[To listen to the full 19 min broadcast, complete with rare quotes by super-biologist E.O.Wilson, and other sound effects, click on the title “The Great Extinction” above.] At least one in eight plants are threatened. Half of land animals, and most of large  …

[To hear the full audio soundtrack version, click on the Blogger title above.] George Bush, Tony Blair, and John Howard want to bring back nuclear power from the graves of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. They say it’s a clean, safe solution to  …

Wakey, wake-up, it’s alarming climate news from Radio Ecoshock. AUSTRALIA A super-cyclone, the strongest in 30 years, has hit Northern Australia. Tropical cyclone “Larry,” brought incredible winds up to 180 miles an hour, or 290 kilometers an hour. It was a category five  …

[Please check out the short, 3 minute audio version which recreates the sound of life in the car, and the driver (in all of us) who will never change. Just click the title of this piece, and your software will play it, after  …

The former news network CNN combines alarm and trivia. Two models with smiles the size of the screen announce Planet Earth now has 6.5 billion people. Immediately, the camera veers away to show us a captive whale blowing bubbles that look like smoke  …

Hi, I’m Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock. In my last broadcast, “The Polluted Womb,” we followed the science given to top government advisors, proving vehicle exhaust is poisoning a new generation. Smog causes an increase in diseases, and descreased mental capacity, starting in  …

THE POLLUTED WOMB A report from Radio Ecoshock [clip from speech by Dr. Perera, outlining the terrible statistics for children damaged by pollution] That’s right. Classrooms full of wheezing kids with inhalers in their pockets. Post modern kids have damaged DNA, and diminished  …

Those Lazy Hazy Days of Winter… Ya gotta love the solid state double speak that passes for environmental reporting in China. Ya gotta. Otherwise they’ll shut you down and re-educate your sorry [beep] While Beijing citizens are gasping for breath behind their surgical  …

You’ve heard the news. 30% of arctic ice gone. Floods, storms, fires. We’re pushing the earth over a very big climate cliff. The time for talk is over. We need to act now. Human-made carbon is pouring into the earth’s atmosphere. According to  …

As a self-styled progressive country, Canada just hosted the Kyoto and Climate Convention meetings in Montreal last December. Various government ministers, including Prime Minister Martin, made speeches and twisted arms for international action on climate change. But under the hood, Canada remains the  …

In one of the greatest environmental movies ever made, the desperate hordes of humans eat green factory-made squares called “Soylent Green.” These food cakes were supposedly made out of rich plankton protein from the seas, but then a researcher finds a report that  …

[Ticking clock]Hmmm 2005…. birds disappearing…. large ocean species dying off… biggest storms ever recorded… second hottest year on record… polar ice melting… oceans turning acidic… you know, it’s almost time… to PANIC! [alarm bells, sirens, warning beeps…] [broadcast news music] It’s the RAdio  …