Podcast Episodes

From Habitat Loss to Repairing Connectivity

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Helping Wild Animals Roam (start time: 3:29) Wild animals, whether  buffalos or bats,  need space to move around–not just t…

7 months ago

Science Journalism with Miles O’Brien // Acetaminophen and Autism

This episode features Miles O’Brien, a science journalist who has been a correspondent for PBS News and CNN. He talks about his experience breaking i…

7 months, 1 week ago

What About All Those Body Products We Buy?

On this week’s How On Earth, Beth spoke with two cosmetic chemists, hosts of the podcast The Beauty Brains. We touched on some basic questions I have…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Menopause, Hormone Therapy, Science

Menopause & HT (start time: 0:58)  It happens to every woman with a uterus who reaches midlife. Menopause is a major hormonal  transition that, altho…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

The (ever-changing) Scoop on Vaccines

On this week’s How on Earth, Beth describes recent developments in defunding NIH research and CDC limits on vaccine availability; then digs into vacc…

8 months ago

Climate Change, Astronomy, Canine Astronauts

Climate change. Astronomy.  A canine astronaut. They intersect in our guest, astronomer and author Dr. Jeff Bennett. Among other things, we focus on …

8 months, 1 week ago

Bill McKibben – Here Comes the Sun

US Critical Earth Metals “Hiding in Plain Sight”  (starts 1:00)  Colorado School of Mines has just published a new study that indicates the US has en…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Wildfires in a Changing Climate

On this week’s show we replay an interview from two years ago with author John Valliant on his then-newly released book, Fire Weather, the story – an…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate Science, Human Lives at Risk

Waleed Abdalati
photo credit: CIRES

Standing Up for Science (start time: 6:39)  Since President Trump began his second term in January, his administra…

9 months ago

The Vera Rubin Observatory

The history of astronomy has many stories of trying to understand our universe, and those stories are connected by a common thread: looking at the sk…

9 months, 1 week ago