(Airdate: November 12, 2025) Nature Now takes a deep dive into the world of whale sound this week!  Please join host Debaran Kelso as we speak with humpback whale expert Dr. Fred Sharpe, whose recent research has focused on aerial whale signals, the “blows”, wheezes” and “thrums” of everyday life.

(Airdate: November 5, 2025) It’s getting cold and rainy outside. We have gotten out our winter clothes and rain boots, checked that our home’s furnace is working well, stocked up on comfort foods, and perhaps, planned a winter vacation to a warmer and sunnier place. As the seasons change, some birds migrate to warmer places. But, how do the birds that stay the winter survive? Listen as Nan Evans talks with Christie Lassen of the Wild Birds store in Gardiner as they talk about the behavioral, physical and physiological strategies used by our regional birds.

(Reprise airdate: October 22, 2025) Nature Now host Nan Evans talks with University of Washington marine biologist and research, Dr. Jason Hodin about the mysteries of the endangered Sunflower Sea Star. If we can understand these intricacies, perhaps humans can help restore the endangered Sunflower Sea Star population in the Salish Sea by learning how to raise and take care of baby sea stars.

(Airdate; October 15, 2025) What was that “pffit, pffit” sound? That small, triangular fin? A dolphin? But it doesn’t
want to play in our boat’s bow wake. Ah, it is a Harbor Porpoise, the smallest cetacean found in the Salish Sea. What do we know about them? Not very much it seems. Scientists are just learning more through direct, non-invasive observations of individuals. Join Nan Evans as she talks with Dr. Cindy Elliser of Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) and explore what they have been recently discovering and just how much more there is to learn about these secretive mammals.

(Reprise Airdate: October 8, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we speak with Scott Brinton, co-founder and executive director of the CedarRoot School, about tracking and its importance to wildlife conservation. This is part 1 of a two-part program.

(Airdate: October 1, 2025) Please join Nature Now this week as we explore the world of science books for kids! Debaran Kelso speaks with celebrated author Melissa Stewart about her upcoming book From Bam! to Burp! A Carbon Atom’s Never-Ending Journey Through Space and Time and YOU!

(Airdate: September 24, 2025) We are all familiar with bees. Did you know that honey bee colonies are highly organized, complex, with a rigid caste system, and whose individuals depend on their societal organization to survive. Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with Colleen Ebken, a beekeeper on Marrowstone Island, about her bee colonies and the wonderful world of bees in general.

(Airdate: September 17, 2025) Nan Evans talks with local Port Townsend mushroom
enthusiasts, Helen Kolff and Jessica Latourelle. They explore attitudes, myths, truths,
and edibility of mushrooms. Did you know what we see are only the fruiting bodies of
extensive mycelial networks? Or, that they are not plants and they perform critical
ecosystem functions. And, why are some people fascinated with fungi?

(Airdate: September 10, 2025) Join Nan Evans as she talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics and science have fundamentally changed how we use the timber resources and perceive our relationship with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation.

(Airdate: September 3, 2025) Nan Evans talks with Lynda Mapes, longtime environmental
reporter for The Seattle Times, about how culture, economics and science have
fundamentally changed how we use the timber resources and perceive our relationship
with forests. Much of the conversation is driven by Mapes’ most recent book, The Trees
are Speaking: Dispaches from the Salmon Forest.