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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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
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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
The Colorado River is parched in a megadrought. Why supply continues to shrink as demand holds steady. Also, fires and mudslides along I-70 in Colo...
- Added: Aug 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As a slew of extreme weather events hits the headlines, the evidence mounts we are headed for dangerous thresholds of climate disruption beyond the...
- Added: Jul 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Many of us are fixated on the now: thinking about a project due Tuesday, or plans for the weekend. But the author of the book “Deep Time Reckoning”...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50%, and female fertility is also declining. Some...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The deep ocean is one of the most challenging places on Earth to conduct scientific research, but new upgrades to the deep-sea submersible Alvin wi...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Insects far outnumber us on this planet, and they’ve shaped the course of human history. Stories about the ancient relationship between human socie...
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
