Living on Earth
World Media Foundation
As the planet we call home faces a climate emergency, Living on Earth is your go-to source for the latest coverage of climate change, ecology, and human health. Hosted by Steve Curwood and brought to you by PRX.
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Jul 15, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: July 15, 2011
Nuclear Power Safety Assessment Raises Concerns / Conservation Funding on Chopping Block / Lighting Efficiency / Can the Bluefin Bounce Back? / Few "Like" Environmental News / More Roads, More Traffic / Evolution in Action Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 8, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: July 8, 2011
EPA's Good Neighbor Rule has wide Health Benefits / Environmental Triggers for Autism / California State Parks Face Closure Despite Innovation / Science Note/ Between Ocean and Sky / War's Toll on Afghanistan's Environment / ID That Tree / High Tide for Tidal Power? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 1, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: July 1, 2011
Fight Over Vehicle Efficiency Revs Up / EU Carbon Market Slumps / Zero Waste Green Grocer / Science Note: Super Sturdy Steel / Closing State Parks / The Nature and Art of Fireworks / Listener Letters Dirt Winner / Protecting a Florida Treasure / Central Park's Trees Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 24, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: June 24, 2011
Chemicals' Role in Breast Development / Ocean Extinction Trend / Obama Taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve / Fracking Makes Earthquakes? / Natural Gas and Greenhouse Gasses / Many Dishwashers Harbor Dangerous Fungus / BirdNote® Cowbirds and Yellow Warblers / Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act / Can the Moose of Summer Take the Heat? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 17, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: June 17, 2011
The Fire and Climate Change Feedback Loop / FDA slaps new regulations on sunscreen / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Earth Enters Period of Turbulent Solar Weather / Predicting the End of the World / Author Looks to Thoreau for Balance / The Life and Legacy of a Creative Scientist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 10, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: June 10, 2011
U.N.Climate Talks Underway in Bonn, Germany / Rights of Sinking Nations / Who's Running Down RGGI? / Pros and Cons of Canada-US Oil Pipeline / Choosing to Save Chamois / Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist / BirdNote® - Choosing Where to Nest / Eating Dirt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 3, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: June 3, 2011
Germany Says No to Nuclear Power / Will Jerry Brown Shift California Cap and Trade? / Environmental Activists Murdered in the Amazon / Wet Fields Prevent Corn Planting / Charting the Health of Coral in the Persian Gulf / "Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next" / Living, Breathing Earth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 27, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: May 27, 2011
Black Lung is Back / The Best and the Worst U.S. Cities for Pedestrians / Coal Could Fuel Oil Alternative / Project Mohole Pioneers Deep Sea Drilling / Garden Girl in the City / Raising Kids in a Toxic World / Loon Crosses the Lake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 20, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: May 20, 2011
Remaking the Mississippi--Engineering Marvel or Monster? / EPA Stalls on Cleaning Up Industrial Air Pollution / Science Note/ Candles / The Republican Climate Conundrum / A Teenager Sues Uncle Sam over Climate Inaction / Blessing of the Bicycles / Lion Meat, Anyone? / BirdNote® - How Birds Produce Sound / Earthear Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 13, 2011 • 52min
Living on Earth: May 13, 2011
Flammable Gas In Drinking Water From Hydraulic Fracking / Cut the Deficit By Cutting Oil Subsidies, Senate Democrats Say / Coal in the Classroom / Japan Says No More Nukes / Plugging Kids Into the Great Outdoors / Cool Fix / Air Batteries / Belly Button Biomes / Climate Change and Chasing Chile Peppers / **NEW**Coal in The Classroom Story Triggers Response Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
