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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Striking auto workers won higher wages, better benefits, and more ability to unionize electric vehicle battery plants that supply the “Big Three” U...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Wealthy nations have agreed to pay low-income countries for some of the loss and damage caused by the climate crisis. But rich and poor nations are...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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A study finds that prey animals on the savanna like giraffes, zebras, warthogs and impalas are more afraid of human conversation than the growls of...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Pope Francis is back with an even bolder update to Laudato Si’, his climate change encyclical. His new text “Laudate Deum” takes on climate denial ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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As the 2024 campaign season heats up, some young Republicans want their party to move on from climate denial and offer solutions. Also, the spacecr...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Ninety years after the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Biden administration is mobilizing a national workforce to tackle today’s c...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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In 2022 the US EPA opened a civil rights investigation into whether the State of Louisiana overburdens Black communities along “Cancer Alley” with ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Marine protected areas in Turkey show the power of setting aside some space for nature. Also, if you combine hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell, yo...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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New York state has adopted a law aimed at using federal funds to boost public power from renewables and shut down six polluting “peaker” gas power ...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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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: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Extreme heat waves threaten inmates in Texan prisons without air conditioning. And, the European Union advances a new nature restoration law, with ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Earth is choked by too much carbon in the atmosphere and running a fever that is only bound to get worse if we fail to restore its balance. Why soa...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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The chasing arrow symbol that many consumers think means a plastic product is recyclable often doesn’t mean that in practice, since most plastics a...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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A case brought by sixteen youth plaintiffs has become the first constitutional climate suit in the U.S. to make it to trial. They allege that the s...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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PFAS “forever chemicals,” linked to cancer, liver problems and more, are leaching into cosmetics, household cleaners, and even food stored in plast...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Author Kate Beacon shares her story of austerity and trauma when working in Canada’s oil sands in her memoir ”Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands”. A...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00