Killers: J pod on the brink
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Killers: J pod on the brink
Host Gloria Macarenko delves into our fraught love affair with the iconic and endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales who have become political poster children for climate change. What’s killing J ...
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Killers presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?
The climate is changing. So are we. On What On Earth, you’ll explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. In 1970,...

Episode 5: Tough Love
It’s 1964, and J pod ancestor Moby Doll is harpooned and put on display at Vancouver’s waterfront. The crowds are delighted, until he dies. It’s the b...

Episode 4: “The Water is the Starting Point”
J pod is an urban orca family, but have we made the very water they swim in uninhabitable? And why are other orca populations thriving along the same...

Episode 3: Peanut Head
A family matriarch, J35’s mother, is showing sure signs of peanut head. The experts agree: the Southern Residents are not getting enough fish to eat....

Episode 2: “Sea of Noises”
J pod is a poster child in a nation-wrenching debate over a pipeline expansion, and it all comes down to the impact of increased vessel traffic. We ta...

Episode 1: “Tapping Out”
Hope turns to dismay as a new J pod calf dies before researchers arrive. When mother J35 carries its corpse for 17 days and 1000 miles, the world wake...