NPR: Environment Podcast

Stories: 1) Using Online Social Sites To Boost Carpooling 2) G-8 Nations Clash On How Much To Cut Emissions 3) Solar Firms Eye Bright Future In U.S. 4) G-8 Pledges To Halve Emissions By 2050 5) States Approve Compact To Protect Great Lakes 6) In India, Cheap Car Will Challenge Two-Wheelers

Stories: 1) Glacier Bay Park's Gravity Shifts As Ice Melts 2) Environmental Educator Eyes Yosemite Roadkill 3) Dems Eye Green Convention 4) Calif. Fights Extreme Heat

Stories: 1) Linking Climate Change, National Security 2) Supreme Court Cuts Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Damages 3) Can the Everglades Be Saved? 4) Biggest U.S. Sugar Cane Grower to Close 5) U.S. Report Links Climate Change to Security 6) Land Deal Would Help Restore Everglades

Stories: 1) Car Gas Mileage May Not Be All It Seems 2) Class Tests Carbon Trading, With Troubling Results 3) McCain Energy Policy Targets Offshore Drilling 4) As Beaches Creep In, Ownership Disputes Erupt 5) Recycling Plan Catches On in Tijuana 6) A Not-So-Sweet Lesson from Brazil's Cocoa Farms

Stories: 1) Water-Thirsty Golf Courses Need to Go Green 2) 'Hypermilers': Squeezing Out Every Mile Per Gallon 3) Trump Plans Golf Resort in Scotland; Reaction Mixed 4) Drought Hits California's Already Tight Water Supply 5) Vieques' Growth Threatens Bioluminescent Bay 6) Climate Bill, Caught Up in Bickering, Dies in Senate

Stories: 1) Government Moves on Yucca Nuclear Waste Site 2) U.N. World Food Crisis Talks Open 3) Senate to Vote on Carbon Cap-and-Trade Bill 4) Carbon Bill's Hurdles: Price Tag, Stiff Opposition 5) Water, Food Shortages Squeeze Yemen 6) NASA Downplayed Climate Studies, Monitor Says

Stories: 1) FEMA Trailer Supplier Reacts to Health Threat 2) 'Green' Genetic Plant Claims Draw Skeptics 3) Glow of Uranium Boom Attracts U.S. Miners 4) Battle for Resources Grows as Lake Victoria Shrinks 5) Portugal Plots Comeback for Natural Cork 6) Invasive Snails Take a Toll on Native Ducks

Stories: 1) 'Recycling' Energy Seen Saving Companies Money 2) Local Plants Give Sense of Place, Character

Stories: 1) White House Lists Polar Bears as 'Threatened' 2) Alex Chadwick Takes a Sweaty Ride 3) Nissan Builds Buzz with Plans for Electric Car 4) Lexus Flies McCartney's Hybrid to England 5) Geology, Engineering Contribute to Quake Damage 6) Polar Bear Endangerment Decision Looms

Stories: 1) Restaurant Grease Becoming Hot Target for Thieves 2) Proving a Building 'Green' Can Be Daunting 3) Aid Groups Struggle to Help Myanmar 4) U.N. Rep Details Myanmar Devastation 5) Abu Dhabi Aims to Build First Carbon-Neutral City 6) Oil-Rich Abu Dhabi Builds Renewable-Energy City

Stories: 1) Georgia Wetlands Offer Cure for Drought 2) Disease Deadly to Bats Spreads in Northeast U.S. 3) A Vote for the 'Right to Tumble Dry' Movement 4) Anglican Leader Brings Climate to the Pulpit 5) Young Indians Abroad Return to Help Better Country 6) World Traveler Learns Climate Complexities

Stories: 1) Beetle Infestation Compounds Effects of Warming 2) Michael Pollan: If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It 3) This Old House: Minus the Toxins 4) Vermont Brewer Trades Cows Food for Energy 5) Discovery Launches Eco-Lifestyle TV Network 6) The First Cut Is the Deepest

Stories: 1) California Firefighters Get Break from Easing Winds 2) NASA Aids Fight Against California Wildfires 3) Malibu Man Refuses California Wildfire Evacuation 4) In Lull, 'Hot Shot' Crews Target Smaller Fires 5) Fabled Santa Ana Winds Fuel Wildfires in California 6) Winds, Heat Stoke California Wildfires

Stories: 1) Study Ties Fishermen to Turtle 'Death Zone' off Baja 2) Lake Superior in the Midst of a Drought 3) Lawmakers to Halt Illegally Harvested Timber 4) In the Philippines, Religion and Nature Collide 5) Scientists Wary of Iron as Proposed Climate Fix 6) Southeast U.S. Wracked by Severe Drought

Stories: 1) What's Greener, Flying or Driving? 2) Judge Halts Construction of Border Fence 3) California Seeks School Sites Far from Freeway 4) Public Works Endanger Japan's Environment 5) Pregnant Moose Get Cozy with Humans 6) Waterproof Rice May Help Asia Cope with Flooding

Stories: 1) Montana Town Awaits Asbestos Trial 2) Japan Trades in Suits, Cuts Carbon Emissions 3) In Japan, Going Solar Costly Despite Market Surge 4) Remote Waters Offer No Refuge from Plastic Trash 5) Japan Battles Jellyfish Invasion 6) 'Marketplace' Report: Regulating Ship Pollution

Stories: 1) Bush Climate-Change Conference Has Doubters 2) The Demise of the Passenger Pigeon 3) California Poisons Lake, Targeting Invasive Pike 4) Explorers Find Thin Ice at the North Pole 5) Sometimes, There's Life After Extinction 6) Chilling News on North Pole Sea Ice

Stories: 1) Entrepreneur Hopes to Charge Electric-Car Market 2) 'Down-to-Earth Guide' Offers Green Projects 3) Everglades Removal from Endangered List Questioned 4) Indian Tribe Denounces Whale Killing

Stories: 1) 'Red List' Sheds Light on Species Extinction Crisis 2) Why Are So Many Quakes Jarring Indonesia? 3) Judge Backs Vermont's Auto-Emissions Rules 4) Natural Resources Key to Alaska Town's Future 5) Scientist Measures an Overlooked Greenhouse Gas 6) Questioning Global-Warming Focus in 'Cool It'

Stories: 1) Middle East Virus Likely Cause of Honeybee Collapse 2) Climate Change: Changing the Margins 3) Drought Dries Up Wells in Rock Springs, S.C. 4) Arctic Businesses Learn to Adapt to Climate Change 5) Two Hurricanes Strike Same Day for First Time 6) Blazes in Greece a Wake-Up Call for Climate Change

Stories: 1) Spain Battles Devastating Vole Infestation 2) Storm's Aftermath Spurs 'Green' Movement 3) Cheesemakers Taste a Change in the Weather 4) Cacti Thrive in the Gap Between Summer and Fall 5) Brazil River Dispute Highlights Larger Issue 6) River's Bounty Bypasses Families, Feeds Business

Stories: 1) BP Backtracks After Criticism over Lake Pollution 2) South Florida's Wetlands Serve Many Purposes 3) Heat Spells Trouble for France's Nuclear Reactors 4) 'Marketplace Report': The Cost of Coal 5) Parched Spanish Coast Taps Sea Water for Growth 6) Purple Martins Make a Comeback in Chicago

Stories: 1) Railways' Toxic Emissions Tied to Higher Cancer Risk 2) Engineers in New Orleans Test Levees 3) Critics Assail Uganda Hydropower Project 4) Floods Devastate North Korean Crops 5) Concerns Linger for 2020 Nuclear Dump Opening 6) Lethal Heat Waves Threaten Urban Residents

Stories: 1) Athletes Struggle for Air Amid China's Pollution 2) Pollution May Cancel Out China's Economic Growth 3) Purple Snail May Be Climate Change Casualty 4) Can Low-Flow Toilets Gain Consumer Confidence? 5) Yangtze River Dolphin May Be Extinct 6) Drought Complicates Water Works in Montana

Stories: 1) Cities Take On Kyoto Challenge to Cut Emissions 2) Administration Backs Making Liquid Fuel from Coal 3) Efforts to Restore Carolinas' Oysters Hit Snag 4) Russia Jockeys for Possession of Arctic Territory 5) Human History Shows a Gift for Adaptability 6) Is Ancient People's End a Warning for the Future?

Stories: 1) Farm Bill: Beauty for Biz, Beast for Environment? 2) Soccer Players Eye California's Kangaroo Ban 3) Protest Raised over New Tests of Naval Sonar 4) Ice Blocks Help New York Office Cut Energy Bill 5) Gas Flaring Disrupts Life in Oil-Producing Niger Delta 6) Westinghouse to Build Nuclear Reactors in China

Stories: 1) Evidence of Ancient Lake Found in Darfur 2) Nuclear Plant Safety at Issue After Japan Quake 3) Solar Compactors Make Mincemeat of Trash 4) Spotlight Falls on Energy in Farm Bill Revision 5) In Rural Poverty Fight, Showing Up Is a First Step 6) Importing Sand, Glass May Help Restore Beaches

Stories: 1) Tracking a Vanished Civilization in the Southwest 2) Dandelions, Poison Ivy Grow With Global Warming 3) Vegas' Green 'Flash' Could Cost Nevada Millions 4) Ancient Culture Prompts Worry for Arid Southwest 5) Unlikely Allies Battle Deforestation in the Amazon 6) A Family Vacations Amidst Changing Landscape

Stories: 1) Fallout from Bad '70s Idea: Auto Tires in Ocean Reef 2) 'Marketplace' Report: Beijing Emissions 3) Poaching in Far Eastern Russia Threatens Ecosystem 4) West African Climate Change Bests Nomads 5) Niger's Trees May Be Insurance Against Drought 6) 'Cool Globes': Art Promotes Action Against Warming

Stories: 1) Condors Being Poisoned by Hunters' Ammunition 2) Bottled Water: A Symbol of U.S. Commerce, Culture 3) Cold-Averse Plants Warm Up to a New Home 4) Big Retail Stores Prime Solar Energy Generators 5) Cleanup Begins on Montana's Clark Fork River 6) Individuals Unite to Trim Personal Carbon Emissions