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America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston
Understory | Climate Change's Effects on Vermont Flooding
In Vermont, summer is supposed to be about picnics, wild blueberries and maple creamies. And that’s how it was in 2023, until the floods came. In the hottest July since we started keeping records, the rain didn’t stop for two days, dropping more than nine inches of rain on some cities. And Montpelier, the state capitol, was fighting for its life.
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Baratunde explores how New Mexico’s deep history shapes people’s outdoor lives.
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Baratunde travels to northern Minnesota to find out what the wild means to Americans today
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On the North Carolina coast, Baratunde discovers how history shapes the outdoors.
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In Appalachia, Baratunde meets the people changing how we see and interact with nature.
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Baratunde explores his adopted hometown of LA to connect with the outdoors in a big city.
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Life on the frontier is evolving and Baratunde is in search of Idaho’s outdoor culture.
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It’s the hottest place on Earth, but Death Valley is remarkably full of life and beauty.