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Coming Tuesday, June 2nd: A podcast about history, pollution, and resistance on the frontlines of America’s petrochemical industry.

Over seven episodes, The Corridor examines how Louisiana became a center of industry and an epicenter of disease, with some communities facing cancer risks among the highest in the nation. Everything that’s happening in the industrial corridor today has been shaped by history - from slavery and segregation to huge technological breakthroughs and environmental change. Across the series, we explore how residents have pushed back - against the destruction of their past, the construction of more plants, the lax enforcement of environmental regulations, and further harm to people’s health as they seek to claim their right to a prosperous and healthy future.

Find the Corridor by searching for Threshold wherever you get podcasts.

Coming Tuesday, June 2nd: A podcast about history, pollution, and resistance on the frontlines of America’s petrochemical industry.

Over seven episodes, The Corridor examines how Louisiana became a center of industry and an epicenter of disease, with some communities facing cancer risks among the highest in the nation. Everything that’s happening in the industrial corridor today has been shaped by history - from slavery and segregation to huge technological breakthroughs and environmental change. Across the series, we explore how residents have pushed back - against the destruction of their past, the construction of more plants, the lax enforcement of environmental regulations, and further harm to people’s health as they seek to claim their right to a prosperous and healthy future.

Find the Corridor by searching for Threshold wherever you get podcasts.

Coming Tuesday, June 2nd: A podcast about history, pollution, and resistance on the frontlines of America’s petrochemical industry.

Over seven episodes, The Corridor examines how Louisiana became a center of industry and an epicenter of disease, with some communities facing cancer risks among the highest in the nation. Everything that’s happening in the industrial corridor today has been shaped by history - from slavery and segregation to huge technological breakthroughs and environmental change. Across the series, we explore how residents have pushed back - against the destruction of their past, the construction of more plants, the lax enforcement of environmental regulations, and further harm to people’s health as they seek to claim their right to a prosperous and healthy future.

Find the Corridor by searching for Threshold wherever you get podcasts.

There is no water without peace, says Kaveh Madani, a leading water scientist and Iran’s former Deputy Head of Environment. He joins us this week on Threshold Conversations to talk about the links between water and war, and his award-winning work on the concept of “water bankruptcy.”

Find Threshold Conversations wherever you get podcasts.

📷 : Aerial photos and satellite imagery of Tehran, and the various dams and reservoirs that provide drinking water to Iran’s capital city

Out now, on Threshold Conversations: Dr. Christopher Schell, an urban ecologist and coyote extraordinaire, helps us think about the carnivores we share our cities with, and what they can teach us about ourselves.

Listen at the link in our bio.

🌎: Map adapted from Hody and Kays (2018). Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America.

How much of what we know about animals is actually just an assumption? From dominant males and passive females to stigmas around same-sex sexual behavior, ideas from our human world influence our understanding of the nonhuman one.

Out now, a new episode of Threshold Conversations with Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, who together wrote “Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior.” They join us to unpack some long-held ideas in biology, explain why these ideas are so powerful, and imagine how we might open our eyes to animal behavior that defies our expectations.

Listen at the link in our bio.

🦎: various species of anole lizard

In this episode of Wild Ideas Worth Living, Amy speaks with @shelbystanger about nature's hidden soundtrack. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!

All over the world, small groups of complete strangers are getting together to share their feelings about climate. These gatherings are called Climate Cafes, and they’re carving out space for some big emotions we might prefer to avoid.

On this episode of Threshold Conversations, we’re joined by Audrey Martin, a Bay Area psychotherapist and one of the leaders of @climatepsychologyalliancena to unpack some of our complicated, scary emotions around climate, and to make the case for why this kind of self-reflection isn’t just comforting—it’s crucial.

Listen at the link in our bio.

🌍 NASA scientific visualizations of CO2 emissions and of sea surface temperature

This Giving Tuesday Listening Matters 🌎

To keep making our show and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re over halfway there!

Donate at the link in our bio and your gift up to $1,000 will be doubled by our partners at NewsMatch.

This Giving Tuesday Listening Matters 🌎

To keep making our show and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re over halfway there!

Donate at the link in our bio and your gift up to $1,000 will be doubled by our partners at NewsMatch.

This Giving Tuesday Listening Matters 🌎

To keep making our show and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re over halfway there!

Donate at the link in our bio and your gift up to $1,000 will be doubled by our partners at NewsMatch.

This Giving Tuesday Listening Matters 🌎

To keep making our show and sharing it with audiences for free, we need to raise $75,000 by the end of the year — and we’re over halfway there!

Donate at the link in our bio and your gift up to $1,000 will be doubled by our partners at NewsMatch.

We need more than AI to really understand what dolphins are saying, says Dr. Stephanie King, a Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Bristol, U.K., and co-director of Shark Bay Dolphin Research in Australia. After decades of studying dolphins, there’s so much we still don’t know, and she says that there’s still no substitute for quietly watching—and listening.

Hear more from Stephanie and the Shark Bay dolphins in “Country is Speaking” at the link in our bio.

#dolphins #animalcommunication #marinebiology

It’s here—the final episode of Hark.

We think about listening with Indigenous storytellers on three different continents, and we have one more encounter with those magical Shark Bay dolphins.

Hear “Country is Speaking” at the link in our bio.

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

A few frog and toad sounds from the wonderful recordings you submitted for our recent episode, “Disquieting.”

Many thanks to everyone who shared their little corner of the amphibian world with us, it was a pleasure and privilege to listen.

Hear what we did with them in Episode 14 of Hark, wherever you get podcasts. (And find the full list of people who submitted sounds in the episode credits!)

New technologies like artificial intelligence have helped to accelerate and open up the entire world of bioacoustics, launching us into a new era of communication with the more-than-human world. In this episode, we explore the promise and perils of using AI in bioacoustics.

Hear Ellen Garland and other scientists talk about what they’re learning, and what might be at risk, in Threshold’s latest episode “Whynotamus,” wherever you get podcasts.

Belugas are an especially chatty species, and they live as long as people do. For Valeria Vergara, director of the Cetacean Conservation Research Program at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, listening to these endangered marine mammals also means listening to human noise—like shipping traffic and oil exploration—that is making whales’ lives more difficult.

Listen to Valeria unpack the social dialogue of belugas in Threshold’s latest episode “Disquieting,” wherever you get podcasts.