This Green Earth

Utah State University biology professor Dr. Joseph Wilson discusses Utah's native wild bees.

Pepperdine University biology professor Dr. Javier Monzon shares his findings from a new study on urban coyotes.

We speak with Pepperdine University’s Dr. Javier Monzon about coyotes. We’ll discuss the differences between urban and rural coyotes and even a new hybrid subspecies. Then, Dr. Joseph Wilson joins the show to discuss wild bees. Did you know that Utah is home to more than 1,000 species of bees? We chat everything from bee biology to a bees facial recognition abilities, and the best way to help bee conservation in our own backyards.

Zoologist Joanna Bagniewska joins the show to share more about her work and her book The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures. The book presents 100 real, fascinating animals in the style of a medieval bestiary, but with scientific accuracy.

Environmental journalist Caroline Tracey has just released her debut book, SALT LAKES: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY.In this dazzling love letter to these strange and delicate waters, Tracey takes readers on a journey around the world to document salt lakes, their loss, and the efforts to save them.

Environmental journalist Caroline Tracey discusses her debut book "Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History," a blend of reporting and memoir exploring the fragile, vanishing ecosystems of salt lakes around the world. She takes readers from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea, documenting their decline—and the urgent efforts to save them. (xxx)Then, zoologist Joanna Bagniewska shares her work and her book "The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures." The book presents 100 real, fascinating animals in the style of a medieval bestiary, but with scientific accuracy. (xxx)

Nature Leaves Clues Everywhere — Tristan Gooley Shows how to find them in his new book "The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues." Then, world-renowned wildlife photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford capture Earth’s most remote places. A conversation with Peter and Beverly Pickford about their global adventures.

Learn how to become a natural navigator with best selling author and the “Sherlock Holmes of Nature”, Tristan Gooley. Gooley's new book is titled "The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues."

World-renowned wildlife photographers Peter and Beverly Pickford talk about their journeys across the planet to capture the world’s most wild places from land to ocean.

Award-winning illustrator and author, Jennifer N.R. Smith joins the program to discuss her latest book in her Wild Wonders series, "LIFE: the Wild Wonders of Biodiversity".