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The Environment in Focus
By WYPR BaltimoreEducation
The Environment in Focus episodes
- Study Reveals The Climate Future Of Maryland
Matt Fitzpatrick, an ecologist and associate professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science discovered that Maryland's climate future is … Mississippi.
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5 min - A Trip Back in Time Along Bends in the Potomac River
Tom Pelton takes a trip to western Maryland to visit the Paw Paw bends.
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5 min - Climate Activists Protest Compromise on Infrastructure Bill
Last week, after months of negotiations, President Joe Biden announced a bipartisan compromise in the U.S. Senate on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
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5 min - Conowingo Dam Agreement Undermined by Muddy Numbers
When Maryland Governor Larry Hogan ran for office, he promised to address a major environmental threat just north of the Chesapeake Bay.
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5 min - Beaver Boom Dams Up Pollution Control Projects
Once nearly extinct in the East, beaver populations are booming. Their comeback, however, is creating complications for storm water pollution control systems, which beavers love to dam up.
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5 min - Growing Tent Villages Of Homeless People Caused By The Pandemic
Villiages of tent homes are increasingly cropping up around Baltimore because of Covid 19.
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5 min - Crab Population Survey Finds Record Low Juveniles, More Females
Back in 2007, the number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay plummeted to an all-time low, in part because of chronic over-harvesting. Watermen every year caught almost two thirds of all the crabs alive in the Bay.
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5 min - How the U.S. Constitution Flowed from a Long-Forgotten Canal
It was a balmy spring evening when I launched my kayak into Seneca Creek, about 15 minutes northwest of Potomac, Maryland.
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5 min - Emergence of Cicadas Inspires ‘Cicada-Licious’ Meat Alternatives
Michael Raupp, a professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, is on his knees in the back yard of a house in Howard County.
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5 min - ‘Eco-Bible’ Reveals the Ancient Roots of Environmental Movement
There is a widespread belief, especially among some Republicans and conservative Christians, that the environmental movement is essentially a secular, socialist movement born out of the radical liberalism of the 1960s.
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About The Environment in Focus
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The Environment in Focus, hosted by Tom Pelton, is a weekly perspective on the issues and people changing our natural world. Pelton is a national award-winning environmental journalist, author, and…
public radio host.