Leasing a Patch of Paradise

Jeff Dick, a former gas and oil man and geologist at Youngstown State University, loves his home in Ohio - the land is a refuge for him. He leased it to a company to explore for natural gas through fracturing the underground rock. He says he is at ease with the risks he is taking with fracking and that he'll watch his land and water carefully. [Photo: Drilling site in Dimock, Pa., by Brandi Lukas]

Fracking and Farm Animals

Michelle Bamberger, a veterinarian in Ithaca, N.Y., and Robert Oswald, a professor at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, have done a series of case studies of farm animals and water contaminated by fracking waste. They are seeing animal deaths and illnesses, and a paper they published in the journal New Solutions suggests more studies need to be done.

Row Your Boat

Producer Phoebe Judge speaks with competitive rower Roz Savage, who planned to row across the North Atlantic Ocean and then enter London just in time for the Olympics.

Icebergs

Producer Rob Rosenthal sends an audio postcard recorded while kayaking off the coast of Newfoundland.

Cowboy Junkies

Producer David Schulman has recorded the front man of the Cowboy Junkies in his own words. Listen to a lovely soundtrack to ice travels.

Music in this show: "Back Bay Shuffle" by Artie Shaw; "Beirut" by The Shrew; and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" performed by the Cowboy Junkies.

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