On the Media

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

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Farmers are changing their CSA models to meet consumers where they are

Community-supported agriculture delivers local produce by having customers pay a farm upfront. Some farmers are changing the model to appeal to consumer preferences.

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Groundwater supplies in the Colorado River basin are falling fast. Is there a solution?

Western states like Arizona are considering new laws to regulate pumping from aquifers.

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The Young Economic Populists Reshaping the Left

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Make It Rain

Can a technology used for war help prevent an environmental catastrophe in the making?

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Immigration to the U.S. has steeply declined. The economic impact will last decades

“I worry about the longer-term consequences here,” said Natasha Sarin, president and co-founder or the Yale Budget Lab. “Importantly, they're not consequences that can be reversed.”

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Whales are showing up in San Francisco Bay. New ship alerts could help protect them

The changing climate is driving whales into San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes have been deadly. A new camera system could help ships and ferries steer clear.

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Why It Takes California So Long to Count Votes

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Inside the effort to save one of America's most imperiled salamanders

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander.

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Keen to become a farmer? There's a school for that

A program in Michigan wants to help solve the problem of an aging farmer population by providing aspiring farmers with hands-on learning.

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Scientists are injecting elm trees with a killer fungus to save them

About 50 years ago, Dutch elm disease wiped out most of the American elm trees, but some survived. Now, scientists in Vermont are injecting these trees and saplings with the disease to identify and br...

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How a basket weaving material can prevent flooding

Rivercane is making a comeback. When it grows in dense colonies, it can help prevent floods.

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Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI

Pope Leo XIV has published his first major document. The encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” focuses on AI and what the pope calls the “distorting effects of technological power.”

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How to Dim the Sun

A controversial climate intervention could help prevent catastrophic tipping points. It could also backfire.

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US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers

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An art museum in Maine tries to balance protecting art and saving energy

Keeping a museum's temperature and humidity constant -- rain or shine, all year long -- takes a massive amount of energy, and it's expensive. But some museums have a solution.

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Visual impairments don't keep these birders out of the hobby

The phrase "bird watching" does not take in the full range of people who love searching for wild birds. We meet a few of the many visually impaired birders who use their ears.

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A wildfire off the California coast threatened one of the world's rarest pines

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Heather Schneider of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden about the garden's efforts to conserve seeds of rare plants from Santa Rosa Island, where a wildfire just burned.

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Democrats look to rural voters to grow their coalition

Democrats are looking for a path to winning more Congressional seats in the future. One way may be to court more rural voters.

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A guide to converting your lawn into a wildlife friendly garden

Turning your grass into a garden isn't as complicated as you think, but it will take time and effort. This step-by-step guide breaks down the process, from killing your lawn to picking plants to grow.

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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...

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Turtles Outlasted Dinosaurs But May Not Survive Us

May 23rd is World Turtle Day. It’s the perfect time to celebrate what makes these creatures so amazing and focus on what you can do to protect them. Turtles Coexisted with Dinosaurs The first turtles ...

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Scientists say don't forget about plants. Climate change is endangering tens of thousands of species

Global warming extinctions usually have people picturing the last polar bears or other furry critters disappearing.

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Illinois university teaches students how to give items a second life

Americans throws away nearly 1,800 pounds of trash each year. One Illinois University is teaching students recycling skills that will not go to waste.

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Democrats search for their policy agenda

A group of top Democrats from across the country met Tuesday to discuss the future of their agenda, beyond opposition to President Trump.

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Why a decades-old forest planting practice from Japan is gaining traction in the U.S.

Across the U.S., communities are planting fast-growing Miyawaki forests to help neighborhoods cool down and adapt to the longer, hotter summers predicted as the climate changes. WBUR's Bianca Garcia b...

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