S1E21: The Desert Tortoise Still Has a Chance
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The largest reptile in the Mojave faces threats ranging from predation to illegal collection to loss...
S1E20: California still doesn't know what to do about the western Joshua tree
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On October 12, the California Fish and Game Commission postponed a decision yet again on whether to ...
S1E19: Shannon Salter Fights to Save the Desert
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Solar in the built environment could meet America's need for electrical power. But still the desert ...
S1E18 Chris is Stressed Out + Some Good News
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're not going to be able to save the desert if we self-immolate. Alicia reads Chris the riot act a...
S1E17: Mylar Balloons: threat or menace? plus Joshua Tree NP AMA
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alicia takes on one of her personal bugbears: the endless supply of mylar balloons landing in the de...
S1E16 Flood and Drought; Death Valley and the Great Salt Lake
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts contend with record rainfalls, climate change and urban developmen...
S1E15 What Keeps You Going plus Bristlecone Pines
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With bad news all around, how do we keep up our strength and resolve to protect the places that matt...
S1E14 The Bean Trees! But first, please help us
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's good news: the desert offers sweet sustenance that can be had for a little bit of work. And ...
S1E13: Don't Die Today: Heat in the Desert
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris enjoys the desert at its hottest. Alicia, on the other hand, is closer to sanity. Both of them...
S1E12: What's Happening to the Monsoon?
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change has been happening in the desert for some time now. While consensus isn't complete, m...
S1E11: Deconstructing Ed Abbey
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The writer Edward Abbey is revered by many desert activists, and roundly criticized by others, all b...
S1E10: Remembering Phil Klasky and Ward Valley
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the mid-1980s until the first months of the 21st Century, a coalition of desert tribes and non-...
S1E9: Saving the Western Joshua tree
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua trees, the iconic species of the Mojave Desert, are in serious danger of becoming extinct acr...
S1E8: The IPCC Lets the Deserts Down
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Plus, why rock stacking is a bad habit, and how you can keep the state of California from stripping ...
S1E7: This Desert Fish was Declared Extinct. Now It Thrives.
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Considered extinct by the late 1950s, the Shoshone pupfish was rediscovered 36 years ago by a woman ...
S1E6: Co(yot)existence — how to live with coyotes
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
They're more complicated than the howling silhouette on your bespoke candle holder from Santa Fe, an...
S1E5: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is coming, and that means that hundreds of thousands of people start thinking about visiting ...
S1E4: The End of the Cadillac Desert: Megadrought in the Southwest
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we publish, scientists are announcing that the last dozen years are the driest in more than a mil...
S1E3: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Cima Dome
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cima Dome was supposed to be a place where Joshua trees were most likely to survive climate change. ...
Saving the Dixie Valley Toad
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Discovered only in 2017, the Dixie Valley toad is found only in one 400-acre hot spring wetland in r...
Welcome to 90 Miles from Needles! Our inaugural episode
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, Chris and Alicia head out to Sand Draw, a beautiful and vibrant bit of desert...
Season 0 Episode 4: About Chris Clarke
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Alicia points out that despite Chris's delusions of popularity, there are people wh...
Season 0 episode 3: Joshua Trees are Trees
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello friends! Transcript of this episode is at 90milesfromneedles.com In this Season Zero short epi...
Trailer 2, Season 0: Introducing Alicia Pike
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On a visit to Bonanza Spring, threatened by the Cadiz corporation's plan to mine desert groundw...
Season 0 Episode 1: Trailer for 90 Miles from Needles
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A brief description of what we'll be doing with the podcast, partly to answer questions and par...