• picture
  • picture
  • picture
  • picture
Public Radio's Environmental News Magazine (follow us on Google News)

2015 Archives


December 25, 2015
Aine Minogue Celebrates Hope In Celtic Holiday Traditions / Sparky and Rhonda Rucker Celebrate Hope in the Traditions of Slaves / Stories of Hope from Noa Baum

December 18, 2015
Hope and Concern Sparked By Paris Climate Deal / Goodbye Oil, Gas and Coal? The World Faces the Epic Challenge of the Paris Agreement / The Climate Movement in the Streets / Paris Agreement Opens Door for Green Investment / Beyond the Headlines / The Wooden Sword / A Story of Peace

December 11, 2015
Historic Climate Agreement Reached in Paris / Indigenous Peoples Fight for Their Rights at COP21 / Financing Forests to Cut Down on Carbon / Canada’s Bottom-up Approach to Cutting Carbon / Poetic Plea for the Marshall Islands

December 4, 2015
Climate Summit Boosted By Optimism at the Start / Paris Progress So Far / Climate Activists Defy Paris Protest Ban / How Will the World Address Loss and Damage From Climate Disruption? / 2400 Coal-Fired Power Plants Planned Despite Climate-Friendly Pledges / India's Solar Initiative and the Challenge of Climate-Safe Development

November 27, 2015
Almost Out of Time / Paving the Path to Paris with Gold / What is the Carbon Footprint of a Typical Thanksgiving? / Beyond the Headlines / What We’re Fighting For Now Is Each Other

November 20, 2015
New Toxic Substances Control Act Likely / Prenatal Chemical Exposure Linked to Obesity / Health Risks of Water Fluoridation Raise Concerns / Let's Talk Turkey / Cranberries Take Centerstage / Beyond the Headlines / Pawpaw: America's Forgotten Fruit

November 13, 2015
The Climate Movement Post Keystone / A Demand for a Green Transition / Infrared Technology To Cool Buildings / Big Battery Breakthrough / Beyond the Headlines / Building a Better Honeybee / The Beekeepers of Ancient Egypt

November 6, 2015
More Nuclear Power Plants Shutting Down / Shut-Down Nukes Still Worry Neighbors / Sudden Deaths For Endangered Antelopes / Man-Made Barriers to Pronghorn Migration / The Place Where You Live: Wyoming's Red Desert / BirdNote®: Whooping Cranes

October 30, 2015
Better Office Air Makes For Better Thinking / Building a Sanctuary for Endangered Bats / Greening Death / Beyond the Headlines / The Living and Dead in Good Company

October 23, 2015
Exxon Denied its Own Climate Research / Exxon Denies Allegations in Investigative Reports / Lawmakers Press For Exxon Investigation / McKibben Arrested To Draw Attention to the Exxon Allegations / Beyond the Headlines / Canada Shifts Left and Greener / The Creole Pig

October 16, 2015
Democrats Debate Climate Change / The King of Coal On Trial / Beyond the Headlines / Coral Bleaching On the Rise / The Pacific Coast's Starving Seabird Mystery

October 9, 2015
Pesticides, Herbicides and Childhood Cancers / MacArthur 'Genius' Cleans Up Polluting Health Sector / Pushing for Green Chemistry / Resetting the Gettysburg Battlefield Landscape / Beyond the Headlines / India at a Crossroads

October 2, 2015
Shell Oil Backs Down / The Pathway to Paris / Invasives Threaten Native Grasslands in the Pacific Northwest / Beyond the Headlines / Amazon Tribe Fights Back Against Illegal Logging / Humans and Dolphins / Black Lightning

September 25, 2015
The Pope at Congress: Care for Nature and the Poor / Louisiana’s Swamp Defenders / The Federal Conservation Fund Endangered / BirdNote: Voices of Our Public Lands / Beyond the Headlines / Saving Whales From Deafness / Online Exclusive: Airing Volkswagen’s Dirty Emissions

September 18, 2015
Climate Protestors Take on Public Land Leasing / EPA Broke the Law When it Approved a Pesticide Unsafe for Bees / Fires Threaten the North / Scientists Say They've Discovered A New Species of Humans / Beyond the Headlines / The Night Bird / An Evangelical View of the Climate and Pope Francis / EarthEar

September 11, 2015
Undoing Deregulation to Keep Coal Alive / Beyond the Headlines / Global Warming Linked to Syrian Refugee Crisis / Fighting Today's Invaders In Boston Harbor / A Prayer to Share Earth as a Commons

September 4, 2015
EPA Fails To Properly Regulate Fracking Waste / The Beef With Ground Beef / Cheerios Go Green / Rethinking Our Relationship to Palm Oil / "Tropical" Diseases Reappearing in the U.S. / Beyond the Headlines / The Place Where You Live: Cowee, North Carolina

August 28, 2015
New Orleans Still Vulnerable To Storms / Racism and NOLA's Recovery / Turning up the Heat on Frigid Offices / Beyond the Headlines / Endangered Porpoise Caught in the Web of Illegal Fishing / Unseen Ocean Migrations

August 21, 2015
World Islamic Leaders Call For Climate Action / Obama Adds Methane to Climate Protection Rules / Florida's Disappearing Springs / Beyond the Headlines / Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West

August 14, 2015
Rafting Down The Unbound Elwha / Freeing The Arteries of The Planet / Alaskan River Riches: Fly fishing and Salmon Science / Encountering Black Bear / Alaskan River Riches: A River Town in Transition

August 7, 2015
The Best and Worst Cities Preparing For Climate Change / Car-Free To Become Carefree In Helsinki / Danish Green Roofs / Urban Acupuncture To Cure City Ills / Building Complete Streets / Canals in Boston?

July 31, 2015
The Hillary Clinton Campaign Goes Solar / At Risk the Pangolin- A Mammal With Scales / Abalone Back From The Brink / Beyond the Headlines / BirdNote®: Where Are All The Queen Birds? / Woman Power and Small Farm Success

July 24, 2015
Coal Dethroned: Now What? / Beyond the Headlines / Emerging Science: Undervaluing Wild Bees / Pollinator Declines Threaten Public Health / Prairie Dogs: Saving Mexico’s Prairie from the Desert / On Guard / Why Are We Waiting To Save Ourselves?

July 17, 2015
Climate Change Fuels Wildfires / Caviar Sends Poachers After Columbia River Sturgeon / Human Influences on the Mosquito / Squashing the Mosquito Population / Drones: Taking Off in the Agriculture Industry / The Power Plant that's Draining the Colorado / Earth Ear: Rhinoceros Auklets

July 10, 2015
The Supreme Court Blocks EPA's Mercury Rule --For Now / BP Will Pay $18.7 Billion to Settle Gulf Oil Spill Fines and Gov't Claims / Arsenic and Frackwater Waste / Fingerprinting Frackwater / Beyond the Headlines / Restoring Giant Kelp Forests / Fighting Invasive Ribbon Grass

July 3, 2015
Newly Discovered Algae Helps Corals In Warming Oceans / Pond Scum May Be Associated With ALS and Alzheimer's / Louisiana's Moon Shot / Climate Change & Pacific Northwest Glaciers / Meltdown in Tibet / Harvesting "Himalayan Viagra"

June 26, 2015
Pre-Natal Exposure to DDT Linked To Breast Cancer / BPA Exposure Associated With Poor Parenting / Mule Deer Poachers Slip Past The Law / Drones Stymie Rhino Poachers / Beyond the Headlines / BirdNote®: How Much Birds Sing / The Evolution of Birdsong / Purple Martins: Extroverts of the Air

June 19, 2015
Pope Calls for Harmony With Nature To Save Humanity / Cleaning Up the Power Sector / Beyond the Headlines / ­­BirdNote®: A Big Black Gas Leak Detector / The Quest for the ‘Asian Unicorn’

June 12, 2015
Losing Frozen Earth Could Cook the Planet / G7 Calls for an End to Fossil Fuels / Beyond the Headlines / Chimps Like To Cook / BirdNote®: Bird Song, Music, and Neuroscience / New Music Brings John Muir's Story to Life / The Place Where You Live: East Claridon, Ohio

June 5, 2015
US House Votes New Fishing Rules / Beyond the Headlines / World Sailors Call For Plastic-free Oceans / Testing Boston Harbor for Plastic / Meeting the Challenge of Plastic Marine Debris / Boston's Not-So-Dirty Water / The High Human Cost of Cleaning Up Boston Harbor / Kittiwake: A Life on the Edge

May 29, 2015
Rail Finance Off Track / The True Cost of Fossil Fuels / Beyond the Headlines / Coal Rising in the West / Discovering the Lost World of the Old Ones / BirdNote: Protecting Our Largest Shorebird

May 22, 2015
FBI Breaks Its Own Rules to Spy on Keystone Protestors / Beyond the Headlines / Living With The Rise and Fall of King Coal / Elk Island: A World Less Apart / The Great Transition to Renewables

May 15, 2015
Tornado Clusters / Talcum Powder Linked to Ovarian Cancer / Honoring an Environmental Health Pioneer / Driving Down Diesel School Bus Emissions / Beyond the Headlines / The Puffin Project

May 8, 2015
Atomic Bomb-making Wastes Threaten Missouri Neighborhood / Wolf Song on the Rebound / What A Howling Wolf Howl Says / Wolves on the Brink / Beyond the Headlines / Checking Up on Native Plants

May 1, 2015
Siberia’s Mysterious Craters / Leading at the Top of the World / Illuminated Fishing Nets Prevent Bycatch / Calling Over Boat Noise Is Making Orcas Hungry / Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies / Beyond the Headlines / The GOP's Lonely Climate Warrior / BirdNote: Vocabularies of Birdsong

April 24, 2015
To Survive a Drought, Fix the Price of Water / The ELF Gains Traction / Poetweets: Science Communications in Verse / Beyond the Headlines / The 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

April 17, 2015
The Guardian Newspaper Climate Campaign / First Warnings of Endocrine Disruptors / The Mother of Endocrine Disruption Science / Beyond the Headlines / Springtime Birding with David Sibley

April 10, 2015
Bill McKibben on Earth Day and the Power of Protest / The State of the Gulf, Then and Now / Patagonia's Beaver Problem / The Invaders

April 3, 2015
Herbicides Can Boost Antibiotic Resistance / Growth In Livestock Antibiotics Raises Risks For Humans / US Advances Climate Plan For Paris Summit / Greening the Tea Party / Georgia Legislature Passes Solar-Friendly Legislation / Beyond the Headlines / Liter of Light

March 27, 2015
Obama Slashes Federal Global Warming Gases / New Fracking Rules Protect Groundwater on Federal Lands / Melting Ice Slows Down Ocean Circulation / What a Record-Low Snowpack Means for Summer in the Northwest / Beyond the Headlines / Defending Darwin

March 20, 2015
Oil Train Safety Off Track / Conservationists Help Workers Strike for Refinery Safety / One Woman Fought Shell Oil To Save Her Town / The Place Where You Live: Omaha, Nebraska / Beyond the Headlines / How Beavers Help Save Water

March 13, 2015
New Jersey's Lowball Environmental Settlement / Belated El Niño May Mean Hotter Times Ahead / Insuring Wildlife and the Lives of Endangered Rhinos / The Red List of Life At Risk / Beyond the Headlines / The Boys Who Loved Birds

March 6, 2015
Newly Discovered Algae Helps Corals In Warming Oceans / Pond Scum May Be Associated With ALS and Alzheimer's / States Reconsider Renewable Standards / Advances In Storage for Renewable Energy / Beyond the Headlines / BirdNote: Eating Well Together / Nicaraguan Canal Could Be Environmental Catastrophe / Listener Letters and A Fun Lesson on Thermodynamics

February 27, 2015
Presidential Hopefuls and Climate Change / Harvard Divestment Case In Court / Stewardship Saturdays in Boston Harbor / The Federal Animal Killing Program / Ancient Wheat and the Rise of Agriculture / Beyond the Headlines

February 20, 2015
FBI Questions Keystone XL Activists / Harvard Sued Over Fossil Fuel Investments / Plastics and Male Reproduction / Hormone Disruptors Linked to Genital Changes and Sexual Preference / Beyond the Headlines / Evolution in the Age of Mass Extinction / Learning to Climb

February 13, 2015
Snow and Financial Woes Bury Boston Transport / Tribal Nations Against Keystone Pipeline / Pipeline Raises Safety and Property Rights Concerns for Landowners / Surfing the Web to Heat Your Home / Beyond the Headlines / Gus Speth Calls for a "New" Environmentalism

February 6, 2015
New Agency Proposed To End Food Safety Problems / Bi-Partisan Call for a Gasoline Tax / Beyond the Headlines / Probing Dolphins’ Genetic Mysteries / Eyes on the Seas / Cuba's Unspoiled Tropical Reefs

January 30, 2015
Protecting the Arctic / Alaskan Oil Economics / Beyond the Headlines / The Perfect Protein / Alaskan River Riches: A River Town in Transition

January 23, 2015
2015 Target For A Strong Climate Treaty / Margaret Atwood on Fiction, The Future and Environmental Crisis / Alaskan River Riches At Risk From Mining In Canada

January 16, 2015
Keeping Foods and the Climate Cool / Training Your Brain to Crave Healthy Foods / The Collapse of Western Civilization / Alaskan River Riches: Fly-fishing and Salmon Science / Crested Auklets Winter in the Bering Sea

January 9, 2015
Energy Policy in the New Year / Beyond the Headlines / Conservationist Aldo Leopold’s Soundscapes Recreated / The Sound Ring / Branching into New Sounds / Sounds of Winter

January 2, 2015
The Return of Bride / Light of the Isles / A Chilling Norwegian Draugen Tale / The Sun, An Ogre?


 

» 2024 Archives

» 2023 Archives

» 2022 Archives

» 2021 Archives

» 2020 Archives

» 2019 Archives

» 2018 Archives

» 2017 Archives

» 2016 Archives

» 2014 Archives

» 2013 Archives

» 2012 Archives

» 2011 Archives

» 2010 Archives

» 2009 Archives

» 2008 Archives

» 2007 Archives

» 2006 Archives

» 2005 Archives

» 2004 Archives

» 2003 Archives

» 2002 Archives

» 2001 Archives

» 2000 Archives

» 1999 Archives

» 1998 Archives

» 1997 Archives

» 1996 Archives

» 1995 Archives

» 1994 Archives

» 1993 Archives

» 1992 Archives

» 1991 Archives

 

Living on Earth wants to hear from you!

Living on Earth
62 Calef Highway, Suite 212
Lee, NH 03861
Telephone: 617-287-4121
E-mail: comments@loe.org

Newsletter [Click here]

Donate to Living on Earth!
Living on Earth is an independent media program and relies entirely on contributions from listeners and institutions supporting public service. Please donate now to preserve an independent environmental voice.

Newsletter
Living on Earth offers a weekly delivery of the show's rundown to your mailbox. Sign up for our newsletter today!

Sailors For The Sea: Be the change you want to sea.

The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment: Committed to protecting and improving the health of the global environment.

Contribute to Living on Earth and receive, as our gift to you, an archival print of one of Mark Seth Lender's extraordinary wildlife photographs. Follow the link to see Mark's current collection of photographs.

Buy a signed copy of Mark Seth Lender's book Smeagull the Seagull & support Living on Earth