The Bear Man of Kamchatka

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Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russian zoo and secrets them away to his home in the remote wilds of the South Kamchatka peninsula, in the former Soviet Union.

10/11/2007

Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution

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Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.

10/18/2007

Weather Report

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Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future and the fundamental values of our industrial societies.

10/25/2007

Game Over: Conservation in Kenya

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Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.

11/1/2007

The Man with the Golden Cells

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The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.

11/8/2007

The Nature of Things Magazine

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Witness the exciting lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Station, in London. A look at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most sophisticated machine ever constructed by science. And an interview with musician and environmentalist, Sarah Harmer.

11/15/2007

Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future

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Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.

11/22/2007

Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City

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Hot Times in the City takes the pulse of three major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, as they grapple with one of the planet's greatest threats to human health: global warming.

11/29/2007

The Nature of Things Magazine

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A look into the multi-billion dollar underworld of counterfeit drugs, the tale of the Lunokhod a self-propelled robot on the Moon that could be controlled from the Earth and an interview with Boston Bruins' defenseman, Andrew Ference.

12/6/2007

The Edge of Eden – Living with Grizzlies

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1/6/2008

The Science of the Senses: Hearing

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In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche.

1/10/2008

The Science of the Senses: Touch

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In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors and up into the brain as we explore the hidden language of our most essential sense.

1/17/2008

The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste

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In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.

1/24/2008

The Science of the Senses: Sight

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This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters our eyes, to the way this information is transformed into electrical impulses and decoded by our brain - the domain of "visual perception". The act of "seeing" takes an immense amount of brainpower, more than 65% of the brain's neural pathways.

1/31/2008

Wild China: Heart of the Dragon

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Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.

6/22/2008

Wild China: Shangi-La

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Beneath billowing clouds in China's far southwest, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks and jewel-coloured birds and ancient tribes share forested valleys where wild elephants still roam.

6/28/2008

Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau

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Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.

6/29/2008

Wild China: Land of the Panda

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Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.

7/5/2008

Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall

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Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.

7/12/2008

Wild China: Tides of Change

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China's coast is an area of huge contrast-from futuristic modern cities jostling traditional seaweed-thatched villages to ancient tea terraces and wild wetlands where rare animals still survive.

7/13/2008

Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge

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The SEDNA IV sails across the Polar Front, an area where cold turbulent Antarctic waters meet warmer water from the north - one of the earth's last great refuges for wildlife.

7/20/2008

Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate

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Antarctica's inhabitants are telling us that their world is changing in complex and subtle ways. The once successful colonies of diminutive Adelie penguins are declining because of increased snowfall - one of the unexpected consequences of a warmer climate.

7/27/2008

Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice

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A cold and mysterious world that is home to some of the toughest and most unusual creatures on the planet: giant ribbon worms, dragon fish, and ancient sponges.

8/3/2008

Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent

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Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on the expedition to measure the threat posed by global warming in the Antarctic - a place where the Earth is particularly vulnerable.

8/30/2008