The Amazon as Legal Person
The Amazon forest and river now have the legal standing of a person, accord to Colombia’s Supreme Court, following a successful lawsuit led by 25 youth plaintiffs.
Valve-Turning Protestors
On October 11, 2016, climate activists closed valves on five major oil pipelines coming from Canada’s tar sands. Fully aware that they faced criminal charges, these five saw their actions as necessary to stopping the climate crisis.
A Pipeline Eco Engineer Protests
A former environmental engineer for Trans Mountain is speaking out about the harms to land, water, the climate, and Indigenous rights that Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline could bring. She joined some 200 protestors, led by members of First Nations, and was among many who were arrested March 20 for protesting near pipeline construction.
Making Big Oil Companies Pay for Climate Disruption
A growing list of US cities and counties are suing fossil fuel companies for damages linked to climate disruption. Among the biggest defendants are Shell and Exxon Mobil, and emerging evidence suggests that they understood the warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions decades ago.
Leave No Poop Behind
Research shows that most dog owners pick up after their pets in the street and at the local park, but often don’t take along a plastic bag when out hiking in the backcountry, assuming it’s no big deal. But all that dog poop does add up – and it’s introducing foreign bacteria and nutrients to forests, fields, and streams.
Bald Eagles At Play
Connecticut River ecosystems have been impoverished over centuries by logging and overfishing, but now American Bald Eagles are returning. Living on Earth’s Explorer-in-Residence Mark Seth Lender watches young eagles on the river as they lock talons and fly playfully and finds them compelling.
Prairie Rattlesnake
A few months ago writer Mark Seth Lender met his first Prairie Rattlesnake up close and personal, and found the snake fascinating, and though venomous, not a threat.
Beyond the Headlines
Peter Dykstra of the Daily Climate and Environmental Health News brings us some far-flung environmental stories from this past week that didn’t make the headlines. This week: salt intrusion in Bangladesh and rare earth mining in Greenland.
Nicaraguan Canal
The first ships sailed down the Panama Canal in 1914. Now, nearly one hundred years later, Nicaragua has an agreement with a Chinese company to build a canal of its own to link the Pacific and Atlantic. (photo: Tim Rogers)
The Amazon as Legal Person
The Amazon forest and river now have the legal standing of a person, accord to Colombia’s Supreme Court, following a successful lawsuit led by 25 youth plaintiffs.
Ancient Wisdom for Earth Day
At Earth Day’s 48th year, Host Steve Curwood reflects on the state of our only home today, and how principles urged by the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu long ago can guide us to protect the environment today and for posterity.
A Pipeline Eco Engineer Protests
A former environmental engineer for Trans Mountain is speaking out about the harms to land, water, the climate, and Indigenous rights that Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline could bring. She joined some 200 protestors, led by members of First Nations, and was among many who were arrested March 20 for protesting near pipeline construction.
This Week’s Show
April 20, 2018
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The Amazon as Legal Person
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The Amazon forest and river now have the legal standing of a person, accord to Colombia’s Supreme Court, following a successful lawsuit led by 25 youth plaintiffs.
Ancient Wisdom for Earth Day
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At Earth Day’s 48th year, Host Steve Curwood reflects on the state of our only home today, and how principles urged by the Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu long ago can guide us to protect the environment today and for posterity.
Beyond The Headlines
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We discuss Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s cut-rate sale of leases to fossil fuel companies; also a ruling that could ban diesel cars in Germany’s most polluted cities. And we look back to a chemical plant explosion that rocked the New York city area.
The Green Berkeley Hills – The Place Where You Live
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Living on Earth collaborates with Orion magazine’s “Place Where You Live” essay project, this time to focus on the rolling green hills of Northern California that writer Wong Yoo-Chong now calls home. He reflects on a poem by the ancient Chinese sage, Li Po.
Valve-Turning Protestors
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On October 11, 2016, climate activists closed valves on five major oil pipelines coming from Canada’s tar sands. Fully aware that they faced criminal charges, these five saw their actions as necessary to stopping the climate crisis.
A Pipeline Eco Engineer Protests
listen / download
A former environmental engineer for Trans Mountain is speaking out about the harms to land, water, the climate, and Indigenous rights that Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline could bring. She joined some 200 protestors, led by members of First Nations, and was among many who were arrested March 20 for protesting near pipeline construction.
Special Features
Field Note: Eagles At Play
In this field note, Living on Earth’s Explorer-in-Residence Mark Seth Lender remarks on the powerful hold the American Bald Eagle has on our collective awe, and on how severely we have decimated their numbers in the centuries since Europeans landed on North America’s shores.
Blog Series: Mark Seth Lender Field Notes
Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Forest Service: Michaela Myers' Story
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Michaela Myers finished college in 2017 and landed what she thought was a dream job: working with the US Forest Service fighting wildfires in Oregon. But a pattern of sexual harassment and hazing by her boss and colleagues turned that dream into a nightmare. She tells her story to Living on Earth host Steve Curwood.
Blog Series: LOE Updates
PBS Journalist Liz Flock on Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Forest Service
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PBS NewsHour conducted an investigation into sexual harassment in the U.S. Forest Service, interviewing 34 women along the way. Reporter Liz Flock discusses with Living on Earth host Steve Curwood the culture of sexual harassment at the agency that the women she spoke with described.
Blog Series: LOE Updates
...Ultimately, if we are going prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we are going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them...
-- President Barack Obama, November 6, 2015 on why he declined to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline.
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