Living on Earth
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Living on Earth: May 17, 2013
When You Eat Chicken You Could Be Eating Arsenic / Chef Bun’s Sustainable Sushi / Lasting Impacts of Gulf Oil Spill / Controversial Dam in Ethiopia / BirdNote ® Night Voices / The Wild Weather Book / Right Whale in the Wrong Place Update
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Living on Earth: May 10, 2013
Saving Money with Environmental Regulation / Another Coal Port Bites The Dust / Environmental Organizations Under Pressure to Divest Fossil Fuel Investments / Shale to Solar / Painted Turtles and Climate Change / Alligators All Around / Romance and Spring Harvest At Paradise Lot
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Living on Earth: May 3, 2013
UN Leader Optimistic About Global Climate Deal / Greener Concrete / Solar Shines On / Electric Cars To Buffer the Grid / Climate Change and Land Slides in the Northwest / Flood Control With New Hybrid Grass / Robins on the Hunt-By Ear
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Living on Earth: April 26, 2013
EPA Finds Keystone Environmental Impact Statement “Insufficient” / Preaching for Keystone / Pipeline Proselytizing and Eminent Domain / Deepwater Disaster Three Years On / Low Cost Renewable Energy Storage With Hydrogen / BIRDNOTE®/SPRING RAINS REFRESH THE DESERT / Old Whales Learn New Tricks / Joe’s Pond Ice Out Contest
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Living on Earth: April 19, 2013
Earth Day At 43 / A Pulitzer for the Climate / Carbon Neutral Capital / 'The World’s Greenest Commercial Building" / Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
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Living on Earth: April 12, 2013
Green Team in the Hot Seat / Who Rules the Rules of the EPA? / Science Note/New Organs On Demand / Turning On Tidal Power / BirdNote® How Birds Sing So Loud / Secrets of the Forest Floor / The Future of Robots / Rod Clarke Essay - The Ten Minute Brook
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Living on Earth: April 5, 2013
Arkansas's Oil Pipeline Disaster / The Cleanup, the Media and ExxonMobil / Petition to Regulate Tar sands Oil Pipelines / High Court for the Environment / Fish Farm Food or Dog Treats? / Trout Are Speaking / Peugeot Hybrid Runs on Air / Greenland Melt Music
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Living on Earth: March 29, 2013
Bee Keepers Sue EPA / A Victory for GMOs / Glocal Challenge / Coal Exports / BIRDNOTE/Urban Birds Change Their Tune / Baby Polar Bear Rescue / Hans Brinker with Briefcase
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Living on Earth: March 22, 2013
President to Order Agencies To Consider the Climate / Shareholder Resolutions and the Carbon Bubble / Murders of Eco Activists on the Rise / Creating Tulips / Bald Eagles on the Connecticut River / Tornado Storm Kings! / Whales at Home in the Caribbean
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Living on Earth: March 15, 2013
India’s Coal Killing Thousands / Voices of Coal / The Deep Carbon Observatory / Land Rising / GMO Food Labeling / Monarch Migration / Endangered Species Gain More Protection / BirdNote Sage Grouse
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Living on Earth: March 8, 2013
The Team to Tackle Climate / Fracking on Amish Land / Keystone XL Pipeline Report / Canadian Government Gag Order for Scientists? / Road Salt Report / The Hazards of Plastic Waste / The Cardinal's Growing Range
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Living on Earth: March 1, 2013
Senate Climate Bill / Chinese Carbon Tax / Amazon Deforestation on the Rise / Science Note: A Plant With Oily Leaves / Honda and Solar Energy / The Vital Role of Bacteria
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Living on Earth: February 22, 2013
National Parks on the Chopping Block / Secret Cash for Climate Denial / Mexican Drug Gangs Turn To Coal Mining / Corn Ethanol Challenged / Limpets and Cancer Vaccines / BirdNote The Early Bird / Pukka’s Promise to Live Longer
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Living on Earth: February 15, 2013
Obama Doubles Down on Climate Action / Starving Polar Bears / The Thrills and Spills of Backyard Hockey / Rinkwatchers and Citizen Climate Science / Women & Population / Louis Agassiz / Earth Ear: Daybreak at Iguau
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Living on Earth: February 8, 2013
US Carbon Emissions At A New Low / Waste Heat / Deadly Smog / Science Note: Why We Get Bathtub Wrinkles / Salt Pans / All Natural / Sounds of Winter
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Living on Earth: February 1, 2013
The Quest for GMO Labeling / Capitol Hill Pollution Under Fire / Booming Coal Exports Threaten the Great Barrier Reef / Space Trash to Space Treasure / The Fight to Save Old Logger’s Path / Burning! A Longer US Fire Season May Be the New Normal / The World's Oldest Organism In Trouble
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Living on Earth: January 25, 2013
Obama's Climate Promise / Obama Cites Religious Commandments to Act on Climate Change / Mercury Dangers Around the World / A New International Treaty on Mercury / BirdNote Barred Owl / Research Update on the Impact of BP Oil Spill / America's Bats on the Brink / Can Prairie Dogs Save Mexico's Prairie From the Desert?
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Living on Earth: January 18, 2013
Chemicals That Promote Obesity / Climate Assessment / Working Woodlands / New York Times to Close Its Environmental Desk / Overly Honest Science Methods / Listener Letters / Wired Wilderness / Right Whales in the Wrong Place
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Living on Earth: January 11, 2013
Insuring for Climate Change / Big Buffett Solar Buy / Idle No More / Introducing the Elf / The Kilo is Gaining Weight / A Bright Spot for Coral Reefs / BirdNote
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Living on Earth: January 4, 2013
Remembering 2012 and Looking Forward to 2013 / The Changing of the Environmental Guard / Fungi / Gold Mining Boom / BirdNote - Winter Birds Love Suet / The World Until Yesterday
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Living on Earth: December 28, 2012
A Look Back at the Birth of the Clean Water Act / Threats to Clean Water Today / A Look Ahead at the Clean Water Act
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Living on Earth: December 21, 2012
Why We Have Winter / Calming the Wind / Ant and Bear Dance / Animal Winter Behavior / Playing for Animals and Humans
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Living on Earth: December 14, 2012
The Farm Bill and the Fiscal Cliff / Machine Tenderized Beef / Turtle Rescue / Oil Spills in Nigeria / BirdNote Spruce Grouse / Birthright / The Place Where You Live
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Living on Earth: December 7, 2012
UN Climate Talks in Doha / Moving for Divestment / Trouble for the King of Beasts / Reindeer Populations in Decline / BirdNote Spoon-billed Sandpiper / Oil Dispersants and the Ecology of the Gulf / Predicting the End of the World
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Living on Earth: November 30, 2012
The Obama Administration Axes the CIA’s Climate Change and National Security Center / New Rules for Sharing the Shrinking Colorado River / New Energy for New Bedford / The NAACP Cites Discriminatory Impacts from Coal-Fired Power Plants / Science Note: Monkey Mind Control / Northeastern University Cited As America’s Greenest College / The Place Where You Live
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Living on Earth: November 23, 2012
Hope for UN Climate Talks / Recycling for Food / Prospering Public Transportation / Science Note: Mantis Shrimp / Tricky Lizards / Superman of Astrophysics / A Visual Feast
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Living on Earth: November 16, 2012
The Best Climate Projections Are Extreme / President Obama Speaks Out on Climate Action / Denying Math and Science / The Economics of a Carbon Tax / Thermal Imaging / BP Pleads Guilty / Design Inspiration from Nature / Mimicking a Beetle to Bring Water to the People / BirdNote : Douglas Squirrel
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Living on Earth: November 2, 2012
Frankenstorm and Climate Change / Insuring for Climate Change / Affects of Climate Change on New York City / Protecting Coastal Areas With….Oysters / Letters / Delta Risk / Environmental Protest in China / BirdNote Oystercatcher
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Living on Earth: October 26, 2012
First Nation Challenges Expansion of Canada’s Tar Sands / Students Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment / Exporting Wyoming Coal to Asia / Hospitals Go Green to Save Money and Save Lives / The Long Rise: Mark Seth Lender / The Whale that Spoke Human / Eternity of Eagles / BirdNote : Screech Owl
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Living on Earth: October 19, 2012
Debate #2 and Energy / Exporting US Oil / Wyoming Coal / Science Note: Silk Saves Lives / How Insects Influence Plant Evolution / Bird Note: Pacific Wren / Disney’s Commitment to the Circle of Life / America the Possible
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Living on Earth: October 12, 2012
Citizens Sue Nuclear Facility / Tapping Volcanoes for Energy / REDD Debate / REDD Critic / REDD Champion / Storm King
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Living on Earth: October 5, 2012
Obama v. Romney / Presidential Candidates Debate Science / Coal Under Fire / The Politics of Coal in the Virginia Senate Race / Bird Note-Migrating Geese / Remembering Barry Commoner / Marine Plants That Flee Predators / Marine Biologist Nancy Rabalais Wins MacArthur Genius Grant / Sounds in the Key of the Sea
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Living on Earth: September 28, 2012
Independent Voters Care About Climate Change / Conservatives and Climate Change / Allston's Green District / New Study Links Genetically Modified Corn to Cancer / GMO Labeling on the Ballot in California / The Place Where You Live / Sounds Heard by Aldo Leopold
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Living on Earth: September 21, 2012
Pollutants Implicated in ADHD / Heinz Environment Prize Winner / A Look Back at Rachel Carson / “Silent Spring Turns” 50 / Science Note: Synthetic Ambergris / Marabou Stork / Conservation Canine
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Living on Earth: September 14, 2012
Full Steam Ahead for Amtrak / Green Energy Jobs Growing / Protecting Forests, Sequestering Carbon / Otters and Climate Change / Toads in Tucson
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Living on Earth: September 7, 2012
Obama Environmental Policy for a Second Term / Arctic Summit / Science Note- Rainbow Trout / Cracking the Code for Monsoons / Global Weirdness / Great Blue Heron / Spinach Power / Trees
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Living on Earth: August 31, 2012
GMO Trees / Water Footprinting / Skin Color and Vitamin D / Family Farmacia / Michael Recycle / The Writing on the Wall / The Language of Landscape / Eco Elvis
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Living on Earth: August 24, 2012
Paul Ryan’s Environmental Record / Massachusetts Energy Conservation / Wastewater to Energy / The Chemical Internet / Bounty / Science Note: Turning up the volume on the mating dance / The Legacy
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Living on Earth: August 17, 2012
Is Fracking Making People Sick? / Discovering New Causes of Parkinson’s / Rebranding the Asian Carp as Dinner / Have Kitchen Scraps Will Travel / Befriending an Octopus
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Living on Earth: August 10, 2012
Shell Oil to Drill in Alaska / Caffeine in Ocean Water / Science Note: Aerographite / Greenland Sharks: The Apex Predator / Speaking of Sharks / The Place Where You Live / The Seed Underground / Hand-Me-Down Tomatoes
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Living on Earth: July 27, 2012
Mozambique Coal Rush / Urban Farming in Africa / It’s a bird...It’s a plane...It’s a conservation drone! / Music to Help the Forests of Madagascar / Sun Oven / Audubon’s Birds of America / The Rap Guide to Evolution
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Living on Earth: July 20, 2012
Explosive Natural Gas / Bee Honest / Cape Wind Spin / Wave Glider / Evolution in Action / Central Park-- An Urban Oasis
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Living on Earth: July 13, 2012
Keeping Emissions Down in California / Cellulosic Fuel Update / Science Note/Bat Aerodynamics / Chemicals and Health / Bare Shoulders: Herbicide Along the Highway / BirdNote What Do Birds Smell? / Arctic Explorers / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: July 6, 2012
Kalamazoo River Spill Yields Record Fine / Remote working / Weatherization Projects / Eco-Home Models Energy Efficient Design / BirdNote Kipukas and Akis / Look Don’t Touch / Home Grown
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Living on Earth: June 29, 2012
Rising Seas, Rising Faster / Bye-Bye Bayou / Science Note/ Bacteria: Knights in Shining Armor / Going Solar / The Farm Bill Food Fight / Cheetah on the Run / The Place Where You Live / Plastic Free / The Sea’s Speediest Swimmer / EarthEar
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Living on Earth: June 22, 2012
RIO+20: The Earth Conference Revisited / The UN Summit…What’s it Wirth? / Fracking with Propane Instead of Water / Engineering a Better Mosquito / Euro Trash Powers Sweden / Fastest Natural Flier / Paradise Lost? / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: June 15, 2012
Removing Dams Healing Rivers / Will the U.S. join the Law of the Sea? / The Trouble With Mass Transit / BirdNote How Much Birds Sing / Climate Change Stokes Wildfires / Call to Ban Toxic Chemicals / America’s New Chief Poet
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Living on Earth: June 8, 2012
The Oil Spill’s Threat to Academic Freedom / To Avoid Disaster, Limit Population and Consumption / Puget Sound’s Acidic Waters / Harvest the Wind / Following Sandhill Cranes / Missed Connection in the Rockies / The Bittersweet Challenge
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Living on Earth: June 1, 2012
Chemicals That Make You Fat / Anticipating Rio +20 / DOE Looks for Orphan Wells / The Tale of the Missing Moose / The Place Where You Live / Scientist Discovers New Stinky Flower Species / Mr. Hornaday's War / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: May 25, 2012
EPA Under Fire for Bee Deaths / Bicycle Helmet Wars / Top Ten New Species List / Poetry: Rod Clark / Popular Energy Savings Bill Held Up / High Schools Honored for Sustainability Initiatives / Grammy Goes A-Gatherin’
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Living on Earth: May 18, 2012
Fixing a Deformed Frog Face / Hard-hit Neighborhoods in L.A. Seek Zoning Protection / Does Cash Encourage Biking and Walking? / Copenhagen Bikes Update / The Place Where You Live / The Art of Fermentation / EarthEar
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Living on Earth: May 11, 2012
Brazil’s New Forest Code / EPA Red Lights Palm Oil / Microsoft Seeks Carbon Neutrality / Note on Emerging Science / Ants’ Social Immunity / A Maine Island Struggles to Stay Afloat / Deciphering Mayan Calendar Records / BirdNote Swainson’s Thrush “Micro Napper” / Paper Made / LOE in Hot Water
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Living on Earth: May 4, 2012
Klamath in Peril / Life-Changing Inventors / Clearcut Chemicals / Using Thoreau’s Journals to Track Climate Change / Field Observations from Everyone / Birds Among Alligators / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: April 27, 2012
Citrus Disease Threatens California's Fruit Growers / New FDA Guidelines for Nano Particles / Food Deserts: A Mirage or Reality? / Scotland's Wind Farms Have Environmental Drawbacks / BirdNote Limpkin, Bird of the Swamp / The Art of American Cartography
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Living on Earth: April 20, 2012
Greening The Internet Cloud / Rooftop Solar Goes Massive / Cuts to Environmental Education / Revisiting the Gulf Deepwater Disaster / Goldman Prize Winner Caroline Cannon / Seal Sitters / Ugandan Butterflies Indicate Change / Celebrating Poetry Month
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Living on Earth: April 13, 2012
Lead Poisoning from Gold Mining / South Africa Gold Mining Lawsuit / The Guar Gum Bubble / Emerging Science Note: Nano Ear / The Continuing Plight of the Sage Grouse / Space Chronicles; Neil DeGrasse Tyson / Celebrating Poetry Month
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Living on Earth: April 6, 2012
Genetic and Environmental Links to Autism / Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder / Note on Emerging Science – Singing Mice / Antibiotic Use on the Farm / Tracking Pandemics by Computer / The Poetic Power of Memory / The Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes / Google Street View for the Amazon / BirdNote The Rainwater Basin of Nebraska / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: March 30, 2012
Limiting Carbon From Future Power Plants / Triclosan Safety Questioned / Africa’s Great Green Wall of Trees / The World’s Largest Wildlife Conservation Area / Big Advances in Testing Chemicals / Satellite Archeology
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Living on Earth: March 23, 2012
Southern Part of Keystone Pipeline Gets a Push / Fusion Confusion / Is Fracking Making People Sick? / Mushroom Packaging / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / ReThinking A Lot / Note on Emerging Science – Fungi and Lead / Sandhill Cranes Prepare for Liftoff / Earth Ear - Frog Sing-along
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Living on Earth: March 16, 2012
The Dose Doesn’t Always Make the Poison / Re-mapping the Amazon / Science Note: Magnetic Soap / It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a conservation drone! / Searching for Martens / Home Ground: The Language of Landscape / A Lifetime of Listening / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: March 9, 2012
Cleaning up Fukushima / Methane Hydrates: Fire and Ice / Tsunami in a Tank / BirdNote Great Horned Owl Family / Emerging Science Note: Winds of Change / Urban Forests / Seattle Food Forest / Singing with Belugas / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: March 2, 2012
Clean Air Act in Court / Fighting a Renewable Army / How Safe is Your Nuclear Power Plant? / Israel Threatens Renewable Energy in West Bank / Cherry Blossom Birthday / BirdNote Navigating by the Earth’s Magnetic Field / Schooling Salmon / Music to Help the Forests of Madagascar
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Living on Earth: February 24, 2012
Short Term Solution for Climate Change / Waterworld / Keeping up with the Green Gastronomic Jones' / TransCanada Claims Texas Land / Goat Accents / Arctic Explorers / Sled Dogs
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Living on Earth: February 17, 2012
President Proposes 2013 Budget / Dolphin Strandings Update / Manned Space - 50 Years and Counting / Chemicals and Health / Smart Bridges / Dying Yellow Cedars / BirdNote Consider the Ostrich / Sanibel Seashells / America’s First Pets
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Living on Earth: February 10, 2012
BP & The Trial of the Century / U.S. Becomes Net Energy Exporter / Dolphin Strandings / Trying to Silence Navy Sonar / Wave Glider / BirdNote Mating for Life / Keeping Emissions Down in California / FREEZE! The Great Ice Heist / EarthEar
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Living on Earth: February 3, 2012
Planes, Trains, Automobiles; But Bicycles? / New Transportation Bill Proposes Big Changes / Microbes Transform Wastewater to Energy / The World's Largest Environmental Cleanup has Problems / Science Note: Tapeworms and Climate Change / Vanishing Tonewoods / Turning Tree Rings Into Music / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: January 27, 2012
The Environment in the State of the Union / Ode to Ogallala / Mozambican Farmers Get Help to Weather Extreme Weather Events / Hybrid Sharks / H5N1 Research Moratorium / BirdNote Kittiwake, Kittiwake, Kittiwake! / Green Cement / Lignin / Overheating Musk Oxen
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Living on Earth: January 20, 2012
Keystone Pipeline Rejected, For Now / The Explosive Growth of Natural Gas Networks / Bare Shoulders: Herbicide Along the Highway / Hybrids: The Cars Of The Future That Nobody's Buying / Cellulosic Fuel Update / Oh Narwhal, Where Art Thou? / China in the Arctic? / The Many Meanings of Cold / Earth Ear - Into India
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Living on Earth: January 13, 2012
Nuclear Power Comeback? / Grand Canyon Safe from Uranium Mining / Rampant City Gas Leaks / Emerging Science Note / Ode to Caterpillars / BirdNote Why Arctic Terns Have Short Beaks / An Environmental Map Made by You
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Living on Earth: January 6, 2012
The GOP Presidential Race and the Environment / New Recommendations for Lead Levels in Children / Disposal of Fracking Wastewater Polluting PA Rivers / Tiger Sharks Dine on Migrating Birds / BirdNote Bohemian Waxwings / A Green Ocean / The Rap Guide to Evolution / Earthear
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Living on Earth: December 30, 2011
Replanting Kenya
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Living on Earth: December 23, 2011
Under the Mango Trees / Day of the Dead / Legend of the Poinsettia / Cuban Celebrations
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Living on Earth: December 16, 2011
After the Durban Climate Conference / Adapting to our Warming Planet / 2011 at the EPA / Evangelicals, Catholics Back Mercury Limits / Remote West Bank Villages Get Power / LOE Update / Adroitly Adrift / BirdNote Why Birds’ Feet Don’t Freeze / Endangered Reindeer / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: December 2, 2011
Climate Talks Begin in South Africa / Remembering Dr. Paul Epstein / Mozambique Coal Rush / Oil Spill off Brazil's Coast / Living on Earth Updates / What's Missing from Commercial Honey / Pizza Crusts and Hot Dogs as Fish Food / BirdNote – Birds of Paradise
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Living on Earth: November 25, 2011
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Living on Earth: November 18, 2011
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Living on Earth: November 11, 2011
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Living on Earth: November 4, 2011
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Living on Earth: October 28, 2011
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Living on Earth: October 21, 2011
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Living on Earth: October 14, 2011
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Living on Earth: October 7, 2011
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Living on Earth: September 30, 2011
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Living on Earth: September 23, 2011
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Living on Earth: September 16, 2011
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Living on Earth: September 9, 2011
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Living on Earth: September 2, 2011
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Living on Earth: August 26, 2011
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Living on Earth: August 19, 2011
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Living on Earth: August 12, 2011
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Living on Earth: July 29, 2011
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Living on Earth: July 22, 2011
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Living on Earth: July 15, 2011
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Living on Earth: July 8, 2011
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Living on Earth: July 1, 2011
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Living on Earth: June 24, 2011
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Living on Earth: June 17, 2011
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Living on Earth: June 10, 2011
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Living on Earth: June 3, 2011
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Living on Earth: May 27, 2011
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Living on Earth: May 20, 2011
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Living on Earth: May 13, 2011
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Living on Earth: May 6, 2011
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Living on Earth: April 29, 2011
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Living on Earth: April 22, 2011
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Living on Earth: April 15, 2011
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Living on Earth: April 8, 2011
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Living on Earth: April 1, 2011
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Living on Earth: March 18, 2011
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Living on Earth: March 11, 2011
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Living on Earth: March 4, 2011
Can 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
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Living on Earth: February 25, 2011
The Sometimes Frost / Lessons from surging oil prices / Sustainable Science at EPA / Smart Meter, Big Brother / How Green are E-Books? / Where the Antelope Played / Science Note/Crustaceans in the Reef / The Fearsome Nematodes of the Dry Valley
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Living on Earth: February 18, 2011
The Budget / White House Wants to Cut Energy Help for Poor / Toxic Tide - Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2 / Costs of Coal / BirdNote Sooty Shearwater Migration / How Close are we to the Edge / Black History Month and Environmental Justice
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Living on Earth: February 11, 2011
House Republicans Fight EPA over Greenhouse Gases / Amazon Forest as a Source of Carbon Dioxide / Toxic Tide: Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster / Homeground: The Language of Landscape / Mixing Oil and Water / Trash to Treasure / Science Note / The Poetry of the Ocean
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Living on Earth: February 4, 2011
UN Stresses Need for Revolutionary Climate Action / Diluting Dispersant / Biomass, Climate Friend or Foe? / The Man Working on a Clean Energy Plan / Science Note - Sharks and Smell / Poo-Gloos / BirdNote Recording Sounds with Gerrit Vyn / New Moguls of Clean Energy / The Noisy Ocean and its Conseqences
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Living on Earth: January 28, 2011
State of the Union and Clean Energy / Climate Czar Leaves White House / Science Note/Salt-Sized Batteries / The Search for Neutrinos in the Antarctic / Environmental Groups vs. EPA / Listener Letters / Huge Methane Emissions from Fresh Water / Forest Films / Elephant Seals in Combat
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Living on Earth: January 21, 2011
Mountaintop Removal Mine Denied / Regulations Under Review / Food Price Spikes / State Carbon Markets / Daisy Recovery / Menagerie on Ice / Recycling Manure / Rewilding the World
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Living on Earth: January 14, 2011
Mixed Reactions to Oil Spill Commission Report / Native Alaskans & Offshore Drilling / Re-Thinking Fluoride / Low Salt Water with Low Energy Technology / The View from Lazy Point
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Living on Earth: January 7, 2011
EPA Regulates Carbon Dioxide / Deepwater Horizon Investigation / Environmental Wikileaks / Chugging Along Slowly / Harmony / Judy Bonds Obit / Sex and Endocrine Disruptors / BirdNote - New Year Dawns
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Living on Earth: December 31, 2010
The "Hole" Story / In With The Old, In With The New / Surfacing
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Living on Earth: December 24, 2010
Forged in the Stars / Forged in the Stars / Forged in the Stars
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Living on Earth: December 17, 2010
Mixed Results From the Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico / Killed by the Messenger / The Wild Weather of 2010 / Mastodon Found in the Rockies / BirdNote - Winters Regal Visitor / The Legacy
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Living on Earth: December 10, 2010
Cancun REDD Wrap / Climate Finance / Drought in the Amazon / Damming the Amazon River / Feeding More People as the World Warms / Yucatan Farmers / Urgent Bid for Survival
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Living on Earth: December 3, 2010
Taking the Temperature of the Cancun Climate Talks / The Climate in 2010 / In Kalimantan, Big Experiment, Big Hopes / REDD Corruption / Negotiating Rights to Forests / Cancun Voices / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: November 26, 2010
Corn Ethanol Tax Credits / Carrotmobs and the Power of Buycotts / Out of (a noble) Gas / Navajo Nation Elections / Audubons Birds of America / BirdNote - The Day of the Turkey / The Eagle Soars
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Living on Earth: November 19, 2010
FDA Puts Transgenic Fish on the Scales / Congressional Fight Over CO2 / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet- NYC Blues / New Era, New Curriculum / Lead Surprisingly Still in Brass Plumbing / The Legend of Pale Male
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Living on Earth: September 17, 2010
Inspectors give the Low Down on Food Safety / Mid-turmoil on Climate / Future Food: Frankenfish / Fishy Tale / The Search For Missing Frogs / Courageous Sailing / The Wave / BirdNote - Shorebirds on the Wing
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Living on Earth: September 10, 2010
Rebuilding Roads, Rails, and Runways / Fishy Situation / The Big Easy's Big Decision / Science Note / High Tech Trash / Planning for Rising Water / BirdNote - Tiny Dancers / Native Traditions and Climate Change
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Living on Earth: September 3, 2010
Dude, Where's the Oil? / Chalmette Update / The Pollution/Diabetes Link / It's No Copenhagen / Tern, Tern, Tern / Deepest Places / Science Note: Belching Sheep / A Man and His Chainsaw
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Living on Earth: August 27, 2010
Bye-Bye Bayou / The Bayou Ballot Box / Long Term Gulf Restoration / Where Are They Now: Bob Rue / Still Seeking Environmental Justice in New Orleans / Green Living in New Orleans / Trumpeting New Orleans' Rebirth
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Living on Earth: August 20, 2010
Up in Flames / Chilling Out in Copenhagen / Operation Green Energy / The Language of Landscape / Science Note/Tree Power / Discovering Walruses / Bird Eggs Unhatched
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Living on Earth: August 13, 2010
Getting to the Bottom of Methane / Building Green with Less Green / Reforming Toxic Chemical Regulation / Note on Emerging Science / The Sound of Solar / Three Men and a Bike / Walden by Haiku
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Living on Earth: August 6, 2010
Preserving the Congo Basins Trees / Part 2 / Part 3
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Living on Earth: July 30, 2010
Without Congress / Gulf Oil and Gulf Restoration / 1000 Shows and Counting / Environmental Advocacy Then and Now / LOEs Beginnings / Ozone Update / Science Note/Micro-Ear / Birding by Ear
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Living on Earth: July 23, 2010
Dispersant Discussion / Oil in the Air / Green Camp / NOAA Signed Off on Gulf Drilling Plans / Drilling Down on Fracking / Remembering a Nobel Climate Scientist / Beetle Ranching / Recipe for Raising Chickens
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Living on Earth: July 16, 2010
Let the Oil Slinging Begin / The Need for Seaweed / Magic Seeds & the Miracle Crop / Science Note/ Spud Saboteur Turns Good / The Other Oil Spill / Self-reconfiguring Robots / The Message Remixed
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Living on Earth: July 9, 2010
Lake of Significance / Whale Sharks in the Gulf / Listener Letters / Senate Seat Showdown / EPA Orders Power Plants to Clean Up / Acid Rain is Back / Science Note/Aquatic Insects and Solar Panels / Seeing the Forest for its Bugs / A Place Called Home
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Living on Earth: July 2, 2010
Sea Turtle Relocation / The Smallest Clean Up Crew / Climate Bill Backup Plan / The Evolution of Byrd / Biggest Brains in Biggest Danger / The Race Blind Heart / How to Describe the Disaster? / In Praise of Blackflies / Music With a Solar Flare
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Living on Earth: June 25, 2010
Does the White House Approach go Far Enough? / Judging the Judge / The Nose Knows / Methane in the Gulf / The Altered Ocean / Note on Emerging Science/Solar Storage / Up On the Roof / Shell Games / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: June 18, 2010
The White House Battle for a Climate Message / Let the River Work / As If Danger Werent Enough / The Ixtoc Precedent / Serious Money for Indonesian Forest / Heated Debate over Heating Milk / Food That Reaches Back through Slavery / Natural Poetry / Earth Ear
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Living on Earth: June 11, 2010
Worker Safety in the Gulf / Scientists Stymied by Lack of Samples / NOLA Residents Take to the Streets / Senate Keeps EPA Clean Air Authority / President Obamas Science Advisor Talks with LOE / BPs Image Problem / A Lesser Liability Load / A New Playground for Kids to Play Naturally
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Living on Earth: June 4, 2010
Slick Technology / Eureka, they found it, unfortunately / The Gulfs Other Deep Sea Wealth / A Clean Energy Wake-up Call from the Gulf / Cooperative Videobots / Emerging Science Note/Voodoo Wasps / Reversing Desertification / Begrudging the Grid
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Living on Earth: May 28, 2010
Fighting the oil in the Gulf / Cooking up a Storm- A Recipe for Disaster? / Blocking the EPA / New Leadership on Climate Change / My Planet Harmony / Humans and Birds: A New Pairing / Slip-sliding Away
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Living on Earth: May 21, 2010
Cell Phone Use May Take Toll / BP Spill Investigating Criminal Intent / Gulf Oil Damage / Sustainable City Gardening / Eau d Fragrance Fears / Living Downstream
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Living on Earth: May 14, 2010
The Dispersant Discussion / Gulf Spill Impacts Ecosystem Services / Splitting the Difference / Climate Bill Hits Capitol Hill / Cool Fix: Algae from Wastewater / Pushing the Envelope for Clean Air / Earth Poetry / The Freshest Food in the Hood / Making a Novel out of an Anthill
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Living on Earth: May 7, 2010
Lack of Oversight on Drilling Safety / Spill Threatens Climate Bill / Fear For What's Unknown / Reforming Toxic Chemical Regulation / Marsh Fork Elementary Update / From Court House to Home / A Repurposed Life
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Living on Earth: April 30, 2010
Oil Spill Clouds Support for Offshore Drilling / A Win for Wind Power / The Spores of Sickness / Judging Biotech Seeds / Agriculture in Rhythm / Earth Poetry / Documerica / Bird Wonder
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Living on Earth: April 23, 2010
Climate Action, At Home and Abroad / Carp Cuisine / 40 Years Later / In Forests, the Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty / Human Rights in Cancer Alley / My Planet Harmony / Earth Poetry / Earth Day All Over
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Living on Earth: April 16, 2010
Senator Earth Day / Visions of the EPA, Past, Present, Future / Operation Green
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Living on Earth: April 9, 2010
A History of Safety and Environmental Violations / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Cash for Climate / The Politics of Capping Emissions / Bird Eggs Unhatched / Poetry Please! / Comic Relief for Climate Change / Woodcock Courtship
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Living on Earth: April 2, 2010
Preserving the Congo Basin�s Trees: Part 1 / Preserving the Congo Basin�s Trees: Part 2 / Preserving the Congo Basin�s Trees: Part 3
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Living on Earth: March 26, 2010
No Waves of Hope / Sun Sets on Udall / Listener Letters / Pushback in California / Climate Change, Plan B / The Postman Rings Greener / Food Revolution / Not Your Average Cabbage
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Living on Earth: March 19, 2010
Cellular Worries / Seeds of Discontent / Rural Rabble Rousing / Toxic Bodies / The Language of Landscape / Birds on the Wing / Note on Emerging Science / Bonobo Bliss
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Living on Earth: March 12, 2010
Pushing for Sea Changes / Autism and Toxins / Getting to the Bottom of Methane / Tree Planting for Carbon Raises Questions / Nuclear Shop of Horrors / Spring's A Comin' / Seeds of Resistance / Hollywood�s Unrequited Scientist
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Living on Earth: March 5, 2010
Climate Confusion / Note on Emerging Science / Nuclear Money Meltdown / Years After War, the Battle for Benefits Continues / Three Men and a Bike / It Was Big While It Lasted / The Sound of Solar
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Living on Earth: February 26, 2010
Trawling for a Fishing Solution / The World�s Largest Water Park / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Waste Not, Want Not / Solving Nuclear Waste / Here Comes the Sound / Big Blue
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Living on Earth: February 19, 2010
Climate Chief Calls it Quits / Ghost Filibuster Haunts Climate Action / Pika in Peril / Endangered Frogs Face New Threats / Urban Jungle Monkey / Fishing for Facts on Fish Food / One Fish, Two Fish, Farmed Fish, Barley Fish / Hard as Sea Snails / The Battle to Blend in
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Living on Earth: February 12, 2010
Hispanic Community Fights Toxic Waste / May Environmental Justice Prevail / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Blood Minerals Fuel Congo Conflict / Poultry Promise / Pundits Blow Whistle on Green Police / Swinging Swans / Oceanic Give and Take
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Living on Earth: February 5, 2010
Blasting NASA / A New Fission Provision / The Battle for Cape Wind / Coal Ash Controversy / Listener Letters / How to Scare a Bear / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Bird Whistler
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Living on Earth: January 29, 2010
Seeking A More Perfect Union / Manipulating the Climate / Up in Flames / Another Look at Atrazine / New Sierra Club Leadership / The Language of Landscape / Chilling Out in Copenhagen / Note on Emerging Science / Chimps Gone Wild
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Living on Earth: January 22, 2010
Rebuilding Haiti from the Roots Up / Republican Win Dims Hope for Climate Bill / A Year In, New Ideas for Obama / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Good Fish, Bad Fish / Long Live the Kingfisher / Listener Letters / Walden by Haiku / Remembering Ted Stanley
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Living on Earth: January 15, 2010
A New Electric Feel / Scientists Push Against EPA Decision / Goodbye to These Times / The Oyster is Their World / The Language of Landscape / Ghost of the Mountain / Brave and Dead
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Living on Earth: January 8, 2010
Living on Earth�s Look Back / The Future of the Ecological Landscape / The Future of the Human Landscape
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Living on Earth: January 1, 2010
Inside Grandpa's Shack / Jack's Sketches / Go Hmong Boy!
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Living on Earth: December 25, 2009
Forged in the Stars / Forged in the Stars / Forged in the Stars
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Living on Earth: December 18, 2009
World Leaders in Copenhagen / Copenhagen Analysis / Many Countries, Many Voices / Danish Values / City of Cyclists / Car Sounds of the Future
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Living on Earth: December 11, 2009
Hopenhagen? / Paper Trees in Precious Ground / Where the Forest Ends
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Living on Earth: December 4, 2009
The Cattle Climate Connection / Carrots and Sticks: Saving the Amazon and Stalling Climate Change / Protecting a Forest and Preserving a Culture
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Living on Earth: November 27, 2009
Bilateral Strength in Copenhagen / Biofuel Bugs / Cool Fix- Light Pollution Solutions / The Bronx is Reviving / A Hundred Bronx Tales / The Eagle Soars
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Living on Earth: November 20, 2009
Carbon Saturated Ocean / Coastal Carbon Sink / Art of Synthetic Biology / Slow City / Big City, Big Impact / Harnessing the Severn / The Language of Landscape / Wild Turkey
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Living on Earth: November 13, 2009
Tanking Tuna / Threatened Albatross / Stimulating Foreign Economies / Green Long March / Obama in China / Evolution of the Azores / A Place Called Home
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Living on Earth: November 6, 2009
God�s Green Earth / Climate Bill Numbers / Downeast Conservation / Chemicals and Cholesterol / Squatting the Berlin Wall
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Living on Earth: October 30, 2009
Smart Power to the People / Molten Metals to Green the Grid / Framing the Anything But Climate Debate / From Brownfields to Solar Plains / Perfect Storm for Fish Kill / New TV Rules in the Golden State / Dining with Birds / Still Life
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Living on Earth: October 23, 2009
Health Risks of Nuclear Power and Testing / Energy�s Hidden Costs / Building Green with Less Green / Government Greenbacks for Greener Homes / Big Money to Green Low Income Housing / The Battery of Southeast Asia / Science Note/Tree Power / DEAD-icated Scientists
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Living on Earth: October 16, 2009
Two Parties, One Climate / Murkowski on Climate Action / Wet and Wild / Ford�s Focus on Electric Cars / Keeping Current on Electric Cars / Vehicle Visionary / Small Science / Tiny Architects / Branching into New Sounds
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Living on Earth: October 9, 2009
A Sea Change for Ocean Management / Acid in the Arctic / Chemical Reform / Emerging Science Note/ Placenta Power / Benign Design for the Environment / Birds of Prey / Listener Letters / Turbine Trash
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Living on Earth: October 2, 2009
Senate Climate Bill / Mercury Rising / A New Way to Tackle Carbon Emissions / River Resurrection / Desert Water Keeper / Science Note/ Slime Mold / Bird Genius / Tornado of Birds
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Living on Earth: September 25, 2009
China�s Climate Fan Fare / Survivaball of the Fittest / Fossil Fuel Subsidies / Laos� Sticky Situation / Green Intelligence / Emerging Science Note Polar Bears / Vanishing Aspens / Language of Landscape / A Tale of Two Seals
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Living on Earth: September 18, 2009
Treaty Challenges / Hold on Coal / The Steel City Builds Green / Cooking Up Healthcare Reform / Note on Emerging Science / Lunch Lady Dishes it Out / Truck Farm
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Living on Earth: September 11, 2009
A Fallen Czar / Belaboring the Climate Bill / California Air Officials Nix Polluting Dairy Energy / Naming Nature / The Language of Landscape / REDD Path to a Green Planet
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Living on Earth: September 4, 2009
Where There?s Fire, There?s Smoke / The Man in the Middle / Low Dose Makes the Poison / EPA?s Chemical Delay / Smoke Gets Under Your Skin / Heart Of Dryness / Robins and West Nile Virus / Meet your Meat
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Living on Earth: August 28, 2009
GMO Trees / Water Footprinting / Skin Color and Vitamin D / Family Farmacia / Michael Recycle / The Writing on the Wall / The Language of Landscape / Eco Elvis
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Living on Earth: August 21, 2009
There Will Be Flood / Out of the Box, Housing / Note on Emerging Science / Harvesting Emissions / Food Deserts / The Language of Landscape / Seedy Art / In Search of Silence / The Art of Mud
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Living on Earth: August 14, 2009
Honey Laundering / Why Tropical Forests Fall / Clean Water for Kenya / After War, Wind-Powered Radio / Last Bat Home / Ode to Powerlines / Note on Emerging Science / Woman's Best Friend
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Living on Earth: August 7, 2009
Lead in Water Underreported / A New Approach to Workplace Dangers / Harnessing the Severn / Psychology of Climate Inaction / From Mean Streets to Green Streets / Science Note/ Bees and Elephants / Rock Snot / Down the Hatch
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Living on Earth: July 31, 2009
Clouds Shadow Warming Predictions / Entering the Plastic Vortex / Cheyenne May Yield to Coal / The Din? Way / Listener Letters / Eco-Islam / Hydrogen Feathers / Python Be Gone / Green Brown Lawn
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Living on Earth: July 24, 2009
The U.S. Pushes India to Adopt Carbon Limits / The China Challenge / Saving the Cypress / Watch Your Water / Cracking the Hard Rock Mining Law / Conservation Refugees / Dandy Dandelions
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Living on Earth: July 17, 2009
GE Corn Causes Concern / Preventing Food Colonies / Politics Grow Green in Bulgaria / Transforming Transportation / Taking the ?Rat? out of Rat Island / Listener Letters / Unscientific America / If We Can Put a Man on the Moon
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Living on Earth: July 10, 2009
As Unclear as Water / Low-Carbon Internet Surfing / The Greenest House / Better, Greener Real Estate / Mired in the Mud on the Road to Copenhagen / Protecting the Planet from Nuclear Terrorism
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Living on Earth: July 3, 2009
Cap On Trade / Green Light on Energy Standards / Raze to Save / Bad Air in a Big Canyon / Another Century of Great Lakes / Note on Emerging Science / Duck-Scrubbing Heroes / Bird Lovers Build Bird Database
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Living on Earth: June 26, 2009
A New Take on Clean Water / Bus Pass or Bus Fail / Carbon Capture / Calculating Coal?s Toll / Snow in Summer / Down in the Dumps / An American Epic
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Living on Earth: June 19, 2009
America?s State of the Climate / Polluted Patriots / The Language of Landscape / Harvesting Tattoo Ink, not Coca / Ecotherapy / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Putting out the Cuyahoga
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Living on Earth: June 12, 2009
Countdown to Copenhagen / Climate Change and America?s Poor / Forest Salvation / Tiny Glider Swims Big / Cool Fix for a Hot Planet / Henry Ford?s Jungle Dystopia
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Living on Earth: June 5, 2009
Defending BPA / The End of the Road / Tribal Representatives Speak out About UN Forest Proposal / Growing Hope in New Orleans / Everybody Eats / Discovering Walruses / Cycling to the Bottom of the World
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Living on Earth: May 15, 2009
The Future of Species Protection / Leaving Hydrogen in the Dust / Coal Down Under / Note on Emerging Science / Deforesting the Forbidden Fruit / Rock the Boat / On Their Own Terms / Potty Humor
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Living on Earth: May 8, 2009
Lubchenco?s Climate Service / Chasing Twisters / Goodbye DDT / A Home for Jaguars / Energizing Biofuel / Note on Emerging Science / Food Deserts / Eco IQ
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Living on Earth: May 1, 2009
Italian-American Fuel Efficiency / Green Report Card / Farming the Flu / There Will Be Flood / Leave it to Beaver / Note on Emerging Science / The Floating World / Retiring the Wrist Watch
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Living on Earth: April 24, 2009
Cap and Giveaway / Solar Power from Space / Defending the Mountains / Volcanic Lightning / Volcano, Oil and Fish / ECOtime / Emerging Note on Science / Remaking the Medina
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Living on Earth: April 17, 2009
Pesticides and Birth Defects / Prioritizing Climate Solutions / Replacing Wall Street / Kicking out the Crows / Note on Emerging Science / True Stories from the North Pole / Sound Activism
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Living on Earth: April 10, 2009
Following the Paper Trail / Gassing Up / On Thin Ice / Alaska?s Changing Climate / Forecasting A Warmer World / Spring Awakening
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