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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:46 — 4.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA Feature from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Beth Edwards on the implications of changes to snowfall amounts in Indiana as a result of climate change.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Sargasso Sea, in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, is a massive ocean ecosystem with floating forests of gold seaweed called Sargassum that harbor creatures existing nowhere else on the planet. The floating forests are a crucial safe haven for baby sea turtles and other marine …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 19.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Australian Supreme Court has stepped in to put an immediate halt to a logging project in east Victoria while it waits for cases about the health of native species to be heard in court. If you look at the Nobel Prize website page, Svante August Arrhenius …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:15 — 4.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA report from Indiana Environmental Reporter on Youth Climate Change Action Day.  The reporter is Beth Edwards.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe tiny rural town of Dale, in southwestern Indiana, has been fighting off a proposed coal-to-diesel refinery to be built on five hundred twelve acres of farmland on the edge of town. The Environmental Working Group has reported on a proposal before the Indiana legislature. It shows …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 18.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | More The iconic Doomsday Clock, symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind, is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in nineteen forty-seven. Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant sixty million trees in the coming months. The mounting …

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 28.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOne barrier to people making the switch from conventional to electric cars is cost, mainly because batteries are still expensive. But Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, says that’s changing. Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in saving a secret grove of prehistoric …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 27.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCorrection: In the story about Logging in Hoosier National Forest we stated that the South Fork watershed does not drain into Lake Monroe. That statement was in error. The South Fork watershed DOES drain into Lake Monroe. The Eco Report staff apologizes and regrets any confusion this …