Podcast Episodes

The Unnatural World

The Unnatural World (start time: 6:58): It’s an audacious topic for a book: the planet, and audacious individuals who are working to save — actually,…

8 years, 5 months ago

Lancet Countdown on Climate Change

Lancet Countdown on Climate Change (starts 3:45) Respectable science journals no longer debate whether human activity causes climate change, or even …

8 years, 5 months ago

Tamed and Untamed: Essays on the Animal Kingdom

Tamed and Untamed

This week on How on Earth, Beth interviews Sy Montgomery and Liz Thomas, co-authors of Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the A…

8 years, 6 months ago

Mutant Proteins // Future Technologies

Mutant Proteins and Protein Evolution (starts 4:42) CU School of Medicine professor David Pollock explains why he has devised a new way to identify a…

8 years, 6 months ago

Nuclear Tests and the Van Allen Belts

In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty, agreeing to not test nuclear weapons in the atmos…

8 years, 7 months ago

Antibiotics & Your Microbiome

This week on How on Earth, Beth interviews Dr Martin Blaser of New York University who challenges the assumption that antibiotics are harmless drugs …

8 years, 7 months ago

Committed Warming

Committed warming as a function of transient climate response, courtesy of Nature Climate Change.

Much of current climate science research focuses on…

8 years, 7 months ago

The Cassini Mission to Saturn

The Cassini mission to Saturn launched 20 years ago, on October 15, 1997.  It took seven years to reach Saturn, and has been orbiting and intensely s…

8 years, 7 months ago

Aging Research Part 2

This week on How on Earth we speak with Simon Melov, a biochemist at the Buck Institute for Aging. Dr Melov studies various aspects of aging in worms…

8 years, 8 months ago

Biofuels Tradeoffs

Biofuels Tradeoffs (start time: 8:27): In this week’s show David DeGennaro, an agriculture policy specialist with the National Wildlife Federation …

8 years, 8 months ago