Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLet's talk boundaries
It’s time again for our listener mail round-up, and this week, the theme is borders and boundaries. We learn what it means to define the “end of an e…
3 years, 1 month ago
After the avalanche: rescue gone wrong
On a bluebird day, in April of 2019, Snow Ranger Frank Carus set out to investigate a reported avalanche in the backcountry of Mt. Washington. He fou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Of lab mice and men
At any given time, millions of lab mice are being used in research facilities nationwide. And yet nearly all of them can be connected back to a singl…
3 years, 2 months ago
What the heck is El Niño, anyway?
In case you hadn’t heard, El Niño is back in the news, and this time it’s pushing global temperatures to the 1.5-degree climate threshold, giving us …
3 years, 2 months ago
Drilled: The Panic
At Outside/In, we often talk about the challenge of covering climate in a way that doesn’t leave us feeling hopeless or overwhelmed. For us, that’s o…
3 years, 2 months ago
If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world
It’s our listener mail round up, and this week it’s all about communication in the natural world, like: how do migratory animals teach their young ho…
3 years, 2 months ago
What's really in your wine?
Wine is considered to be an expression of a place and climate, a reflection of centuries-old traditions. But these days, a lot of wine is a product o…
3 years, 3 months ago
Oppenheimer's omission
With 'Oppenheimer,' director Christopher Nolan has turned the Manhattan Project into a summer blockbuster. The film is set in Los Alamos, one of the …
3 years, 3 months ago
Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode
Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global n…
3 years, 3 months ago
Shrimp on the line
We love shrimp in the United States. As a country, we eat over 2 billion pounds a year, making it the most consumed seafood in the country. So times …
3 years, 3 months ago