Outside/In

    A show where curiosity and the natural world collide. We explore science, energy, environmentalism, and reflections on how we think about and depict nature, and always leave time for plenty of goofing off. Outside/In is a production of NHPR. Learn more at outsideinradio.org

  • The Ballad and the Flood

  • What's living under your porch

  • The Night Owls

  • Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard

  • What Remains, Part 2: In Memoriam

  • What Remains, Part 1: No Justice, No Peace

  • What Remains: What's Past is Prologue

  • "Primitive, Unconfined Recreation"

  • Ghosts in the machine

  • The cold, hard truth about refrigeration

  • The Mississippi Cyborg

  • The $1,000 balloon

  • Why we get scared—and why we like it

  • The not-so-secret life of plants

  • This is your brain on GPS

  • The fifth sense

  • Saving the tallest trees on Earth

  • Hot Olympic Summer: Is Paris Greenwashing the Games?

  • Every bite is a story

  • Introducing “The Youth Development Center”

  • The new space race

  • The Potato Show

  • Ed Yong and The Spoonbill Club

  • The Winter Rangers

  • Wolves, water, and global weirding

  • Dead bird rabbit hole

  • The Department of Living Animals

  • The papyrus and the volcano

  • The Kings and Queens of "the Water Prom"

  • The Element of Surprise

  • ‘Til the landslide brings it down

  • The mystery of the missing extinctions

  • Meet the meatfluencers

  • Reefer madness, the CBD bubble, and the future of hemp

  • Songbird accents, eating rats, and why we need the moon

  • In search of an ethical 401k

  • The story you won’t hear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”

  • You can make kids hike, but you can’t make them hikers

  • The disappearing dunes of 'Dune'

  • Hunters do cry

  • What's the most successful species on Earth?

  • The edge of the ice

  • The plot thickens

  • Blue is the loneliest color

  • Not everyone is wild about wild horses

  • Pigeons are weird

  • The Oatly Chronicles

  • Dragons, trolls and pine trees

  • Baby it’s GREAT outside: 12 more tips for embracing winter

  • Is 'Yellowstone' ruining Montana?

  • Dear ChatGPT: Are you a climate solution? Or climate problem?

  • How does the National Weather Service work?

  • Why did the road cross the chicken?

  • The secret lives of bugs

  • As American as hard apple cider: an immigrant food story

  • Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

  • Bat Out of Hell Ranch

  • Environmental disinformation is getting weirder

  • Do airports dream of electric planes?

  • Close Encounters with Mato Tipila

  • Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

  • The greatest disaster story of all time

  • The last great trip

  • Let's talk boundaries

  • After the avalanche: rescue gone wrong

  • Of lab mice and men

  • What the heck is El Niño, anyway?

  • Drilled: The Panic

  • If houseplants could talk: communication and the natural world

  • What's really in your wine?

  • Oppenheimer's omission

  • Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

  • Shrimp on the line

  • Do your doo diligence

  • The Call of the Void

  • The carbon in your closet: cotton vs. polyester and other fabricated dilemmas

  • When protest is a crime, part 2: city in a forest

  • When protest is a crime, part 1: the Standing Rock effect

  • Is Biden a good climate president?

  • Just try not to breathe

  • A tale of two deserts: Are Saudi cows to blame for Arizona's water crisis?

  • It's not easy being evergreen

  • The city inside a glacier

  • The Race to Net Zero: building a car-free future

  • The Race to Net Zero: will EVs get us there fast enough?

  • The Underdogs Ep3: You sell your soul

  • The Underdogs Ep 2: 'It has to be earned'

  • The Underdogs Ep1: Honey and vinegar

  • Outside/In presents The Underdogs

  • Scents & sensibility

  • Who owns the sky?

  • Worm Wars! Invasive species and the stories we tell about them

  • Groundhogs: incidental archaeologists, mystical meteorologists

  • The “extreme” beat: whale hearts, mudslides, and more

  • The ocean is a place of queer possibility

  • Dinner reservations: how to eat sustainably (and does it even matter?)

  • Cold t*ts, warm hearts: the cold water dippers of Maine

  • Hot dam! Climate news that isn’t terrible

  • How a chicken saved my life

  • 13 tips on how to "surthrive" this winter

  • O Possum! My Possum!

  • The reality of History’s “Alone”

  • Legends of the fall: fallout shelters, dreams of falling, and autumnal vibes

  • Why we get scared (and why we like it)

  • The curious case of the missing extinctions

  • The last veterinarians in town

  • The olive & the pine

  • Why do we stare at fire and other existential questions

  • Your Wildest Wildlife Encounters

  • Yardwork: A bitter melon grows in Boston

  • Yardwork: Gardening is heavy metal

  • Yardwork: Lawn and Order

  • The most successful species on Earth?!

  • The National Park Service

  • The first national park

  • Is climate journalism experiencing a Great Resignation?

  • Life and Death at a Human Decomposition Facility

  • Update: Happy the Elephant is Not a Person

  • Six Foot Turkey: What Jurassic Park Got Wrong (And Right) About Dinosaurs

  • Et Tu, Brute? The Case for Human Rights for Animals

  • Frog Sex, Tree Soap, and Other Signs of Spring

  • After the Avalanche

  • Call of the Void

  • The So-Called Mystery of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island)

  • How to Build a Solar-Powered Website

  • Frankenfish

  • Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space

  • Holy Scat! Why Antlers Are Freaking Amazing

  • The Immigrant Apple and The Hard Cider Comeback

  • What the Tofurkey is Going On with Fake Meat?

  • Even Hikers Get The Blues

  • Dispatches from the New American Shore

  • The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part II, The Mountain

  • The “Do-Nothing” Farmer: Part I, The Revolution

  • It Was the Ladies Who Hugged the Trees

  • Sheep + Solar, A Love Story

  • How to Embrace Winter (like Norwegians do)!

  • Outside/Inbox: Do Bears Hoot?

  • A Vegetarian Turned Deer Hunter in Deutschland

  • Can an Animal be a Criminal?

  • The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

  • Tourism Spoils

  • The Himalayan Land Grab

  • Outside/Inbox: The Ramen Wasp Murders & Other Mysteries

  • Scents and Sensibility

  • Book Club: Four Lost Cities

  • The Problem with America’s National Parks

  • Bonus: Ciao for Now, Sam Evans-Brown

  • Windfall, Part 5: The Just Transition

  • Windfall, Part 4: Port of Departure

  • Windfall, Part 3: Squid Pro Quo

  • Windfall, Part 2: Please Let Me Finish, Mr. Kennedy.

  • Windfall, Part 1: Sea Change

  • Introducing: Windfall

  • In Pittsburgh

  • Book Club: Trace

  • The Sand Protocol

  • The Trouble With Music About Wilderness

  • 10x10: Sand Beach

  • A Climate Activist Goes to Business School

  • 10X10: City Gutter

  • The Acorn: An Ohlone Love Story

  • Ask Sam: Do Hummingbirds Sleep and Other Questions

  • I Would Prefer Not To

  • Thin Green Line

  • If You Wanna Get Kosileg, You Gotta Get a Little Friluftsliv

  • Coal and Solar in the Navajo Nation

  • Climate Migration

  • Cat of the Clouds

  • The Forest for the Carbon

  • Fortress Conservation

  • 10x10: Pine Barren

  • The Olive and the Pine

  • Rice is Food and Other Stories

  • The Lithium Gold Rush

  • Sidedoor: The Riverkeeper

  • The Darién Gap

  • Ask Sam: Spice Must Flow

  • Open Worlds

  • UPDATE: The GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time

  • Ginkgo Love

  • Fruit Fight!!!

  • Birding While Black

  • Massachusetts v. EPA

  • Inside/In: Moss & Mold

  • On Fires and Feelings

  • The Carrington Event

  • Inside/In: How To Be A Backyard Birber

  • Cat People

  • Inside/In

  • 10X10: Kettle Bog

  • Tempest in a Teacup

  • Nudge-Off Results! Plus, The Forest for the Treesap [Replay]

  • Nature Has Done Her Part

  • A Battle of Tiny Proportions

  • Leo Rising

  • Chasing The Light

  • A Year of Wonders

  • Jesabel Y Eddie

  • The Particular Sadness of Trout Fishing in America

  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug

  • Ask Sam: Grandpa's Rhubarb

  • Cold, Dark, and Sharky

  • Patient Zero: The Laser

  • Patient Zero: The Vector

  • Patient Zero: The Triangle

  • Introducing Patient Zero

  • Can You Feel the Lies Tonight

  • Plan B

  • Swimming Lessons

  • I'm a Penguin Counter for God's Sake!

  • Operation Confirmation Bias

  • Ask Sam: Bidets the Day

  • Pants on Fire

  • Must Love Logs

  • Killing Cats, Saving Numbats

  • The Family Business

  • Hunting The Night Parrot

  • 10X10: Under The Ice

  • Leave No Stone

  • 32 Is the New 40

  • Falling Doesn't Count

  • Rake and Ride

  • Just Decide

  • Now I am an Axolotl

  • Ask Sam: Trichomes, Bug hair, Bug Tumors, & Mollusk Shells

  • The Meat Matrix

  • So Over Population [Part 2]

  • So Over Population [Part 1]

  • O/I Presents: Bear Brook

  • Look Toward the Dawn

  • This Isn't Science, It's a Love Story

  • Shrunk and Punk'd

  • The Sky is Burning

  • 10x10 - Pine Barren

  • Loser Wolves: A Cat Fancy

  • Molto Moleche

  • The Most Dangerous Game

  • The Forest for the Treesap

  • Ride or Die

  • Ask Sam: Hair of the Dog, Walking Fish and the Truth About Palm Trees

  • Stay In Your Lane

  • Shine Service

  • One Bin to Rule Them All

  • Life on the Edge of the Olympics

  • Magical Drinking

  • Updates For Your Brain

  • An American Lobster in Stockholm

  • Ask Sam: Caterpillar Legs, Living Fossils, & Sam Ruins Edison Bulbs

  • Stoner Panels

  • What's the Deal with Coydogs?

  • Fantastic Mr. Phillips

  • Powerline, Part IV: Down the Line

  • Powerline, Part III: The Peace of the Braves

  • Powerline, Part II: The Project of the Century

  • Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home

  • Introducing: Powerline

  • Vultures Inherit the Earth

  • Ask Sam | Eating Grass, Killing Trees, Bottling and Logging

  • In Too Deep

  • Pick Your Poison

  • Lime and Tabasco

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to WWOOFing

  • Bright Lights, Big Salad

  • Healing Hands of Nature

  • After The Flood

  • Eat the Invaders & Ask Sam

  • S.O.S.

  • 10x10 - Midden

  • Champagne on the Rocks

  • Daisy Supply Chain

  • Ask Sam Round-up

  • Leave it to Beavers

  • Full Disclosure

  • The Company Man

  • Bonus Episode: 3 1/2 Feet Under

  • Gnar Pow

  • Fantastic Mr. Phillips

  • Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell

  • The Death Machine

  • A House Built on Sand

  • The Accidental History of Solar Power

  • Millionaires' Hunt Club

  • HumaNature - Hoofprints on the Heart

  • The 2nd Greatest Show on Earth

  • Don't Cheer For Me Argentina

  • 10x10 - Traffic Circle

  • Always. Wear. Earth. Tones.

  • Nature is a Haunted House

  • Eat the Invaders - Lionfish

  • Look Toward the Dawn

  • Dr. Percy & the Magic Soybean

  • The Early Birder Gets the Bird

  • When the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play

  • WTF is TFC?

  • Never Bring a Sledgehammer to a Scalpel Fight

  • These Shoes Were Made For Mocking

  • The Pokémon Question

  • Up Against the Ropes

  • Ask Sam | Syrup-titious

  • Anothah Boston Cheat

  • Tiny Terror

  • Gridlocked

  • Parenting At 24,000 Feet

  • The Young Man of the Mountain

  • Smashing Pumpkins-The Gourd That Changed A Town

  • Champagne on the Rocks

  • Pier Pressure

  • The Moose Whisperer

  • 10x10 - Vernal Pools

  • The Kiwi Apocalypse

  • Welcome to Outside/In!

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