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Looking to reconnect with nature? Want to make better decisions for the health of the planet? Every Friday, Living Planet brings you the stories, facts and debates on the key environmental issues of our time.

Podcast · By DW · English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
12
Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
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Jul 3, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Fighting fire with fire (opens the original)

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    Anasuya Basil lives in a virtual tinder box in California. After surviving blazes big and small, she winced at the smell of smoke. Then everything changed. Now she sets fires on purpose.

  2. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    The imperfect activist (opens the original)

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    Katie Hodgetts wanted to do everything right for the planet. She stopped flying, changed how she lived, and threw herself into climate activism. But when doing more became too much, she learned an important lesson.

  3. Episode · Sep 4, 2026

    Searching for higher ground in Australia (opens the original)

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    In 2022, a catastrophic flood tore through Australia's Northern Rivers region. By the time it receded, life for one couple had changed forever. Surviving the flood was one thing, figuring out what came next was another.

  4. Episode · Aug 28, 2026

    Saving Syria’s war-ravaged bees (opens the original)

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    Syria’s bee population was once considered the largest in the Middle East, but then came the civil war in 2011, plunging the country into years of violent conflict. Only a fraction of its bee colonies survived. A traveling beekeeper recounts his own personal fight to bring back the bees, and with them, the farming sector.

  5. Episode · Jul 31, 2026

    Summer reads – How we made the wilderness w/Cal Flyn (opens the original)

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    What if the places we think of as empty and unmarred are anything but? What if wilderness is as much an idea as a place? A conversation with Cal Flyn, who, in her new book, travels to some of the world's most remote, awe-inspiring places to trace the changing meaning of wilderness, and to explore how one of conservation's most cherished ideals has come at a human cost.

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