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  • Levels of methane have increased particularly quickly since 2020. Livestock account for about 32% of human-caused methane emissions, the U.N. Environment Program says.
  • Media studies professor Phil Duncan directed, shot and produced Mississippi Mud: A Natural History of the Blues during several trips to the Mississippi Delta.
  • Host Liane Hansen speaks with composer John Luther Adams bout his new CD, "Earth and the Great Weather - A Sonic Geography of the rctic." (New World 80459-2) Through a combination of on-site nature recordings, uman voices, and chilling musical arrangements, Adams has succeeded in creating unique sound landscape in celebration of Alaska's beautiful and shockingly tark environment. His previous CD, also inspired by the great white north, is alled "The Far Country" (New Albion NA061CD).
  • Scientists discovered a colorless, eyeless creature which dwells in metallic environments deep in the northern Pacific Ocean. Naturally, they named it after the band Metallica.
  • It's the annual, "Eagle Days" at Havana, along with other sites on the Illinois River. ISU professor of Biology Angelo Caparella says Bald Eagles reuse…
  • We air a portion of a stump speech of John Hagelin, a Presidential candidate from the Natural Law Party who's on the ballot in 45 states. The main focus of the Natural Law Party is to support the development of the human element--they see America's problems, crime, domestic abuse, pollution -- as human problems and they seek a government that seeks to elevate human behavior. And the way to do that, they say, is not with rules or laws but with education...that teaches people to take better care of themselves, their environment, etc. Governments can't generate health or wealth...it must empower the citizens of the country to best use the human resource.(5:00)
  • Psychologist Steven Pinker describes how far we've come in understanding how both nature and nurture make us ... us.
  • Transcendental Folk is a term often used to describe the music of Nederland, Colorado based Elephant Revival. The town of 1500 sits in the rarified hills…
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