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The Nature of Things

Season 62 2023

  • 2023-01-07T01:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 9h 33m (13 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2023-01-07T01:00:00Z

62x01 Last of the Right Whales

Season Premiere

62x01 Last of the Right Whales

  • 2023-01-07T01:00:00Z45m

Last of the Right Whales follows the whale migration from the only known calving grounds in the waters of the southeastern U.S. to the shifting feeding grounds around the Bay of Fundy, Gulf of St. Lawrence and New England coast.
Meet the people committed to saving a species that is still struggling to recover from centuries of hunting, and who are trying to make room for the whales in our modern world.

2023-01-14T01:00:00Z

62x02 Rat City

62x02 Rat City

  • 2023-01-14T01:00:00Z44m

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

2023-01-21T01:00:00Z

62x03 Science & Cannabis

62x03 Science & Cannabis

  • 2023-01-21T01:00:00Z44m

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

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

2023-02-11T01:00:00Z

62x05 Walking With Ancients

62x05 Walking With Ancients

  • 2023-02-11T01:00:00Z44m

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

2023-02-18T01:00:00Z

62x06 Apocalypse Plan B

62x06 Apocalypse Plan B

  • 2023-02-18T01:00:00Z44m

Some scientists are proposing radical ways to cool our warming planet – but others say it’s time to restore nature on a global scale.

2023-02-25T01:00:00Z

62x07 True Survivors

62x07 True Survivors

  • 2023-02-25T01:00:00Z44m

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

2023-03-04T01:00:00Z

62x08 Grizzly Rewild

62x08 Grizzly Rewild

  • 2023-03-04T01:00:00Z44m

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.

2023-03-11T01:00:00Z

62x09 Bug Sex

62x09 Bug Sex

  • 2023-03-11T01:00:00Z44m

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

2023-03-18T00:00:00Z

62x10 War for the Woods

62x10 War for the Woods

  • 2023-03-18T00:00:00Z44m

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

62x11 The Secrets of Friendship

  • 2023-03-25T00:00:00Z44m

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

62x12 Woodpeckers: The Hole Story

  • 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z44m

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

2023-04-08T00:00:00Z

62x13 Suzuki Signs Off

62x13 Suzuki Signs Off

  • 2023-04-08T00:00:00Z44m

After 44 years, David Suzuki is retiring as host of The Nature of Things. In his final episode, he explores new ways of expressing his ideas, meets up with some neighbours, shows us how global problems are being expressed in his own backyard, and attempts to reconcile the two great influences in his life: science and Indigenous culture.

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