As producer Rachel Bryant researched seabirds in the remote arctic wilderness of Southampton Island, Nunavut, she began thinking about issues of survival and vulnerability. (more)

You might imagine the desert to be a cold freezin place at night but not so. (more)

In this short radio play, the consequences of living life in a tinderbox are revealed through a series of scenes taking place within their various rooms. (more)

This hour: a one way mission to mars, a Russian cosmonaut's favorite music, the Voyager golden record, the sound of the northern lights, and more. (more)

Two friends sit on a dock, meandering through a variety of ocean stories (some true and some not): (more)

A journey of discovery, passion, nature, and conscience. (more)

In September, 2002, three years before Katrina devastated America’s gulf coast, veteran NPR reporter Daniel Zwerdling investigated what would happen to New Orleans if it fell in the path of a Category 5 hurricane. (more)

Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma. (more)

For centuries, Newfoundland fisheries were hailed as the greatest in the world.  Then, in 1992, their main export, the codfish, disappeared. (more)

It's hard enough drumming up public support for saving whales or spotted owls - but what about trying to preserve something less tangible in nature, like the peacefulness of a quiet forest? (more)

Grey Ghost is the story of one man and a bird -- or possibly just of one man. It is also the story of an obsession. (more)

Kaitlin and her recorder sitting in a tree…with Kelly the herbalist discussing the possibilities of plant-loving. (more)

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach. (more)

In 2004, a group of Pride Day revellers gathered for a party on Creighton Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia and were treated to a riveting display of hermaphroditic slug sex. (more)