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The Nature of Things

Season 32 1991 - 1993

  • 1991-10-03T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 11h 15m (15 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.

16 episodes

Season Premiere

1991-10-03T00:00:00Z

32x01 The Debate on Animal Research Issues

Season Premiere

32x01 The Debate on Animal Research Issues

  • 1991-10-03T00:00:00Z45m

Season Premiere - Visits to research facilities in Canada, the United States and Great Britain highlight the debate on animal research issues.

Documentary about the precarious situation of grizzly bears in Canada.

1991-10-17T00:00:00Z

32x03 Air Crash

32x03 Air Crash

  • 1991-10-17T00:00:00Z45m

Folder on research conducted by the experts of air safety when an aircraft accident occurs.

1991-10-31T01:00:00Z

32x04 Post Mortem

32x04 Post Mortem

  • 1991-10-31T01:00:00Z45m

Advances in forensics that uses new techniques including DNA identification.

1991-11-14T01:00:00Z

32x05 Hooked on Oil (R)

32x05 Hooked on Oil (R)

  • 1991-11-14T01:00:00Z45m

The oil addiction of the industrialized world.
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1991-11-21T01:00:00Z

32x06 25 hour Clock

32x06 25 hour Clock

  • 1991-11-21T01:00:00Z45m

Documentary on our biological clock.

1991-11-28T01:00:00Z

32x07 The Human Tide

32x07 The Human Tide

  • 1991-11-28T01:00:00Z45m

Since 1950, the human population of the world has doubled to nearly five and a half billion people. The major factor behind our assault on the environment is the rapidly accelerating growth of the human population. The world population is exploding and we must find a way to control our numbers.

1991-12-05T01:00:00Z

32x08 Running for their Lives

32x08 Running for their Lives

  • 1991-12-05T01:00:00Z45m

A portrait of the life of the wild dog by photographer Hugh Miles that includes the forces threatening the extinction of Africa's most endangered carnivore.

Lasers have uses in communications, education, medicine, manufacturing and war.

1992-01-23T01:00:00Z

32x10 Seasons of the Sea

32x10 Seasons of the Sea

  • 1992-01-23T01:00:00Z45m

The life cycles of the animals living in the giant kelp forests off the coast of California.

1992-02-06T01:00:00Z

32x11 A Toxic Journey

32x11 A Toxic Journey

  • 1992-02-06T01:00:00Z45m

Documentary on the inhabitants of the three cities that are urging the government to act against industrial pollution.

1992-03-12T01:00:00Z

32x12 Burgess Shale

32x12 Burgess Shale

  • 1992-03-12T01:00:00Z45m

Documentary on marine fossils buried the in the Rocky Mountain feet.

Documentary on migratory birds.

1992-04-30T00:00:00Z

32x14 April 29, 1992

32x14 April 29, 1992

  • 1992-04-30T00:00:00Z45m

Title to be confirmed.

Anthropologist Dr. Shirley Strum reveals the social behavior of a troop of African olive baboons known as the ``Pumphouse Gang.''.

1993-05-31T00:00:00Z

32x16 A Climate for Change

32x16 A Climate for Change

  • 1993-05-31T00:00:00Z45m

Global warming may cause rising sea levels and agricultural disaster.

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