As She Rises
Episodes
Recommended Listen: THE WILD with Chris Morgan
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How to thrive in the face of adversity is a lesson nature teaches us over and over again. THE WILD with Chris Morgan is on a mission to prov...
A New Season of Kindred Drops Oct 14!
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kindred is back, hosted by Kate Coffin and Jenn Asplundh. This season, we’re flipping the script on creatures everyone loves to hate — from h...
The Oysters
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode in our season on rewilding, we’re visiting New York Harbor. Commonly considered a high-traffic waterway beneath skyscrapers –...
Las Semillas
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Puerto Rico, centuries of colonial rule have uprooted local food systems. Currently, the island imports around 85% of its food. But in the wake of ...
The Rocks
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
North Cove, Washington, more commonly known as Washaway Beach, was once experiencing the fastest erosion along the Pacific coast. For decades, homes i...
Introducing: As She Rises | Season 4
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Premiering October 8, As She Rises is back for its fourth season, hosted by Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist. This season, ...
BONUS: Inherited Podcast “Maíz es Vida” by Paloma Moreno Jiménez
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hey As She Rises listeners! Today, we're bringing you a bonus episode from the Inherited podcast, told by one of our very own team members at WMN: Pal...
The Delta
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the last episode of the season, we’re traveling to the Colorado River Delta, south of Mexicali, Mexico: where all the waters from upstream are s...
The Rainwater
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sonoran Desert, situated at the bottom edge of Arizona, stretches out into the haze of a horizon, rippled with heat. It’s fed by thin tributarie...
The Accidental Sea
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the southern valleys of California, lies a desert oasis known as the Salton Sea. The inland sea is picturesque— from afar. Up close, the beauty b...
The Aquifer
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Black Mesa is a high desert, arid, with few streams or rivers aboveground. Water tends to come from above or below: sometimes, as a gentle rain. Other...
The Creek
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Havasupai tribe lives at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, in Supai Village. Just north of the village, a hidden aquifer turns into Havasu Falls, a ...
The Source
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lake Powell is long and thin. It snakes through the red-desert, running southwest through Utah, ending at the top of Arizona. From above, it looks lik...
Introducing Season 3
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Premiering May 1 wherever you get your podcasts. As She Rises is back for its third season with a new host: Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional...
The Farmland
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As climate change progresses, more people will be forced from their homes and into exploitative environments. In the United States, this is particular...
The Desert
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nestled in the Northwestern corner of present-day New Mexico is the Greater Chaco Region: home to thousands of Diné and Puebloean families. It's also...
The Reef
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Far out in the waters of the South Pacific are the Samoan Islands. They make up an island paradise, a contested territory, an ecological haven. They m...
The River
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Straddling the border between the US and Canada, the Skagit Watershed is a haven for sea creatures. The “Magic Skagit” is in peril: the ways of li...
Introducing Season Two
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As She Rises is back for a second season to celebrate both Earth and Poetry Month. Throughout April, we’re telling the stories of climate progress t...
The City
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The worst crime I know men have committed is to turn nature into an oppressor.”In the city, the heat is suffocating: it reverberates off building...
The Plains
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Oklahoma, a fight is playing out that could finally recognize tribal sovereignty, especially over how to manage the environment. This could set a p...
The Tinderbox
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This land has always been on fire. But the destructive power of these flames is new. There was a time before, and there is a time ahead, when fire cle...
The Watershed
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The most visited stretch of beach in Hawai’i should be underwater. Instead, it’s kept afloat by over thirty thousand tons of sand-- sand that dr...
The Inland Sea
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Northern Minnesota, over eleven hundred glassy lakes create a vast inland sea. The water is so clean that canoers can drink straight from the lakes...
The Island
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s not the same, knowing the theory of climate disaster, and then actually living through it.”There is a fissure on the island of Puerto Rico...
The Tundra
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the land we know as Alaska, a poet considers a melting landscape also ablaze. What does it mean to live in a “sepia-toned” world, to be forced ...
The Bayou
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In New Orleans, there is a time before the storm, and a time after. How does one keep up with change in a state losing a football field’s worth of l...
Introducing: As She Rises
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As She Rises is a new show from Wonder Media Network that aims to personalize the elusive magnitude of climate change. Follow Wonder Media Network:W...