Threshold Conversations | The Language of the Living World with Robert Macfarlane
How does the language we use affect our relationships with the rest of the living world? And what if by shifting the way we speak and write,...
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20 of 148 episodesArctic Dispatch | Trimble Gilbert
Right now, the Trump Administration is pushing hard to drill for oil and gas in places that were previously off-limits. One of those places...
The Corridor | 7 | The Future
We’ve been telling the story of the petrochemical industry in Louisiana, but this isn’t just a Louisiana issue, or even just an American one...
The Corridor | 6 | Justice Denied
For decades, the residents of St. John the Baptist Parish breathed in toxic chemicals from a massive complex that makes neoprene - a synthet...
The Corridor | 5 | You’ve Got To Fight
People have objected to the toxic side effects of industry in Louisiana and across the country for a long time. A swell of activism in the 7...
The Corridor | 4 | What Can Be Measured Can Be Changed
We know that many of the chemicals being released by plants in the corridor can cause cancer. We also know that the cancer risk along this s...
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...
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...
The Corridor | Preview
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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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...
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...