It’s been a big year for environment news: records broken, a new El Nino, and dire forecasts for a hot summer.

In this bonus episode, we’re diving deep into what happened in environment news in 2023, including ... the next frontiers of mining and potential environmental outcomes, possible good news about Amazon deforestation, and very worrying news about black swans.

Historian Tom Griffiths says a new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. He wrote his essay Odyssey down under for Inside Story.

At the age of 87, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki has stepped down as host of CBC TV’s The Nature of Things. In May, the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto hosted an evening with David Suzuki - Reflections of an Elder.

Carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise. Antarctic ice shelves melt and the Amazon burns. Bob McDonald says the future is now.

We revisit a bold new Sunday night program in 1975, and coverage of the Apollo missions.

Nicky Phillips has won this year’s Bragg Prize for Science Writing.

They were close to extinction. Now seashorses in Sydney Harbour may have survived.

Landscape may be an important unrecognised contributor to climate change.

The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate.

Mathematics is a key tool in every scientific discipline