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Steve Curwood

Steve Curwood created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April 1991. Today, it is aired on more than 250 public radio stations in the United States.Curwood's relationship with public radio goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at CBS News, the Boston Globe, NPR, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team.Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation Inc. and lectures in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. He lives in southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his family.
Smoke rises from a processing mill at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia
Climate Change
The world’s tropical forests can help us limit climate change — if we let them
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, of Uganda, delivers her speech during a Fridays for Future demonstration in Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.
Climate Change
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate: ‘We want climate action and our voices will not be silenced’
A Tesoro Corp. refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of normal plant operations, in Anacortes, Washington.
Climate Change
Are carbon offsets really as effective as advocates claim?
Air pollution in Tehran on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012.
Health & Medicine
New WHO air pollution standards could save millions of lives each year
This Dec. 22, 2018, file photo shows a pump jack over an oil well along Interstate 25 near Dacono, Colorado.
Climate Change
Will big oil finally be held accountable for decades of climate misinformation?
In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mining dumper truck hauls coal at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Montana.
Climate Change
‘They Knew’: A new book chronicles 50 years of US govt’s failure to address the climate crisis
The Shell Norco oil refinery along the Mississippi River in Norco, LA.
Environment
Hurricane Ida adds misery to ‘Cancer Alley’: Part II
Founder of RISE St. James and 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Sharon Lavigne
Environment
Hurricane Ida adds misery to ‘Cancer Alley’: Part I
Buildings burn as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021.
Climate Change
Climate change is driving extreme weather events around the world in 2021
A record number of wolves are roaming the forests and fields of Oregon, 20 years after the species returned to the state.
Arts, Culture & Media
Charlotte McConaghy’s new novel imagines reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands
Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck
Science & Technology
Ford hits a ‘home run’ with its new all-electric F-150 pickup
Mossbrae Falls in the Shasta Cascade area in Dunsmuir, California. In many spiritual traditions, like the Lakota in the US, water represents “the living relationship between you and I and all things."
Belief
Spiritual leaders seek to spur an ‘ecological conversion’
The Gaia hypothesis, devised by James Lovelock, posits that Earth is a living, self-regulating organism.
Imagining Gaia, the Earth, as ‘one great, living organism’
President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Washington.
Climate Change
Biden’s Earth Day summit tests US, global commitment to slowing climate change
Image of an illegally deforested area on Pirititi Indigenous lands.
Climate Change
The Amazon rainforest is likely adding to global warming, says a new study
A selection of silver refrigerators on display at an appliance store.
Environment
A climate reporter walks into an appliance store…
In this July 27, 2018, photo the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun.
Environment
Fossil fuels cause 1 in 5 premature deaths worldwide, study says
Wuhan outdoor market
Health & Medicine
COVID-19 brings new scrutiny to illegal wildlife trafficking
Richard Louv child in forest
Connecting with nature in the time of COVID-19
Pine Bend oil refinery in Minnesota
Environment
A new book chronicles the Koch empire’s impact on American society
Julián Castro
US politics
Julián Castro makes climate change a central theme of his presidential campaign
Gold mining DRC
Justice
Catholic bishops outraged by Congress’ repeal of an anti-corruption measure that could support child labor
Dr. Jill Stein
Election 2016
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is calling for a ‘Green New Deal’
Maxima Acuña
Environment
Violence, death threats confront latest winner of prestigious environmental prize
John Kasich
Global Politics
What are the GOP candidates saying about climate change?
A Green Building Blooms in the Bronx
Power Shift – Building A Smarter Light Bulb
Otters As Climate Defenders
South African Tea Farmers Adapt to Changing Climate
Remembering Barry Commoner
Otters and Climate Change
Green Energy Jobs Growing
Full Steam Ahead for Amtrak
Spinach Power
Global Weirdness
Arctic Summit
Obama Environmental Policy for a Second Term
The Chemical Internet
Befriending an Octopus
Discovering New Causes of Parkinson’s
Paper Made
Remembering Dr. Paul Epstein
Befriending An Octopus
Trumpeting New Orleans’ Rebirth
Climate Friendly Assistance
Point of No Return, Part II: Salmon in the City (continued)
Point of No Return, Part II: Salmon in the City
Brains and the Environment
Pesticide Pamphlet Controversy
Buenos Ares Climate Talks Results: President Clinton Signs Up U.S. to Cut Emissions
Eco-Tents
Swordfish Restaurant Boycott
Rocky Mountains Change
Steve’s Essay on Chemicals and Behavior
Talking Rules
Eco-Tents
Water Essay
Swordfish Restaurant Boycott
What Happened at Kyoto Summit
Curwood Reporting from Kyoto