Eco Report

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreMay fifteenth is National Endangered Species Day. It is celebrated to remind us of the importance of protecting endangered species and their habitats.  Legislation on endangered species was passed during the Nixon presidency. The Trump administration has weakened many parts of the act.  Suppressing the census count …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:37 — 18.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreYour environmental headlines:  Every year over one hundred climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland’s largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLast year marked the fourth year in a row that the Atlantic hurricane season saw above-average activity, and it doesn’t look like this year will provide any relief. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse, the EPA has issued what amounts to a license to pollute. Polluting …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.7MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAccording to a new report from the environmental and indigenous rights group Amazon Watch, five of the world’s largest banks are funding crude oil extraction in the western Amazon rainforest. After immense conservation efforts, the numbers of critically endangered black rhinoceroses is slowly ticking up, according to …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:56 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about PFAS Disposal

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. A study published in the journal Nature found that in fifteen years the Amazon could turn from a carbon absorber into a carbon emitter, due to wildfires, deforestation and the excess greenhouse …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreAt least a half-dozen utilities have released plans to get to net-zero emissions, or close to it, by twenty fifty. Now a Michigan company has said that it will get to net-zero emissions by twenty forty, the fastest timetable of any major utility in the country. The …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreChina has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 2700 lives and infected more than 81,000 people, most of them in China, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. BreakFreeFromPlastic engaged over 71,000 volunteers …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:30 — 4.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA Feature about Aquaponics: what it is and how it is being taught in Indiana schools

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature carried out a detailed, multi-year study showing that climate collapse and environmental degradation are fueling violence against women and girls and that gender-based exploitation is hurting our ability to tackle the environmental crises. The global fossil fuel industry emits 25-40 percent …