The Corridor | 3 | The Smoke of Progress
At the beginning of the 20th century, the corridor began a transition from one deadly industry to another—from sugar to petrochemicals. This...
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The Corridor | 2 | Sugar Is Made with Blood
Before gas, oil, and benzene, there was sugar. This is the story of the first industry that exploited people in the Corridor, an industry th...
The Corridor | 1 | River Road
One of the largest concentrations of petrochemical plants in the country lies along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orlean...
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Coming Tuesday, June 2nd: A podcast about history, pollution, and resistance on the frontlines of America’s petrochemical industry. Over sev...
Threshold Conversations | Water and War with Kaveh Madani
Like many countries, Iran has struggled with major water scarcity in recent years. Last summer its capital, Tehran, came very close to “day...
Threshold Conversations | Coyotes in the City with Christopher Schell
As surprising as it may be to encounter a coyote in the big city, these wild carnivores aren’t passing through—they’re right at home. Whethe...
Threshold Conversations: Walking Like a Curlew with Matthew Trevelyan
All around the Northern Hemisphere, the evocative call of a curlew is a telltale sign of spring. With their tall, skinny legs and long, curv...
Threshold Conversations | Feminism in the Wild with Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer
How much of what we know about animals is actually just an assumption? From dominant males and passive females to stigmas around same-sex se...
Threshold Conversations | Climate Negotiations with Lina Yassin
Thirty-four years ago, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the annual “conferences of the parties...
Threshold Conversations | Climate Emotions with Audrey Martin
All over the world, small groups of complete strangers are getting together to share their feelings about climate. These gatherings are call...
Threshold Conversations | The Roadless Rule with Ben Goldfarb
Last June, the U.S. the Secretary of Agriculture announced that the Trump administration intends to repeal something called the “Roadless Ru...
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Hark | 16 | Country is Speaking
In this final episode of Hark, we think about listening with Indigenous storytellers on three different continents—and we have one more enco...
Hark | 15 | Whynotamus
New technologies like artificial intelligence have helped to accelerate and open up the entire world of bioacoustics, launching us into a ne...
Hark | 14 | Disquieting
Humans have filled the world with so much noise that the only sounds many of us often hear on a daily basis are our own. But all this sound...
Hark | 13 | Part of the Choir
Homo sapiens joined the story of life on Earth just 300,00 years ago. So when and how did we start making music and creating languages? In t...
Hark | 12 | Trailblazers
Elephants communicate through a variety of calls, trumpets, and rumbles. But despite being some of the largest land animals on Earth, elepha...
Hark | 11 | Am I Not Lucky?
Modern humans emerged into a world filled with and shaped by elephants. But for elephants, living with humans isn’t always easy. Elephants h...
Hark | 10 | Behold, the Wonderchicken
More than 60 million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth, wiping out almost all the dinosaurs. But one group made it through—the ancestors...
Hark | 9 | The Silent Type
Birds, frogs, dolphins, and humans—we're all big talkers. Turtles, on the other hand, are considered to be silent. But are they? In this epi...