
About this podcast
In a time of climate breakdown and mass extinction there is a new urgency to environmental writing, both as literature and as science. So In their series, Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith consider some of the most significant books published in the last few years, along with classic texts by Rachel Carson, James Lovelock and Robin Wall Kimmerer – tracing a loose arc from biology to society via questions of plant intelligence, biodiversity loss, the rights of nature,…
10 episodes · science
Nature in Crisis
About this podcast
In a time of climate breakdown and mass extinction there is a new urgency to environmental writing, both as literature and as science. So In their series, Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith consider some of the most significant books published in the last few years, along with classic texts by Rachel Carson, James Lovelock and Robin Wall Kimmerer – tracing a loose arc from biology to society via questions of plant intelligence, biodiversity loss, the rights of nature,…
Recent episodes
- ‘Impasse’ by Roy Scranton26 Jul · 15 min
- ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer28 Jun · 15 min
- ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane3 Jun · 14 min
- 'Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth' by James Lovelock4 May · 28 min
- ‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith6 Apr · 12 min
- ‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski9 Mar · 14 min
- ‘The Light Eaters’ by Zoë Schlanger9 Feb · 15 min
- ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson12 Jan · 15 min
- Introducing ‘Nature in Crisis’1 Jan · 4 min