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Living on Earth: States Fight Plastics Crisis in Court
With a global plastics treaty delayed and federal action to stem the plastics crisis unlikely in the near future, states and cities are turning to the courts...
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Living on Earth: Eminent Domain and Takings
Voters in four Western states will decide ballot initiatives next month that could profoundly change the regulation of private property. Host Jeff Young talks...
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Living on Earth: Dangerous Crossing
When the nation's security alert level goes from yellow to orange, traffic along the U.S. border with Mexico slows to a dead stop. Kent Paterson reports from...
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Living on Earth: Care for the Common Critter
As a wildlife rehabilitator, Julie Zickefoose has had some remarkable encounters with animals. She joins Bobby Bascomb to share some of her own stories and...
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Living on Earth: May 3, 2024
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: January 15, 2021
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: The Dangers of Triclosan
New research indicates that Triclosan, an antibacterial chemical used in scores of consumer products, is harmful to the hormonal system of developing frogs...
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Living on Earth: China and US Restart Climate Diplomacy
The world is way off track from the Paris Agreement goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A new joint statement on fighting the climate crisis from the...
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Living on Earth: Animal Self-Medication
A paper published in the journal Scientific Reports describes the case study of an orangutan who treated and healed his own wound. Zoologists have long seen...
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Living on Earth: Enviro Hollywood
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Living on Earth: Mining Riches on the Ocean Floor
In the depths of the sea, parts of the ocean floor are covered with manganese nodules. These contain valuable minerals that could be extremely useful for...
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Living on Earth: Newsletter
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Living on Earth: Sacred Groves in China
In the Yunnan Province in Southwest China, generations of locals have protected sacred forest groves that some consider the homes of the spirits of their...
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Living on Earth: April 1, 2005
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: Remembering Naturalist Tom Lovejoy
Host Steve Curwood and White House Deputy Director for Climate and Environment, Jane Lubchenco, continue their conversation about the legacies of leading...
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Living on Earth: Listening on Earth
At Living on Earth we encourage listeners to share glimpses of their world through audio recording. We feature a collage of different audio recordings from...
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Living on Earth: Hopi Tribe Seeks to Reclaim Water From Peabody Energy
The Hopi Indian Tribe in Arizona gets eighty percent of its income selling coal, and water used to transport the coal to the Peabody Coal Corporation. But now,...
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Living on Earth: Starborn: How the Stars Made Us
Stargazing has profoundly shaped who we are as human beings, and gave rise to science, religion, and origin stories from diverse traditions. Roberto Trotta, a...
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Living on Earth: Louisiana Storm Protection: Past, Present and Future
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: Almanac/Spindletop
This week, we have facts about Spindletop. This gusher in 1901 ushered in the oil era in Texas.
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Living on Earth: Letters
This week, we dip into our mailbag to hear what listeners have to say.
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Living on Earth: Bioterrorism Threat
The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington this week have many Americans feeling very vulnerable. Terrorism experts say it could have been even worse had...
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Living on Earth: Ecological Indicators
Economic indicators are a common part of news broadcasts. Commentator Terry Link argues environmental indicators should air alongside them.
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Living on Earth: A Citizen Science Bioblitz
The City Nature Challenge is an international contest known as a bioblitz: a brief, intensive survey of biological diversity over a set area and time. A few...
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Living on Earth: Midnight in the Everglades
Alligators have such gaping jaws you might wonder what they eat. For one group of researchers looking into this, the answers so far point to snails and...
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Living on Earth: Grazing in the Grass
A small number of ranchers are rejecting the feedlot system and raising their cows on grass. Guy Hand follows one cattleman as he tries to make a go of...
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Living on Earth: Field Note: The Agreement - Maasai Giraffe in the Highlands of Kenya
Living on Earth's Explorer-in-Residence Mark Seth Lender recalls the first time he saw a giraffe in the wild, and comments on the value of their wildness and...
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Living on Earth: February 17, 2023
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: Combat Divers Restore Ocean Health
For veterans of combat diving, life after the military can lack a sense of purpose. Now a nonprofit called FORCE BLUE is giving these military veterans a new...
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Living on Earth Profile # 12: Eugene Odum, the Godfather of Ecology - The World from PRX
Forty years ago Eugene Odum wrote a book that revolutionized the academic approach to the science of ecology. Odum advocated the integration of plant and
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Living on Earth: Alternative Summit Talks
Evelyn Tully-Costa reports on the meetings in New York this month of people who say they and their environmental concerns are being shut out of the UN Earth...
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Living on Earth: A Tasty Vegan Thanksgiving
Vegan fare may be healthier for the planet and people than foods based on animal products, but most Americans do prefer a plump turkey on the center stage for...
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Living on Earth: Global Warming Is Heating Up
A special report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on October 8, 2018 spells out the need to move quickly to curtail global...
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Living on Earth: March 25, 2016 - The World from PRX
Lead Found in 2,000 US Public Water Supplies / Beyond the Headlines / Reducing the Costs of Air Pollution / Science Links East Coast Snows to Arctic Warming /...
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Living on Earth: The State of Our Ecosystems
A new report from the Heinz Center distills environmental data from 150 different organizations, businesses, universities and government agencies. Host Steve...
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Living on Earth: Birds on the Wing
They fly by night, and the males arrive first to set up the breeding grounds. Not only that, but they sport regional dialects. Naturalist Laurie Sanders takes...
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Living on Earth: Florida Mercury Levels Down
Mercury levels in Florida Everglades wildlife have dropped more than 75% the last decade. Guest host Bruce Gellerman talks with Tom Atkeson, mercury...
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Living on Earth: August 22, 2003
This week's Living on Earth, PRI's environmental news and information program. Full transcript with streaming and downloadable audio available.
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Living on Earth: Environment and the Law in 2023
The case West Virginia v. EPA and the Inflation Reduction Act made 2022 a landmark year for environmental law. Pat Parenteau, former EPA regional counsel and...
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Living on Earth: Emerging Science Note/Parroting Elephants
Living on Earth's Jennifer Chu reports that elephants have a knack for imitation, whether it's the sounds of other elephants or trucks.
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Living on Earth: True Cost Accounting for Nuclear Power
Though many say that nuclear power is necessary to help limit global warming, Amory Lovins, Co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, says that nuclear power is...
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Living on Earth: Youth Climate Plaintiffs Try Again
Back in 2015 a group of young people sued the United States for failing to protect the climate and therefore their rights to a livable future, but the case was...
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Living on Earth: The Make Love, Not War Species
Bonobos, members of the great ape family, have very elaborate, and unique, social and sexual behaviors. Host Steve Curwood talks with Dr. Amy Parish,...
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Living on Earth: Liberating Liberia
When Silas Siakor became aware of the government corruption behind logging in his homeland, he decided to take action, even if it would mean risking his life....
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Living on Earth: The Guardian Newspaper Climate Campaign
Before he retires this year, the Guardian Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger wants this UK paper with a readership of more than 7 million to focus forcefully on...
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Living on Earth: Charging Solar
California is considering charging a fee to people who make their own electricity instead of buying it from utilities. Cheryl Colopy, of member station KQED,...
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