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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

In this week's Beyond the Headlines segment, Peter Dykstra and Host Bobby Bascomb look at the European Union's plan to become carbon neutral by 2050. Next, they turn to internet dating profiles and how users are matched based on their concern about climate change.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

In this week's Beyond the Headlines, even as Australia is plagued by wildfires, torrential rains have caused flooding that have left dozens dead in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

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Toxics

EPA ignores warnings from Trump's handpicked scientists to push for more pollution

The EPA is defending its decision to reverse regulations designed to reduce contamination, against its own advisers.

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A Trump policy ‘clarification’ all but ends punishment for bird deaths

In one of its first environmental acts, the Trump administration absolved businesses from responsibility for "incidental" bird deaths. Avian carnage has followed.

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Heatwave conditions to sweep across Australia ahead of Christmas week

Parts of Australia are set to swelter through a scorcher of a week, with temperatures forecast to exceed 40C for days and predictions the mercury could tip to over 50C in desert areas.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

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Senate leaders ask for input on ways to address climate change

The co-founder of the Senate's first-ever Environment Justice Caucus, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) led 15 of her Senate colleagues in sending letters to leaders in the environmental justice movement.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

This week, Peter Dykstra and Host Steve Curwood discuss the international rise of coal, with China's big push to increase coal power and Russia's Siberian coast playing an increasing role in shipping coal. In Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, two years of delays are preventing islanders from accessing the FEMA aid needed to recover after hurricanes Maria and Irma.

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Invasive animal species: Experts float US national park plan

Virginia Tech researchers' new report offers ideas to stop non-native invasive animal species like pythons, cats, rats, feral pigs from overrunning national parks.

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Living on Earth: The silent killer called PM2.5

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, finds a link between PM 2.5 air pollution at levels considered safe by the EPA and the deaths of 200,000 veterans over a recent decade.

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Opinion

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Peter Dykstra and Bobby Bascomb take a look at how melting sea ice in the Arctic is already opening up a new shipping route for oil and gas in particular. Then, the two discuss the low attendance by Democratic candidates at the first ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice, and some of the big ideas from the candidates who showed up.

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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Peter Dykstra and Steve Curwood discuss an EV start-up replacing a shuttered GM plant in Ohio and the upcoming arrival of Polestar, an EV financed by Volvo and manufactured in China, to the Montreal market. They also consider an idea to convert the outer area of massive parking lots into urban farms.

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Climate activists focusing on the impact of climate change on children and families

How to prepare the United States, and the world, from the impacts of climate change has become a flashpoint in the 2020 presidential election.

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Senators on climate change: "We look a bit like Neanderthals"

With most Americans now viewing climate change as a major threat, a group of senators announced the first bipartisan climate caucus to address the crisis.

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From our Newsroom

Op-ed: EPA’s new water rule is a mockery of science and the Clean Water Act

If the Trump administration's own scientific advisory board, a host of biological societies, and scores of former government agency officials are disappointed, the rest of America should be fearful and angry.

High waters, more hazardous cargo in the Ohio watershed complicate the job of keeping the waterways safe

As the conditions on the Ohio — and its cargo — become more hazardous, key regulatory organizations struggle to keep up with the growing demands of this water highway.

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

EPA ignores warnings from Trump's handpicked scientists to push for more pollution

A Trump policy ‘clarification’ all but ends punishment for bird deaths

Heatwave conditions to sweep across Australia ahead of Christmas week

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Senate leaders ask for input on ways to address climate change

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Invasive animal species: Experts float US national park plan

Christmas tree shopping is harder than ever, thanks to climate change and demographics

Living on Earth: The silent killer called PM2.5

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Climate activists focusing on the impact of climate change on children and families

Senators on climate change: "We look a bit like Neanderthals"

Op-ed: EPA’s new water rule is a mockery of science and the Clean Water Act

If the Trump administration's own scientific advisory board, a host of biological societies, and scores of former government agency officials are disappointed, the rest of America should be fearful and angry.

Before Gore, Greta, and the Green New Deal: Part One

Some unlikely, unsung Green heroes from pop culture's past.

A Pittsburgh-area test case in working across political boundaries to address flooding

More rain has fallen in the Pittsburgh area over the last two years than at any other time in recorded history

High waters, more hazardous cargo in the Ohio watershed complicate the job of keeping the waterways safe

As the conditions on the Ohio — and its cargo — become more hazardous, key regulatory organizations struggle to keep up with the growing demands of this water highway.

Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Why I'm dedicated to amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

It's time to promote and embrace diversity within the environmental health community and listen to solutions from tomorrow's leaders

If the Trump administration's own scientific advisory board, a host of biological societies, and scores of former government agency officials are disappointed, the rest of America should be fearful and angry.

Some unlikely, unsung Green heroes from pop culture's past.

More rain has fallen in the Pittsburgh area over the last two years than at any other time in recorded history

As the conditions on the Ohio — and its cargo — become more hazardous, key regulatory organizations struggle to keep up with the growing demands of this water highway.

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

It's time to promote and embrace diversity within the environmental health community and listen to solutions from tomorrow's leaders

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