In time for the winter solstice, we revisit our episode on the history of Christmas trees, with historian Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography (2017) as well as numerous books on the Victorian period – including The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime and The…
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Meg Lowman knows more about trees than most people on this planet. She invented canopy ecology – the practice of studying trees in the treetops – and has worked across 46 countries and 7 continents, designing hot air balloons and walkways and other ways to explore and study this diverse biosphere. In our fourth episode…
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To find out how a warming planet might affect the forests in my home state of New York, I visit Black Rock Forest, a research station in the Hudson Highlands, and talk to Andy Reinmann, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center of the Graduate Center, CUNY and in…
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Wooly mammoths, whale poop, marsh gas… these are some of the things I discuss with environmental journalist and science curator for TED Talks David Biello in our conversation about his book, The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age. Biello argues that we’re still prey to the false notion that there’s…
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