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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 b...
The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments for Monsanto v. Durnell, a case about whether states can require warning labels on pestic...
The US Senate recently voted to reverse a moratorium on mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, a million acres...
The first Earth Day in 1970, when some 20 million people peacefully demonstrated, arrived amid Vietnam War protests and other social unrest....
About two thirds of the US-Mexico border is along the Rio Grande, and the Trump Administration is working to install hundreds of miles of bu...
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission are prospecting for a planned base on the moon, the first lunar expedition since 1972. The crew inc...
A federal judge recently issued an enforcement order mandating the release of funds from FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Commun...
The investment giant Vanguard is retreating from its climate initiatives as part of a $30 million settlement deal for an anti-trust lawsuit...
A decades-old US Forest Service rule that’s been used to supposedly reduce wildfire risk through large-scale logging while bypassing environ...
Descendants of enslaved people fighting pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ have been greenlit for a trial. Their lawsuit alleges the St...
The Dutch special municipality of Bonaire in the Caribbean is already experiencing dangerous heat and could see a fifth of its land disappea...
After a landmark Supreme Court case that directed EPA to determine whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health,...
The ongoing efforts of the Trump Administration to walk back climate policy and clean energy development may be handing over the health of t...
In honor of Black History Month Special we highlight some of the voices that stood up against environmental injustice including Civil rights...
As geothermal heating and cooling slowly spreads in the U.S., some communities and utilities are looking to grow small pilot projects into m...
The Trump Administration is withdrawing the US from the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, which reports agreemen...
The Trump Administration recently announced plans to withdraw the United States from dozens of United Nations treaties and organizations inc...
In its first year, the second Trump Administration slashed environmental regulations and programs, overstepping its executive authority in t...
As a new space race heats up, private companies and sovereign nations alike have their sights on setting up permanent human settlements in s...
At this coldest, darkest time of year, draw near the fire and the radio, join with family and friends, and savor the warmth and joy of good...
In many cultures, stories passed down through the generations explain how the world got to be the way it is. The Haudenosaunee people of Nor...
Climate activist Bill McKibben, who authored The End of Nature nearly 40 years ago, is back with Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the C...
Artificial intelligence or AI’s huge appetite for power is reviving demand for older and dirtier fossil fuel energy. We talk about the massi...
This Giving Tuesday, we've put together some favorite stories into a special bonus episode! Please enjoy, and don't forget to head to loe.or...
Wildfire smoke is fouling air quality across the US with increasing regularity, and it carries a heavy toll. A September 2025 study publishe...
As the host of this year’s UN climate treaty negotiations and home to most of the Amazon tropical rainforest, Brazil led a major advance for...
November’s elections brought victories across the country for state and local Democratic candidates who pledged to address rising energy cos...
The biggest climate negotiations of the year, COP30, are kicking off in Belem in the Brazilian Amazon. Longtime COP observer Jennifer Morgan...
Hurricane Melissa, the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean in modern times, left a wake of destruction in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti that will...
A recent Human Rights Watch report found that illegal cattle ranching and clearing of the Amazon rainforest has led to the forced eviction o...
Facing lost jobs and higher energy prices after the Trump EPA canceled $7 billion in low-income solar grants, a coalition of labor, green an...
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 Chin...
In the federal youth climate case Lighthiser v. Trump, plaintiffs are seeking immediate relief from three executive orders and subsequent ac...
Speaking to the UN, President Trump railed against climate science and clean energy, drawing sharp rebukes from other nations, rival politic...
New research finds that since 2010 killer heat waves have become 200 times more likely, thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, and the scientis...
The Trump Administration is putting offshore wind energy on hold by canceling grants, cutting tax credits and revoking permits for projects...
New Jersey officials are calling its $2 billion settlement with major manufacturers of PFAS “forever chemicals” the largest environmental se...
Oysters on the half shell are big business on Nantucket Island, and a local program recycles oyster shells from restaurant waste into habita...
Around a thousand of the firefighters who battled blazes around southern California in January 2025 were incarcerated. They do essentially t...
Sounds like the overlapping songs of birds can speak volumes about the biodiversity in an ecosystem, and now scientists are looking to use t...
A study from Johns Hopkins researchers found that residents near or on the fence line of polluting enterprises are at higher risk for multip...
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...
The US Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its Office of Research and Development, which represents 50 years of independent sci...
Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration,...
As the climate crisis brings ever more devastating floods, storms, heat waves and fires, the Republican-led Congress and President Trump hav...
19-year-old Eva Lighthiser has experienced climate anxiety for most of her life, as her home state of Montana faces worsening floods, wildfi...
This June the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about...
Just as the enslavement of people was driven by commercial interests, today the enslavement of nature for profit violates a morality that se...
One of the development initiatives affected by the Trump Administration’s shutdown of USAID is the Soybean Innovation Lab, which works to im...
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...
California’s car culture, trucking industry, and weather contribute to chronically bad air that it’s been gradually improving with its own l...