Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLife as an Incarcerated Firefighter, An Ancient Climate Solution, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, and more.
Around a thousand of the firefighters who battled blazes around southern California in January 2025 were incarcerated. They do essentially the same w…
11 months, 1 week ago
Sounds of Soil, “Depaving” the Way to Greener Neighborhoods, The Light Eaters and more.
Sounds like the overlapping songs of birds can speak volumes about the biodiversity in an ecosystem, and now scientists are looking to use the tiny s…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Complex Air Pollution and Public Health, Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe, Animal Self-Medicating
A study from Johns Hopkins researchers found that residents near or on the fence line of polluting enterprises are at higher risk for multiple health…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, Uprooted By Climate, Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and more.
Eels play an important ecological role in many rivers and streams, but they’re so eel-usive that even eel scientists have been challenged to observe …
11 months, 4 weeks ago
EPA Cuts Scientific Research, Censorship in US National Parks, Zombie Fires in Canada and more.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its Office of Research and Development, which represents 50 years of independent scientific r…
1 year ago
Weakening Disaster Prep, Climate-Resilient Coffee, Clearing Air in Cancer Alley, and more.
Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration, impacting…
1 year ago
Congress Busts Carbon Budget, Climate Disruption Worsens Flood Risks, and America’s Rural Sanitation Crisis.
As the climate crisis brings ever more devastating floods, storms, heat waves and fires, the Republican-led Congress and President Trump have slashed…
1 year ago
Trump Faces Youth Climate Lawsuit, Tempered Hope for COP30, EPA Employees Speak Out and more
19-year-old Eva Lighthiser has experienced climate anxiety for most of her life, as her home state of Montana faces worsening floods, wildfires, and …
1 year ago
EPA Ignores Climate Dangers, From Plastic Trash to Art, and Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet.
This June the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about a quarte…
1 year, 1 month ago
Juneteenth and Striving for Ecological Justice
Just as the enslavement of people was driven by commercial interests, today the enslavement of nature for profit violates a morality that sees value …
1 year, 1 month ago