Adam and Mendel play "guess that sound" with recordings from the ongoing forest restoration project on Quadra Hill, Galiano Island.

We're back!! Thank you all for waiting so patiently as we lined up the pieces for Season 6, which will be kicking off very soon indeed.

In this Q+A follow-up to FE5.6, we're digging even deeper into the practice of Mitigation Banking, where ecosystem restoration (and nature itself) may be a profitable investment at scale.

While that episode was effectively a monologue for storytelling and stylistic reasons, this conversation gets into the weeds of offsetting, how credits are assessed and monitored, land trusts and permanent stewardship easements, intersections with real estate and Indigenous land back, permitting and project impacts, and Adam Davis's philosophy vis-à-vis capitalism.

In FE5.1 & 5.2 we got to know jumping spiders primarily through a single genus: Habronattus, the paradise jumping spiders. In this bonus conversation with photographer Michael Lun, we discuss the only genus of jumping spiders that can claim to be even more bedazzling: Maratus, the peacock jumping spiders.

Okinawa, 2019: Producer Simone Miller and Dr. Nick Friedman set off into the Yanbaru Forest to visit one of the OIST Ryukyu Soundscapes Project field sites, for FE2.5 - The Nature of Sound.

Despite being briefly blocked by several unscheduled wildlife road crossings, they reach the field recorder and witness the procession of insect and bird calls from day into dusk.

We’re speaking with documentarian Dan Pierce, director of Heartwood: an ongoing series of short films exploring the ecological, social, and economic impacts of industrial logging