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Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that tells captivating stories about people and the planet. Each season, we do a deep dive into one pressing environmental story, exploring it th...
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...
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...
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...
Thirty-four years ago, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established the annual “conferences of the parties...
All over the world, small groups of complete strangers are getting together to share their feelings about climate. These gatherings are call...
Last June, the U.S. the Secretary of Agriculture announced that the Trump administration intends to repeal something called the “Roadless Ru...
Something new is coming to your feed next week. Threshold is made possible by our listeners. To keep making our show, we need to raise $75,0...
In this final episode of Hark, we think about listening with Indigenous storytellers on three different continents—and we have one more enco...
New technologies like artificial intelligence have helped to accelerate and open up the entire world of bioacoustics, launching us into a ne...
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...
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...
Elephants communicate through a variety of calls, trumpets, and rumbles. But despite being some of the largest land animals on Earth, elepha...
Modern humans emerged into a world filled with and shaped by elephants. But for elephants, living with humans isn’t always easy. Elephants h...
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...
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...
Living together in a group is a strategy many animals use to survive and thrive. And a big part of what makes that living situation successf...
A name is essential to your identity. It’s what people call you and what you respond to—it’s part of what you understand about yourself. But...
Listening and looking for loons. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donati...
We answer listener questions about the making of Season 5: Hark and of Threshold more broadly in this special AMA episode with host Amy Mart...
Sometimes a place we consider quiet is just a place we haven’t taken the time to listen. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and ind...
If a being doesn’t have ears, can it hear? And if it doesn’t have a mouth, can it talk? In this episode, we spend a golden afternoon convers...
Listening to Threshold is free. Creating it is not. We’ve always been committed to making the best show we can—and making it available for f...
Insects invented song. They’ve developed a multitude of ways to listen. But insects couldn’t have evolved these complex skills without plant...
Sometimes we have to be loud when we want to be quiet. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can suppo...
What is sound? And what does it mean to listen? In this episode, we ask what sound is, how it works, and how what you hear may not be the sa...
Coral reefs are some of our planet’s most beautiful and biodiverse habitats. They’re also rich with sound, a bustling marine metropolis whos...
The planet is filled with unexpected and magical sounds… all you have to do is listen. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and indep...
Beneath the water lies a whole world of sound: snorts, boops, croaks, grunts. Fish, it turns out, have a lot to say, and they’ve been commun...
For most of our planet’s existence, the Earth was quiet. The boisterous sounds of life we know today are a recent development, one that the...
Humans are born into a wondrous planetary chorus. But today, many of us rarely hear anything other than ourselves. In this season of Thresho...
In June 2024, the planet hit a terrifying milestone: 12 straight months of global temperatures at or above 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial l...
In Season 1 of Threshold, we reported on the decades-long fight to get the federal government to transfer the National Bison Range, and the...
A few weeks ago, Yellowstone National Park released a draft plan for managing bison in the park. In this dispatch, we answer your questions...
Yellowstone National Park recently released a new plan for managing the bison herd. It’s in draft form, and maps out three alternatives for...
A lyrical ode to our atmosphere: the invisible, underappreciated substance that makes all life on Earth possible. There are quite a few thin...
A few weeks ago, the Biden administration approved the Willow project. It’s a plan to extract 600 million barrels of oil from northern Alask...
Representatives from nearly every country in the world are in Egypt right now for COP27, the annual climate conference hosted by the United...
In many ways, the climate crisis is an identity crisis. As we reckon with the damage we’ve done, we’re being forced into a massive confronta...
The climate crisis is not just a problem of carbon emissions: it's one of inequality. In fact, global warming and global inequality are the...
The UN climate talks, or COPs, are attempting the biggest, most complicated, highest-stakes group project humanity has ever known. They are,...
The UN climate talks, or COPs, are a lot of different things: they're confusing, bureaucratic, inspiring, boring, infuriating, and exhilarat...
If the steel industry were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter. So to prevent a climate catastrophe, this industry has...
Listening to Threshold is free, but creating it is not. We have always been committed to making the best show we can—and making it available...
For centuries, we have been willing to sacrifice places, ecosystems, and entire species for industries like steel. While steel is one of the...
Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and clim...
One of the most challenging aspects of the climate crisis is that we have to do everything at once - transition the entire global economy aw...
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of car...
We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to do - and have the technology t...
The number of things at stake in the climate crisis do not fit inside one episode. It's hard to even fit them inside your mind. Part of what...
Britain was the first place in the world to go through what we now call the Industrial Revolution, a transformation of an agricultural, rura...