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Living on Earth
As the planet we call home faces a climate emergency, Living on Earth is your go-to source for the latest coverage of climate change, ecology, and human health. Hosted by Steve Curwood and brought to you by PRX.
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China’s Climate Pledge, Balcony Solar, Remembering Jane Goodall and more.
China has for the first time committed to an absolute target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by 7 to 10 percent by 2035. We discuss China’s growin...
Youth Climate Case, Salmon Run Fattens Bears, The Practice of Re-Enchantment and more.
In the federal youth climate case Lighthiser v. Trump, plaintiffs are seeking immediate relief from three executive orders and subsequent actions of t...
Trump Denies, China Leads on Climate; Highway Reborn as Public Park; An Extraordinary New Telescope; and more.
Speaking to the UN, President Trump railed against climate science and clean energy, drawing sharp rebukes from other nations, rival politicians and b...
Heat Waves Linked to Company Emissions, Insurance and Homeowners Underwater, The Light Between Apple Trees and more.
New research finds that since 2010 killer heat waves have become 200 times more likely, thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, and the scientists say abo...
Trump Stalls Offshore Wind, Huge Danger from Permafrost Loss, The Health Risks of Noise and more.
The Trump Administration is putting offshore wind energy on hold by canceling grants, cutting tax credits and revoking permits for projects that are n...
PFAS Polluters Pay Up, Tylenol Upcycled from Plastic, Roadless Rule Under Fire, and more.
New Jersey officials are calling its $2 billion settlement with major manufacturers of PFAS “forever chemicals” the largest environmental settlement e...
Oyster Trash to Treasure, The Outlaw Ocean, A “Little Sea” with a Big Champion and more.
Oysters on the half shell are big business on Nantucket Island, and a local program recycles oyster shells from restaurant waste into habitat for youn...
Life as an Incarcerated Firefighter, An Ancient Climate Solution, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, and more.
Around a thousand of the firefighters who battled blazes around southern California in January 2025 were incarcerated. They do essentially the same wo...
Sounds of Soil, “Depaving” the Way to Greener Neighborhoods, The Light Eaters and more.
Sounds like the overlapping songs of birds can speak volumes about the biodiversity in an ecosystem, and now scientists are looking to use the tiny so...
Complex Air Pollution and Public Health, Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe, Animal Self-Medicating
A study from Johns Hopkins researchers found that residents near or on the fence line of polluting enterprises are at higher risk for multiple health...
Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, Uprooted By Climate, Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and more.
Eels play an important ecological role in many rivers and streams, but they’re so eel-usive that even eel scientists have been challenged to observe t...
EPA Cuts Scientific Research, Censorship in US National Parks, Zombie Fires in Canada and more.
The US Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its Office of Research and Development, which represents 50 years of independent scientific re...
Weakening Disaster Prep, Climate-Resilient Coffee, Clearing Air in Cancer Alley, and more.
Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration, impacting...
Congress Busts Carbon Budget, Climate Disruption Worsens Flood Risks, and America’s Rural Sanitation Crisis.
As the climate crisis brings ever more devastating floods, storms, heat waves and fires, the Republican-led Congress and President Trump have slashed...
Trump Faces Youth Climate Lawsuit, Tempered Hope for COP30, EPA Employees Speak Out and more
19-year-old Eva Lighthiser has experienced climate anxiety for most of her life, as her home state of Montana faces worsening floods, wildfires, and e...
EPA Ignores Climate Dangers, From Plastic Trash to Art, and Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet.
This June the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about a quarter...
Juneteenth and Striving for Ecological Justice
Just as the enslavement of people was driven by commercial interests, today the enslavement of nature for profit violates a morality that sees value i...
US Disrupts African Food Tech; Pumping the Earth Dry; Saving a Sacred Mountain in Mongolia and more.
One of the development initiatives affected by the Trump Administration’s shutdown of USAID is the Soybean Innovation Lab, which works to improve soyb...
Hurricane Forecasting in 2025, Saving Corals Amid Record Bleaching, Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke and more.
The 2025 hurricane season is underway, and the U.S. is likely to see higher than average activity. The past couple of years, extremely warm water in t...
CA Clean Air Tool Revoked, Cuts to Clean Energy Tax Credits, Turbulence and Climate Change and More.
California’s car culture, trucking industry, and weather contribute to chronically bad air that it’s been gradually improving with its own laws and re...
Public Lands Reprieve, Trump Ignores Social Cost of Carbon, Seagrass “Gardening” and more.
Last-minute changes in the House budget reconciliation bill included scrapping one of the more controversial amendments that would have sold off publi...
Pope Leo and Creation Care, Autism and Chemicals, Oystercatchers Bounce Back and more.
The new Pope, Leo XIV, has worked with interfaith environmental networks and there’s hope around the world that he may follow in the footsteps of his...
Trump Sues State Climate Action, Climate Wayfinding with Katharine Wilkinson, “Depaving” the Way to Greener Neighborhoods and more.
At the direction of President Trump the U.S. Department of Justice has sued four states -- Vermont, New York, Hawaii, and Michigan -- that are trying...
Air Gets Worse, NOAA Climate Science Cuts, Parrot Brains and Our Own and more.
The latest “State of the Air” report by the American Lung Association finds that nearly half of people living in the U.S. breathe unhealthy levels of...
Pope Francis and the Climate, Fighting PFAS, and “Evening” Poem by Dorianne Laux.
As the world remembers the legacy of Pope Francis we return to his groundbreaking writings on climate and environment that called for a fundamental sh...
Earth Day Celebration, The Health Toll of L.A. Oil Wells, Fighting Climate Change with Geothermal and more
Living on Earth is celebrating 55 years of Earth Day with a solution-based broadcast. Grammy nominated singer and Earth Day ambassador Antonique Smith...
Trump Attacks State Climate Laws, Eco Rollbacks Under Trump, Air Pollution Mixes and Public Health, Shrinking Clouds and more
President Trump has issued an executive order that directs the U.S. attorney general to identify and block state laws that deal with climate change, e...
Tornadoes in a Hotter World, Science and the US Government, Poetry Month and more.
Experts are still trying to piece together how tornado patterns have changed in the last century and are likely to keep changing as the world gets hot...
Greenpeace SLAPPed for $600 Million?, EV Charging Money Stalled, A Quest for Quiet and more
A North Dakota jury found in favor of pipeline company Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $600 million in damages over its role i...
GOP and Clean Energy Tax Credits, EPA Drops Major Polluter Case, Fracking Waste Crisis, and more
As President Trump and the Republican-led Congress aim to shrink the federal government and renew major tax cuts, hundreds of billions of dollars in c...
EPA Under Attack, Plastic Containers Linked to Heart Failure, Wild Girls, and more.
The Trump administration announced plans to roll back multiple environmental regulations, cut EPA spending and push back environmental justice program...
NY Climate Superfund, US Ducks Intl Climate Meetings, Gaps in Greenland Ice Sheet, and more
To help cover the rising costs of climate impacts like extreme floods and sea level rise, New York State has enacted a climate superfund law that asks...
David Brancaccio on Fire Recovery, Bringing Sea Otters Back, Trump to Limit Environmental Reviews and more.
The thousands of homes that burned in Los Angeles this January included the home of Marketplace Morning Report Host David Brancaccio. He shares what h...
EPA Freezes “Green Bank”, Climate Disruption to Lose Trillions, Civil Rights and Env Justice and more.
The Trump EPA is trying to cancel $20 billion dollars of funding in what’s known as the “Green Bank”, which provides loans for local clean energy, ene...
No Help From America, “Climate Whiplash” Between Extreme Wet and Dry, Bipartisan ‘EXPLORE’ Act and Outdoor Accessibility and more.
The Trump administration’s attempt to freeze all foreign assistance and bid to lay off nearly all USAID staffers are bringing disastrous consequences...
Trump Dumps Environmental Justice, PFAS Rule Withdrawn, Searching for Old Growth Forest, and more.
Black, Brown and low-income communities pushing back against industrial pollution have always had an uphill battle. But now those environmental justic...
Bird Flu Warning, Life as an Incarcerated Firefighter, An Ancient Climate Solution and more.
So far avian flu hasn’t been seen spreading from human to human, but recent mutations indicate some variants are becoming better adapted to infecting...
Trump Blocks Climate and Eco Action, EVs in the Trump Era, The “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” and more.
Back in power, President Trump immediately took aim at climate and environmental protection with a flurry of executive orders such as blocking the Par...
Green Light for State Climate Cases, Redwood Rebirth After Fire, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, and more.
Facing huge costs for climate adaptation and disaster recovery, some states and localities are suing fossil fuel companies for damages. The U.S. Supre...
Wildfires Bring ‘Climate Trauma,’ U.S. Abdicates Climate Lead Again, Jimmy Carter’s Green Legacy, and more
Wildfires like those hitting southern California take an enormous social and psychological toll on victims and observers alike. We hear how people and...