Ecologist Jordon King has traded in Miami night clubs for herping in the Everglades after dark! He takes Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant searching for reptiles and amphibians in the wild, and introduces her to the world of herpetology, the science devoted to studying these creatures. As they venture into the wetlands ...
How do you study a wetland when it isn't... wet? Soil ecologist and social media sensation Jordon King takes Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant on a proper initiation into the Florida Everglades, where drought is transforming the landscape. Along the way, Jordon shares his unlikely journey into science, and the pair discover ...
Going Wild is back! This season we're heading out of the studio and into the wilderness: entering bear dens in Arkansas, diving for slave shipwrecks in the Florida Keys and wading through murky swamps to bring you closer to the people, the animals, the sounds and the stories that make ...
Marine ecologist Alannah Vellacott grew up in a Bahamian subsistence fishing community, where wrestling sharks before sunrise was part of daily life. Now she's dedicated to conserving these majestic creatures and uncovering artifacts from slave-trade shipwrecks. In this episode, Alannah shares her journey to becoming a conservationist, highlighting the intersections ...
Carolina Landa's story begins in the orchards of Quincy, Washington and takes a transformative turn within the walls of an Oregon prison. Raised in a Mexican-American immigrant family, Carolina's curiosity and passion for science led her to champion sustainability initiatives behind bars. In this episode, she discusses how incarceration became ...
As a science journalist, Ed Yong spends a lot of time writing about nature without actually being immersed in it. After three years of covering the COVID pandemic, Ed found himself anxious, depressed, and in need of a change, despite winning the Pulitzer Prize. He took a step back from ...
Ella Al-Shamahi grew up a creationist, but her perspective shifted when she studied evolution at university. Today she’s a paleoanthropologist who hunts fossils in unstable territories to uncover the overlooked stories of human evolution. Ella is a fierce advocate for conducting research in places where people don’t usually do science, ...
Growing up in her Lubicon Cree community in northern Alberta, Melina Laboucan-Massimo witnessed the destruction of her once-pristine land in the boreal forests for oil.
A massive oil spill in Melina’s community became the catalyst to launch an initiative that would bring not only clean energy jobs to her community, but ...
Alexis Nikole Nelson, better known to her millions of fans as @blackforager, was raised by a mother who is an avid gardener and a father who loves to cook. Foraging allowed Alexis to fuse her love for wild plants and food from a very young age. But before Alexis became ...
