47x1 - The Bear Man of Kamchatka

October 11, 2007

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.

47x2 - Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution

October 18, 2007

Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.

47x3 - Weather Report

October 25, 2007

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.

47x4 - Game Over: Conservation in Kenya

November 1, 2007

Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.

47x5 - The Man with the Golden Cells

November 8, 2007

The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.

47x6 - The Nature of Things Magazine

November 15, 2007

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.

47x7 - Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future

November 22, 2007

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.

47x8 - Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City

November 29, 2007

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.

47x9 - The Nature of Things Magazine

December 6, 2007

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.

47x10 - The Edge of Eden – Living with Grizzlies

January 6, 2008

47x11 - The Science of the Senses: Hearing

January 10, 2008

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.

47x12 - The Science of the Senses: Touch

January 17, 2008

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.

47x13 - The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste

January 24, 2008

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.

47x14 - The Science of the Senses: Sight

January 31, 2008

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.

47x15 - Wild China: Heart of the Dragon

June 22, 2008

Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.

47x16 - Wild China: Shangi-La

June 28, 2008

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.

47x17 - Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau

June 29, 2008

Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.

47x19 - Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall

July 12, 2008

Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.

47x20 - Wild China: Tides of Change

July 13, 2008

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.

47x21 - Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge

July 20, 2008

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.

47x22 - Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate

July 27, 2008

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.

47x23 - Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice

August 3, 2008

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.

47x24 - Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent

August 30, 2008

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.