Earth Wise
A look at our changing environment.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 71
- Years Active
- 2025
Restoring oil well sites with moss
Living in a warming world
Natural solutions for disappearing islands
Five amazing renewable energy projects
Nature: An important climate ally
Nature is often seen as a victim of climate change, but it’s also one of the most powerful tools we have to fight it. Natural ecosystems, such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, oceans, and soils, abs…
Feeding the future
Climate change is already affecting the yields of major staple crops around the world, and researchers warn that the impacts will become more severe over time. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall …
Building better blackberries
The Human Genome Project is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. It was launched in 1990 and completed in 2003. The international group of researchers wanted to comprehensively study al…
Toxic algae and West Coast marine life
Over the first several months of this year, hundreds of sea lions, dolphins, and seabirds have fallen ill or died after eating sardines or anchovies that had been feeding on an algal bloom along the …
Solar on farmland
New studies have found that devoting a small percentage of U.S. farmland to producing solar power would benefit both the country’s energy system and its farmers. Currently, about 46,000 square miles …
A starfish to the rescue
Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease associated with a marine heatwave decimated the population of sunflower sea stars. Those huge, colorful 24-armed starfish thrived along the Pacific Coast betw…
Americans breathe unhealthy air
According to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, at least 156 million Americans – 46% of the population – live with unsafe levels of ozone, particulate pollution, or both.…