Preview: Season 2

We Are Nature returns on November 7, 2025! Tune in to delve deep into Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s collection of over 22 million items. Fourteen Carnegie Museum of Natural History experts as well as special guests from Three Rivers Waterkeeper and the Royal Ontario Museum join the podcast to discuss collection items as windows into the science and ethics of the Anthropocene, the time period when human activities began significantly shaping their environment.

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Episode Transcript

Michael Pisano (00:00):
Carnegie Museum of Natural History holds over 22
million collection items.
22 million! Radioactivecrystals, plastic nurdles,
dinosaur teeth the size of yourarm.
On the new season of We AreNature, we're delving deep into
Carnegie's cabinets and cases,sifting through objects and
organisms in search of storiesof stewardship, solutions, and
scientific wonder.
Learn and laugh about birds,botany, bones, beetle poop, and

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more on We Are Nature, a podcastabout natural history and
livable futures.