Catherine Winter

Catherine Winter is a freelance reporter and editor, as well as senior producer of The Really Big Questions, a program that explores questions that intrigue scientists and philosophers. She's also a beekeeper and master gardener.

Catherine Winter is a freelance reporter and editor, as well as senior producer of The Really Big Questions, a program that explores questions that intrigue scientists and philosophers. She edits documentaries for American RadioWorks, the national documentary unit of American Public Media.

Catherine has won dozens of national awards, including the Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the American Bar Association Silver Gavel, and the Casey Medal. She has a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She taught journalism and media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she received the College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award. She is a beekeeper and a master gardener.

A bee approaches a peach blossom. Many of the more than 20,000 species of bee worldwide, including the well-known honey bee, are threatened by disease, habitat loss, and pesticides. President Obama's national pollinator plan would provide incentives for r

From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for pollinators

Honey bees and other pollinators are in big trouble. President Barack Obama wants to help save them with a new protected bee habitat corridor along I-35 spanning the US from Laredo, Texas to Duluth Minnesota. Catherine Winter, who lives in Duluth and keeps bees herself, tracked down some other bee enthusiasts to talk about the president's plan and their own efforts to protect the pollinators that help feed us all.

From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for pollinators

Does the West have a monopoly on romantic love?

Does the West have a monopoly on romantic love?
A romantic kiss

Scientists say they’ve found romantic love, in brain scans

Scientists say they’ve found romantic love, in brain scans

Japanese citizen radiation-tracking program goes big time, spawns U.S. branch

Japanese citizen radiation-tracking program goes big time, spawns U.S. branch

In Japan, Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time

In Japan, Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time

In Japan, Banking on Compassion and Clean Energy

Japanese banker Tsuyoshi Yoshiwara hardly fits today's caricature of a greedy, soulless banker. Instead, he campaigns against nuclear power, pays himself a modest salary and says compassion should be his company's key virtue.

In Japan, Banking on Compassion and Clean Energy