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Night Owls

2

The sunscreen episode

3

How far would you go for a crow?

4

The problem with pickleball

5

You’ve got scorpion

6

Big porpoise energy

7

A tinned fish renaissance

8

Never add sodium to your pasta water

9

A cow named Speckles

10

In defense of darkness

11

Life and death and psilocybin

12

Silicon Planet

13

A Dry Hot American Summer

14

Like a Dirty Rotten Whale

15

The Dead Bird Rabbit Hole

16

The Microplastics Cleanse

17

A climate activist and a gas executive walk into a bar

18

The Raw Milk Question

19

Hunting Party

20

Catching the Codfather

21

Red is the warmest color

22

Reefer madness and the future of hemp

23

Goats, Ghosts, and Roadkill [Live stories from Portsmouth]

24

That's so raven

25

The Emerald Forest

26

Safe to Drink, Episode 1: You don’t know about this?

27

Remembering Christa

28

In Challenger's wake: The ethics of sending citizens to space

29

Bill McKibben has changed (but not that much)

30

nom nom nom

31

Return of the Kiwi Apocalypse: 10 years of Outside/In

32

How Broadway’s SFX designers make it rain (and snow) on stage

33

The FernGully Effect

34

Time heals all wounds

35

Of Men and Mice

36

On the mend: 8 tips on how to repair your clothes

37

Operation Night Cat, Episode 3: A Duck’s a Duck

38

Operation Night Cat, Episode 2: Behind the Brick Wall

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Operation Night Cat, Episode 1: Why Did the Deer Cross the Road?

40

Introducing: Operation Night Cat

41

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

42

Critical Mast

43

On the edge of the ice

44

The Brick Lady of St. Louis

45

O/I Trivia: Natural Selection

46

How to solve the climate crisis in 60-90 minutes

47

Why is there so much roadkill?

48

The cold truth about refrigeration

49

All Wings Considered

50

Saving the shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank

51

Your brain on GPS

52

Taxonomy's 200-Year Mistake

53

People are buying coyote urine. Where does it come from?

54

Field reports from the cutting edge of science

55

The Element of Surprise: The $1,000 Balloon

56

A Map to the Next World

57

The Trojan Seahorse

58

A 2,200 Mile Podcast

59

What Jurassic Park got wrong (and right) about dinosaurs

60

Phallic windchimes and ASMR: the magic of sound

61

Lawn and Order

62

Cruise-o-nomics

63

Where the Wild Things Grow

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A Righteous Gemstone

65

Foraging made her famous

66

The future was hydrogen

67

Black Sheep Metal

68

The Cold War Ice Core of Greenland

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Dark Magic Rabbit

70

The Bee’s Sneeze: Why allergies are getting worse

71

Venom and the cure

72

Tasting the forbidden fruit

73

The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs

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The Emerald Forest: Why Irish farmers aren’t happy about some American trees

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Why we sing

76

Why do animals play?

77

What is a forest for?

78

FEMA and the other 50 percent

79

The Great Grand Canyon Burro Rescue

80

Order on the pickleball court!!!

81

Fluoridation nation

82

What are Trump's Climate Plans?

83

The tinned fish renaissance

84

Once in a blue moon

85

Bigfoot is from North Carolina

86

No Regrets Coyote

87

What Remains: More MOVE remains found

88

Making the most of ‘stick season’

89

Shhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

90

The Ballad and the Flood

91

What's living under your porch

92

The Night Owls

93

Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

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What Remains, Part 2: In Memoriam

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What Remains, Part 1: No Justice, No Peace

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What Remains: What's Past is Prologue

97

"Primitive, Unconfined Recreation"

98

Ghosts in the machine

99

The cold, hard truth about refrigeration

100

The Mississippi Cyborg

101

The $1,000 balloon

102

Why we get scared—and why we like it

103

The not-so-secret life of plants

104

This is your brain on GPS

105

The fifth sense

106

Saving the tallest trees on Earth

107

Hot Olympic Summer: Is Paris Greenwashing the Games?

108

Every bite is a story

109

Introducing “The Youth Development Center”

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The new space race

111

The Potato Show

112

Ed Yong and The Spoonbill Club

113

The Winter Rangers

114

Wolves, water, and global weirding

115

Dead bird rabbit hole

116

The Department of Living Animals

117

The papyrus and the volcano

118

The Kings and Queens of "the Water Prom"

119

The Element of Surprise

120

‘Til the landslide brings it down

121

The mystery of the missing extinctions

122

Meet the meatfluencers

123

Reefer madness, the CBD bubble, and the future of hemp

124

Songbird accents, eating rats, and why we need the moon

125

In search of an ethical 401k

126

The story you won’t hear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”

127

You can make kids hike, but you can’t make them hikers

128

The disappearing dunes of 'Dune'

129

Hunters do cry

130

What's the most successful species on Earth?

131

The edge of the ice

132

The plot thickens

133

Blue is the loneliest color

134

Not everyone is wild about wild horses

135

Pigeons are weird

136

The Oatly Chronicles

137

Dragons, trolls and pine trees

138

Baby it’s GREAT outside: 12 more tips for embracing winter

139

Is 'Yellowstone' ruining Montana?

140

Dear ChatGPT: Are you a climate solution? Or climate problem?

141

How does the National Weather Service work?

142

Why did the road cross the chicken?

143

The secret lives of bugs

144

As American as hard apple cider: an immigrant food story

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

146

Bat Out of Hell Ranch

147

Environmental disinformation is getting weirder

148

Do airports dream of electric planes?

149

Close Encounters with Mato Tipila

150

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

151

The greatest disaster story of all time

152

The last great trip

153

Let's talk boundaries

154

After the avalanche: rescue gone wrong

155

Of lab mice and men

156

What the heck is El Niño, anyway?

157

Drilled: The Panic

158

If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world

159

What's really in your wine?

160

Oppenheimer's omission

161

Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

162

Shrimp on the line

163

Do your doo diligence

164

The Call of the Void

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165

The carbon in your closet: cotton vs. polyester and other fabricated dilemmas

166

When protest is a crime, part 2: city in a forest

167

When protest is a crime, part 1: the Standing Rock effect

168

Is Biden a good climate president?

169

Just try not to breathe

170

A tale of two deserts: Are Saudi cows to blame for Arizona's water crisis?

171

It's not easy being evergreen

172

The city inside a glacier

173

The Race to Net Zero: building a car-free future

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The Race to Net Zero: will EVs get us there fast enough?

175

The Underdogs Ep3: You sell your soul

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The Underdogs Ep 2: 'It has to be earned'

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The Underdogs Ep1: Honey and vinegar

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Outside/In presents The Underdogs

179

Scents & sensibility

180

Who owns the sky?

181

Worm Wars! Invasive species and the stories we tell about them

182

Groundhogs: incidental archaeologists, mystical meteorologists

183

The “extreme” beat: whale hearts, mudslides, and more

184

The ocean is a place of queer possibility

185

Dinner reservations: how to eat sustainably (and does it even matter?)

186

Cold t*ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine

187

Hot dam! Climate news that isn’t terrible

188

How a chicken saved my life

189

13 tips on how to "surthrive" this winter

190

O Possum! My Possum!

191

The reality of History’s “Alone”

192

Legends of the fall: fallout shelters, dreams of falling, and autumnal vibes

193

Why we get scared (and why we like it)

194

The curious case of the missing extinctions

195

The last veterinarians in town

196

The olive & the pine

197

Why do we stare at fire and other existential questions

198

Your Wildest Wildlife Encounters

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Yardwork: A bitter melon grows in Boston

200

Yardwork: Gardening is heavy metal

201

Yardwork: Lawn and Order

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The most successful species on Earth?!

203

The National Park Service

204

The first national park

205

Is climate journalism experiencing a Great Resignation?

206

Life and Death at a Human Decomposition Facility

207

Update: Happy the Elephant is Not a Person

208

Six Foot Turkey: What Jurassic Park Got Wrong (And Right) About Dinosaurs

209

Et Tu, Brute? The Case for Human Rights for Animals

210

Frog Sex, Tree Soap, and Other Signs of Spring

211

After the Avalanche

212

Call of the Void

213

The So-Called Mystery of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island)

214

How to Build a Solar-Powered Website

215

Frankenfish

216

Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space

217

Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing

218

The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback

219

What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?

220

Even Hikers Get The Blues

221

Dispatches from the New American Shore

222

The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain

223

The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part I, The Revolution

224

It Was the Ladies Who Hugged the Trees

225

Sheep + Solar, A Love Story

226

How to Embrace Winter (like Norwegians do)!

227

Outside/Inbox: Do Bears Hoot?

228

A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deutschland

229

Can an Animal be a Criminal?

230

The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

231

Tourism Spoils

232

The Himalayan Land Grab

233

Outside/Inbox: The Ramen Wasp Murders & Other Mysteries

234

Scents and Sensibility

235

Book Club: Four Lost Cities

236

The Problem with America’s National Parks

237

Bonus: Ciao for Now, Sam Evans-Brown

238

Windfall, Part 5: The Just Transition

239

Windfall, Part 4: Port of Departure

240

Windfall, Part 3: Squid Pro Quo

241

Windfall, Part 2: Please Let Me Finish, Mr. Kennedy.

242

Windfall, Part 1: Sea Change

243

Introducing: Windfall

244

In Pittsburgh

245

Book Club: Trace

246

The Sand Protocol

247

The Trouble With Music About Wilderness

248

10x10: Sand Beach

249

A Climate Activist Goes to Business School

250

10X10: City Gutter

251

The Acorn: An Ohlone Love Story

252

Ask Sam: Do Hummingbirds Sleep and Other Questions

253

I Would Prefer Not To

254

Thin Green Line

255

If You Wanna Get Kosileg, You Gotta Get a Little Friluftsliv

256

Coal and Solar in the Navajo Nation

257

Climate Migration

258

Cat of the Clouds

259

The Forest for the Carbon

260

Fortress Conservation

261

10x10: Pine Barren

262

The Olive and the Pine

263

Rice is Food and Other Stories

264

The Lithium Gold Rush

265

Sidedoor: The Riverkeeper

266

The Darién Gap

267

Ask Sam: Spice Must Flow

268

Open Worlds

269

UPDATE: The GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time

270

Ginkgo Love

271

Fruit Fight!!!

272

Birding While Black

273

Massachusetts v. EPA

274

Inside/In: Moss & Mold

275

On Fires and Feelings

276

The Carrington Event

277

Inside/In: How To Be A Backyard Birber

278

Cat People

279

Inside/In

280

10X10: Kettle Bog

281

Tempest in a Teacup

282

Nudge-Off Results! Plus, The Forest for the Treesap [Replay]

283

Nature Has Done Her Part

284

A Battle of Tiny Proportions

285

Leo Rising

286

Chasing The Light

287

A Year of Wonders

288

Jesabel Y Eddie

289

The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America

290

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug

291

Ask Sam: Grandpa's Rhubarb

292

Cold, Dark, and Sharky

293

Patient Zero: The Laser

294

Patient Zero: The Vector

295

Patient Zero: The Triangle

296

Introducing Patient Zero

297

Can You Feel the Lies Tonight

298

Plan B

299

Swimming Lessons

300

I'm a Penguin Counter for God's Sake!

301

Operation Confirmation Bias

302

Ask Sam: Bidets the Day

303

Pants on Fire

304

Must Love Logs

305

Killing Cats, Saving Numbats

306

The Family Business

307

Hunting The Night Parrot

308

10X10: Under The Ice

309

Leave No Stone

310

32 Is the New 40

311

Falling Doesn't Count

312

Rake and Ride

313

Just Decide

314

Now I am an Axolotl

315

Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells

316

The Meat Matrix

317

So Over Population [Part 2]

318

So Over Population [Part 1]

319

O/I Presents: Bear Brook

320

Look Toward the Dawn

321

This Isn't Science, It's a Love Story

322

Shrunk and Punk'd

323

The Sky is Burning

324

10x10 - Pine Barren

325

Loser Wolves: A Cat Fancy

326

Molto Moleche

327

The Most Dangerous Game

328

The Forest for the Treesap

329

Ride or Die

330

Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees

331

Stay In Your Lane

332

Shine Service

333

One Bin to Rule Them All

334

Life on the Edge of the Olympics

335

Magical Drinking

336

Updates For Your Brain

337

An American Lobster in Stockholm

338

Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs

339

Stoner Panels

340

What's the Deal with Coydogs?

341

Fantastic Mr. Phillips

342

Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line

343

Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves

344

Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century

345

Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home

346

Introducing: Powerline

347

Vultures Inherit the Earth

348

Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging

349

In Too Deep

350

Pick Your Poison

351

Lime and Tabasco

352

The Hitchhiker's Guide to WWOOFing

353

Bright Lights, Big Salad

354

Healing Hands of Nature

355

After The Flood

356

Eat the Invaders & Ask Sam

357

S.O.S.

358

10x10 - Midden

359

Champagne on the Rocks

360

Daisy Supply Chain

361

Ask Sam Round-up

362

Leave it to Beavers

363

Full Disclosure

364

The Company Man

365

Bonus Episode: 3 1/2 Feet Under

366

Gnar Pow

367

Fantastic Mr. Phillips

368

Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell

369

The Death Machine

370

A House Built on Sand

371

The Accidental History of Solar Power

372

Millionaires' Hunt Club

373

HumaNature - Hoofprints on the Heart

374

The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth

375

Don't Cheer For Me Argentina

376

10x10 - Traffic Circle

377

Always. Wear. Earth. Tones.

378

Nature is a Haunted House

379

Eat the Invaders - Lionfish

380

Look Toward the Dawn

381

Dr. Percy & the Magic Soybean

382

The Early Birder Gets the Bird

383

When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play

384

WTF is TFC?

385

Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight

386

These Shoes Were Made For Mocking

387

The Pokémon Question

388

Up Against the Ropes

389

Ask Sam | Syrup-titious

390

Anothah Boston Cheat

391

Tiny Terror

392

Gridlocked

393

Parenting At 24,000 Feet

394

The Young Man of the Mountain

395

Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town

396

Champagne on the Rocks

397

Pier Pressure

398

The Moose Whisperer

399

10x10 - Vernal Pools

400

The Kiwi Apocalypse

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