Living on Earth

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Powerful Pacific Storms Amid ‘Super’ El Niño, Pesticide Atrazine Contaminating 25% of Rivers, and ‘A Guardian and a Thief’

Boosted by climate change, this year’s El Niño has intensified into a “Super El Niño,” meaning sea surface temperatures in parts of the Pacific are over 2 degrees Celsius hotter than average. How this has brought one strong storm after another churning across the Pacific Ocean wh ... Show more

. 51min 47sec

Maine Senate Race, Climate and Environment; Public Power and Industry Pushback; The Carbon Wave and more.

The closely watched race for US Senate in Maine is pitting two environmentally concerned candidates against each other. Not only do Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson both have fairly similar green and climate views, they’re from the same rural county and both hav ... Show more

. 51min 35sec

‘Blockbuster’ Climate Case at Supreme Court, The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light, State Elections and the Climate, and more.

When the US Supreme Court set Monday, October 5th for oral arguments on an appeal from the Colorado State Supreme Court by Suncor and Exxon, it highlighted what could become a landmark case about damage from climate change and the role of fossil fuels. Why the case could make or ... Show more

. 51min 48sec

Climate Justice and Healing for Nepal, Leaders Meet Amid Climate Warnings, 12 Trillion Tons of Melted Ice and more.

After the deadly floods in Nepal this August, researchers rapidly assessed the event and concluded that climate change played a “very strong” role in the catastrophic glacial collapse. We discuss the human toll of the floods and the moral duty of the world to slow the climate cri ... Show more

. 51min 49sec

Alarming Global Temperature Rise, Batteries Kicking Out Natural Gas, In Trees, BirdNote®: Roosting Tree Swallows, and more.

2026 was recorded as one of the hottest summers globally, with deadly heatwaves in Europe and catastrophic floods in Nepal. We discuss how the United Nations put out a report warning that current climate policies will lead to at least 1.8°C of global temperature increase, well be ... Show more

. 53min 9sec