# living earth (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover living earth. Page: Feed: --- ## PFAS and Our Genes, Artemis II Science and Awe, and Clearing the Air and Climate Solutions Hope _2026-08-14 · Living on Earth_ A 2025 study found that exposure to certain PFAS chemicals, which are pervasive and persistent in the environment and human bodies, can lead to changes in gene expression that are linked to cancers, autoimmune and other immune disorders, and neurological disorders. Also, the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission in April 2026 made new scientific observations that are helping to expand our… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE9755816131.mp3) ## A Cemetery Buzzing with Bees, Bluetooth Butterfly Tracking, How Flowers Made Our World, and more. _2026-08-07 · Living on Earth_ While honeybees get most of the buzz, most bees don’t produce honey, and most don’t even live in colonies. Instead, they’re solitary bees who build individual nests. A study details an astonishing finding of several million solitary bees in a cemetery in Ithaca, New York. And monarch butterflies can travel thousands of miles each year between Mexico and North America in an epic relay race of… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE6703079662.mp3) ## [Saving the Klamath, Salmon, and Yurok Culture; Trump Attempts to Shrink Bears Ears -- Again; Hints of Life on Mars; and more.](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00031) _2026-07-31 · Living on Earth_ The culture of the Yurok tribe in Northern California is deeply intertwined with the Klamath river’s salmon. So, when toxic conditions caused by the dams on the river resulted in a massive fish kill, the Yurok people sprang into action and secured the historic removal of four dams, a story captured in The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life. Also, on… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE2707775552.mp3) ## [Climate Change Speeding Up, Smog and Sunshine – CA’s Cleaner Air, and more.](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00030) _2026-07-24 · Living on Earth_ Current climate change has been well underway for decades, but the rate of that change is now going up so fast that people are noticing things like tornados and extreme heat waves are occurring in places where they have rarely been seen before. How greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, the loss of reflective ice and snow, and other changes are causing the Earth to retain extra heat energy… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE7476010234.mp3) ## [Extreme Heat and Tooth Decay, The Problem with Plastic, National Parks Magic and more.](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00029) _2026-07-17 · Living on Earth_ The extreme heat that’s becoming far more common in a warming world is now being linked to dental problems. As the body prioritizes sweat for cooling over saliva production, the resulting dry mouth can have devastating impacts on your teeth, and a dentist in Pakistan is documenting a tooth decay trend among his patients who work outdoors in the heat for prolonged periods. Also, cheap and… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE9718034638.mp3) ## [Antarctic Ice Missing, Arctic Peatlands Expanding, Nuts to Feed the World and more](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00028) _2026-07-10 · Living on Earth_ Midsummer in the Northern hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time when temperatures plunge and the surrounding ocean ices over, nearly doubling the continent’s size. But this June, scientists found Antarctica’s west coast was missing a chunk of sea ice the size of France. How unusually warm ocean water is affecting sea ice as well as massive Antarctic glaciers. Also,… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE4684706265.mp3) ## [America’s Enduring Ecology: Forests, Public Lands, and more](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00027) _2026-07-03 · Living on Earth_ As we mark America’s 250th birthday, we celebrate parts of America’s enduring ecology, including our forests, national parks and other public lands. At the heart of one of Washington State’s most expansive wild ecosystems is North Cascades National Park, just a three-hour drive from Seattle yet one of the lesser-known parks. Also, around 30% of the United States is federal public lands, and the… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE9081127371.mp3) ## [When the Forest Breathes with Suzanne Simard, Ocean Monitoring Restored, Fighting Fracking in Colombia and more.](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00026) _2026-06-26 · Living on Earth_ Forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has shown through her research that the biggest and oldest ‘Mother Trees’ in the forest anchor networks of social connection among the trees, and indeed the whole forest ecosystem. Her latest book is When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, and she shares how more sustainable logging practices incorporating Indigenous knowledge can help… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE6776522104.mp3) ## [How Flowers Made Our World, A Cemetery Buzzing with Bees, El Niño Is Here, and more.](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00025) _2026-06-19 · Living on Earth_ Lush peonies, delicate hydrangeas, and vibrant roses burst into bloom in early summer, filling gardens and parks with color and fragrance. But flowers are more than their beauty. They’re some of the oldest beings on Earth, and they played a large role in shaping the natural world as we know it. Author and biologist David George Haskell joins us to discuss his 2026 book, How Flowers Made Our World:… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE6361531687.mp3) ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xdohvIwO5qcI) _2026-06-19 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Juneteenth! Celebrating Black and Brown Stewards of the Green Earth](https://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=26-P13-00024) _2026-06-12 · Living on Earth_ To celebrate Juneteenth we tell the story of plant biologist Beronda Montgomery. When she sat down to write what became a personal memoir mixed with a botanical history of African Americans, she found her research as a PhD lab scientist had brought her squarely into the world of social science as well. From her studies of how plants respond to light during photosynthesis, she started shining a… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/LOE1053319920.mp3)