Nature Revisited
Nature Revisited is a podcast that explores our relationship with the natural world through interviews, stories and discussions that highlight the notion that nature is not a place one goes to, but rather a place one is a part of - that We Are Nature.
Episodes
January 5, 2026 • 36 mins
Amorina Kingdon is a science journalist and fiction writer living in Victoria, British Columbia. While working as a staff writer and researcher for Hakai Magazine covering ocean and coastal science around the world, she became fascinated by underwater sound. The result is her recent book Sing Like Fish - How Sound Rules Life Under Water.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Kingdon introduces us to the emerging science of just how...
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December 29, 2025 • 28 mins
Ben Goldfarb is an independent conservation journalist and award-winning author of books that include Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Ben describes how roads have transformed our planet and disrupted the natural order of wildlife throughout the United States and around the world. As our planet’s road network continues to grow exponentially, the science of road e...
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December 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Kelsey Timmerman is a journalist, speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author of Regenerating Earth, Where Am I Wearing?, Where Am I Eating?, and Where Am I Giving?. His immersive storytelling takes readers, audiences, and listeners to the people and places behind the products they consume, exploring global issues through deeply human experiences.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Timmerman invites us to rethink the stat...
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December 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Boyce Upholt is a “nature critic” and author whose writing explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, especially in the U.S. South. Originally from Connecticut, Upholt moved to the Mississippi Delta in 2009, where he discovered an unexpected wilderness amid an agricultural empire: the Mississippi River.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Boyce describes the natural and human histories of the wild and unruly ...
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December 8, 2025 • 31 mins
Elspeth Hay is a writer, public radio host and a proponent of place-based living. Her recent book Feed Us With Trees reveals how nut trees can transform our diets, landscapes, and future.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Hay explains why we don't need to choose between feeding ourselves and sustaining the planet. With agriculture being a significant driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, restoring perennial food syste...
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December 1, 2025 • 33 mins
Nadina Galle is an ecological engineer and technologist dedicated to working with urban ecologists and planners to apply current and developing technologies to improve urban ecosystems for future generations. Best known for her pioneering work on the "Internet of Nature" (IoN), a global movement that harnesses emerging technologies to create nature-rich communities, she is also the author of the book The Nature of Our Cities.
On t...
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November 24, 2025 • 30 mins
Lance Richardson is an award-winning journalist, essayist, educator, and the author of House of Nutter (2018) and recently, True Nature: the Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (2025).
On this episode of Nature Revisited, contributing interviewer Scott Chaskey sits down with Lance to discuss his 8-year process and deep research involved in writing the first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose...
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November 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Craig Kauffman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, and a member of the United Nations Knowledge Network on Harmony with Nature. He is also the co-author of the book 'The Politics of Rights of Nature - Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future'. With the window of opportunity to take meaningful action on climate change and mass extinction closing, more and more communities, organizatio...
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November 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Amanda Leland is the Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund, bringing unlikely allies together to find the ways that work to support healthy communities and economies while reducing climate impacts. She previously led EDF’s Oceans program, a global team in 14 countries focused on reversing overfishing while supporting thriving fishing communities, triggering the dramatic economic and ecological recovery of U.S. fisher...
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November 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Yolonda Youngs is an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at CSU San Bernardino and a dedicated scholar, teacher, researcher, and leader. Her scholarly expertise lies within national parks and protected areas, environmental justice, conservation of natural resources, environmental policy, cultural landscapes, and more.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Yolonda discusses all things National Parks including ...
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October 27, 2025 • 32 mins
Shirley C. Strum is a primatologist, conservationist and author. In 1972 she began a study of olive baboons in Kenya that is ongoing and among the longest wildlife field studies on record. Her findings changed scientific and popular perceptions of baboons dominance hierarchies, male aggression, social conduct and troop structure, and the baboon mind.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Strum recounts her extraordinary fifty-year ...
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October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic and an award-winning journalist covering science, health and the environment. Her recent book The Light Eaters is a narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Zoë discusses eye-opening facts about the life of plants and their ingenious biological methods of adaptation and survival. From their ability to commu...
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October 11, 2025 • 35 mins
WECAN (Women's Earth and Climate Action Network) is a women's global movement that focuses on the protection and defense of the earth's diverse ecosystems and communities. Founded by Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN works nationally and internationally with grassroots and frontier women leaders to build resilient communities and to transition to a clean and just energy future.
Earlier this summer, WECAN sponsored the Global Women's Asse...
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October 6, 2025 • 33 mins
Douglas H. Chadwick is an American wildlife biologist, author, photographer and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is the author of 14 books including The Wolverine Way and more than 200 articles on wildlife and wild places.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Douglas talks about his experiences with wolverines and the Glacier Wolverine Project, a 5-year study to uncover key missing information about the wolverine's hab...
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September 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Emma Marris is an American non-fiction writer, former journalist for Nature, and has written for National Geographic, Outside, Wired, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. Marris proposes a unified ethical approach that balances the protection of biodiversity with respect for the welfare and autonomy of nonhuman animals.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Marris confronts the notion of 'wildness' and the ethical challenges pres...
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September 22, 2025 • 31 mins
Greg Sarris is an author, professor, and is the Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the current Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Greg discusses his latest work, The Forgetters, a richly beautiful story cycle about remembering our shared histories and repairing the world. Recounting his early years, to discovering h...
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September 15, 2025 • 33 mins
Jason Allen-Paisant is an award-winning Jamaican poet, writer and academic, based in the UK. His latest work The Possibility of Tenderness is a people’s history of the land, a family saga, and a personal history told through the lens of the 'grung' and plants.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Allen-Paisant recalls his upbringing in rural Jamaica, the plants, people and farmers of his native district, Coffee Grove, and his even...
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September 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Leila Philip is an American writer, poet and educator. She is the author of numerous award-winning books of nonfiction, as well as poetry, contributing articles, reviews and columns.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Leila discusses the beaver, the topic of her latest book Beaverland - How One Weird Rodent Made America. Though historical examples and a poignant personal narrative, Leila highlights how this tenacious animal play...
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September 1, 2025 • 32 mins
Charles “Chuck” Luckmann purchased his first canoe for $75 at eleven years of age, which launched a passion for rivers that has never waned. During a forty-five-year career in education, he taught at nine schools in four countries, including COBWS from 1979–1982, where he spent summers at Homeplace and winters in the Toronto office.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Luckmann describes the unusual history of the Canadian Outward...
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August 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Author Roger L Di Silvestro is a professional conservationist, a former editor and writer for the National Audubon Society, and also worked for Defenders of Wildlife and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
On this episode of Nature Revisited, Roger discusses the topic of his latest book Return of the Bison, which tells the story of how this symbol of the American West was once almost lost to history and of the contin...
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