Threshold
Auricle ProductionsThreshold is a Peabody Award-winning documentary podcast about our place in the natural world. Each season, we take listeners on a journey into the heart of a complex environmental story, asking how we got here and where we might be headed. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 146 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | NatureSociety & CultureScienceDocumentary | |||
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We’ve been telling the story of the petrochemical industry in Louisiana, but this isn’t just a Louisiana issue, or even just an American one - petrochemicals are a global industry with a global impact. In this episode, we think about our collective f... more
For decades, the residents of St. John the Baptist Parish breathed in toxic chemicals from a massive complex that makes neoprene - a synthetic rubber. But while residents suspected something was wrong, they were still shocked when the EPA told them t... more
People have objected to the toxic side effects of industry in Louisiana and across the country for a long time. A swell of activism in the 70s and 80s connected civil rights with environmental issues and public health, so that by the 1990s, it seemed... more
We know that many of the chemicals being released by plants in the corridor can cause cancer. We also know that the cancer risk along this stretch of the Mississippi is unusually high. But how do we know for sure that these things are connected? In t... more
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- Real and transformative
This podcast seamlessly weaves human experience, culture, science, and wonder together through brilliant storytelling grounded in place. Each season gives me so much hope and wonder for our amazing planet. It leaves me thinking.
Apple Podcasts5NeatureLane
United States7 months ago - Exquisite
From the storytelling, sound design to post production, this is the epitome of nature documentary in audio format. Every episode is like a magic box that delights, moves and transfixed me every time I open it.
Apple Podcasts5CrystalashUnited Statesa year ago - Part of nature
I cannot describe the disgust I feel when people try to put humans outside of nature. Do you not realize the things you are saying are tantamount to the religious trying to put humans above and outside of the natural world? Everything humans do is just as natural as all the things every other living creature does.
Apple Podcasts1BellamammalUnited Statesa year ago - Thank you!
Delighted to have found this extraordinary podcast series. It opens windows and doors wide, into exploring and understanding our daily lives within our universe, in expanded and profound ways. It is investigating and communicating findings of a high order.
Apple Podcasts5Midi BerryUnited Statesa year ago - Sublime
In awe of a podcast that brings to life both the intensely human UN COP climate meetings process (couple seasons back) and the beyond-human soundscape (current season). Unforgettable, indispensable.
Apple Podcasts5sourdocurtUnited States2 years ago
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Apple Podcasts | #217 | United States/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #162 |  Sweden/Society & Culture/Documentary |
Apple Podcasts | #201 |  Norway/Society & Culture/Documentary |
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What is Threshold about and what kind of topics does it cover?
Threshold explores environmental stories through rigorous reporting, on-the-ground storytelling, and historical context. Recent episodes center on environmental justice, pollution, and the social costs of industrial and policy choices along the Louisiana corridor and beyond, featuring activists, researchers, historians, and community voices. The show is notable for its deep-dive investigations that connect policy, health outcomes, and cultural memory with a hopeful emphasis on agency, justice, and community resilience. Listeners can expect thoughtful interviews, archival material, and a narrative style that blends science with human experience to illuminate how place shapes environmental outcomes.
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1. Outside/In
2. Science Friday
3. Short Wave
4. Future Ecologies
5. Living on Earth
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Threshold launched 10 years ago and published 146 episodes to date. You can find more information about this podcast including rankings, audience demographics and engagement in our podcast database.
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Recent guests on Threshold include:
1. Dolly Burwell
2. Sheila Tahir
3. Letitia Nogueira
4. Eva Simeon Baham
5. Barbara Allen
6. Rebecca Altman
7. Nick Messenger
8. Joy Banner
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