Show overview
Living Planet has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 119 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 55 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 33 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 weeks ago, with 34 episodes already out so far this year. Published by DW.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 119 episodesSummer reads – How we made the wilderness w/Cal Flyn
Summer reads – On the magic of the Himalayas w/Anuradha Roy
Summer reads – Learning from dinosaurs w/Evan Jevnikar
Summer reads – Thinking in deep time w/Marcia Bjornerud
When data centers move in II
When data centers move in I
The next flood doesn’t have to be a disaster
The cloud comes to town (coming soon)
California's largest lake is turning to dust
Can we bury climate pollution?
Is carbon removal a fantasy?
How this super pollutant became as ‘lucrative as cocaine’
Europe’s chemical recycling gamble
How one German village escaped the energy crisis
Rats, revisited
Prescription for a superbug crisis
The dirty truth about laundry (Rebroadcast)
Racing to war-proof Ukraine's power grid
Something is wrong in the Arctic - Narwhals can tell
Why cities keep losing the war on rats
In cities around the world, rats aren't just surviving; they're thriving. Despite decades of poison, traps and control, they keep coming back. So, what is it about modern city life that suits them so well? From Berlin to New York, this is a story about what happens when urban systems start feeding "the rat problem".