When We Talk About Animals is a series of in-depth conversations with leading thinkers about the big
The repercussions of the international wildlife trade, which is a primary driver of our planet’
Roughly two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases — including COVID-19 and almost all recent epidem
In an age where almost everything we eat is produced outside of public view, whistleblowers are crit
In her acclaimed first book, “Floating Coast,” historian Bathsheba Demuth explores how capital
Nonhuman beings, and the passionate people who study them, animate Ed Yong’s vast, award-winning and
Over 40 percent of the Earth’s surface is open ocean that is over 200 miles from the nearest shore.
Professors Doug Kysar and Jonathan Lovvorn are the Faculty Co-Directors of the Law, Ethics & An
For the past ten years, journalist Christopher Ketcham has documented the confluence of commercial e
Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg has spent decades collecting and studying the calls of bir
In the 1970s, scientists proposed what has become known as the Gaia Hypothesis: the idea that earth
Author and sailor David Barrie voyaged around the globe and through scientific literature to learn a
Film director and producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite did not set out to make a film that would force a
“Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us,” Robert Macfarlane once wrote. “Certain book
In 1950, a physicist posed the question that has come to be known as the Fermi Paradox: given the hi
In 2007, our guest, Fabrice Schnoller, was sailing off the coast of Mauritius when he had an encount
In the spring of 1963, when our guest Dr. Thomas Seeley was not quite 11 years old, he lived — as he
Bears, like other carnivores, are typically cast as unthinking, emotionless killers. But the late na
In the United States today, 10 billion land animals are raised and killed for food annually. That’s
For decades, researchers have debated whether or not animals make friends. “Friends” — the tab
In March of 2016, a group of scientists reported a startling discovery from the forests of central J
