Living On Earth

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Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit.

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Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world. "Living on Earth" presents riveting features and commentary on everything from culture, economics and technology to health, law, food and transportation. It covers topics from the small challenges of everyday life to the future state of the environment and the health and well-being of the world's inhabitants. Curwood and company draw from an impressive array of experts, commentators and journalists, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium; Mark Hertsgaard, author of "Earth Odyssey"; Janet Raloff of "Science News"; author Sy Montgomery; and award-winning producer Terry Fitzpatrick. "Living on Earth" is a truly compelling hour of radio journalism. Hide full description

Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world. "Living on Earth" presents riveting features and commentary on everything from culture, economics and technology to health, law, food and transportation. It covers topics from the small challenges of everyday life to the future state of the environment and the health and well-being of the world's inhabitants. Curwood and company draw from an impressive array of experts, commentators and journalists, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New... Show full description


286 Pieces

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Tropical forests are a treasure trove of biodiversity and contain vast stores of carbon that threaten the stability of Earth’s climate system if re...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland brought mixed results with an agreement to phase down coal and efforts to cut methane emissions but la...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In some Native cultures four more staples join the “Three Sisters” of corn, beans, and squash. The “Seven Sisters” and the importance of saving Nat...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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A groundbreaking meta-study correlates exposures to plastics containing phthalates with a wide variety of diseases including obesity, diabetes, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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As Americans prepare to travel and gather in the end-of-year holiday season, many may be questioning how to do so safely in this era of the pandemi...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Underwater explorer Craig Foster dives nearly every day in the near-shore waters of South Africa and it’s here that he befriended an octopus, a rel...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Native American myths and tales help us endure or even enjoy the short days and long nights of winter. Living on Earth’s annual celebration of stor...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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From one woman’s dream of swimming with marine iguanas, to uncommon encounters with common rabbits, to a Native American tale of how the dog came t...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Two leading naturalists who pioneered the field of conservation biology passed away at the end of December 2021. A look back on E.O. Wilson’s big i...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Millions of Americans are breathing carcinogenic air pollution emitted from refineries and chemical plants, but EPA has failed to account for the c...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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When President Biden took office a year ago he laid out bold goals to halt federal oil and gas drilling, reach carbon neutrality by 2050, and recti...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Wildfires have been raging in South America’s Patagonia, where until recently fires were rare. But invasive species and heat, drought, and dry thun...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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A federal Judge revoked the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history by the Biden Administration, citing environmental concerns. Wha...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The stalled Build Back Better budget bill contains half a trillion dollars of renewable energy and climate resiliency investments. So House Democra...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Nearly 1 million environmentalists voted in the 2020 presidential election but have yet to show for a midterm election. Why these environmental dro...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The Congo Basin is home to one of the largest peatlands in the world, and a massive repository of carbon dioxide. Locals have been sustainably hunt...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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A more conservative Supreme Court has taken up a case that could significantly limit the tools EPA can use to curb greenhouse gas emissions from po...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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At a recent UN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, delegates from over 170 countries committed to come up with an ambitious cradle-to-grave, legally binding...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Europe has vowed to quickly wean itself off Russian gas and electric heat pumps could help. Activist Bill McKibben explains how invoking the Defens...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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European nations are taking a fresh look at nuclear power as a more secure and carbon-free source of energy than Russian oil and gas. Also, Preside...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00