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How Flowers Made Our World, A Cemetery Buzzing with Bees, El Niño Is Here, and more.
Jun 19, 2026
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Juneteenth! Celebrating Black and Brown Stewards of the Green Earth
Jun 12, 2026
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Trump Cuts Ocean Monitoring, Ancient Greek Sites Rich in Biodiversity, Seeking Environmental Justice in Papua New Guinea, and more.
Jun 5, 2026
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U.N. Affirms Climate Duty, World Cup in a Warming World, Terry Tempest Williams on ‘The Glorians’ and more.
May 29, 2026
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Cancer and CAFOs, Baby Right Whales Bring Hope, and Indigenous Wisdom in Science.
May 22, 2026
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() How Flowers Made Our World, A Cemetery Buzzing with Bees, El Niño Is Here, and more. | Lush peonies, delicate hydrangeas, and vibrant roses burst into bloom in early summer, filling gardens and parks with color and fragrance. But flowers are more than their beauty. They’re some of the oldest beings on Earth, and they played a large role in shaping the natural world as we know it. Author and biologist David George Haskell joins us to discuss his 2026 book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries. Also, while honeybees get most of the buzz, most bees don’t produce honey, and most don’t even live in colonies. Instead, they’re solitary bees who build individual nests. A recent study details an astonishing finding of several million solitary bees in a cemetery in Ithaca, New York. And the 2026 El Niño is now officially underway, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Combined with the ongoing rising temperatures from the climate crisis, this possible “super” El Niño could spell major disruption of weather patterns and ocean circulation worldwide. -- Sign up for the next virtual Living on Earth Book Club event on July 14 at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT! We’ll talk with Yurok activist and attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis about how multiple generations of her family have advocated for the protection of Northern California’s Klamath River, a crucial habitat for salmon and the lifeblood of the Yurok tribe. Her book is The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. You can sign up for this free event at loe.org/events. Music from public domain and licensed from Blue Dot Sessions: sessions.blue | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Juneteenth! Celebrating Black and Brown Stewards of the Green Earth | To celebrate Juneteenth we tell the story of plant biologist Beronda Montgomery. When she sat down to write what became a personal memoir mixed with a botanical history of African Americans, she found her research as a PhD lab scientist had brought her squarely into the world of social science as well. From her studies of how plants respond to light during photosynthesis, she started shining a light on the history of extensive plant cultivation by African Americans, including those who endured forced labor. She joins us to discuss her book When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History and America’s Black Botanical Legacy. Also, George Washington Carver was born into slavery but went on to become a famous agronomist and helped poor people in the South improve their lives and soils by planting peanuts and other legumes. This week, he comes back from the past in the form of actor and playwright Paxton Williams, who joins us as “George Washington Carver” to talk about the future of modern-day agriculture and intersections between racial dynamics and agricultural development. -- Music licensed from Blue Dot Sessions: sessions.blue | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Trump Cuts Ocean Monitoring, Ancient Greek Sites Rich in Biodiversity, Seeking Environmental Justice in Papua New Guinea, and more.✨ | ocean monitoringclimate science+4 | — | National Science FoundationRio Tinto | Pacific OceanAtlantic Ocean+5 | ocean observatoriesclimate research+4 | — | 51m 52s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() U.N. Affirms Climate Duty, World Cup in a Warming World, Terry Tempest Williams on ‘The Glorians’ and more.✨ | climate changeinternational law+3 | Terry Tempest Williams | U.N.International Court of Justice+2 | Utah | climate dutyU.N. resolution+7 | — | 51m 51s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() Cancer and CAFOs, Baby Right Whales Bring Hope, and Indigenous Wisdom in Science.✨ | cancer riskCAFOs+4 | Dr. Rosa Espinoza | YaleThe Spirit of the Rainforest: How Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Curiosity Reconnects Us to the Natural World | North Atlantic | cancerCAFOs+6 | — | 51m 54s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Blocking New UK Oil and Gas, China Making Green Aluminum, Elephant Elder Wisdom and more.✨ | climate activismoil and gas+4 | — | aluminumGoldman Environmental Prize | Great BritainWeald+1 | UK oil and gasclimate impact+3 | — | 51m 56s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Willing to End Fossil Fuels, AJR Rock Star Recruits for Climate Action, Major National Climate Victory in S. Korea, and more.✨ | climate actionfossil fuels+4 | Adam Met | coalition of the willingAJR+1 | ColombiaSouth Korea | fossil fuelsclimate action+5 | — | 52m 00s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Glyphosate at the Supreme Court, How Oil Fuels Conflict, The Indigenous Fight to Save Bristol Bay, and more.✨ | glyphosateSupreme Court+5 | Alannah Acaq Hurley | RoundupMonsanto+2 | United StatesIran+2 | glyphosateSupreme Court+8 | — | 51m 50s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Boundary Waters Mining Threat, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, and Community-Led Wildfire Prevention in Africa✨ | miningenvironmental impact+4 | Thea RiofrancosIroro Tanshi | Goldman Environmental Prize | Boundary Waters Canoe Area WildernessAtacama Desert+4 | Boundary Watersmining+6 | — | 51m 53s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Earth Day – 1970 vs Now, Artemis II Science and Awe, and Clearing the Air and Climate Solutions Hope✨ | Earth DayArtemis II+4 | Kelsey YoungHannah Ritchie | Living on EarthClearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers | — | Earth DayArtemis II+5 | — | 51m 53s | |
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| 4/10/26 | ![]() Floating Border Wall, Climate Coverage Dropoff, “Night Owl” – Poems, and more.✨ | border issuesclimate change+4 | Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Trump AdministrationMedia and Climate Change Observatory+1 | US-Mexico borderRio Grande | buoy barrierswildlife+5 | — | 51m 55s | |
| 4/3/26 | ![]() Colonizing the Moon, Trump Waives Endangered Species Protections, and A Citizen Science Bioblitz.✨ | moon colonizationArtemis II mission+5 | Danny Olivas | NASATrump+2 | Gulf of MexicoRice’s whale+2 | Artemis IImoon+7 | — | 51m 53s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Climate Resilience Grants Resume, The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything, and A Woolly Rhino DNA Discovery✨ | climate resilienceinfrastructure funding+3 | — | FEMABRIC program+1 | SiberiaArctic | climate resilienceFEMA+6 | — | 51m 51s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Vanguard Retreats from ESG, Running Free from Pricey Gas—EVs, A Vision of a Wind-Powered Venezuela and more.✨ | ESG investmentelectric vehicles+4 | Hannah Ritchie | VanguardBlackRock+4 | — | Vanguardelectric vehicles+6 | — | 51m 40s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Fires and Logging Justice, Back to the Moon, Pioneering Women in Science and more.✨ | wildfire managementspace exploration+4 | Rachel Ignotofsky | US Forest ServiceNASA+2 | Oregon | wildfire risklogging+5 | — | 51m 38s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Justice Advances in Cancer Alley; Trump, Glyphosate and Cancer; Stinky Seaweed Menace and more.✨ | environmental justicecancer and health+4 | Hannah Ritchie | glyphosateRoundup+3 | Cancer AlleyLouisiana+3 | Cancer Alleyglyphosate+7 | — | 51m 52s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Bonaire Residents Fight for Climate Justice, The Possibility of Tenderness, Wastewater to Wealth and more.✨ | climate justiceenvironmental activism+3 | — | Living on Earth | Bonaire | Bonaireclimate justice+3 | — | 51m 52s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Trump Canceling Climate Regs, Stormy Weather for Climate Science, Bluetooth Butterfly Tracking and more.✨ | climate changeenvironmental policy+3 | Terry Tempest Williams | EPANational Center for Atmospheric Research+1 | — | climate regulationsEPA+6 | — | 51m 52s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() U.S. Losing Economic and Energy Edge to China, Wind Power Headwinds, Daisy Rewilds and more. | The ongoing efforts of the Trump Administration to walk back climate policy and clean energy development may be handing over the health of the US economy to our chief economic rival. China is outpacing US economic growth by supplying the world with the clean technologies vital today and in the future, including electric vehicles and critical minerals, while the Trump Administration tries to revive a dying coal industry. Also, onshore wind in the US is hitting a cliff, even in the most wind-powered state, Iowa, which generates about 2/3 of its electricity from wind. A combination of local opposition, anti-wind rhetoric and tax credit phaseouts has led to a steep decline in new wind projects. And the young hero of children’s book Daisy Rewilds not only likes nature, but she also wants to become nature. Daisy refuses to take baths and reverts the manicured lawn of her family home back into the wild, all with a bit of hilarity. Weeds and worms show her family and neighbors the true beauty in nature, chaotic as it can be. --- Save the date for the next Living on Earth Book Club event! On Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, Terry Tempest Williams will join us live on Zoom to discuss her new book The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary. Go to loe.org/events to learn more and register for this free conversation about finding glimmers of hope in the natural world. | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() The Law and Environmental Justice, The Power of Black history, The Quest for Env. Justice in Shiloh and more. | In honor of Black History Month Special we highlight some of the voices that stood up against environmental injustice including Civil rights activist the Rev. Dr. Ben Chavis, Dr. Robert Bullard who’s been deemed the “Father of Environmental Justice”, and Louisiana attorney and human rights advocate Monique Harden. Also, Lenora Gobert, a genealogist for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade shares how looking at ancestry can help Cancer Alley’s quest for environmental justice. And, Melissa Williams a storyteller for the Center for Climate and Environmental Justice Media or CEJM shares her community’s efforts and concerns as they seek justice from the State of Alabama after highway construction flooded their homes in Shiloh Alabama. ----- Save the date for the next Living on Earth Book Club event! On Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, Terry Tempest Williams will join us live on Zoom to discuss her new book The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary. Go to loe.org/events to learn more and register for this free conversation about finding glimmers of hope in the natural world. | — | ||||||
| 2/1/26 | ![]() Hot Prospects for Geothermal Energy, Do Aliens Speak Physics? Global Health Under Trump and more. | As geothermal heating and cooling slowly spreads in the U.S., some communities and utilities are looking to grow small pilot projects into much larger networks of pipes and heat pumps that extract and store heat in the earth to warm and cool homes and businesses as needed. We hear about a large geothermal HVAC system that demonstrates the possibilities and benefits of scaling up. Also, classic science fiction tends to assume that if aliens visit Earth, they will have done so thanks to using math and science that’s like our own. But physicist Daniel Whiteson and cartoonist Andy Warner aren’t so sure. They’re the authors of the book Do Aliens Speak Physics? And Other Questions About Science and the Nature of Reality. And the current Trump administration has in its first year cut off the World Health Organization, dismantled the United States Agency for International Development or USAID, and overhauled vaccination recommendations, just to name a few decisions impacting health and claiming lives across the globe. --- Save the date for the next Living on Earth Book Club event! On Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, Terry Tempest Williams will join us live on Zoom to discuss her new book The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary. Go to loe.org/events to learn more and register for this free conversation about finding glimmers of hope in the natural world. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() US Leaves Top Climate Science Body, Health and Economic Costs of Fossil Fuels and more. | The Trump Administration is withdrawing the US from the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, which reports agreement about the basic scientific facts of global warming and the impact of core technologies to address it. A lead author of the IPCC fourth assessment report in 2007 explains how the fossil fuel industry has long pushed for such an action. Also, the burning of fossil fuels is linked to some 300,000 deaths in America every year, not to mention the related carbon emissions that promote global warming. We discuss the major health and economic costs linked to pollution. And for people with developmental or physical disabilities, growing plants in a garden may offer personal growth opportunities that unlock new possibilities outside of the garden too. An avid gardener and occupational therapist speaks about her book Nurturing Nature: A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Trump Ices Climate Diplomacy, Western Water Crisis Boiling Over, Fungi and Climate Resilience, and more. | The Trump Administration recently announced plans to withdraw the United States from dozens of United Nations treaties and organizations including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty that was ratified by the US Senate in 1992 and is the key international forum for addressing the climate crisis. Marianne Lavelle, the Washington Bureau Chief for Inside Climate News, speaks about what this decision could mean for global climate progress. Also, the Colorado River provides water to seven western states, and there is not enough to go around. Recently the federal government ordered the states to agree on a plan on how to share what's left amid a worsening drought. Luke Runyon co-directs The Water Desk at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism and he joins us to discuss the challenges of allocating water resources when demand continues to outstrip supply. And mycorrhizal fungi form intricate and vital partnerships with plants through enormous underground networks that could help ecosystems and agriculture withstand climate impacts. But these fungi are threatened by habitat loss, nitrogen pollution and more. 2025 MacArthur Fellow Toby Kiers is leading fungi research and conservation efforts; he shares the wonders of fungi and why they’re worth protecting. — If you’re not yet signed up for the Living on Earth newsletter, the start of the new year is a great time to join! Don’t miss out on our weekly exclusive content and notes behind the stories you hear on Living on Earth. Just go to loe.org/newsletter to get started. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Environment and Rule of Law Under Trump, Sea of Grass and the Disappearing Prairie, An Indigenous Bison Harvest and more. | In its first year, the second Trump Administration slashed environmental regulations and programs, overstepping its executive authority in the eyes of some environmental advocates. But the judicial and legislative branches appear unable or unwilling to provide a check on what legal expert Pat Parenteau sees is abusive executive power threatening the health of people and planet. Also, the American prairie is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, but today just one percent of eastern tallgrass prairie remains, and western shortgrass prairie is disappearing at a rate of more than a million acres a year. The author of Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie joins us to discuss. And efforts to bring back bison that once roamed those plains are helping to revive Indigenous culture on lands across the US West, including in the city of Denver. --- If you’re not yet signed up for the Living on Earth newsletter, the start of the new year is a great time to join! Don’t miss out on our weekly exclusive content and notes behind the stories you hear on Living on Earth. Just go to loe.org/newsletter to get started. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | ![]() A City on Mars and the Perils of Settling Space; and Out-of-this-World Discoveries from 2025 | As a new space race heats up, private companies and sovereign nations alike have their sights on setting up permanent human settlements in space – but huge technological, medical and legal challenges remain. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith join us to talk about their book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? And 2025 brought some exciting extraterrestrial scientific discoveries, including new evidence about the Martian environment and the possibility of past life on Mars, the discovery of important building blocks of life in samples from the asteroid Bennu, and observations of the third interstellar object that’s been documented in our solar system. --- If you’re not yet signed up for the Living on Earth newsletter, the start of the new year is a great time to join! Don’t miss out on our weekly exclusive content and notes behind the stories you hear on Living on Earth. Just go to loe.org/newsletter to get started. | — | ||||||
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