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Providing a unique perspective on environmental news, issues and science to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for positive environmental action.

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Laura and Mike did stories on the changing atmospheric rivers, the challenges of recycling plate glass, the increasing gentrification of cities by Americans across the world, Indigenous input into the transition to “clean” or “green” energy, more fast growing wildfires,  the legacy of mining waste, and a spooky story about whip-poor-wills.  We did a two […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on trade between Norse and Indigenous Americans much earlier than previously known, how Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens may have interacted,  how old growth in the Pacific Northwest is key to carbon storage, a new partnership for the Walla Walla River between Oregon and Washington, a chinook salmon take in Alaska […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on  Indigenous people helping wildlife,  using rats for search and rescue, wildlife populations disappearing at a record rate, making biochar from iron chloride soaked wood chips destroys PFAS, protecting old growth in Washington, conspiracy theories regarding recent hurricanes, and how fire retardant chemicals are found in household items with  black […] […]
Laura and Mike interviewed our guest, Garth Davis of the Spokane Conservation Direct about Ponderosa Pine forests. Garth described Ponderosa pine, including the makeup of the native ponderosa pine forest and its fire cycle. He discussed potential impacts from the pine bark beetle, drought and non-native plants.  He described what the Conservation District offers landowners, […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on how climate science is viewed,  tulips, the Farm Bill and SNAP, hurricane Helene,  urban canopy funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, PFAS products being banned in Minnesota, and storing carbon in the ground, with trees in wet soils.  We did three station ID’s starting at 12:00 PM. […]
Laura and Mike did stories on metal exposure from environmental pollution is increasing heart disease, microplastics coming from packaging and entering humans, as well as coral, pigs are the pickiest eaters among livestock, impacts of meat diets, wolves again killed in Washington because of livestock predation, whales making unusual sounds in the deepest ocean trench, […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on bugs once meant to be worn as living jewelry, climate impacts from jet contrails, climate friendly wheat flower, PFAS in pesticides, a Biden administration attempt to remove protections for wolves, and the upcoming lunar eclipse during the full moon. We did three station ID’s. […]
Laura and Mike did stories on biodiversity in deep oceans, tadpoles from more salt-polluted waters that evolved higher salt tolerance, a new cure for Covid, bad predator policy in Wyoming, a new method to break down PFAS and microplastics, and how solar panel sites can also be a place for pollinators and biodiversity.  We did […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on wildfire smoke remediation for grapes, how watersheds are dramatically changing, how bats can deal with high blood sugar levels, the loss of porcupines in the Northwest and California, how insects play dead to avoid predation,  the State of Utah trying to seize public federal lands so they put new […] […]
Laura and Mike did stories on the cultural history of the South Dakota Badlands and Black Hills, air pollution causing more severe thunderstorms, how people are harmed by their tap water, crops harmed by lack of pollinators, poisonous dyes in old books, new ways of breaking down PFAS, how bacteria can help to extract rare […] […]