All Episodes

S5E23: Beyond Laws: Building a Movement to Save Our Deserts

S5E22: Morgan Sjogren on the War on Utah's National Monuments

S5E21: Don't Mine 29! Australian Company Threatens Joshua Tree

S5E20: Our Love for Fireworks Could Harm the Desert

S5E19: Greenlink West Carves a Costly Path Through Wild Nevada

S5E18: Desert Heat: Who Really Pays the Price?

S5E17: The Desert Needs Our Voice and We Need Your Help

Short Update: Explaining Our Brief Hiatus

S5E16: The Double Border Wall: A New Environmental Catastrophe

S5E15: When Commerce Meets Culture: Art Fairs in the Desert

S5E14: River of Cheeseburgers: The Surprising Water Guzzlers of the West

S5E13: A Partnership Torn Asunder

S5E12: Whose Desert Is It Anyway? Navigating Change in the Mojave

S5E11: Help Us Preserve Deep Desert Reporting

S5E10: ¡No al muro! Big Bend Neighbors Fight Proposed Border Wall

S5E9: Why Salt Lakes Matter More Than Ever

S5E8: We Don't Need Heroes. We Need Activists.

S5E7: The Battle for Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument

Brief hiatus due to house fire

S5E6: Ravens and Splitgrass: A Deep Dive into the Mojave's Ecological Challenges

S5E5: From Nuclear Waste to Restoring Glen Canyon

S5E4: Celebrating 25 Years: The Timbisha Shoshone's Fight for Their Homeland

S5E3: How Honeybees Threaten The Desert's Native Pollinators

S5E2: Cross-Border Conservation in the Big Bend Ecoregion

S5E1: Standing Up to Tech Giants: Desert Locals vs. California’s Largest Data Center

S4E45: The Desertification Myth: Unpacking the Truth About Dry Lands

S4E44: Why the Desert's Sounds Matter More Than Ever

S4E43: Saving the Santa Rita Mountains from Destructive Copper Mining

S4E42: Defending the Desert in a World of Lies

S4E41: How Fire, Furloughs, and Federal Cuts Threaten Our Deserts

S4E40: The Battle for the San Rafael Valley

S4E39: Ideology vs. Wildlife Science: A Conversation with Mandy Culbertson

S4E38: 2 Big Reasons to Avoid National Parks During the Shutdown

S4E37: Desert Communities and United Fronts: Building a Cross-Desert Protection Movement

S4E36: The Fallout You Never Knew About: California's Hidden Nuclear Legacy

S4E35: Silencing the Left: The Fight for Truth and Justice in Uncertain Times

S4E34: Joshua Trees and Family Trees

S4E33: Monsoon Madness: When the Desert Comes Alive

S4E32: Joshua Trees are Still Caught in the Climate Crossfire

S4E31: 5 Years On: Cima Dome After the Flames

S4E30: Episode 100 | Former Wildland Firefighter Ruth Nolan's Literary Mission

S4E29: Episode 100 | Two Deserts, One Story with Rubén Martinéz

S4E28: Episode 100 | Three Sonorans and Tucson's Stand Against High-Tech Ecological Threats

S4E27: Episode 100 | Poetry and Plants with Cameron Mayer

S4E26: Episode 100 | Morgan Sjogren's Tales of Beauty, Rage, and Uranium

S4E25: Episode 100 | Desert Protection Chronicles: The Amargosa Victory

S4E24: Desert Communities Need Public Broadcasting Now

S4E23: Desert Bucket List: 9 Destinations You Must See

S4E22: Fighting GreenLink: The True Impact of Transmission Lines in the Desert

S4E21: Give us a Desert Without Borders

90 Miles from Needles' Schedule update!

S4E20: You Can Help Save Public Lands from Privatization

S4E19: Finding Nature's Refuge in Salt Lake Sprawl

S4E18: Resilience & Resistance in Navajo Country

S4E17: The War Against The Greens, Updated

S4E16: Ezra Klein's New Book Has an Abundance of Problems

S4E15: The Fight to Save Lives on the U.S.-Mexico Border

S4E14: @WesternWaterGirl Gives Social Media a Reality Check

S4E13: Yuck: The Wild, Weird History of Joshua Trees with Barret Baumgart

S4E12: We Need To Talk About "De-Extinction"

S4E11: Beauty Meets Struggle: The Endangered Treasures of BLM Lands

S4E10: 3 Ways the Desert Improves Your Life

S4E9: DEI and Desert Protection

S4E8: Plan Sonora: The New Face of Green Colonialism

S4E7: The Southwest's Hidden Urban Histories

S4E6: The Desert Speaks Out

S4E5: DOGE Layoffs Are Sabotaging Public Lands

S4E4: Other Podcasts You Should Check Out

Teaser: a quick update

S4E3: Ivanpah Solar to shut down

S4E2: Good News at Ash Meadows

S4E1: Moab to Mojave: The Largest Conservation Corridor Explained

Season Four coming soon!

S3E37: BLM Cozies Up To Renewable Energy Companies

S3E36: Laughing Coyotes and Saguaro Dreams: An Unlikely Desert Awakening

S3E35: Reimagine, Rebuild, Resist: Creating the World We Want Together

S3E34: Hope the Mexican Wolf: A Tale of Survival and Loss in Northern Arizona

S3E33: Dr. Naomi Fraga on the Frontlines of Botanical Conservation

S3E32: Vote, Engage, and Protect Our Desert

S3E31: Return of the Lobo: Restoring Texas' Mexican Wolves

S3E30: Exploring the Art and Science of Joshua Trees

S3E29: Barbed Wire and Border Walls: The Unseen Cost of Fragmented Habitats

S3E28: There Ain't No Big Faucet: Water Politics with the Great Basin Water Network

S3E27: Los Alamos's Dark Legacy: Plutonium Pollution in Plain Sight

S3E26: The New Western Solar Plan: A Disaster for Desert Ecosystems?

S3E25: Utah's Public Lands Lawsuit Sparks Controversy

S3E24: The Fight to Protect the Pahrump Valley

S3E23: Moonlit Deserts and Lost Love

S3E22: Debunking Snake Misconceptions

S3E21: The War on Facts: Environmental Protection after Chevron

S3E20: Desert Protection versus Climate Capitalism: Can we have both?

S3E19: Oh, those dark desert skies

S3E18: Don't Die Today! Staying Safe in Desert Heat

S3E17: Submerged No More! Restoring Chemehuevi Land and Traditions

S3E16: Ash Meadows Faces New Mining Threat

S3E15: The Surprising Longevity of Desert Plants

S3E14: Saving El Paso's Rio Bosque Wetlands

S3E13: Why Protecting Cultural Sites is Important

S3E12: Our 50th Episode

S3E11: Desert Stories

S3E10: Can the Wilson's Phalarope Save the Great Salt Lake?

S3E9: How Avi Kwa Ame Transformed My Life

S3E8: Border Wall: A Barrier to Wildlife and Humanity

S3E7: Saving the Chihuahuan Desert with Frontera Land Alliance

S3E6: Joshua Trees and Family Trees

S3E5: Protecting the Great Bend of the Gila

S3E4: Nevada Supreme Court Upholds Water Protections for Desert Wildlife

S3E3: The Fight Against Flamingo 640; How a Community Stood Up to Big Development

S3E2: Biden's Plan to Turn the Desert into a Solar Energy Complex

S3E1: Four Books That Will Change How You See The Desert

S2E16: Protecting Desert Bighorn Sheep from Habitat Loss and Disease

S2E15: On Giving Tuesday, Make a Difference for the Desert

S2E14: Obi Kaufmann and The Deserts of California

S2E13: Dealing With Loss

S2E12: The Majestic Saguaro, Part 1

S2E11: Globemallow Binding the Desert's Wounds

S2E10 Save Ash Meadows!

S2E9: What We Got Wrong About the Desert

S2E8: Native Activism in the Desert (Part 1)

S2E7: Superb Loom

S2E6: Border Chronicle: Biden Still Building Trump's Border Wall"

S2E5: The Problems with Desert Solar

S2E4: Protecting Wonder Valley

S2E3: Governor Ducey's Border Wall Comes Down

S2E2: Remembering Phil Pister

S2E1: Larrea tridentata a.k.a. the Humble Creosote

S1E22: Season Finale! Ironwoods: the Sonoran Desert's Tree of Life. Plus thank you

S1E21: The Desert Tortoise Still Has a Chance

S1E20: California still doesn't know what to do about the western Joshua tree

S1E19: Shannon Salter Fights to Save the Desert

S1E18 Chris is Stressed Out + Some Good News

S1E17: Mylar Balloons: threat or menace? plus Joshua Tree NP AMA

S1E16 Flood and Drought; Death Valley and the Great Salt Lake

S1E15 What Keeps You Going plus Bristlecone Pines

S1E14 The Bean Trees! But first, please help us

S1E13: Don't Die Today: Heat in the Desert

S1E12: What's Happening to the Monsoon?

S1E11: Deconstructing Ed Abbey

S1E10: Remembering Phil Klasky and Ward Valley

S1E9: Saving the Western Joshua tree

S1E8: The IPCC Lets the Deserts Down

S1E7: This Desert Fish was Declared Extinct. Now It Thrives.

S1E6: Co(yot)existence — how to live with coyotes

S1E5: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

S1E4: The End of the Cadillac Desert: Megadrought in the Southwest

S1E3: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Cima Dome

Saving the Dixie Valley Toad

Welcome to 90 Miles from Needles! Our inaugural episode

Season 0 Episode 4: About Chris Clarke

Season 0 episode 3: Joshua Trees are Trees

Trailer 2, Season 0: Introducing Alicia Pike

Season 0 Episode 1: Trailer for 90 Miles from Needles