Mike Downie
Director
The Nature of Things (1960)
Season 47
The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.
Released Nov. 6, 1960
Episode 42 min
10+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.nature, tmdb.environment, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.science-and-technology-documentary, imdb.science, imdb.natural-science, imdb.four-word-title
Watch Providers: fuboTV
Network: CBC Television
S47E1 - The Bear Man of Kamchatka
Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russian zoo and secrets them away to his home in the remote wilds of the South Kamchatka peninsula, in the former Soviet Union.
Oct. 11, 2007, midnight
S47E2 - Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution
Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.
Oct. 18, 2007, midnight
S47E3 - Weather Report
Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future and the fundamental values of our industrial societies.
Oct. 25, 2007, midnight
S47E4 - Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.
Nov. 1, 2007, midnight
S47E5 - The Man with the Golden Cells
The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.
Nov. 8, 2007, midnight
S47E6 - The Nature of Things Magazine
Witness the exciting lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Station, in London. A look at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most sophisticated machine ever constructed by science. And an interview with musician and environmentalist, Sarah Harmer.
Nov. 15, 2007, midnight
S47E7 - Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future
Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.
Nov. 22, 2007, midnight
S47E8 - Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City
Hot Times in the City takes the pulse of three major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, as they grapple with one of the planet's greatest threats to human health: global warming.
Nov. 29, 2007, midnight
S47E9 - The Nature of Things Magazine
A look into the multi-billion dollar underworld of counterfeit drugs, the tale of the Lunokhod a self-propelled robot on the Moon that could be controlled from the Earth and an interview with Boston Bruins' defenseman, Andrew Ference.
Dec. 6, 2007, midnight
S47E10 - The Edge of Eden – Living with Grizzlies
Jan. 6, 2008, midnight
S47E11 - The Science of the Senses: Hearing
In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche.
Jan. 10, 2008, midnight
S47E12 - The Science of the Senses: Touch
In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors and up into the brain as we explore the hidden language of our most essential sense.
Jan. 17, 2008, midnight
S47E13 - The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste
In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.
Jan. 24, 2008, midnight
S47E14 - The Science of the Senses: Sight
This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters our eyes, to the way this information is transformed into electrical impulses and decoded by our brain - the domain of "visual perception". The act of "seeing" takes an immense amount of brainpower, more than 65% of the brain's neural pathways.
Jan. 31, 2008, midnight
S47E15 - Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.
June 22, 2008, midnight
S47E16 - Wild China: Shangi-La
Beneath billowing clouds in China's far southwest, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks and jewel-coloured birds and ancient tribes share forested valleys where wild elephants still roam.
June 28, 2008, midnight
S47E17 - Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.
June 29, 2008, midnight
S47E18 - Wild China: Land of the Panda
Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.
July 5, 2008, midnight
S47E19 - Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.
July 12, 2008, midnight
S47E20 - Wild China: Tides of Change
China's coast is an area of huge contrast-from futuristic modern cities jostling traditional seaweed-thatched villages to ancient tea terraces and wild wetlands where rare animals still survive.
July 13, 2008, midnight
S47E21 - Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
The SEDNA IV sails across the Polar Front, an area where cold turbulent Antarctic waters meet warmer water from the north - one of the earth's last great refuges for wildlife.
July 20, 2008, midnight
S47E22 - Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate
Antarctica's inhabitants are telling us that their world is changing in complex and subtle ways. The once successful colonies of diminutive Adelie penguins are declining because of increased snowfall - one of the unexpected consequences of a warmer climate.
July 27, 2008, midnight
S47E23 - Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
A cold and mysterious world that is home to some of the toughest and most unusual creatures on the planet: giant ribbon worms, dragon fish, and ancient sponges.
Aug. 3, 2008, midnight
S47E24 - Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on the expedition to measure the threat posed by global warming in the Antarctic - a place where the Earth is particularly vulnerable.
Aug. 30, 2008, midnight
Network: CBC Television
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 40 min.
Released: Nov. 6, 1960
Last Air Date: Nov. 18, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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