In Sekenani River in Maasai Mara Park, a pod of hippopotamuses and a bask of crocodiles keep a cautious truce. Mark Seth Lender, Living on Earth's Explorer-in-Residence, describes the encounter.

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, some 7500 people packed into Whittemore Arena in Durham, New Hampshire for a Bernie Sanders rally, complete with a concert. Living on Earth’s Anna Saldinger reports on attendees’ support for the Democratic presidential candidate and his proposed iteration of the Green New Deal, and revisits Senator Sanders’ decades-long history with climate issues.

Environmental Health News editor Peter Dykstra joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss the worrying decline in insect populations, a new Republican call for climate action, and the new Chief of Staff at EPA. In the history calendar, it has been 13 years since Bill O’Reilly said in an interview that he believed in climate change, only to later double back.

More than three quarters of humans are right handed, regardless of culture or where we live in the world. Scientists haven’t really figured out why our species has such a dominance for right handedness but they have found a similar preference in other species. BirdNote®’s Michael Stein reports.

As one of the world's biggest users of plastic, China recently unveiled a major plan to phase out single-use plastics across the country. Living on Earth’s Jenni Doering spoke with Ma Jun, founder and director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, about how the ban could help alleviate China’s growing plastic waste problem.

Much of the anti-climate policy efforts in the U.S. can be traced back to one powerful man, Charles Koch, who sits at the helm of a fossil fuel-based corporate empire. Christopher Leonard, author of “Kochland,” spoke with Host Steve Curwood about how Charles Koch and his massive company have profited from secrecy and worked to thwart climate policy and stamp out the moderate wing of the Republican Party.

Living on Earth gives a voice to Orion Magazine’s longtime feature in which readers write about the places they call home. This week Lindsay Shen writes about the refuge her family found in the cool, clear streams of the mountain village of Tianmushan, China.