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


285 Pieces

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New research confirms that the damaged Amazon rainforest is now a net contributor to climate change overall, and parts of the Amazon are already sh...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Earth’s oceans are warming much more rapidly than previously thought, recent data show, and that means rising sea levels, stronger storms, and more...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Roughly 1.3 million species have been identified and recorded, but that’s just a fraction of life on our planet. A recent advancement known as DNA ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Activists are ramping up actions against the Line 3 pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil through delicate wetlands and the treaty territory of...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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June 19th marks the holiday known as Juneteenth, when African Americans gather to celebrate their ancestors’ emancipation from slavery with picnics...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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California has often led the nation in environmental ambition, and now that his state finds itself with a big budget surplus Governor Gavin Newsom ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Brazil’s environment minister and nine other government officials are accused of corruption, including profiting from illegal deforestation in the ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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President Joe Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure bill presents a rare opportunity to pass climate legislation through Congress. But it won...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Brood X is here at last: trillions of cicadas, underground for the last 17 years, are emerging in numerous Eastern and Midwestern states to transfo...

  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Germany's highest court recently ruled that present government commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to protect future ne...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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In a bipartisan vote the U.S. Senate approves $35 billion to address the public health hazards of lead pipes and overflowing wastewater. Why water ...

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The forests of the Congo Basin are among the most biodiverse in the world, but its wildlife is being threatened by huge demand for bushmeat. A new ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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As Living on Earth celebrates 30 years on the air, we share an Earth Day special that examines this decisive moment for the human species and our c...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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President Biden has invited 40 world leaders to a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate this Earth Day, a key moment in the international effort to add...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Arizona’s Sky Islands are home to heat and cactus, but also many species that you’re more likely to find far north of the desert Southwest – and ev...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Enric Sala’s love for the ocean drew him into a career in marine biology. But as he studied damaged marine environments, he began to feel he was wr...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The first broad study of all greenhouse gases in the Amazon rainforest reveals that the damaged ecosystem is now a net contributor to climate chang...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Fine particulate matter produced from fossil fuel combustion is known to cause numerous health issues, and a recent study finds that this pollution...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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The climates of North America and Europe depend on tropical heat circulated by massive system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean. But research shows...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Ten years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Japanese authorities are planning to release some of the contaminated cooling water into th...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00