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According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starti...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 11:40
Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's raging into a wild storm. When people in the water get caught off-gua...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:46
Because of its abundant open space, Detroit, Michigan has a thriving ring-necked pheasant population. The birds have endeared themselves to many by...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 10:54
Harmful algal blooms are a growing concern in the Great Lakes. The toxins they produce can close beaches and even poison drinking water. What’s fue...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:45
Flying squirrels glow pink under a blacklight. How many other mammals do this? What causes them to glow? The hardest question of all might never be...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:50
Alison Világ pays attention for a living. She counts migrating ducks at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, near Paradise, Michigan. It's key to gett...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:27
Invasive species often spread by hitching a ride on anglers, especially anglers who don’t clean their gear after fishing. Though this is widely kno...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 13:07
Lane Frame was visiting the Great Lakes for the first time. It was a windy day and the water was rough, but Lane and his brothers headed onto a pie...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:25
A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 18:30
The city is temporary and the intersections are conceptual. Are you ready to experience Burning Man — deep in the Nevada desert?
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 04:37
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...
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- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we continue our journey at COP26 in Glasgow to see what the process for organizing a so...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 41:08
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we take you into the trenches of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, to explore how the process...
- Added: Jun 06, 2022
- Length: 58:55
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5” In this episode we travel to northern Sweden to explore how a greener process could revolutionize the iro...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 49:00
For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the most u...
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- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 46:32
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we pay a visit to two communities in Lagos, just a few miles apart, responding to climate change in very different ways.
- Added: May 09, 2022
- Length: 55:00
Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 44:52
- Purchases: 1
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 01:24:16
- Purchases: 1
We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to do—and have the technology to do it—r...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 01:02:39
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This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5.” In this episode, we look at what climate chaos could do to our ability to meet our basic needs and live ...
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- Added: Mar 01, 2022
- Length: 54:40
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the mass acceleration of nearly every process on earth that began in Britain in the 1700s during the Industrial Revolut...
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- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 48:25
- Purchases: 1
There are quite a few things working against us when it comes to understanding how urgently we need to act on climate change. But there's also the ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 38:43
After decades of scientific study and political wrangling the world has agreed—at least on paper—that 1.5C of heating must be the upper limit of ou...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2022
- Length: 46:29
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Who gets to name things?
Two western peaks named for the confederate president work their way through a bureaucratic name-changing process.
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 36:12
