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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The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to restrict what the Environmental Protection Agency can do about climate change. Why a loss for EPA in this one c...
- Added: May 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Amid record low water levels that threaten hydropower generation, the federal government has decided to retain water in Lake Powell instead of rele...
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Whistleblowers for the Environmental Protection Agency say that the New Chemicals Division has had scientists erase data and approve toxic chemical...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
