EcoNews Report

On this week’s episode, the Green Gang investigates mercury in Humboldt Bay and the Eel River. (Could they be connected?)  Support the show

A new study in the journal Science documents the staggering loss of bird populations in North America — a decline of approximately three billion birds in total over the past 50 years. Local ornithologist Ken Burton says that Humboldt County is not immune to this trend. Using available data, Burton has determined that of the most commonly reported species in Northwest California, 69 percent of bird...

The Klamath River is now a person with full legal rights under Yurok Tribal Law. Amy Cordalis, General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe, joins the green gang to talk about what this means for the river and why giving recognizing “personhood” for the river is both a big and little leap under the law.  (As Mitt Romney sez: “Corporations are people too, my friend.”) Support the show

In this week’s show, the Green Gang discusses Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s attempts to fast track the approval of the Shasta Dam raise, which would benefit Bernhardt’s former client, the Westlands Water District. (The losers? The ecological community that would drown under rising waters.) The Gang also discusses Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1, a state bill that would improve state enviro...

On this week’s EcoNews Report, with your regular panel: Greta Thunberg and the Children’s Climate Strike. Jonathan Franzen: Bad novelist, maybe halfway decent activist? Single-issue environmentalism versus ecological advocacy. The glorious destructive power of an enraged mother walrus. LINKS: ” It’s Kids vs. The World in Landmark Climate Complaint ,” Gizmodo, Sept. 23, 2019. ” What if We Stopped P...

Do you live or work in a tsunami zone ? Do you drive through one to take your kids to and from school? Do you like to go to the beach but wonder how to know if there might be sneaker waves? This week’s guest is Troy Nicolini, Meteorologist-in-Charge at the National Weather Service in Eureka. Troy has lots of practical, time-tested tips on avoiding sneaker waves, what to do in a tsunami and why emp...

On this EcoNews Report, your favorite Forest Grumps talk about “ecological grief” — the deep sense of dread and depression we get from thinking about how we are screwed in the face of climate change and the anthropocene. Support the show

Remember the EcoNews Report? It was that handy, locally produced environmental news roundup on KHSU that you used to tune into on Thursday afternoons, back when KHSU was a thing. Now, readers/listeners, it is back! Every Saturday at 10 a.m., the Lost Coast Outpost and our sister station KHUM (104.3 and 107.3 FM) will bring you the newly revamped half-hour enviro news/chat program with all the old...