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EarthFix
by Oregon Public Broadcasting
Stories from the EarthFix team at OPB, KUOW, KCTS 9, Northwest Public Radio and Idaho Public Television. EarthFix is an innovative partnership of the largest public media institutions in the Pacific Northwest established to expand environmental news coverage in the region. With journalists based in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, EarthFix creates media across multiple platforms, helping citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards and to explore how local actions intersect with national issues. All content copyright EarthFix and its stations.
Episodes
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Claims of Exposure Continue For Chemical EPA Chose Not To Ban
The Trump administration decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Records show it continues to sicken people.
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Claims of Exposure Continue For Chemical EPA Chose Not To Ban
The Trump administration decided not to ban the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Records show it continues to sicken people.
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Giving Wildlife Safe Passage Across Busy Highways
If you’ve ever slammed on your brakes for a deer in the road, you know the heart-pumping feeling of a near-miss. Northwest drivers are getting help navigating without putting wildlife at risk.
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Is Oregon Culling Too Many Cougars?
A hiker's death led to calls for a cougar cull. But a growing body of research suggests that aggressive killing can lead to more problem encounters with humans, not less.
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Counting Cougars: How It's Done Can Create Conflict
A hiker's death lead to calls for a cougar cull. But a growing body of research suggests that aggressive killing can lead to more problem encounters with humans, not less.
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Snorkeling A River To Take A Fish Census
Every year, volunteers snorkel the entire Salmon River to count every single Spring Chinook and Steelhead in the name of science
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How Fire Consumed The Forest Service Budget
It was not solely natural disaster, climate or drought. It was part of the plan.
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Citizen Scientists Are Making Oregon's 'Bee Atlas'
The Oregon Bee Atlas is training volunteers to collect and identify hundreds of native bees — an important step in learning which species live here and if their numbers are declining.
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These Wildlife Do Best When Fire Is Allowed On The Land
Not all wildfire is a force of destruction. Many of our favorite NW plants and animals have evolved to depend on it.
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Wildfire is an economic giver and taker in the rural West
Over the years, small communities in Washington have learned to live with the threat, tragedy — even the good sides — that come from fire on the land.
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Death in the Woods: the price of preempting a wildfire before it happened
Our continued drive to suppress wildfire doesn’t just come at the cost of an unhealthy forest. It puts firefighters in harm’s way. And the Forest Service has begun to question whether that’s happening more than necessary.
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Crunching fire data to save lives
On a handful of fires this summer, the Forest Service is testing out a new approach to try and keep its firefighters safe. It’s a team of risk management experts that pours over maps and data to figure out where firefighting efforts are actually necessary, and where they’re likely to succeed. Its...
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Crunching fire data to save lives
On a handful of fires this summer, the Forest Service is testing out a new approach to try and keep its firefighters safe. It’s a team of risk management experts that pours over maps and data to figure out where firefighting efforts are actually necessary, and where they’re likely to succeed. Its...
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Q&A: How do you want your smoke?
New smoke management rules aim to increase amount of prescribed burns in fire-prone forests.
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Refillable Beer Bottles For A New Generation
Keep an eye out for beer bottles with the word "refillable" stamped into the glass. They're popping up on store shelves across Oregon as the state brings back a more sustainable way of drinking beer.
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The smoke's bad. It doesn't have to be this way.
Air quality is bad in the West when wildfires burn - cancelling out all our gains in reducing air pollution from cars and industry.
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More forest homes means more wildfire danger
For people living in the “wildland-urban interface,” wildfire risk is the new normal, and the risk is increasing as more people move into places where cul-de-sac meets forest or sagebrush.
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Ep. 48: Michelle Smith | Kelly Montoya | Julie O'Toole
Learn about selective eating and food phobias, two lesser-known eating disorders afflicting children. Next, discover Little Sous, a new concept for turning kids into confident cooks. And finally, a cookbook author and food blogger fills us in on raisin...
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What We Know About Wildfire Cause Investigations
The cause of the Substation Fire remains under investigation. Here’s what we know about it and how wildland fire investigations occur.
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Learning to live with wildfire is not a new concept. But it's still a foreign one.
Is the Forest Service practicing what it preaches about allowing more fire on the land?
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'Singing Fish' May Hold Keys To Repairing Human Hearing Loss
Scientists are studying midshipman fish in Hood Canal for clues to improving human hearing.
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What Washington Could Learn From Montana About Living With Grizzlies
People in Montana say what’s happened with grizzlies in their state could be a guide for Washington, where the bears are in big trouble but on the verge of getting reinforcements.
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A Northwest Mega Dairy's Rough Rookie Year
One of the Northwest’s largest dairies has faced some big troubles in its first year of operation. The rise and rapid fall of Lost Valley Farm has alarmed environmentalists and shocked neighboring farms.
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For Farmworkers' Kids, Asthma Isn't A Big-City Problem
Rural kids are just as likely to have asthma as children growing up in congested cities.
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If you call them 'salmon safe' will they sell?
One of the Northwest's biggest egg producers decided to take extra care with its land and water. But will people pay more for eggs certified 'salmon safe?'
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Add Egg-Stealing Ravens To The List Of Sage Grouse Threats
The West's greater sage grouse are in trouble for all kinds of reasons. Researchers are starting to look into an unusual threat: predatory ravens.
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Getting Salmon Across The Road Detours To Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether treaties between tribes and the federal government require state taxpayers to dish out billions to dig up roads for salmon.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Stories from the EarthFix team at OPB, KUOW, KCTS 9, Northwest Public Radio and Idaho Public Television.
EarthFix is an innovative partnership of the largest public media institutions in the Pacific Northwest established to expand environmental news coverage in the region. With journalists based in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, EarthFix creates media across multiple platforms, helping citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards and to explore how local actions intersect with national issues. All content copyright EarthFix and its stations.
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