Showing results for "Travel" in Earth Sciences

From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.

Join host Celeste Skye as she traces invisible atmospheric rivers that powered empires and shaped global trade. Discover how equatorial winds dictated which ships could sail, where ports flourished, and how ocean highways formed our world. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder reveals how ancient windblown sand became stunning Colorado Plateau sandstone formations. Explore cross-bedding patterns, iron-stained canyon walls, and erosion forces sculpting slot canyons and natural arches. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder explores volcanic cinder—jagged, porous rock from explosive eruptions creating Earth's most alien landscapes. From Strombolian geology to hiking boot-shredding cinder fields, Theo delivers rugged adventure, geological insights, and campfire stories about terrain most never knew existed. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you through the planet's most dramatic gorges, revealing how tectonic forces and rivers carve these vertical cathedrals of stone. Discover geology, microclimates, and raw beauty from Tibet's deepest chasm to West Virginia's adventure paradise. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Join Ranger Wilder on a journey to Earth's most dramatic elevated flatlands, where geology defies expectation and silence stretches for miles. Discover how plateaus form, why they're so disorienting to navigate, and what makes standing atop these sky-high tables an unforgettable wilderness experience. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Join Ranger Theo Wilder on the riverbank as he unpacks the hidden language of sandbars — those temporary sandy stages where geology meets adventure. Learn to read the water, pick the perfect campsite, and understand why these shifting landmarks are the most honest features any river has to offer. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Ranger Theo Wilder guides you through Yellowstone's geyser basins, where superheated water erupts, alien microbes paint hot springs in vivid color, and thin ground separates visitors from boiling disaster. Part geology, part survival guide, told with campfire energy and respect for Earth's most volatile landscape. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.aiThis show includes AI-generated content.

Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner who traveled on the "Silk Road." His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He traveled the whole of China and returned to tell the tale, which became one of the world's greatest travelogues.

Safe Travels explores National Parks and wild places through in-depth conversations with the people who know them best - park rangers, scientists, biologists, geologists, archaeologists, and conservationists. Each episode goes beyond travel tips to uncover the science, history, wildlife, and conservation stories that bring these landscapes to life. Hosted by Joey Liberatore, Safe Travels Pod turns expert insight into engaging, accessible conversations - helping listeners experience public lands with deeper understanding and appreciation.

Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering 19th-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.

The great unknown of the Southwest is conquered by a one-armed man and his crew of adventurers, placing the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon on the map of the American continent. It is a journey no human being had ever made before. Dangerous rapids, narrow canyon walls offering no escape, terrifying river waterfalls, capsized boats, near drowning, lost equipment and disillusioned men are dramatically described by John Wesley Powell, leader of this adventurous party.

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Patagonia. The name connotes the exotic and a distance that seems nearly mythical. Tucked toward the toe of South America, this largely unsettled landscape is among the most varied and breathtaking in the world - aching in its beauty as it sweeps from the Andes through broad, arid steppes to pristine beaches and down to a famously violent sea. It is also home to a vast array of rare wildlife as diverse and fascinating as the region itself.

A thrilling introduction to the world of storms, told in the unmistakable voice of Hank Schyma. Over three decades of storm chasing, Hank Schyma has witnessed some of planet Earth’s most incredible weather shows. STORM brings together the very best of his work, featuring dramatic photography...

The Science of Travel Podcast combines the passion for travel and the knowledge geoscience provides to build deep connections and fond relationships with the nature and people we come in touch with.

The SoT Podcast combines the passion for travel with Earth Science in order to generate deep connections and fond relationships with the nature and people we come in touch with. We'll talk about our beautiful planet Earth as a whole and specifically about formation & Earth surface processes, spectacular travel destinations and other topics as they relate to nature and living a good life in general. I publish a blog article which includes a transcript along with each each episode, you can find the link in the show notes.

Mountains, land, rivers, and unique geographical features of planet Earth, concisely summarized in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/WikiPods⁠⁠⁠⁠ This content was created or edited with the help of artificial intelligence. CC BY-SA 4.0 (⁠https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/⁠)

Students on Ice founder and expedition leader Geoff Green in conversation with SOI alumni about how their polar youth expeditions inspired their lives and careers.

Voicing for Nature; Environment and Climate