Podcast Episodes

Hark | Interlude 1 | Isen Låter Så

Season 5

The planet is filled with unexpected and magical sounds… all you have to do is listen.

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Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Hark | 2 | Unk Boop Kwa

Season 5 Episode 2

Beneath the water lies a whole world of sound: snorts, boops, croaks, grunts. Fish, it turns out, have a lot to say, and they’ve been communicating for a long time. In this episode, we take a dive wi…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Isen Låter Så

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Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Hark | 1 | The Slime of Life

Season 5 Episode 1

For most of our planet’s existence, the Earth was quiet. The boisterous sounds of life we know today are a recent development, one that the growing field of bioacoustics is helping us understand and …

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Hark | Preview

Season 5

Humans are born into a wondrous planetary chorus. But today, many of us rarely hear anything other than ourselves. In this season of Threshold, we explore a world teeming with sound and ask what happ…

Published on 1 year ago

Time to 1.5 | Extra 1 | A Conversation with Rebecca Solnit

Season 4

In June 2024, the planet hit a terrifying milestone: 12 straight months of global temperatures at or above 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial levels. But even as the impact of climate change becomes mor…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Bison Dispatch #3: The Bison Range

Season 1

In Season 1 of Threshold, we reported on the decades-long fight to get the federal government to transfer the National Bison Range, and the bison, back to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Bison Dispatch #2

Season 1

A few weeks ago, Yellowstone National Park released a draft plan for managing bison in the park. In this dispatch, we answer your questions about the plan and what it means for the future of the herd…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Bison Dispatch #1

Season 1

Yellowstone National Park recently released a new plan for managing the bison herd. It’s in draft form, and maps out three alternatives for how to manage the herd in the future. Before it gets finali…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Best of: This Most Excellent Canopy

A lyrical ode to our atmosphere: the invisible, underappreciated substance that makes all life on Earth possible. 

There are quite a few things working against us when it comes to acting on climate ch…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago