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EarthDate — 329 episodes

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1

The Roof of Africa

2

How Zebras Got Their Stripes

3

The Great Shrinking Salt Lake

4

Earth’s Largest Shark

5

Petrified Wood

6

Dangerous Haboobs

7

Walking on Water

8

Treasure on the Seafloor

9

Giraffes Have High Blood Pressure

10

Raising Hail

11

Invisible Forces Shape Waves

12

Britain’s Stone Age Mines

13

Swelling Seas

14

Dam Good

15

Carlsbad Caverns

16

Dinosaurs Run Hot and Cold

17

The Measure of a Meter

18

Iconic Cacti

19

Gateway to Hell

20

Easter Island Egg Hunt

21

Twister Myths

22

Springtime Impact Apocalypse

23

Pick Your Poison

24

Crushing Precious Soil

25

Grub’s up

26

4.4-billion-year-old time crystals

27

Dung Beetle Astronomers

28

The Oldest Geological Map

29

Outback Opals

30

The Making of Yellowstone

31

Amazing Octopuses

32

Tonga - A Year Later

33

What is a Fjord?

34

Older than Methuselah

35

Nazca Ojos

36

Antarctica’s Largest Land Creature

37

Lightning Cleans the Atmosphere

38

Tyrannosaur on your Table

39

The Demise of Mesopotamian Empires

40

World’s Strongest Metal

41

The Sum of All Humans

42

New Zealand’s Fatal Eruption

43

Beneficial Leeches

44

First Map of the Ocean Floor

45

How Fossils Form

46

How Trees Lift Water

47

Pacific Ring of Fire

48

DNA Out of Thin Air

49

Super White is Super Cool

50

Ferns Get Social

51

Fantastic Ferns

52

Depleting the Ogallala Aquifer

53

Making a 200,000-Year-Old Bed

54

Water Conservation

55

It’s Always Oyster Season

56

Powerful Pot Ash

57

White Sands Footprints

58

Partly Buggy Forecast

59

Monsoon Rains

60

More Valuable than Gold

61

Energy Efficiency of Condors

62

Lake Kivu's explosive secret

63

A Fragile History

64

Fireflies Flash

65

Darwin's Terraforming Experiment

66

Very Slow Slips

67

A New Way to Measure Rainfall

68

South Pole Sleepover

69

Surviving a Landslide

70

Fertilizers Feed the World

71

Disappearing Rainbows

72

Tornado Genesis

73

Coelacanth Centenarians

74

Saint Patrick’s Snake-free Ireland

75

Tuxedoed Torpedoes

76

Sponges on the Move

77

Snowball Earth

78

Biomass Census

79

Vikings in North America

80

Pleistocene Avocados

81

Ancient Antibiotic

82

Smoky Stratosphere

83

Northwest Passage

84

Undersea Avalanches

85

Memoir of a Mammoth

86

Not a Creature was Stirring

87

The Fahrenheit Few

88

Shooting Stars From a Space Rock

89

Driftless Oasis

90

A Story On Paper

91

Long-Haul Godwit

92

Suez Traffic Jam

93

Marie Curie’s Double Nobel

94

Beneficial Bats

95

(Re)birth of the Amazon Rainforest

96

P is for Life

97

Yes, we had no Bananas

98

Super Sniffers

99

Earth, Wind and Water

100

Flamingo Pink Lakes

101

Man Made Fire, Fire Made Man

102

Flammable planet

103

Cold Lightning

104

Seismic Whale Song

105

Death Valley’s Mysterious Slithering Stones

106

Gems from Deep Earth or Deep Space

107

Polar Excursions

108

Earth’s Flipping Poles

109

Mosquito inspired injection

110

The Thing About String

111

Coral Bleaching

112

Maya Water Purification

113

Earthquake Early Warning

114

Kola Superdeep

115

Cycling Milanković

116

Earth’s Odd Orbit

117

Astronaut Geology Camp

118

The Original Moon Shot

119

Solar Superstorm

120

Topping Off Everest

121

Farming the Seas

122

Ocean Giants

123

Really Odd Duck-bill

124

The Value of Snowpack

125

Bite of the Bumblebee

126

Deepest Dive

127

The Deepest Deep

128

Beneficial Viral DNA

129

Fossil Viruses

130

The Man ON the Moon

131

Legends of Amethyst

132

Your Friendly Virome

133

Blue-blooded Horseshoe Crabs

134

Horseshoe Crabs: Living Fossils

135

Why Fish Don’t Freeze

136

How Snowflakes Grow

137

Winter Sun Close Encounter

138

Just a Second

139

How 10 Fingers Became 12 Hours

140

Wondrous Waterfalls

141

Under Greenland’s Ice Sheet

142

Platinum Record for the Ice Age

143

Death Apples in Paradise

144

Making the Invisible Visible

145

125 Years of X-Rays

146

Creepy Corpse Flowers

147

How Do Animals Vote?

148

Anoles Get a Grip

149

Hanging with Geckos

150

Copper’s Superpower

151

Riding the Jet Streak

152

Equinox Alignments

153

Sunspot Strandings

154

Nickel Farming

155

Honeybee Blight

156

The Business of Bees

157

How Bees Make Honey

158

The Buzzy Life of HoneyBees

159

The Oldest Story Ever Told

160

Aboriginal Star Maps

161

75 Years into the Atomic Age

162

The Day's Getting Longer

163

Swarming Locusts

164

Finding Faults with the Inca

165

The Ever Green Stone

166

Maximizing GPS

167

Ultra-Black

168

Pando - A Forest of One

169

Low-Temperature Geothermal

170

Making the Great Lakes

171

Mammoth Traps

172

Illuminating Incandescent Bulbs

173

The Dust Bowl 3: Resolution

174

The Dust Bowl 2: Disaster Strikes

175

The Dust Bowl 1: Storm Brewing

176

True Blue

177

The Amazing Monarch Relay

178

Iceland, the Geothermal Pioneer

179

Atmospheric Rivers

180

California’s Super Flood

181

Preserving with Salt

182

Floating Rocks

183

Plight of the Pangolin

184

Airbursts

185

Caught in Quicksand

186

Gold in Them Thar Trees

187

The Great Triassic Floods

188

Tragedy on Ice

189

Why is Ice slippery?

190

Spinning a New Years Tale

191

The Miracles of Reindeer

192

Avalanche!

193

Hot Springs Eternal

194

Earth’s Loneliest Species

195

Last Branch on the Family Tree

196

Undersea Aquifer

197

Weight of Water

198

Why Pines Are Evergreen

199

Blue Sky, Blue Sunset?

200

Water, Water Everywhere

201

Ice Age Rebound

202

Salmon Are Born to Navigate

203

Fall Colors

204

Two Sides of the Sun

205

The Essential Element

206

Starting Off on the Wrong Foot

207

The Wandering Pole

208

Triple North Pole

209

Carving a Canyon

210

Homing Pigeons

211

How Earth Makes Fresh Water

212

The Star of India

213

Green Iceland/Icy Greenland

214

Tuskless Elephants

215

The Geology of Fireworks

216

Cooler in the Mountains

217

Pterosaurs

218

Beach Reading

219

Fire Weather

220

Wildfires

221

(Almost) A Watershed Event

222

Magnetoreception

223

Spindletop

224

The Scent of Rain

225

Migrating Plants

226

Climate Escalator

227

The Alien Element

228

Core of the Realm

229

The Man and the Canyon

230

Full Steam Ahead

231

Storing CO2

232

Spidey Silk

233

Surviving the Asteroid

234

Real-World Apocalypse

235

Minerals Evolve, Too

236

Swimming with Sharks

237

Earth’s Ocean Conveyor

238

Why the Greeks Liked Earthquakes

239

Our Most Common Element

240

Trees Can Talk

241

The Secret Life of Soil

242

Volcanoes and Eclipses

243

Winter Solstice Celebrations

244

Powering the World

245

The Iceman Goeth

246

Ice Age Brexit

247

So Cheap Yet So Valuable

248

Ripples in Earth’s Crust

249

High-Impact Mystery

250

Rivers of Wind

251

Best Friends Forever

252

Tale of Two Volcanoes

253

Managing Aquifers

254

What a Waste!

255

Bugs on the Wing

256

Cleopatra Loved the Flood

257

Devils Tower

258

The Curious Tale of Whales

259

From Greenhouse to Icehouse

260

Greenhouse – Icehouse Earth

261

Fire in Ice

262

Amazing Caves

263

Who Killed the Neanderthals?

264

More Earthquakes, More Places

265

Fossil Water

266

Storing Energy in Air

267

Ripples in Earth’s Crust

268

California’s Sinking Valley

269

Stories Hidden in Pollen

270

Melting Permafrost

271

The Colorful History of Paint

272

How Old Is Earth?

273

The First Americans

274

El Niño

275

World’s Oldest Water

276

The Mediterranean Desert

277

Cloud Microbes

278

Human-Induced Earthquakes

279

Rare Earth Elements

280

World’s Tallest Mountain

281

One-Part Harmony

282

Lightning Safety

283

The Water Cycle

284

Birth of a Monster

285

Fantastic Beasts

286

Hail, Zealandia

287

Water from Thin Air

288

Exploring Earth’s Driest Deserts

289

Hadrosaur Hightails It

290

The Man in the Moon

291

Cities Made of Sand

292

Venice Holds Back the Sea

293

Hurricane Harvey

294

Recycling Carbon

295

Life on Ice

296

Global Smartphones

297

The Great Smog

298

Our Unmapped Ocean

299

Under Pressure — Geysers

300

Dinosaurs in Your Backyard

301

Digging Soil

302

Secrets of the Glacier

303

Lightning Strikes

304

Prehistoric Soundscape

305

The Many Facets of Salt

306

Dust in the Wind

307

Landslides

308

Measuring Gravity from Space

309

Earth’s Changing Gravity

310

Lithium Chill

311

The Amazing Miracle Material

312

Carbon Opposites

313

Your Place in the World

314

Total Eclipse of the Sun — 8/21/17

315

The Longest Mountain Range

316

The Dawn of Vision

317

The Year Without a Summer

318

Your Most Ancient Possession

319

Magnetic Storms

320

Eternal Calcium

321

Tiny Titan

322

Lithium Power

323

CSI Pliocene: Lucy

324

Geodynamo

325

Diamond Data

326

Great Extinctions

327

Life on a Giant Magnet

328

The Day the Earth Shook

329

Precious Water