Living on Earth: Extra

Series produced by Living On Earth

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LOE half-hour weekly extra program.

This is the series for the half-hour weekly extra program.


278 Pieces

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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: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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From care and concern for endangered animals that could be among the last of their kind, to uncommon encounters with common rabbits, and more, this...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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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 love ...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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The hit Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” uses humor and the metaphor of an impending, Earth-obliterating comet to satirize climate denial, the politic...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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China says there are many sustainable aspects of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. But critics point to the environmental degradation caused by the c...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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Along the lower Mississippi River, after 1865 Black Americans rose up from the sugar plantations of slavery and built thriving communities. But a c...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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The United Nations Environment Assembly meets in Nairobi, Kenya to start drafting a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic waste pollution....

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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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 Defen...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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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: 29:00
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Higher levels of BPA plastic exposure while in the womb is associated with increased risk of asthma and wheezing in school aged girls, a new study ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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As climate related disasters worsen, the people who help rebuild cities afterwards are more vital than ever. But advocates say these “resilience wo...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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The new James Webb Space Telescope is by far the most powerful space telescope ever built, able to see up to a hundred galaxies at once and detect ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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An Earth Day special that explores Earth as a complex and self-sustaining organism known as Gaia. Over billions of years life has interacted with t...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Electric vehicles are key to greening the transportation sector but most cars sold in the U.S. are still gas-powered. We’ll hear about what’s keepi...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00