Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology

By Jim MetznerSociety & Culture Science Technology Natural Sciences

Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology episodes

December 18, 2025 Whale Rescue
A favorite program and an important announcement!
Please visit our new incarnation on Substack
jimmetzner.substack.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 min
November 19, 2025 Ken Burns - DaVinci, the American Revolution and more
Join filmmaker Ken Burns as he unpacks the greatest artist/scientist/seeker of all time and the greatest revolution of all time.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
51 min
November 01, 2025 All Saints' Day in New Orleans - Holt Cemetery
Among the graveyards of New Orleans, Holt Cemetery is exceptional. Here, the dead are actually buried in the ground.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 31, 2025 Sounds of All Saints' Day
A gospel song and a graveyard party: the unique sounds of New Orleans on the Day of the Dead.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 30, 2025 Ritual in the Amazon
For residents of the upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, the souls of the dead are at the center of an annual ceremony of dance and song.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 28, 2025 Reunion in the Amazon
The Kuarup ceremony is cause for reunion among the nine villages which inhabit the upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 24, 2025 Vegas Was a Blast
They used to stand on the rooftops of the casinos and watch the mushroom clouds.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 20, 2025 Statues of Wonderland
Alice merits two statues in the park, and the caterpillar gets a make-over!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 17, 2025 Spiritual Conservation
In southeast Asia, religious traditions have long saved animals from extinction.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min
October 13, 2025 India's Most Sacred River
India's revered Ganges River has become increasingly polluted.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
3 min

About Pulse of the Planet Podcast with Jim Metzner | Science | Nature | Environment | Technology

From the publisher's feed

Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and…