Radiolab

Grass Apes

It turns out, unassuming grass, which exists on every continent, has an epic story to tell. One of transforming the planet, and … us. From what we eat, to how our body might be shaped and the ways we perceive the world.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

In order to solve the megafire crisis, we need to bring our Western landscapes back into a healthy balance by reducing the overgrown brush and trees in the wildlands and the forest. Here, we're finally starting to take to heart the wisdom of the indigenous peoples of the Americas who knew that fire was a natural part of the landscape and who introduced low intensity fire, good fire, on a regular basis at the right times.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over-suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

EconTalk

Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)

Flyn rejects the myth of pristine, unpeopled wilderness, revealing that the wildest-looking landscapes have been shaped by humans for centuries.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

oversuppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests, and we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the 10 largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

In order to solve the megafire crisis, we need to bring our Western landscapes back into a healthy balance by reducing the overgrown brush and trees in the wildlands and the forest. Here, we're finally starting to take to heart the wisdom of the indigenous peoples of the Americas who knew that fire was a natural part of the landscape and who introduced low-intensity fire, good fire, on a regular basis at the right times.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

over-suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests. And we really need to defuse that bomb by managing our forests and our wildlands in fundamentally different ways.

TED Radio Hour

Searching for paradise

Eight of the ten largest megafires in California history have happened over the last five or six years. Partly that's due to global warming, but it's also due to how we've been managing the forests. And I think that's kind of a crucial piece that over suppression over the course of many decades has created conditions akin to almost a bomb in our forests.

Radiolab

Forests on Forests

It didn't take long for them to realize not only was the forest canopy not empty, it was absolutely filled to the brim with life.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

So we know that there were otters in Singapore sometime before the mid 20th century. But then Singapore started to change. It modernized, it started to industrialize, and all of a sudden the waterways got filthy.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

So we know that there were otters in Singapore sometime before the mid 20th century. But then Singapore started to change. It modernized. It started to industrialize. And all of a sudden, the waterways got filthy.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

Singapore enacted policies to clean up their waterways, and they were really, really successful. So all of a sudden, instead of having waterways that were filled with filth, we had waterways that were filled with fish. And from the otters' points of view, they were feeding troughs. So they came back.

TED

The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED

78 percent of the air around us is nitrogen gas. That's a form that plants can't use, and so they've partnered with microbes on a process called nitrogen fixation. The microbes can breathe in that nitrogen gas and turn it into a form that plants can metabolize. It's a symbiosis, a partnership that's worked for millions of years, right up until the point that humans started breeding crops to be more productive.