Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRetracing a historic fur trade route across Quebec with Bruno Forest
Episode 128
For 97 days, this team of six paddled 1,200 kilometres in hand-built canoes from Tadoussac to Waskaganish, Que. while tracing a historic fur trade ro…
7 hours ago
At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight
Episode 127
The conservation scientist and seabird researcher shares her insights on studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica and what it’s like to live in one of …
2 weeks ago
Into the Carpathians: Skiing Ukraine’s highest peaks with Laval St. Germain
Episode 126
The Canadian explorer highlights the impacts of war on wildlife as well as people, what Kyiv is like today, and Ukraine’s shifting landscape
4 weeks ago
Beneath the ice: The hidden life of Canada’s frozen lakes with Andrew Budziak and Andy Bramburger
Episode 125
In the frigid underwater ecosystems of Canada’s frozen lakes, these explorers are revealing what lies beneath the ice. Plus, climate impacts, citizen…
1 month, 1 week ago
Searching for life beyond Earth with Sara Seager
Episode 124
The Toronto-born astrophysicist and MIT planetary scientist shares her thoughts on deep space, leading robot missions to Venus and more
1 month, 3 weeks ago
200 km across the Atacama: Ray Zahab on survival, heat, and the edge of human limits
Episode 123
Running a marathon a day in extreme heat, the ultra-endurance athlete’s latest expedition shows what resilience looks like and what humans are capabl…
2 months, 1 week ago
Newfoundland, Cod Collapse and saving the North Atlantic right whale with Jenn Thornhill Verma
Episode 122
The award-winning journalist and RCGS Fellow joins Explore for a conversation about ocean conservation, fisheries and the future of marine life
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The life and death of an iceberg with Jill Heinerth
Episode 121
Ahead of her the new documentary The Berg, underwater explorer and RCGS Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth reflects on diving beneath icebergs, work…
3 months, 1 week ago
Michael Palin on Monty Python, polar plunges and travelling with curiosity
Episode 120
The renowned English comedian reminds us why travel, humility, humour, and listening matter now more than ever
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Artemis II: A Canadian goes to the moon with David Saint-Jacques
Episode 119
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are returning to the moon, and Canada is playing a central role
4 months ago