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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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
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
As Americans prepare to travel and gather in the end-of-year holiday season, many may be questioning how to do so safely in this era of the pandemi...
- Added: Dec 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Our global food system feeds environmental crises like global warming and water pollution even as it fails to adequately feed billions of people wo...
- Added: Dec 03, 2021
- Length: 29:00
"The Reign of Wolf 21" is the true love story of an alpha pair who lead their Yellowstone pack with grace, courage, and an unbreakable bond. What t...
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The Three Sisters of corn, beans, and squash all grow together in a symbiotic planting relationship honed by Native Americans over many generations...
- Added: Nov 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Tropical forests are a treasure trove of biodiversity and contain vast stores of carbon that threaten the stability of Earth’s climate system if re...
- Added: Nov 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As the UN climate talks called COP26 continue in Glasgow, Scotland, all eyes are on world leaders and negotiators as they face challenges to ramp u...
- Added: Nov 05, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Fast food could be even more unhealthy than we knew – laden with phthalates, chemicals that are linked to serious health problems and even early de...
- Added: Oct 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
More than 170 major companies have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050, with many counting on carbon offsets to help them reach that goal. But...
- Added: Oct 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Half Hour
This week, we take a look at mult- trillion dollar reconciliation bills that addresses, in part, climate and the environment. Also, pht...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
For Indigenous People’s Day we take a look at the “Land Back” movement that seeks to return land like the Black Hills in South Dakota to its origin...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
If nations adopt new air quality guidelines from the World Health Organization millions of lives could be saved every year from deadly air pollutio...
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
A recent study found that three-quarters of young people surveyed believe the future is frightening because of climate change. What young people ar...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As COVID-19 spread continues and vaccine access remains limited in some of the countries most vulnerable to climate impacts, civil society is warni...
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Hurricane Ida left people in the Louisiana region known as ‘Cancer Alley’ with destroyed homes, no electricity, and polluted water. That’s on top o...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As Living on Earth celebrates 30 years on the air, we explore Earth as a complex and self-sustaining organism known as Gaia. Over billions of years...
- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 29:00
On the next Living on Earth, Mother Trees help nurture life in the forests of British Columbia.
SIMARD: You know, an old tree never really dies, ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Every year, over a million birds migrate to several National Wildlife Refuges along the Oregon-California border. But this year unprecedented droug...
- Added: Aug 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Every year, several hundred intrepid hikers walk all the way from Mexico to Canada, along the Pacific Crest Trail. At more than twenty-six hundred ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00