Interviews

My big, beautiful backyard solar

How I became a "solar guerrilla" in four days. And my big, beautiful energy bill savings! Happy SUN Day.

Sep 21, 2025 • Amanda Royal

Piping plover pairs hit records from Maine to Great Lakes

We interview Bob Dolgan, documentarian of Chicago's famous plover pair Monty and Rose, about what's making this little beach bird's rebound possible.

Sep 3, 2025 • Amanda Royal

This is how you save a river: A lawsuit, a streamkeeper and 80 tons of gravel

A college community decided a dried creek filled with wrecked cars should instead be home to salmon, trout, beavers, eagles and bears.

Jun 18, 2025 • Amanda Royal

How cutting trees and lighting fires saved Yosemite's oldest giants

A conversation with fire historian and MacArthur Fellow Stephen Pyne, author of "The Pyrocene," about thinning old-growth forests and embracing a new…

May 22, 2025 • Amanda Royal

The ecologist who dared love Yosemite's frogs

Once called the "antichrist of trout," Roland Knapp has traversed the High Sierra for 30 years to save its native frog. Now, birds, snakes and bears are…

Feb 14, 2025 • Amanda Royal

Hawaii nonprofit hauls off a million pounds of ocean trash

They work where no humans are allowed, but where human trash accumulates by the tons.

Dec 20, 2024 • Amanda Royal

Hope grows for kelp forest recovery after volunteers smash 750,000 “zombie” urchins

Mar 4, 2024 • Amanda Royal

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