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American chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA celebrated naturalist’s Maine hillside holds thousands of wild American chestnuts thriving across three generations, challenging the...
Kollapse Kamp with Dr. Tadzio Mueller
26 Sep 2025
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Send us a textDespite escalating climate disasters across the Global North - from deadly floods in Germany to devastating hurricanes in the United Sta...
The Marshall Islands: Between Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Crisis with Shem Livai
20 Aug 2025
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Send us a textThe Marshall Islands face dual threats from the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing and the advancing impacts of climate change, creating an ...
When Arctic Climate "Solutions" Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi
06 Jun 2025
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Send us a textPanganga Pungowiyi, an Indigenous mother and climate geoengineering organizer from Sibokuk in the Dena'ina Islands, shares her comm...
Mapuche Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - with Anne Petermann
16 Apr 2025
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Send us a textThe Mapuche people of Chile are fighting to reclaim ancestral lands taken over by vast industrial eucalyptus and pine plantations establ...
No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith
03 Mar 2025
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Send us a textWe explore the myths and realities of space colonization and assess whether humans can survive long-term deep space travel. In this epis...
Leonard Peltier's Road to Clemency with Michael Kuzma
10 Feb 2025
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Send us a textWhat happens when justice collides with government secrecy? We invite you to join our conversation with attorney Michael Kuzma as we unt...
Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas
16 Dec 2024
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Send us a textWhat is artificial intelligence and how are some corporate interests seeking to hand over the development of genetically engineered orga...
When "Protecting Nature" Harms Its True Guardians with Anuradha Mittal
17 Sep 2024
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Send us a textWhat if conservation efforts meant to protect our planet were actually causing significant harm to the very people who have safeguarded ...
The Renewable Diesel Scam with Gary Hughes
23 Jun 2024
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Send us a textCan converting petroleum refineries into renewable diesel production truly serve as a green alternative, or is it merely greenwashing? J...
International Petition Filed on Behalf of COP City Protester Killed by Police with Anthony Enriquez
20 May 2024
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Send us a textOn January 18th of last year, a land defender protesting the razing of an urban forest to build a police training mega complex known as ...
The Navajo Nation's Battle with Uranium Mining's Toxic Legacy with Justin Ahasteen
26 Apr 2024
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Send us a textChristopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer captured the imagination of the nation as it dramatized the super-secret Manhattan Project th...
Fight for Salmon Conservation and Cultural Survival with Brook-Thompson
10 Apr 2024
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Send us a textWhen the salmon numbers in the Klamath River dwindled, it wasn't just a loss of wildlife, it was a piece of Brook Thompson's h...
The Battle Against Eucalyptus in Galicia with Joam Evans Pim
13 Mar 2024
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Send us a textTerrible forest fires that are the result of eucalyptus plantations are becoming an increasing threat. Known as green deserts, these mon...
Failure of the GE American Chestnut with Anne Petermann and Dr. Donald Davis
18 Feb 2024
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Send us a textThe American Chestnut Foundation has long supported a controversial plan to release genetically engineered chestnut trees into the wild....
Suppression in East Palestine Ohio With Scott Smith and Lesley Pacey
20 Jan 2024
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Send us a textOn February 3rd 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals derailed. It was later set on fire i...
Carbon Credits Driving Theft of Indigenous Lands with Fiore Longo of Survival International
16 Dec 2023
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Send us a textThe 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), was held from November 30 to December 12 2023 in Dubai. Described by some a...
Prepping Together for Climate Collapse with Dr. Tadzio Mueller
15 Nov 2023
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Send us a textSoon the attention of many environmentalists will be focused on the most recent UN Climate Conference in Dubai. But this in the 28th suc...
Radiological Weapons Development and Pruitt Igoe Residents with Ben Phillips and Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor
10 Oct 2023
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Send us a textThe Pruitt Igoe housing complex in St. Louis that was built in the 1950s and infamously demolished in the 1970s has been touted by many ...
The Fight for GE Free New Zealand with Claire Bleakley
19 Sep 2023
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Send us a textNew Zealand is a "GE Free zone" meaning that all produce grown in New Zealand can be guaranteed free of genetic engineering (G...
Muzzling Dissent and COP City with Basav Sen and Gabrielle Colchete
17 Aug 2023
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Send us a textMarginalized communities are frequently targeted for the placement of toxic projects. Protest and community organizing has been an indis...
Green Deserts of Brazil with Anne Petermann
14 Jul 2023
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Send us a textDeforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is a well-known threat to the world's environment, but the loss of natural biodive...
East Palestine Derailment Disaster Continues to Unfold with Amanda Kiger
01 May 2023
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Send us a textOn February 3, 2023 a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing an environmental disaster of historic proportions. It was a Norfol...
Resistance to Geoengineering in Africa with Dr. Mfoniso Antia
27 Mar 2023
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Send us a textAhead of a meeting of African Union Heads of States in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, numerous civil society organizations called on the African ...
Fusion Dreams 90 Seconds to Midnight with Dr. Helen Caldicott
02 Feb 2023
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Send us a textIt is 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. In large part due to developments in the war in Ukraine, the Bulletin of the Atomic ...
Colonial Conservation and 30x30 with Survival International's Fiore Longo
08 Jan 2023
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Send us a textIn December 2022, at the 15th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, 188 countries adopted ...
Forests and Indigenous Rights Threatened by GE Trees with Anne Petermann
19 Dec 2022
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Send us a textFounded in 2003, Global Justice Ecology Project believes in the fundamental equality of all peoples and the intrinsic value of the natur...
FSC Contemplates Dropping GE Tree Ban, while USDA Considers Releasing GE Trees with Lucy Sharratt
14 Nov 2022
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Send us a textFor decades, the Forest Stewardship Council also known as the FSC has had a core policy of prohibiting the commercial use of genetically...
Offloading Climate Responsibility on the Victims of Climate Change with Nnimmo Bassey
17 Oct 2022
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Send us a textAs oil dependent nations seek to shore up their supply while the war between Russia and Ukraine rages, some African Nations seem eager t...
Cold War Testing on African American Population in St. Louis with Filmmaker Damien D. Smith
05 Oct 2022
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Send us a textDuring the cold war, the united states military conducted covert weapons development testing in what the Army identified as a "dens...
The Carbon Capture Rabbit Hole and the IEEFA Report with Analyst Bruce Robertson
15 Sep 2022
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Send us a textCarbon capture and storage is often thought of as a new technology to help fight climate change. But it has been around for fifty years ...
Environmental Injustice and The Inflation Recovery Act with Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
19 Aug 2022
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Send us a textThe inflation Reduction Act is being heralded by many environmental groups as a major victory in the fight against global warming. But t...
Greenwashing Nuclear Energy with Environmental Attorney Susan Shapiro
31 Jul 2022
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Send us a textWith the catastrophic failures at Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power has been the cause of some the worst environmental disasters in...
Shawnee Forest Climate Preserve with John Wallace
16 Jun 2022
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Send us a textShawnee Showdown, a film by Cade Bursell, was screened at the Yale Environmental film festival earlier this year. It documents the color...
The American Chestnut, an Environmental History and Cautionary Tale with Author Dr. Donald Davis
26 Apr 2022
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Send us a textIn 1904, at the Bronx Zoological Park, chestnut trees were dying from a spore borne blight brought to the United States by Japanese ches...
Remembering Civil Rights Attorney Dennis Cunningham and Judi Bari bombing with Karen Pickett
25 Mar 2022
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Send us a textOn March 6th, Famed Civil Rights Lawyer, Dennis Cunningham died of cancer. He was 86. In his long and varied career Cunningham successfu...
Radioactive Fire with Just Moms STL's Dawn Chapman
23 Feb 2022
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Send us a textRadioactive waste from the building of the first atomic bomb sits in a landfill with a below ground fire. Dawn Chapman who was featured ...
People's Uprising in Chile with Alejandra Parra
25 Jan 2022
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Send us a textIn this episode of Breaking Green we talk with long-time activist Alejandra Parra about her experiences during the People’s Uprising i...
After Glasgow with Dr. Shannon Gibson
20 Dec 2021
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Send us a text The UN Conference of Parties in Glasgow is now behind us. Despite all the hype leading up to the meeting, did the Glasgow Pact provid...
Whale Offsets with Cassandra
01 Nov 2021
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Send us a textAs many nations promise net-zero emissions to fight climate change, corporate interests continue to promote offsets as opposed to the ac...
Big Agriculture and Climate Change with GRAIN's Kartini Samon - Jakarta
28 Sep 2021
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Send us a textClimate change threatens more catastrophic flooding, fires and even food insecurity. In response, agricultural companies are promoting w...
Will we act? IPCC's Code Red for Humanity with Dr. Michael Dorsey.
30 Aug 2021
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Send us a textIn this episode of Breaking Green, we talk with eminent environmental scientist, Dr. Michael Dorsey, about the recent Intergovernmenta...
False Solutions to Climate Change with Dr. Rachel Smolker
17 Jul 2021
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Send us a textBreaking Green talks with biologist Dr. Rachel Smolker about false solutions to climate change. The ravages of Global Climate Change a...
Carbon Colonialism and REDD with Photojournalist Orin Langelle
27 May 2021
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Send us a textBreaking Green interviews Orin Langelle, photojournalist and Co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project, about carbon colonialism and ...