Just What is Wilderness?
What is a wilderness, really? Here in the US we think of it as undeveloped land, put aside to appreciate its beauty and remoteness. In other...
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20 of 777 episodesEat Your Garden!
Gardens are popping up everywhere, from community plots to elementary school yards to vertical plantings. A unique approach proposed by awar...
Plastics: Health Risks & Solutions
Microplastics: Health Concerns, Solutions (start time: 6:02) The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a new rule related to monit...
Poking the Squid – What We Can Learn from Animal Sex
Poking the Squid – Good Reads calls author and illustrator Perrin Roosevelt Ireland’s new book a brilliantly funny, beautifully illustrated...
Childrearing Tips (and Cautionary Tales) From the Animal Kingdom
Parenting Across the Animal Kingdom (start time: 5:02) As humans, we tend to think that we raise our children with more care than any other...
Kyle Datta – Energy Security, War & Renewable Energy
Global conflicts are revealing vulnerabilities in the global reliance on imported fossil fuels and centralized power. Energy Analyst Kyle Da...
Hidden Nations of Animals
Complex Animal Networks (start time: 7:17) As humans, we’re all familiar with, as we live in and are members of, nations. But most of us don...
Climate Change: Perils and Progress
Climate Change & Action: From the Arctic to Colorado (start time: 2:33) Twenty years ago the Academy-winning documentary An Inconvenient Tru...
Silent Sky // Gold Lab Symposium
Protest It, Respect It, Defend It, Use It (starts 1:00) Friday at Denver Patagonia and Saturday at Boulder Patagonia environmental activists...
A Longer Healthier Life
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with author, psychologist, and aging explorer Alan Carpenter to discuss the paradigm shift on aging...
The Loneliness Epidemic – CSU Researcher Natalie Pennington
The Loneliness Epidemic – Social media fuels extra risk. Especially vulnerable are people undergoing transitions . . . such as college stude...
Forest as Superorganism: What it means to Clearcut.
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth speaks with Suzanne Simard, professor and researcher at the University of British Columbia, about her book...
Buy Now Pay Later – Enticement or Addiction?
Buy Now Pay Later – is this lending service simply enticing, or is it addictive? For the GenZ 20 somethings that are its biggest users, is B...
Women’s Health Pt. III: Menopause & the Brain
The Brain on Menopause (start time: 01:24) In this week’s show, we offer the finale of our three-part series on menopause and women’s health...
A Brain Circuit That Switches Acute to Chronic Pain
On this week’s How on Earth, Beth talks with neuroscientist and chronic pain researcher Jayson Ball. He recently completed a study of a nove...
Conserving Imperiled Prairie Dogs, Raptors & Their Grasslands
Preserving prairie dog+raptor ecosystem (start time: 5:03) Spring has just begun, even if winter hardly visited Colorado. On the plains, pra...
Pollinator Power & Precarity
The Power of Precarity of Pollinators (start time: 8:01) This extremely warm winter in Colorado has delivered early spring blooms, and thus...
The Scale of the Universe
How big is the universe – not just in the scale of distance but also the scale of time? What do those…astronomical…scales mean about us huma...
Winter Recreation in a Warmer World
On this week’s How on Earth, we hear from a climate scientist about the implications of our changing weather patterns for winter recreation....
What do Grasslands Have to do with Climate Change?
We hear an interview aired by our sister community radio station’s, Science MOAB. Ecologist Brooke Osborne talks about how dryland ecosystem...