Truffles Are Hiding a Dirty Little Secret

In kitchens around the world, truffles represent culinary excellence and prestige, but in the forest they’re just another flora fighting to exist, using somewhat…unusual methods. In the lush woodland of the Pacific Northwest, these modest mushrooms’ adaptation strategies are promoting not only their own survival, but that of their forest ecosystem at large.

More Episodes

Why Antelope Canyon Never Looks The Same Twice

What does it mean to preserve a place that is defined by it's impermanence?

This Upside Down Cave Is a Microscopic Warzone

Microbial warfare has been raging for thousands of years deep below the Chihuahuan Desert.

This Volcano Won't Stop Erupting

What does one of Earth's harshest environments teach us about planet survival?

Other Shows You May Enjoy