Living on Earth: Extra
Series produced by Living On Earth
LOE half-hour weekly extra program.
This is the series for the half-hour weekly extra program.
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Guyana has one of the fastest growing economies on the planet as an offshore oil boom gets underway. But a potential spill could wipe out its fishi...
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 29:00
New York state has adopted a new law aimed at using federal funds to boost public power from renewables and shut down six polluting “peaker” gas po...
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winner from North America went toe-to-toe with one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world, Formos...
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The world’s oceans are rapidly warming and recently hit an all-time temperature high. At the same time, the La Niña weather pattern is now shifting...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
In nature, some animals live far longer than humans, and some don’t appear to age at all. One species of jellyfish can continually revert back to a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This Earth Day Special from Living on Earth celebrates the planet with poetry, storytelling, and music, featuring an orchestral and choral work cal...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
230414: LOE EXTRA: Cleaning Up Toxic Air, and Hidden Plastic Waste Polluting Global South, 4/14/2023
From: Living On EarthSeries: Living on Earth: Extra
The EPA is proposing to cut the amount of toxic air pollutants industrial sources are allowed to emit. The targeted chemicals include known carcino...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Koalas begin life naked and tiny as a jellybean with none of the fur that makes them look so darn cuddly. As the little joeys grow inside their mot...
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Jane Goodall is on a mission to protect habitat worldwide by empowering local communities to develop sustainably. And it all started when she was j...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced strict new limits for PFAS chemicals in drinking water. If adopted, the proposed regulations will...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
A massive new oil drilling project in the Arctic just got the green light from President Biden despite his promises for no new drilling on federal ...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The White House has announced moves to start officially accounting for natural capital, the economic value of services provided by nature, when mak...
- Added: Mar 10, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The train derailment in Ohio last month led to a controlled release and burn of vinyl chloride, which can produce the neurotoxin dioxin. Also, in a...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The burial of a nine-year-old enslaved girl on a plantation in Louisiana may halt construction of a new petrochemical plant on that land in the sta...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
230217: LOE EXTRA: Big Oil Ask in Alaska, and High Levels of PFAS in Wild Freshwater Fish, 2/17/2023
From: Living On EarthSeries: Living on Earth: Extra
An effort by oil giant ConocoPhillips to drill in Alaska on federal land is poised to move ahead if it can secure President Biden’s final approval....
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Some scientists predict that without emergency conservation measures, Great Salt Lake will dry up completely in the next five years, devastating mi...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The births of at least 11 North Atlantic Right Whales this season is a bright spot for a species on the brink of extinction. And safer lobstering g...
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico sue the biggest fossil fuel companies alleging they knowingly contributed to climate change with their produc...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Some Florida sugarcane growers near the Everglades still use the archaic method of burning fields to remove the tops and leaves before harvesting t...
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Weather records are routinely being shattered across the United States, with recent severe rainstorms in California, freezing temperatures in Texas...
- Added: Jan 13, 2023
- Length: 29:00
