Living on Earth: Extra
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LOE half-hour weekly extra program.
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An influential new collection of essays seeks to elevate women’s voices in the climate movement and makes a strong case that diversity and inclusio...
- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 29:00
For decades North Carolina and Georgia favored Republican candidates, but a growing demographic of young people in these states is tightening Senat...
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Jenni please fill Studies show that children exposed in utero to the pesticide chlorpyrifos suffer brain damage. But in a new risk assessment the E...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is a textualist who tends to interpret the law narrowly, meaning that if she is confirmed, she would genera...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden is offering a $2 trillion climate plan as part of his “Build Back Better” economic recovery agenda. Form...
- Added: Oct 02, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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
