Claire Wiley

Walt Meier, senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center explains how and why Arctic sea ice has been receding for years and the global ramifications of this loss. Then Ronda Carnegie, executive director and co-founder of Project Dandelion an organization calling on the women of the world to unite for a climate safe world, talks about their campaign for women with smallholder farms.

Arctic sea ice has experienced an unprecedented decline over the past decade. Senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Walt Meier, discusses what is currently happening to sea ice and how it is effecting the ecosystems that rely on it.

Ronda Carnegie, executive director and co-founder of Project Dandelion, discusses the mission of the organization and how it is campaigning for women with smallholder farms.

Local nonprofit Bridge21 hosts Nashville singer-songwriter round at the Prospector Theater on Oct. 25. Hear about the organization's mission and from the headliners of the event whose hit songs include multiple top 10s and #1s.

National Geographic Explorer Dr. Lisa Briggs, an underwater archaeologist, archaeological scientist and documentary filmmaker is best known for her work excavating shipwrecks. Dr. Briggs discusses her scientific analysis on artifacts recovered from some of the world's most important underwater archaeological sites including Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. Then biologist and author Karen Lloyd breaks down her firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath Earth’s surface.

Go deep into the sea with National Geographic Explorer Dr. Lisa Briggs, an underwater archaeologist, archaeological scientist and documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work excavating shipwrecks and conducting scientific analysis on artifacts recovered from some of the world's most important underwater archaeological sites.

Peter Kuper is an award-winning cartoonist who shares a visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction with his new book "INSECTOPOLIS: A Natural History." In the book, Kuper layers history and science with color and design, to tell the remarkable tales of dung beetles navigating by the stars, hawk-size prehistoric dragonflies hunting prey and mosquitoes changing the course of human history. Then, Bridget Lyons, a traveler, explorer, and former wilderness guide talks about her new book, "Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species." Lyons takes readers everywhere from Alaska to California and Honduras to Mexico, braiding stories of animals and plants with careful observation, scientific research and wonder.

In his new book, "INSECTOPOLIS: A Natural History", award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them.

Bridget Lyons, a traveler, explorer and former wilderness guide has just penned a new book, "Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species." The book takes readers everywhere from Alaska to California and Honduras to Mexico, braiding stories of animals and plants with careful observation, scientific research and wonder.

Award-winning author Gary Ferguson has written for a variety of national publications and and has penned twenty-seven books on nature and science, including his latest book: "The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West."