Episodios

  • The Aquarium – Daisy Hildyard read by Colin Salmon

    The Aquarium – Daisy Hildyard read by Colin Salmon
    Apr 29 2025
    English novelist Daisy Hildyard envisions the deep time evolution of the coastline of Scarborough, North Yorkshire: from a prehistoric meteor strike, to a 19th-century seaside aquarium devoid of fish, a present-day spate of dead tides, and a future where part of the human population has evolved into a hybrid marine species, drawn back to the cradle of the sea to care for its degraded waters. Vividly narrated by acclaimed British actor Colin Salmon, and created as part of Wild Eye—an art and nature trail in Yorkshire that raises awareness about coastal erosion in the face of climate change—this short story traces the forever-shifting tides of our relationship with the sea. Read the story. Illustration by Muhammad Fatchurofi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 m
  • A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and Songs

    A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and Songs
    Apr 22 2025
    In celebration of Earth Day, this episode invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories. “When the Earth Started to Sing,” by biologist David G. Haskell, combines human speech with more-than-human voices to immerse your senses in the connective power of sound across deep time. “Sanctuaries of Silence,” an adaptation of our virtual reality experience featuring acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, brings you to the Hoh Rain Forest—one of the quietest places in North America—and guides you through the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 10 m
  • The Fault of Time – Erica Berry

    The Fault of Time – Erica Berry
    Apr 15 2025
    As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle of creation and destruction. Grappling with her fear of change caused by wildfires in Montana and the long-overdue Cascadia earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, Erica Berry confronts how the colonial erasure of Indigenous stories of place and her own limited sense of time have blinded her to the Earth’s dramatic flux. As she learns that impermanence doesn’t always signal loss, but rather the transformation of form, she finds a way to hold the fluctuation of the lands she loves. Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Photo by Zeb Andrews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 m
  • Telling the Bees – Emily Polk

    Telling the Bees – Emily Polk
    Apr 8 2025
    In the tradition of telling the bees, beekeepers relay the news of a death in the family to each of their hives, oftentimes draping them in black mourning cloth. As bee colonies in the US perish in record numbers, Emily Polk wonders if bees not only witness human grief, but also feel loss themselves. Meeting with a famous Yemeni beekeeper in downtown Oakland, California, and scientists from around the world studying bee behavior and cognition, she learns of the enduring generosity and spirit of survival of these tiny creatures, and glimpses the greater circles of loss that connect us with the more-than-human world. Read the essay. Photo: Wray Sinclair / Gallery Stock Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 m
  • Song of the Cedars – A Conversation with Giuliana Furci, Robert Macfarlane, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Cosmo Sheldrake

    Song of the Cedars – A Conversation with Giuliana Furci, Robert Macfarlane, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Cosmo Sheldrake
    Apr 1 2025
    On a field trip to Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador in 2022, mycologist Giuliana Furci, author Robert Macfarlane, legal scholar and More Than Human (MOTH) Life Collective founder César Rodríguez-Garavito, and musician Cosmo Sheldrake wrote and recorded “Song of the Cedars”—a composition made not just in the forest, but in conscious collaboration with it. Rich with field recordings of the ecosystem and the track’s entwined human and more-than-human melodies, this conversation between the foursome explores their ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of Los Cedros as co-creator of the song, which if successful, will be a world first. Read the transcript. Photo by Robert Macfarlane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 m
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband – Tyson Yunkaporta

    The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband – Tyson Yunkaporta
    Mar 25 2025
    In this experiential essay, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic—a connective substance that transcends time and space—and explores how we might slip between the cracks of the linear and maintain connection across time. Drawing on the knowledge encoded in a traditional boomerang he carved from silky oak, Tyson urges us to flow with love magic; to “swim in its currents” to offset the greed and extraction that is consuming the world. Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 m
  • Another Kind of Time – A Conversation with Jenny Odell

    Another Kind of Time – A Conversation with Jenny Odell
    Mar 18 2025
    From the archive, this week’s episode is a conversation with author and artist Jenny Odell. Speaking about her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, she challenges the social and cultural ideas that underpin standardized, mechanized time, and imagines how we might instead attune to the rhythms of the Earth and embrace interruptions that allow us to glimpse the inherent unpredictability and creativity of every moment. What choices, what futures, might become possible, she asks, if we stepped out of chronos time and towards a kairos time? Read the transcript. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Photo by Chani Bockwinkel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 3 m
  • Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 4

    Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 4
    Mar 11 2025
    What does a place, a community, look like when it welcomes home Indigenous presence? Recorded in January 2025, this new fourth episode of “Coming Home to the Cove” explores the impact of Theresa Harlan’s work to protect, restore, and rematriate Felix Cove over the last three years—from widening community awareness of Coast Miwok history; to opening hearts to allyship between Indigenous and settler families; and running traditional ecological knowledge workshops. Amid ongoing vandalism of her ancestral home, rancher evictions, and new land management, Theresa continues to fight for a larger vision of healing, and asks, are we willing to come together to honor the entire story of a land? Photo courtesy of Hewitt Visuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    59 m
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