Ashley Ahearn
Ashley Ahearn is the host of terrestrial, a national podcast on the environment, produced out of KUOW in Seattle.
Ashley brings more than a decade of experience covering the environment at the local and national level. Her stories have appeared on Marketplace, Morning Edition, Here and Now, The World and other NPR and PRI shows. She holds a masters in science journalism from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California.
Check out terrestrial at: http://kuow.org/terrestrial
Recent Stories
Living on Earth
February 10, 2012
A new robotic vehicle hits the waves to gather data that could unlock some important secrets of the ocean.
Living on Earth
November 18, 2011
Scientists are scrambling to find out if a deadly virus has spread to salmon in Pacific Northwest fisheries.
Living on Earth
September 16, 2011
Scientists are looking at how best to restore fish populations in a river that’s been dammed for almost a century.
Environment
The World
September 07, 2011
Some Republicans want to give the Department of Homeland Security blanket authority to waive environmental laws on all public lands within 100 miles of any US border.
Living on Earth
January 07, 2011
Scientists continue to sound the alarm about some chemical exposures that may effect reproductive health and development. The endocrine disrupting chemical, atrazine has been found to feminize male frogs and is linked to an increased incidence of homosexu
Global Politics
The World
March 11, 2010
Twenty years ago today the Iron Curtain began to unravel. Now, the fortified east-west border is just a memory. But not all vestiges have vanished. Ashley Ahearn reports, in some places the former no-man's land is being preserved as a green belt.
Living on Earth
February 19, 2010
The California red-legged frog, threatened with extinction, survived forest fires in places last fall but may not have fared as well with recent rains and mudslides.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The World
September 30, 2009
A project in Iceland aimed at removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it beneath the earth’s surface shows promising results.
Environment
The World
September 04, 2009
There are two ways to reduce carbon dioxide. Emit less or remove it from the atmosphere by sequestering it below the earth's surface. As Ashley Ahearn reports, some of the most promising research in this field is happening in Iceland. On PRI's The World.
Living on Earth
August 28, 2009
Dark-skinned African Americans are twice as likely to be vitamin-D deficient as white Americans, and that may have major health repercussions.
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