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The “Love Nature” podcast explores humans’ inherent fascination with the natural world by connecting listeners with experts from across fields of science, research, art and more. Listen for lively, passionate discussions as guests share their affinity for nature and their hopes for its preservation. Listeners will find our guests’ inspiration infectious, walking away with a deeper understanding of how to better navigate our ever-evolving environment and live more responsibly in it. For more information or to listen, visit http://love-nature.org or http://anchor.fm/lovenature.

Love Nature NC Museum of Natural Sciences

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The “Love Nature” podcast explores humans’ inherent fascination with the natural world by connecting listeners with experts from across fields of science, research, art and more. Listen for lively, passionate discussions as guests share their affinity for nature and their hopes for its preservation. Listeners will find our guests’ inspiration infectious, walking away with a deeper understanding of how to better navigate our ever-evolving environment and live more responsibly in it. For more information or to listen, visit http://love-nature.org or http://anchor.fm/lovenature.

    Nature’s Wild Ideas

    Nature’s Wild Ideas

    Kristy Hamilton is a science journalist and author of "Nature’s Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation," recently published this October. Hamilton’s passionate pursuits and insatiable curiosity have led her all over the globe to investigate natural settings to uncover how living things are interconnected and how even the smallest species among us can offer major breakthroughs for conservation and the environmental issues of our time.


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    The Music of Climate Change, Part 2

    The Music of Climate Change, Part 2

    We’re back with Dr. Kirsten Paige, Assistant Professor of Musicology at NC State University for a deep dive into opera. High notes, dramatic costuming and illustrious sets may come to mind when thinking of opera, but what can it teach us about the history of our planet and climate change? Tune in to find out. Plus, discover which natural space is Dr. Paige’s favorite. (Spoiler: it includes picnicking with cows!)


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    The Music of Climate Change

    The Music of Climate Change

    Welcome back to the fourth season of the "Love Nature" podcast. Join us for part one of our conversation with Dr. Kirsten Paige, an Assistant Professor of Musicology at NC State University. Dr. Paige’s work explores how scientific and environmental knowledge reshaped musical practices and cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. She also has a strong interest in how music can offer collaborative responses to the climate crisis and address the inequalities brought on by it. Plus, learn what "soundwalking" is and how you can experience it!


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    Sounds of the Natural World, Pt. 2

    Sounds of the Natural World, Pt. 2

    Musician, author, and naturalist, Dr. Bernie Krause, returns for the season three finale of the Love Nature podcast. Krause discusses how relaying natural themes through art can increase impact and raise human awareness about the environmental issues of our time. Krause also plays illuminating soundscapes of social communication among a herd of forest elephants and the first “silent spring” in Northern California following an extended period of drought. Don’t miss this season's compelling conclusion.


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    • 32 min
    Sounds of the Natural World, Pt. 1

    Sounds of the Natural World, Pt. 1

    Join us for the first part of our dynamic conversation with musician, author and naturalist, Dr. Bernie Krause, one the world’s leading experts in natural sound and soundscapes — the sounds that reach human ears. Krause discusses his origins as a violinist-turned-guitarist, which led to him helping introduce the synthesizer in pop music and film, including collaborations with Motown Records and the legendary Hollywood director, Francis Ford Coppola. Later, Krause left the entertainment industry to obtain a PhD in bioacoustics, traveling the world to record, archive and share the voices of the natural world.


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    • 25 min
    Art Works for Change

    Art Works for Change

    Chris Jordan’s goal is to create art that contrasts the beauty and the horror of our world. From old cell phones to single-use plastics, Jordan uses everyday objects to create bold exhibitions that confront the environmental issues of our time in a personal and persuasive way. Join us for this enlightening and emotional conservation to find out why “loving nature” is at the heart of what Jordan is all about. Plus, hear new details about his documentary, “Albatross,” which focuses on how ocean plastic pollution is affecting bird populations in the North Pacific Ocean.


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Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
13 Ratings

13 Ratings

klynn_06sci ,

Connect to Nature

Thank you for this podcast! I’m a middle school science teacher working to connect kids to nature in urban & suburban locations by visiting our local parks. This is so important.

Artemis21 ,

A joy to hear

So proud of my local museum for putting out this podcast. Dr. E.O. Wilson is a treasure! Looking forward to more episodes. Really miss visiting the museum since the pandemic, so this podcast has helped fill that gap.

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