Living On Earth

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Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit.

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Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world. "Living on Earth" presents riveting features and commentary on everything from culture, economics and technology to health, law, food and transportation. It covers topics from the small challenges of everyday life to the future state of the environment and the health and well-being of the world's inhabitants. Curwood and company draw from an impressive array of experts, commentators and journalists, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium; Mark Hertsgaard, author of "Earth Odyssey"; Janet Raloff of "Science News"; author Sy Montgomery; and award-winning producer Terry Fitzpatrick. "Living on Earth" is a truly compelling hour of radio journalism. Hide full description

Hosted by Steve Curwood, the award-winning environmental news program "Living on Earth" delves into the leading issues affecting the world we inhabit. As the population continues to rise and the management of the earth's resources becomes even more critical, "Living on Earth" examines the issues facing our increasingly interdependent world. "Living on Earth" presents riveting features and commentary on everything from culture, economics and technology to health, law, food and transportation. It covers topics from the small challenges of everyday life to the future state of the environment and the health and well-being of the world's inhabitants. Curwood and company draw from an impressive array of experts, commentators and journalists, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New... Show full description


288 Pieces

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An influential new collection of essays seeks to elevate women’s voices in the climate movement and makes a strong case that diversity and inclusio...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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For decades North Carolina and Georgia favored Republican candidates, but a growing demographic of young people in these states is tightening Senat...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Studies show that children exposed in utero to the pesticide chlorpyrifos suffer brain damage. But in a new risk assessment the EPA is claiming tha...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is a textualist who tends to interpret the law narrowly, meaning that if she is confirmed, she would genera...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden is offering a $2 trillion climate plan as part of his “Build Back Better” economic recovery agenda. Form...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Climate and the environment are controversial subjects in several closely-watched US Senate races in the South this fall. The region faces signific...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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As wildfires blaze across the West Coast of the U.S., Brazil grapples with its own fires, in its massive Pantanal wetlands, the largest in the worl...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Fires are inevitable in much of the West due to the region’s ecology, but devasting megafires aren’t. How fire itself can be used as a tool to mana...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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A major study finds a significant reduction in the risk of cancer among high consumers of organic food. Also, the Earth is warming and changing fas...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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When an oil palm development in the poor West African country of Liberia uprooted indigenous communities, destroying their religious shrines and bu...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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PROMO FOR THIS PROGRAM: For a couple of months each year, seasonal monsoons try to quench the thirst of the desert Southwest, but much of the wat...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate made history and highlighted the campaign’s focus on environm...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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For years national parks and public lands in the United States have been severely underfunded. The Great American Outdoors Act is set to help turn ...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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As Americans confront systemic racial injustice, powerful green groups like the Sierra Club are beginning to reckon with their own histories of rac...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The Trump Administration has rolled back rules for a 50-year-old bedrock environmental law that requires careful study of possible impacts from maj...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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With an historic SpaceX launch and several Mars missions underway, 2020 is proving a pivotal year for space exploration. How innovations in space t...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The iconic Jane Goodall has spent her life advocating for the conservation of the natural world, and she joins Living on Earth to discuss her caree...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Observing the remarkable habits of solitary bees gave author Brigit Strawbridge Howard a way back into a childlike fascination with nature, and she...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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The fossil fuel divestment movement is making inroads at major institutions, including Ivy League schools, massive pension funds and more. Author a...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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June 19th marks the holiday known as Juneteenth, when African Americans gather to celebrate their ancestors’ emancipation from slavery with picnics...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00