Synopsis
Living on Earth is a weekly news and information program from PRI about the world's changing environment, ecology, and human health. If there's something new about global warming, climate change, environmental politics or environmental quality and human health, you can count on Host Steve Curwood and the LOE public radio news team to keep you up to date with fair and accurate coverage.
Episodes
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Living on Earth: July 15, 2011
15/07/2011 Duration: 51minNuclear 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
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Living on Earth: July 8, 2011
08/07/2011 Duration: 51minEPA'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
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Living on Earth: July 1, 2011
01/07/2011 Duration: 51minFight 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
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Living on Earth: June 24, 2011
24/06/2011 Duration: 51minChemicals' 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
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Living on Earth: June 17, 2011
17/06/2011 Duration: 51minThe 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
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Living on Earth: June 10, 2011
10/06/2011 Duration: 51minU.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
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Living on Earth: June 3, 2011
03/06/2011 Duration: 51minGermany 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
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Living on Earth: May 27, 2011
27/05/2011 Duration: 51minBlack 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
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Living on Earth: May 20, 2011
20/05/2011 Duration: 51minRemaking 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
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Living on Earth: May 13, 2011
13/05/2011 Duration: 51minFlammable 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
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Living on Earth: May 6, 2011
06/05/2011 Duration: 51minArctic Melting Speeds Up Rising Sea Levels / Floods, Tornadoes and Climate Change / Tornado Recovery As a Pathway to Sustainability / Re-engineering the Mississippi River to Reduce Floods and Bring Back Big Fish / GMO Hay Threatens Organic Dairy Farmers? / BirdNote®: Frank Bellrose and the Wood Ducks / Science Note: Fighting Fires With Electricity / Collecting Seeds From Historical Trees / Computer Game based on Climate Models Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: April 29, 2011
29/04/2011 Duration: 51minChina Adopts Cap-and-Trade to Curb Emissions / LOE Lookback - It's All Happening at the Zoo / Science Note: Early Birds / Sustainable City Gardening / The Indonesia Mega Rice Disaster / Earth Ear: Maple Sugaring / **New** Big Floods, Big Explosion Along Mississippi River Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: April 22, 2011
22/04/2011 Duration: 51minPesticides Influence on IQ / Climate Goes to Court / Remembering Chernobyl / Solar Street Lamps could be a Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Coal and Oil Shape Cultural Stereotypes / BirdNote® / **Web Extra" TVA's Landmark Decision Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: April 15, 2011
15/04/2011 Duration: 51minFeds Cut Cash for Environmental Protection / Warnings About a New Nuclear Reactor / Breast Cancer & Pesticides in 1991 / The 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize / The Human Costs of Coal and Oil / Tracking the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: April 8, 2011
08/04/2011 Duration: 51minEPA in Congressional Crosshairs / Deficit Woes Trim Support for Ethanol / LOE Retrospective/ Cancer Alley / Cockroach, Robot, Astronaut / Operation Ice Bridge / BirdNote® How Brown Pelicans Dive / Los Angeles Suburbs Try Neighborhood Electric Cars / Turning Waste to Fertilizer -- Humanure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: April 1, 2011
01/04/2011 Duration: 51minFukushima Disaster Makes Japan's Coastal Waters Radioactive / President Calls For more US Oil & Gas Drilling / Should we Recycle Spent Nuclear Fuel? / A Deadly Spill For Cetaceans? / Breakthrough Discovery For Cystic Fibrosis Treatment / The Drive to Improve Mass Transit / Living on Earth Marks 20 Years On the Air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: March 25, 2011
25/03/2011 Duration: 51minDueling Senate Bills to Block EPA CO2 Regs / True Cost Accounting for Nuclear Power / An End to Nuclear Power in Vermont? / Experts Warned of Reactor Flaws Decades Ago / Rare Penguins Endangered By Oil Spill On Remote Island / Adventures Above the Arctic Circle / Monsters, Manipulation, and the Message from Nuclear Films Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: March 18, 2011
18/03/2011 Duration: 51minFighting Further Meltdowns / Dangers From Depleted Atomic Fuel / Japans Nuclear Regulatory Failures / Pro Nuke or No Nuke? Washington Reacts / Which Way Will Duke Energy Go? / Carbon Nation: The Movie / Understanding the Sounds of Ecosystems Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: March 11, 2011
11/03/2011 Duration: 51minRethinking the "Debate" Over Climate Science / China's Five Year Plan / Chemical Review / Lost Frogs Update / We Like Lichen / May Be Alien Bacteria / Can a Hollywood Producer inspire Americans on Climate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Living on Earth: March 4, 2011
04/03/2011 Duration: 51minCan REDD Work for the Amazon? / Curing Mosquitoes of Malaria / The Future of Biofuels and the Weather / Science Note/Sting to the Heart / The Rx for Healthy Kids / Sea Otters at Bay / The Language of Landscape / Generation Hot / Botanical Books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices