Overheard at National Geographic

Come dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations overheard at National Geographic’s headquarters, as we follow explorers, photographers, and scientists to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. Hosted by Peter Gwin and Amy Briggs.

Science
Society & Culture
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The Trouble with America’s Captive Tigers
Overheard S4 E6: The Trouble with America’s Captive Tigers
25 min
127
The Strange Tail of Spinosaurus
Overheard S4 E5: The Strange Tail of Spinosaurus
27 min
128
The Search for History’s Lost Slave Ships
Overheard S4 E4: The Search for History's Lost Slave Ships
21 min
129
Chasing the World’s Largest Tornado
Overheard S4 E3: Chasing the World's Largest Tornado
26 min
130
Documenting Democracy
Overheard S4 E2: Documenting Democracy
24 min
131
Can You Hear the Reggae in My Photographs?
Overheard S4 E1: Can You Hear the Reggae in My Photographs?
26 min
132
Overheard Season 4
2 min
133
How I Learned to Love Zombie Parasites
Overheard S3 E8: How I Learned to Love Zombie Parasites
24 min
134
The Failing of War Photography
Overheard S3 E7: The Failing of War Photography
27 min
135
The Canary of the Sea
Overheard S3 E6: The Canary of the Sea
15 min
136
A Spore of Hope
Overheard S3 E5: A Spore of Hope
19 min
137
The Tree at the End of the World
Overheard S3 E4: The Tree at the End of the World
22 min
138
The United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar
When a Mongolian paleontologist sees a dinosaur skeleton illegally up for auction in the United States, she goes to great lengths to stop the sale. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard
19 min
139
The Unstoppable Wily Coyote
They're smart, they're sneaky, and they aren't moving out any time soon. Meet your new neighbor, the coyote, and find out why these cunning canids are on the rise in North America-and beyond. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic
20 min
140
The Towers of Ladakh
A mechanical engineer teams up with an unlikely band of students who use middle school math and science to create artificial glaciers that irrigate Ladakh, a region in India hit hard by climate change. For more information on this episode, visit national
17 min
141
Overheard Season 3
Smuggled dinosaur bones. Man-made glaciers. An audacious quest to find the world's southernmost tree. Each week, we'll dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations we've overheard around National Geographic's headquarters. You'll be introduced
1 min
142
The Virus Hunter
Coronaviruses aren't new. For more than 20 years, German virologist Rolf Hilgenfeld has been looking for ways to slow or stop the virus. What does it take to find a treatment for coronaviruses, and what might that mean for the future of COVID-19? For mo
16 min
143
The Frozen Zoo
Right now, one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Conservation scientists are doing whatever they can to save them, or at least of piece of them. For the last 45 years, a team of researchers at the San Diego Zoo has been fr
23 min
144
If These Walls Could Talk
Social Media is not just for modern folk. In ancient Pompeii, people also shared what they thought, who they met with, what they ate... It's just, they had to use different technology. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/ov
16 min
145
The Aquarius Project
A fireball from outer space crashed into one of Earth's biggest lakes. Scientists didn't know how to find it. So, they called in just the right people for the job -- an actor and a bunch of teenagers. For more information on this episode, visit nationalg
24 min
146
March of the Beaver
The desolate Alaskan tundra - a landscape that has literally been frozen solid for thousands of years - is suddenly caving in on itself. Colonizing beavers are engineering new wetlands that thaw the soil, rapidly releasing greenhouse methane into the atm
14 min
147
Cave of the Jaguar God
Crawl into the Maya underworld, where science meets spirits, shamans, and snakes. A long-forgotten cave could shed light on one of history's most enduring questions: why did the ancient Maya collapse? For more information on this episode, visit https://w
26 min
148
The Hidden Cost of the Perfect Selfie
What do tigers, sloths, elephants and bears have in common? They're all part of the incredibly lucrative captive wildlife tourism industry. Travelers from around the world clamor for opportunities to pose with these magnificent creatures and get that per
24 min
149
The Alien Underground
Half a mile below the surface of the earth, in a cave too hot to explore without an ice-packed suit, NASA scientist and Nat Geo explorer Penny Boston clambers around glassy crystals that are taller than telephone poles and wider than dinner tables. But i
25 min
150
Digging Up Disaster
How did an ancient Roman harbor end up in ruins? Scientists realized the culprit was a long-forgotten natural disaster that left tell-tale geological clues -- and possibly an eyewitness account in an ancient religious text. But solving this mystery led t
23 min