PDX-Earth Episode 79
Today's show discusses how we know 2024 will be the hottest year on record - for the 2nd straight year, why the U.N. thinks rich nations should help poor nations battle climate change, the oil industry's alarming wish list for…
Why the world is on track to get twice as hot by 2100 rather than 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed, Maine's request that hunters not eat the deer, turkeys and other animals they shoot due to "forever chemicals" in the meat, the extinction…
PDX-Earth Episode 76
Why the nations of the world are so far behind meeting environmental goals as the United Nations gathers in Colombia, a survey reveals that most teens and young adults are worried about how climate change will affect their future, Romania…
A discussion of the EPA's list of top greenhouse gas emitters, the Supreme Court's take on the Clean Water Act, the cyber-threats leveled at meteorologists in the post-Hurricane Milton misinformation mayhem, a new national marine sanctuary off the coast of Central California, how…
Updates as Hurricane Milton takes aim at central Florida, why 2023 was the driest for rivers in three decades, the resurgence of deforestation, the solar power boom in Africa, the return of salmon to the Klamath River, California's ban on octopus farming, the…
Today's episode looks at how candidates handled climate questions in the Vice Presidents' debate, the fallout from Atlanta's chemical fire, the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to re-think giving Chevron the green light to produce plastic fuel, the case for endangered fireflies, Portland's 2nd…