Greening the Military / Solar Eclipsing Coal in Jobs / India's Renewable Energy Revolution / Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right Renewable energy to the rescue: In the U.S. military, hybrid vehicles and innovations like 'solar blankets' can improve operations, and even save the lives of soldiers. Also, in the U.S., coal still produces far more energy than solar. But solar already employs twice as many people as the coal industry does, and some former coal miners...
Aug 10, 2018•51 min
Global Warming to Worsen Southern Poverty / BirdNote: When the Amazon Floods / Linking Fracking and Radon / 100% Sun Power for Hampshire College / Fossil Fuel Freedom Fighters / Science Note: Nanowire Battery Breakthrough / The Telescope in the Ice: The Hunt for the Ghost Particle A new generation of nature writers is coming of age in America, and grappling with the loss of the pristine landscapes their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Also, rising radon levels in Pennsylvania homes have been l...
Aug 03, 2018•51 min
GOP Tax On Global Warming Gases / What The Osprey Overheard: Mark Seth Lender / LED Impacts On Wildlife / Meet the Rare, Shy, and Hungry Humboldt Marten / Science Note: A Moonshot To Save Rhinos / DNA Technology For Rhino Protection / US Tries To Boost Infant Formula A new GOP carbon tax bill promises to fight climate change with a "tax swap" that would fund infrastructure and climate adaptation strategies. Also, LED lights are energy-efficient, but they could be harming wildlife by leading sea ...
Jul 27, 2018•51 min
FEMA Unprepared To Help Puerto Rico / Repairing Puerto Rico's Corals / Combat Divers Restore Ocean Health / Beyond the Headlines / CRISPR Gene Tool Could Pinpoint Resilient Corals FEMA admits it failed to adequately prepare for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, a disaster that cost thousands of human lives. Maria devastated coral communities, too, so locals and combat diving veterans are coming to the rescue by putting healthy fragments back in place. And as rising temperatures threaten corals acr...
Jul 20, 2018•51 min
Pruitt Out, Wheeler In / Fracking On The Rachel Carson Trail / Judge Kavanaugh & Environmental Protection / Beyond The Headlines / BirdNote: Sparrow Sing In Arizona Monsoon / Hospital Farming For Better Health / The Place Where You Live: Anchorage, Alaska Scott Pruitt is gone and his deputy and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, now acting administrator at the EPA, is expected to carry on Mr. Pruitt's legacy of regulatory rollbacks. Change is also coming to the US Supreme Court , as Justic...
Jul 13, 2018•51 min
Conservatives Join Climate Agenda / Beyond The Headlines / The Tide Keeps Rising / Ozone-destroying Chemicals Make A Comeback / An American Eden: The Lost Garden Underneath Rockefeller Center / Mark Seth Lender: Tern About As America celebrated Independence Day, we looked back to the legacy of the generation that followed the "founding fathers," and the pioneering physician who founded America's first botanical garden in the heart of what's now Rockefeller Center. Also, a bipartisan carbon tax a...
Jul 06, 2018•51 min
Farm Bills Tough on Conservation and Food Stamps / US Relies on Imported Organic Foods / Climate Will Drive Corn Crop Failure / Beyond the Headlines / Central America's Climate Refugees / Audio Postcard: Sounds of São Paulo, Brazil Families say they are migrating from Central America in part because they are feeling climate disruption right now with disastrous storms and searing droughts. And in this episode, we also focus on food. Congress is slashing farm conservation measures and US farmers c...
Jun 29, 2018•51 min
Seas Rising Faster With Antarctic Melt / Boston's Rising Tide / Humpback Whales Rebound / Beyond The Headlines / The Last Lobster In this episode, we delve into Antarctica's rapid ice loss, which is three times what it was just a decade ago thanks to warmer ocean temperatures that eat away at the icy continent from below. These same warmer waters are also increasing access to food for humpback whales, and their population is booming thanks in part to conservation efforts. But the humpback whale ...
Jun 22, 2018•51 min
Tough Climate At The G7 / Canada Buys Tar Sands Oil Pipeline / EPA Dilutes Toxics Law / Beyond the Headlines / BirdNote: Exquisite Thrush Song / Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America / Audio Postcard: A Fisherman Rigging Bait on Nantucket In this episode, we discuss President Trump's refusal to join America's closest allies in discussions to advance the Paris Climate Agreement at the G7 Summit. The Trump Administration is also narrowing regulation of toxic chemicals, even though EPA ...
Jun 15, 2018•51 min
Zero Carbon Nuclear Boost For New Jersey / Beyond the Headlines / BirdNote®: Roseate Spoonbill: Hot Pink / Toxic Black Hair Products / Former EPA Chief Gina McCarthy Launches Center for Climate, Health and the Environment At Harvard In this episode, we connect some dots between environmental factors and public health. Black women may be far more exposed than white women to chemicals that disrupt the body's hormone system, research shows. These chemicals can be found in 50% of hair care products ...
Jun 08, 2018•51 min
Half a Degree Hotter Will Cost $30 Trillion / Beyond The Headlines / A Record Hurricane Disaster in Puerto Rico / Final Generation for the Marshall Islands? / Nooks for Nesting Islands that were once paradise are turning into places of peril, threatened by rising seas and intense hurricanes. This week we discuss Puerto Rico's high mortality in the wake of Hurricane Maria; a new study estimates thousands died as a result of the island's devastated infrastructure, which delayed medical services an...
Jun 01, 2018•51 min
Alaska Acts on Climate / The Most Toxic Town in America / Beyond the Headlines / No Refuge in Wildlife Refuges / Copperheads at Shawangunk / Free the Beaches: Desegregating America's Shoreline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 25, 2018•51 min
FDA Scientist Finds Weed Killer on Many Foods / Beyond the Headlines / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet: Storing CO2 in Rocks / UN Climate Talks Gear Up for December / BirdNote®: Dippers on the Elwha / Nepal's Threatened Wetlands / Saving Kerala's Fresh Water Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 18, 2018•51 min
The Koch Brothers & Trump / Beyond the Headlines / Alaska Youth Sue to Fight Climate Change / Pesticide Peril in Paradise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 11, 2018•51 min
Late Spring Imperils Birds / Beyond the Headlines / Champions for Children and Corals / BirdNote®: Whooping Cranes / Kerala's Ambitious Organic Pledge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 04, 2018•51 min
Pruitt Under Fire On Capitol Hill / Beyond the Headlines / Science Note: Sea Urchins Eat Rocks / Wasting a Wetland With Trash Ash / American Bittern: Master of Camouflage / Goldman Prize Winners Block Secret Nuclear Plant Deal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 27, 2018•51 min
The Amazon as Legal Person / Ancient Wisdom for Earth Day / Beyond The Headlines / The Green Berkeley Hills - The Place Where You Live / Valve-Turning Protestors / A Pipeline Eco Engineer Protests Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 20, 2018•51 min
Making Big Oil Companies Pay for Climate Disruption / Pruitt's EPA Allows Dirtier Air / Leave No Poop Behind / BirdNote®: Sharp-tailed Grouse On a Lek / Spoiled Water for 300,000: What Lies Upstream / Beyond The Headlines / Bald Eagles At Play Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 13, 2018•51 min
Pruitt Under Fire / Beyond the Headlines / Pruitt Seeks To Double Auto Emissions / Steve in the Sky / Tyler Prize for McCarthy / BirdNote®: Walk Down an Arroyo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 06, 2018•51 min
US Gov't Spending Goes Green / Beyond The Headlines / Note on Emerging Science: Fear Itself / Coal Plants Damage Infant DNA / BirdNote®: Australia's Rainforest Birds / Losing Life on Earth / Nature and the Beat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 30, 2018•51 min
FEMA Flood Maps Miss the Mark / Coastal Republicans Fight 'Drill, Baby, Drill' / Trouble Today for Ancient Fossils / Beyond the Headlines / A Waddle of Penguins / Stealing Dirt: A Thieving Penguin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 23, 2018•51 min
The Right To A Livable Climate / Sexual Misconduct in the US Forest Service: One Woman's Story / BirdNote®: Blakiston's Fish Owl / Beyond the Headlines / Conch at the Edge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 16, 2018•51 min
'Green' Russian Trolls / Beyond the Headlines / Gulf Orphans / No Northern Right Whale Calves So Far This Year / Ocean Health: Some Hope and Much Peril / Whales at Home in the Caribbean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 09, 2018•51 min
Judge Halts Louisiana Pipeline / Beyond the Headlines / Scientist Speaks Out On Perceived Bias in EPA Policy / Taking Stock of Nantucket Crabs / A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 02, 2018•51 min
Through the Melting Arctic Seas / Beyond the Headlines / Huge Reserves of Mercury Discovered in Arctic Permafrost / As Sea Levels Rise, Nantucket Shores Up Crumbling Beaches / The Telescope in the Ice: The Hunt for the Ghost Particle / Sea Lions at Play Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 23, 2018•51 min
Solar Market Takes a Dip / Beyond The Headlines / More Pipelines, Fewer Salamanders / It's Raining Viruses, But Don't Panic / Frog Skin Fights the Flu / The End of Epidemics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 16, 2018•51 min
America's Toxic Schools / Beyond the Headlines / China Rejects US Recyclable Plastic / Plastic Trash to Cash / Children & Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 09, 2018•51 min
More States Fight Global Warming / Beyond the Headlines / Science Note: Self-Healing Concrete / Pulling the Plug on Mega-Dams / Budweiser Brews Green / Saving Solar Energy With Salt / The Place Where You Live: Rose-Hill, Mauritius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 02, 2018•51 min
Extreme Weather Likely to Increase / Extreme Weather an Extreme Risk / Credit-Worthiness in a Changing Climate / Poetic Plea for the Marshall Islands / Atomic Bomb Waste Could Leak into the Sea / Pelicans at Pismo Beach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 26, 2018•51 min
Migratory Bird Protections Under Fire / Beyond the Headlines / Making a Bird List and Checking It Twice / Babysitting Arctic Terns / Year of the Bird / BirdNote®: Help Screech-Owls Find Homes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 19, 2018•51 min
