Living on Earth: May 31, 2013
Preserving the Congo Basin's Trees, Part 1 / Preserving the Congo Basin's Trees, Part 2 / Preserving the Congo Basin's Trees, Part 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 31, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth
As the planet we call home faces a climate emergency, Living on Earth is your go-to source for the latest coverage of climate change, ecology, and human health. Hosted by Steve Curwood and brought to you by PRX.
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Living on Earth: May 24, 2013
Unpredictable Weather and Climate Change / Greenhouse Gambling / Science Note: Synthetic Ambergris / DOE Looks for Orphan Wells / The Darien Gap / Mad about Magpies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 24, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: May 17, 2013
When You Eat Chicken You Could Be Eating Arsenic / Chef Bun's Sustainable Sushi / Lasting Impacts of Gulf Oil Spill / Controversial Dam in Ethiopia / BirdNote ® Night Voices / The Wild Weather Book / Right Whale in the Wrong Place Update Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 17, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: May 10, 2013
Saving Money with Environmental Regulation / Another Coal Port Bites The Dust / Environmental Organizations Under Pressure to Divest Fossil Fuel Investments / Shale to Solar / Painted Turtles and Climate Change / Alligators All Around / Romance and Spring Harvest At Paradise Lot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 10, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: May 3, 2013
UN Leader Optimistic About Global Climate Deal / Greener Concrete / Solar Shines On / Electric Cars To Buffer the Grid / Climate Change and Land Slides in the Northwest / Flood Control With New Hybrid Grass / Robins on the Hunt-By Ear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 03, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: April 26, 2013
EPA Finds Keystone Environmental Impact Statement "Insufficient" / Preaching for Keystone / Pipeline Proselytizing and Eminent Domain / Deepwater Disaster Three Years On / Low Cost Renewable Energy Storage With Hydrogen / BIRDNOTE®/SPRING RAINS REFRESH THE DESERT / Old Whales Learn New Tricks / Joe's Pond Ice Out Contest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 26, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: April 19, 2013
Earth Day At 43 / A Pulitzer for the Climate / Carbon Neutral Capital / 'The World's Greenest Commercial Building" / Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 19, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: April 12, 2013
Green Team in the Hot Seat / Who Rules the Rules of the EPA? / Science Note/New Organs On Demand / Turning On Tidal Power / BirdNote® How Birds Sing So Loud / Secrets of the Forest Floor / The Future of Robots / Rod Clark Essay - The Ten Minute Brook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 12, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: April 5, 2013
Arkansas's Oil Pipeline Disaster / The Cleanup, the Media and ExxonMobil / Petition to Regulate Tar sands Oil Pipelines / High Court for the Environment / Fish Farm Food or Dog Treats? / Trout Are Speaking / New Hybrid Car Runs on Air / Greenland Melt Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 05, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: March 29, 2013
Bee Keepers Sue EPA / A Victory for GMOs / Power Shift - Glocal Challenge / Coal Exports / BIRDNOTE®/Urban Birds Change Their Tune / Baby Polar Bear Rescue / Hans Brinker with Briefcase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 29, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: March 22, 2013
President to Order Agencies To Consider the Climate / Shareholder Resolutions and the Carbon Bubble / Murders of Eco Activists on the Rise / Creating Tulips / Bald Eagles on the Connecticut River / Tornado Storm Kings! / Whales at Home in the Caribbean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 22, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: March 15, 2013
India's Coal Killing Thousands / Voices of Coal / The Deep Carbon Observatory / Land Rising / GMO Food Labeling / Monarch Migration / Endangered Species Gain More Protection / BirdNote © Sage Grouse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 15, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: March 8, 2013
The Team to Tackle Climate / Fracking on Amish Land / Keystone XL Pipeline Report / Canadian Government Gag Order for Scientists? / Road Salt Report / The Hazards of Plastic Waste / The Cardinal's Growing Range Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 08, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: March 1, 2013
Senate Climate Bill / Chinese Carbon Tax / Amazon Deforestation on the Rise / Science Note: A Plant With Oily Leaves / Honda and Solar Energy / The Vital Role of Bacteria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 01, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: February 22, 2013
National Parks on the Chopping Block / Secret Cash for Climate Denial / Mexican Drug Gangs Turn To Coal Mining / Corn Ethanol Challenged / Limpets and Cancer Vaccines / BirdNote® The Early Bird / Pukka's Promise to Live Longer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 22, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: February 15, 2013
Obama Doubles Down on Climate Action / Starving Polar Bears / The Thrills and Spills of Backyard Hockey / Rinkwatchers and Citizen Climate Science / Women & Population / Louis Agassiz / Earth Ear: Daybreak at Iguaçu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 15, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: February 8, 2013
US Carbon Emissions At A New Low / Waste Heat / Deadly Smog / Science Note: Why We Get Bathtub Wrinkles / Salt Pans / All Natural / Sounds of Winter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 08, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: February 1, 2013
The Quest for GMO Labeling / Capitol Hill Pollution Under Fire / Booming Coal Exports Threaten the Great Barrier Reef / Space Trash to Space Treasure / The Fight to Save Old Logger's Path / Burning! A Longer US Fire Season May Be the New Normal / The World's Largest Known Organism In Trouble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 01, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: January 25, 2013
Obama's Climate Promise / Obama Cites Religious Commandments to Act on Climate Change / Mercury Dangers Around the World / A New International Treaty on Mercury / BirdNote ® Barred Owl / Research Update on the Impact of BP Oil Spill / America's Bats on the Brink / Can Prairie Dogs Save Mexico's Prairie From the Desert? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 25, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: January 18, 2013
Chemicals That Promote Obesity Down the Generations / A Troubling Climate Assessment / Working Woodlands for Carbon and Cash / New York Times to Close Its Environmental Desk / Overly Honest Science Methods / Listener Letters / Wired Wilderness / Right Whales in the Wrong Place Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 18, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: January 11, 2013
Insuring for Climate Change / Big Buffett Solar Buy / Idle No More / Introducing the Elf / The Kilo is Gaining Weight / A Bright Spot for Coral Reefs / BirdNote® Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 11, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: January 4, 2013
Remembering 2012 and Looking Forward to 2013 / The Changing of the Environmental Guard / Fungi / Gold Mining Boom / BirdNote ®- Winter Birds Love Suet / The World Until Yesterday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 04, 2013•52 min
Living on Earth: December 28, 2012
A Look Back at the Birth of the Clean Water Act / Threats to Clean Water Today / A Look Ahead at the Clean Water Act Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 28, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: December 21, 2012
Why We Have Winter / Calming the Wind / Ant and Bear Dance / Animal Winter Behavior / Playing for Animals and Humans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 21, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: December 14, 2012
The Farm Bill and the Fiscal Cliff / Machine Tenderized Beef / Turtle Rescue / Oil Spills in Nigeria / BirdNote ® Spruce Grouse / Birthright / The Place Where You Live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 14, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: December 7, 2012
UN Climate Talks in Doha / Moving for Divestment / Trouble for the King of Beasts / Reindeer Populations in Decline / BirdNote ® Crested Auklet / Oil Dispersants and the Ecology of the Gulf / Predicting the End of the World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 07, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: November 30, 2012
The Obama Administration Axes the CIA's Climate Change and National Security Center / New Rules for Sharing the Shrinking Colorado River / Power Shift- New Energy for New Bedford / The NAACP Cites Discriminatory Impacts from Coal-Fired Power Plants / Science Note: Monkey Mind Control / Power Shift - Northeastern University Cited As America's Greenest College / The Place Where You Live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 30, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: November 23, 2012
Hope for UN Climate Talks / Recycling for Food / Power Shift - Prospering Public Transportation / Science Note: Mantis Shrimp / Tricky Lizards / Superman of Astrophysics / A Visual Feast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 23, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: November 16, 2012
The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme / President Obama Speaks Out on Climate Action / Denying Math and Science / The Economics of a Carbon Tax / Power Shift - Thermal Imaging / BP Pleads Guilty / Design Inspiration from Nature / Mimicking a Beetle to Bring Water to the People / BirdNote ®: Douglas Squirrel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 16, 2012•52 min
Living on Earth: November 9, 2012
The Environment and President Obama's Second Term / Adapting Cities to Climate Disruption / Biking in the Storm / Power Shift - Bike Sharing in Boston / BirdNote ® Spoon-billed Sandpiper / Flight Behavior Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 09, 2012•52 min
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