Living on Earth: Extra
Series produced by Living On Earth
LOE half-hour weekly extra program.
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Climate and the environment are controversial subjects in several closely-watched US Senate races in the South this fall. The region faces signific...
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Fires are inevitable in much of the West due to the region’s ecology, but devasting megafires aren’t. How fire itself can be used as a tool to mana...
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Clean water is a basic human right, according to the United Nations. Yet for millions of Americans, it can still be expensive and hard to come by. ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Black women in America commonly use hair relaxers, leave-in conditioners, and relaxers to straighten and smooth their textured hair. But many of th...
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Green spaces are known to provide physical and mental health benefits, and a recent study finds that living near the coast can provide the same ben...
- Added: Aug 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For a couple of months each year, seasonal monsoons try to quench the thirst of the desert southwest, but much of the water runs off. Now conservat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For many of those living in and near tropical forests, one of the only ways to get cash to pay for healthcare is by logging. Now the nonprofit Heal...
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For years national parks and public lands in the United States have been severely underfunded. The Great American Outdoors Act is set to help turn ...
- Added: Aug 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The environmental movement in America has deep ties to the nation’s history of systemic racism and white supremacy. Now, as Americans confront raci...
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The Trump Administration has rolled back rules for a 50-year-old bedrock environmental law that requires careful study of possible impacts from maj...
- Added: Jul 24, 2020
- Length: 29:00
With a historic SpaceX launch and several Mars missions underway, 2020 is proving a pivotal year for space exploration. How innovations in space te...
- Added: Jul 17, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The iconic Jane Goodall has spent her life advocating for the conservation of the natural world. Sixty years ago on July 14th, 1960, Jane arrived i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The innate curiosity about and connection to the natural world that many of us experience as children are often lost on the path to adulthood. Auth...
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The fossil fuel divestment movement is making inroads at major institutions, including Ivy League schools, massive pension funds and more. Author a...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
June 19th marks the holiday known as Juneteenth, when African Americans gather to celebrate their ancestors’ emancipation from slavery with picnics...
- Added: Jun 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Environmental pollution and exposure to climate risks like heat waves are closely linked with systemic racism, yet the environmental movement has l...
- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A group of Black scientists, birders, and nature enthusiasts recently convened on social media to create the first ever Black Birders Week. It’s gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2020
- Length: 29:00
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to be worse than average and bring three or more extremely dangerous storms, at a time when FEMA is...
- Added: May 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Long before the COVID-19 disruptions forced dairy farmers to dump of milk into fields, a third of all food produced was going to waste in the US. T...
- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Paris Climate Agreement architect Christiana Figueres writes in her new book "The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis" about the urgent ...
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
