Best Life On The Upcycle Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 154: The Tragic Murder of Krystal Beslanowitch 49:01

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Send us a text Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch was a 17-year-old who had moved from Spokane, Washington, to Utah in hopes of starting fresh. On December 15, 1995, her body was discovered along the Provo River near Midway, Utah. She had been brutally beaten to death with large rocks, which were found bloodstained nearby. The case went cold for nearly two …

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Heat Waves Linked to Company Emissions, Insurance and Homeowners Underwater, The Light Between Apple Trees and more. 51:53

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New research finds that since 2010 killer heat waves have become 200 times more likely, thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, and the scientists say about half of the increase in heatwaves can be attributed to big coal, big oil, big gas and cement. Also, while the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has been relatively quiet, last year damages from three …

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Episode 153: The West Memphis Three // Part 5 1:51:30

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Send us a text After the bodies of three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were discovered in a wooded area of West Memphis, Arkansas, in May 1993, police launched a high-profile investigation. The brutal nature of the crime led authorities to suspect it was connected to satanic ritual activity, a theory influe…

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Trump Stalls Offshore Wind, Huge Danger from Permafrost Loss, The Health Risks of Noise and more. 51:51

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The Trump Administration is putting offshore wind energy on hold by canceling grants, cutting tax credits and revoking permits for projects that are nearly complete. We discuss the economic impacts to port communities and the view that the US is ceding the opportunity to be a global leader in renewable energy. Also, with the Arctic warming four tim…

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Episode 152: The West Memphis Three // Part 4 1:40:57

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Send us a text After the bodies of three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were discovered in a wooded area of West Memphis, Arkansas, in May 1993, police launched a high-profile investigation. The brutal nature of the crime led authorities to suspect it was connected to satanic ritual activity, a theory influe…

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PFAS Polluters Pay Up, Tylenol Upcycled from Plastic, Roadless Rule Under Fire, and more. 51:52

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New Jersey officials are calling its $2 billion settlement with major manufacturers of PFAS “forever chemicals” the largest environmental settlement ever won by a state. We discuss the legacy of industrial contamination in the state and how the settlement is expected to pay for cleanup as well as restoration of degraded ecosystems. Also, scientists…

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Episode 151: The West Memphis Three // Part 3 1:40:53

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Send us a text After the bodies of three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were discovered in a wooded area of West Memphis, Arkansas, in May 1993, police launched a high-profile investigation. The brutal nature of the crime led authorities to suspect it was connected to satanic ritual activity, a theory influe…

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Oyster Trash to Treasure, The Outlaw Ocean, A “Little Sea” with a Big Champion and more. 51:52

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Oysters on the half shell are big business on Nantucket Island, and a local program recycles oyster shells from restaurant waste into habitat for young oysters. These recycled oyster shell reefs are helping to protect the coastline from worsening storms and rising seas. Also, seventy percent of our planet is covered by the oceans, and in this vast …

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Episode 150: The West Memphis Three // Part 2 1:42:15

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Send us a text After the bodies of three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were discovered in a wooded area of West Memphis, Arkansas, in May 1993, police launched a high-profile investigation. The brutal nature of the crime led authorities to suspect it was connected to satanic ritual activity, a theory influe…

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Life as an Incarcerated Firefighter, An Ancient Climate Solution, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, and more. 51:50

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Around a thousand of the firefighters who battled blazes around southern California in January 2025 were incarcerated. They do essentially the same work as other firefighters but are paid as little as around $5 a day. A formerly incarcerated firefighter shares what it was like and how the experience helped him forge a new life after prison as a pro…

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Episode 149: The West Memphis Three // Part 1 1:33:32

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Send us a text On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boys—Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—were reported missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. The boys were last seen riding their bikes together in the early evening, near their neighborhood by the Robin Hood Hills wooded area. When they didn’t return home, their parents contacted pol…

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Arduino Nano R4, Bela Gem Funded, Nordic WiFi 6 Magic, and More! 39:21

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This week's Electromaker Show is now available on YouTube and everywhere you get your podcasts! Welcome to the Electromaker Show episode 171! The Electromaker Show returns! Today we look at the wonderful Bela Gem, a music and sound coding platform based on the PocketBeagle 2, Discover the nRF70x series from Nordic Semiconductor, and learn about the…

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Sounds of Soil, “Depaving” the Way to Greener Neighborhoods, The Light Eaters and more. 51:53

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Sounds like the overlapping songs of birds can speak volumes about the biodiversity in an ecosystem, and now scientists are looking to use the tiny sounds made by earthworms, ants, and voles to study the health of soils. Also, "depaving parties" of volunteers with sledgehammers are turning paved yards into pollinator havens and green space. That ca…

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Episode 148: Nellie Bly 31:21

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Send us a text Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochran in 1864, was a pioneering American journalist best known for her fearless investigative reporting. She gained fame in 1887 when she went undercover in a New York City asylum, feigning insanity to expose the brutal conditions patients endured—her exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, led to major mental h…

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Complex Air Pollution and Public Health, Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe, Animal Self-Medicating 51:52

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A study from Johns Hopkins researchers found that residents near or on the fence line of polluting enterprises are at higher risk for multiple health problems because of the toxic mix of air they breathe. The lead researcher explains the study. Also, astronomer Phil Plait wondered what it would be like to walk on Mars, fall into a black hole, or fl…

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Episode 147: IBLP and the Duggar Family 54:11

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Send us a text The Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) is a conservative Christian organization founded in 1961 by Bill Gothard, promoting strict biblical living through homeschooling, rigid gender roles, and obedience to authority. Its teachings emphasize large families, courtship over dating, and avoiding mainstream culture. The Duggar fami…

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Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, Uprooted By Climate, Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and more. 51:42

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Eels play an important ecological role in many rivers and streams, but they’re so eel-usive that even eel scientists have been challenged to observe them mating in the wild. Ellen Ruppel Shell is author of the 2024 book Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels, and she sheds light on the eel’s murky ecology and path through the seafo…

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Patreon Upcycle: The Disappearance and Recovery of Jaycee Dugard 1:18:39

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Send us a text Jaycee Dugard is an American woman who was abducted in 1991 at the age of 11 while walking to a school bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was held captive for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido in their backyard in Antioch, California. During her captivity, she endured abuse and gave birth to two daughters…

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EPA Cuts Scientific Research, Censorship in US National Parks, Zombie Fires in Canada and more. 51:58

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The US Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down its Office of Research and Development, which represents 50 years of independent scientific research. We explain the impact of this federal decision on both EPA employees and science. Also, National Parks are undergoing increased layoffs and funding cuts under the second Trump administration s…

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Episode 146: The Disappearance of Sierra LaMar 1:03:47

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Send us a text Sierra Mae LaMar, a 15‑year‑old freshman from Morgan Hill, California, went missing on the morning of March 16, 2012, while walking to her school bus. Within days, her cellphone and pink backpack containing her clothes were found in rural areas nearby. Forensic evidence showed signs she may have been abducted. DNA testing matched gen…

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Weakening Disaster Prep, Climate-Resilient Coffee, Clearing Air in Cancer Alley, and more. 51:31

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Weather forecasting, climate research and climate resilience are being hit with major budget and staffing cuts by the Trump administration, impacting emergency preparedness for floods such as the one that devastated the Texas hill country. Also,research has long shown that the top two coffee species, Arabica and Robusta, are vulnerable to climate i…

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Episode 145: The Strange Death of Michael Cochran 1:15:53

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Send us a text Michael Cochran, a 38‑year‑old from Beckley, West Virginia, died unexpectedly in February 2019, initially believed to be from a medical condition after exhibiting severe brain swelling and dangerously low blood sugar. Subsequent investigation revealed his wife, Natalie Cochran—a former pharmacist—had been running a $2 million Ponzi s…

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Congress Busts Carbon Budget, Climate Disruption Worsens Flood Risks, and America’s Rural Sanitation Crisis. 52:00

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As the climate crisis brings ever more devastating floods, storms, heat waves and fires, the Republican-led Congress and President Trump have slashed around half a trillion dollars in clean energy tax credits that would have reduced climate pollution and helped America to better adapt to climate change. Also, catastrophic floods like the one that c…

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Episode 144: The Torrey Pines Murders 1:22:25

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Send us a text In 1978, 15-year-old Barbara Nantais was brutally murdered on Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego, California, while camping with her boyfriend, Jim Alt, who was severely injured but survived. She was beaten, strangled, sexually assaulted, and mutilated. The case went cold due to insufficient evidence. Six years later, in 1984, 14-…

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Trump Faces Youth Climate Lawsuit, Tempered Hope for COP30, EPA Employees Speak Out and more 52:21

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19-year-old Eva Lighthiser has experienced climate anxiety for most of her life, as her home state of Montana faces worsening floods, wildfires, and extreme heat. Now she and 20 other young people are suing the Trump administration over its efforts to boost fossil fuels while suppressing climate science and renewable energy. Also, ten years since n…

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Episode 143: Judy Buenoano // Florida's Black Widow 1:16:56

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Send us a text Judy Buenoano (born Judias Anna Lou Welty in Texas on April 4, 1943) was an American serial killer, infamously dubbed “the Black Widow.” She was convicted of murdering her first husband, son, and attempting to kill her fiancé—primarily for financial gain through life insurance payouts. Her crimes culminated in a trio of convictions—i…

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EPA Ignores Climate Dangers, From Plastic Trash to Art, and Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet. 52:29

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This June the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about a quarter of US emissions. Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus speaks about the perils of the broader Trump administration effort to weaken federal environmental protections. Also, the ugly truth of plastic …

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Episode 142: The Disappearance of Joshlin Smith 1:20:56

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Send us a text Joshlin Smith was a 6‑year‑old South African girl who vanished from her home in Middelpos, Saldanha Bay near Cape Town on 19 February 2024. Her disappearance triggered a massive search, including community efforts and an Interpol inquiry, but she remains missing. Her mother, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, along with her boyfriend Jacquen App…

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Juneteenth and Striving for Ecological Justice 52:23

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Just as the enslavement of people was driven by commercial interests, today the enslavement of nature for profit violates a morality that sees value in all living things, according to the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, pastor of New Roots AME Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts and former Chief of Environment, Energy and Open Spaces for the City of Bo…

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Episode 141: The Murder of Jason Corbett // Part 2 57:58

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Send us a text Jason Corbett, an Irish businessman living in North Carolina, was brutally murdered on August 2, 2015, by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, retired FBI agent Tom Martens. He was beaten to death in his bedroom with a baseball bat and a concrete brick. Molly and Tom claimed they acted in self-defense, alleging Jason was abusive.…

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US Disrupts African Food Tech; Pumping the Earth Dry; Saving a Sacred Mountain in Mongolia and more. 52:44

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One of the development initiatives affected by the Trump Administration’s shutdown of USAID is the Soybean Innovation Lab, which works to improve soybean yields and production in Africa to help boost farmers’ income. Our guest discusses her work with the Soybean Innovation Lab and why helping improve farmers’ yields is so fulfilling. Also, a recent…

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Episode 140: The Murder of Jason Corbett // Part 1 1:12:56

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Send us a text Jason Corbett, an Irish businessman living in North Carolina, was brutally murdered on August 2, 2015, by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, retired FBI agent Tom Martens. He was beaten to death in his bedroom with a baseball bat and a concrete brick. Molly and Tom claimed they acted in self-defense, alleging Jason was abusive.…

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Hurricane Forecasting in 2025, Saving Corals Amid Record Bleaching, Protecting Farmworkers from Wildfire Smoke and more. 51:51

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The 2025 hurricane season is underway, and the U.S. is likely to see higher than average activity. The past couple of years, extremely warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped storms rapidly intensify to major hurricanes. But cuts to federal weather monitoring and hurricane modeling could leave the U.S. underprepared for strengthening storms. Also, …

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Episode 139: Botched Executions // Part 2 1:25:54

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Send us a text Join us this week as Lindsay lays our the grisly details on what can happen when a death penalty execution goes wrong. Part 2 is finally here and it was worth the wait! Part 2 brings us to more modern times as Lindsay breaks down the issues in the firing squad, the gas chamber, the electric chair, and lethal injection. Botched execut…

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CA Clean Air Tool Revoked, Cuts to Clean Energy Tax Credits, Turbulence and Climate Change and More. 52:09

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California’s car culture, trucking industry, and weather contribute to chronically bad air that it’s been gradually improving with its own laws and regulations and the blessing of the EPA. But now under President Trump, the EPA and Republican Congress are taking away California’s ability to clean up its air. Also, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" t…

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Episode 138: The Haight Family Familicide 1:08:31

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Send us a text Michael Haight was a 42-year-old man from Enoch, Utah, who, on January 4, 2023, killed his wife, Tausha Haight; their five children, aged 4 to 17; and Tausha’s mother, Gail Earl, before taking his own life. The tragedy occurred two weeks after Tausha filed for divorce and days after Michael removed firearms from the home, potentially…

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Public Lands Reprieve, Trump Ignores Social Cost of Carbon, Seagrass “Gardening” and more. 52:09

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Last-minute changes in the House budget reconciliation bill included scrapping one of the more controversial amendments that would have sold off public lands in the southwest to private developers. But the overall bill isn’t a complete win for the environment, with even deeper cuts to clean energy tax credits added at the last minute. Also, a new W…

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Episode 137: Ash Armand // The Gigolo Murder 1:15:46

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Send us a text Ash Armand, born Akshaya Kubiak, is a former reality TV star known for his role in Showtime’s Gigolos. In July 2020, he was arrested for the murder of Herleen Dulai, a 29-year-old personal trainer and client. Dulai was found dead in Kubiak’s Las Vegas home, having suffered blunt force trauma and strangulation. Kubiak claimed he black…

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Pope Leo and Creation Care, Autism and Chemicals, Oystercatchers Bounce Back and more. 52:09

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The new Pope, Leo XIV, has worked with interfaith environmental networks and there’s hope around the world that he may follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Pope Francis and bring issues of the environment and climate change to the forefront of his agenda. Also, autism spectrum disorder is now diagnosed in about 1 in 31 children in the United …

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Episode 136: The Circleville Letters 1:05:28

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Send us a text The Circleville Letters refer to a mysterious series of anonymous, threatening letters sent to residents of Circleville, Ohio, beginning in 1976. The letters targeted individuals with accusations of infidelity, corruption, and other personal secrets. One of the most prominent targets was Mary Gillespie, a school bus driver, who was a…

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Trump Sues State Climate Action, Climate Wayfinding with Katharine Wilkinson, “Depaving” the Way to Greener Neighborhoods and more. 52:11

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At the direction of President Trump the U.S. Department of Justice has sued four states -- Vermont, New York, Hawaii, and Michigan -- that are trying to recover some climate costs from major fossil fuel companies through climate superfund laws and litigation. The DOJ cases are seen by some as frivolous extensions of the other actions the Trump admi…

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Episode 135: The Killer Clown of Wellington // The Boujee Clown Murder 1:21:13

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Send us a text The "Killer Clown" case centers on the 1990 murder of Marlene Warren in Wellington, Florida, when she was fatally shot at her front door by a person dressed as a clown delivering flowers and balloons. Her son, Joe Ahrens, witnessed the attack. The investigation initially pointed to Sheila Keen, a business associate of Marlene's husba…

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Air Gets Worse, NOAA Climate Science Cuts, Parrot Brains and Our Own and more. 52:11

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The latest “State of the Air” report by the American Lung Association finds that nearly half of people living in the U.S. breathe unhealthy levels of air pollution. Soot and smog are on the rise in part because climate change is bringing more wildfires and ozone-forming conditions. Also, a key climate modeling program within the National Oceanic an…

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Episode 134: Wayne Nance // The Missoula Mauler 58:52

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Send us a text Wayne Nathan Nance, known as the "Missoula Mauler," was a suspected American serial killer active in Montana from 1974 until his death in 1986. Although never formally charged or convicted, law enforcement linked him to at least six murders and suspected he may have had more victims. Born on October 18, 1955, in Clinton, Montana, N…

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E68 - An Update on The UpCycle Canada Podcast and what is next 14:07

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Episode 68 - An Update on The UpCycle Canada Podcast and what is next Thanks for all your support for this podcast and for the guests that we have had in the past! Check out our other podcasts here https://truemediasolutions.ca/By Dave and Jennifer Campbell : Eco-friendly

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Pope Francis and the Climate, Fighting PFAS, and “Evening” Poem by Dorianne Laux. 52:18

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As the world remembers the legacy of Pope Francis we return to his groundbreaking writings on climate and environment that called for a fundamental shift in our economic system, and a rethinking of our relationship with God's creation: the natural world. Also, a 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient was repeatedly told there was nothing to wor…

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Episode 133: The Murder of NFL Great Steve McNair 1:30:21

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Send us a text Steve McNair, a former NFL quarterback, was tragically murdered on July 4, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was found shot to death in a condominium he shared with his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sahel "Jenni" Kazemi, who was also found dead at the scene. Investigators concluded it was a murder-suicide, with Kazemi shooting McNair multi…

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Tipping Culture in America! 5:41

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Send us a text Today, we're diving into the Tipping Culture in America! Let's learn together! Watch this episode with subtitles on my Youtube Channel Check out my online courses and e-books on LinguaTrip.com to take your English to the next level! Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/venyapak/ https://www.instagram.com/linguatrip_com/…

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Earth Day Celebration, The Health Toll of L.A. Oil Wells, Fighting Climate Change with Geothermal and more 52:12

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Living on Earth is celebrating 55 years of Earth Day with a solution-based broadcast. Grammy nominated singer and Earth Day ambassador Antonique Smith uses the art of storytelling and music to promote environmental justice and climate action in communities of faith and color. Nalleli Cobo is a young activist who was awarded the 2022 Goldman Prize f…

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Episode 132: The Torture of Raymond Buys 1:05:16

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Send us a text Raymond Buys was a 15-year-old South African boy who died in 2011 after enduring severe abuse at a military-style training camp run by Alex de Koker and Michael Erasmus. His mother had enrolled him in the Echo Wild Game Rangers camp in hopes of helping him overcome behavioral issues. However, during his time there, Raymond was starve…