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.


252 Pieces

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Climate change is a key concern for Democratic voters looking towards the 2020 presidential election. To keep track of where the many candidates st...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Arizona’s Sky Islands are home to heat and cactuses, but also many species that you’re more likely to find far north of the desert Southwest – and ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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New Hampshire may be one of the smallest states in the US, but it’s suing some of the largest chemical companies in the world for knowingly polluti...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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The Netflix original Our Planet is a new and inspiring nature documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The bingeable series provides ...

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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As if the crop failures, infrastructure damage, and biodiversity loss linked to climate change weren't already enough, new research finds that glob...

  • Added: May 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro is making climate change a key part of his campaign for president. At a recent meet and greet in New Hampshire, ...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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As climate disruption advances with rising sea levels and more intense storms, floods and wildfires, some people are thinking about safer places to...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is a Democratic candidate for the 2020 Presidential elections. On a recent visit to New Hampshire, Congresswoma...

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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As sea level rise and intensifying storms put coastal ecosystems, communities, and industrial facilities at risk, ExxonMobil faces a lawsuit over t...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Since the first Earth Day in 1970, much has been done to clean up our air and water, here in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the world now faces the im...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is making climate change a focal point of his forward-looking campaign. That message ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Record flooding in the Midwest has swept away the precious topsoil that gave the "bread basket of the United States” its name. Farmers, already dea...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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A federal judge temporarily blocked drilling after he found the Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately consider climate impacts when it hel...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has sparked a new youth climate movement with her weekly “school strike for climate”, and hundreds of thousands of ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Warmer water holds less oxygen than cool water does, so as climate change warms the oceans, they’re losing oxygen. Pollutants like nitrogen and pho...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Living on Earth pays a tribute to the late educator Dick Wheeler with a reprise of the story of his journey kayaking 1,500 miles along the migratio...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Listening to forests might help protect them. Scientists are gathering acoustic data from animals that make sounds, like birds, primates and insect...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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The most sweeping land conservation bill in a decade, a rare bipartisan achievement in the Senate, designates 1.3 million new acres of wilderness, ...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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A new study finds that single-use diapers and sanitary pads contain phthalates and volatile organic compounds, chemicals that are known to cause a ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Australia’s plants and animals evolved to withstand a hot climate, but the recent extreme heat is far from normal, and in recent weeks about a thir...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00