Tag: climate
Why You Don’t Hear About the Ozone Layer Anymore
Finally, some good news about the environment.
Why 80% of New Zealand is Empty
With a perfect climate for humans that is similar to the UK; New Zealand has a 10th of the UK population. Why?
Want to Solve Wildfires and Drought? Leave it to BEAVERS!
More and more scientists are starting to ask the question: Could beavers be the ally we’ve been waiting for when it comes to saving the environment? Travel with host Joe Hanson to Central Oregon where a group of scientists set up a kind of beaver laborato...
How Bison Are Saving America's Lost Prairie
American prairies were once home to as many as 60 million bison. But when ranching and agriculture displaced elk and bison from the prairies, America’s grasslands all but disappeared. Now, the Nature Conservancy manages the largest remaining protected tra...
50 Years Ago, This Was a Wasteland. He Changed Everything
Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill hillside aquifers, Bamberger devoted the rest of his life to restor...
