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According to recent reports, South Carolina is home to seven of the top twenty most hurricane-vulnerable counties. In order of vulnerability, they include Charleston, Horry, Beaufort, Berkeley and Dorchester counties, with Charleston and Horry counties ranking third and fourth nationally, respectively.

There are many factors that go into hurricane frequency and strength. They include ocean temperature, atmospheric temperature, air moisture, and wind speed and direction. Other factors are the El Nino Southern Oscillation, known as ENSO, and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, known as AMO.

Today on Earthly, Jonathan interviews Prakash Khedun. Khedun is a Clemson University climate resilience specialist.

He is going to prime us for hurricane season by helping us better understand some of the weather elements that influence the frequency and power of these storms.
Show Notes
ENSO Resources
AMO Explaination
SC Water Resources Center

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There's an old campfire song where a bear goes over the mountain to see what he could see. Well, lately, there are a lot of media reports about a lot of bears going over a lot of mountains, and what they're seeing is tract houses, hot tubs and minivans. Today on Earthly, I talk with Clemson associate professor Shari Rodriguez about why these bears are moving into the suburbs. Here's a hint: It's not to join the homeowners association.

Rodriguez researches the human dimensions of wildlife conservation and management, and that includes human wildlife interactions and conflicts. She's also going to help us think through the human attitudes towards our encounters with animals that can kill us. And we're going to spend some time trying to understand the trend of humans risking life and limb to get close to dangerous animals in national parks. What seems like pure lunacy might be something more.
Show Notes
South Carolina State Wildlife Action Plan
All About E.O. Wilson
SCDNR Bear website
Bear sightings rise in Greenville

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Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

Since the days of George Washington, the United States has been surveying farmers about their farm operations to monitor the health of the nation’s agricultural industry and the security of the food supply.
The effort started in 1791, when Washington wrote to farmers requesting information on land values, crop acreages, crop yields, livestock values and taxes. Washington’s survey extended 250 miles north and south, and 100 miles east and west of his home in Mount Vernon, which today would encompass Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
In 1839, the census became official when congress appropriated $1,000 for, "carrying out agricultural investigations and procuring agricultural statistics."
Now the USDA’s Census of Agriculture spans the entire nation and is released every five years.
Today on Earthly, Jonathan talks to agricultural economist Nathan Smith about the 2022 census, which was released in February.
Smith is going to help us understand what the census says about the health of the nation’s agricultural industry and how South Carolina is faring.
Census of Agriculture
Clemson Extension Agribusiness Team
New and Beginning Farmers Program

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Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

Humans have forever turned to nature for artistic inspiration. The earliest cave paintings are at least 64,000 years old and depict images of wild animals, landscapes, and even the heavens. More recently, photographer Ansel Adams, poet Wendell Berry, sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, and movie director Werner Herzog have all produced great art by musing on the material world.
Jonathan's guest on Earthly, continues in that tradition. Todd Anderson collaborates with scientists and travels to some of the world’s most remote environments to see what they see only with the eye of an artist. Then Anderson creates prints using woodcuts to capture moments in time as landscapes are altered by rising temperatures.
Anderson is going to tell us about his process, inspiration, and what he hopes his art says about the natural world.
SHOW NOTES
Journey to the Ice
Thin Ice
Todd Anderson's Work

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Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.

South Carolina lawmakers recently named the Venus Flytrap the state’s official carnivorous plant. The law places the plant in a category that includes the state bird (the Carolina Wren), state flower (the yellow jasmine), state fruit (the peach), state tree (the palmetto), and even the state snack (the boiled peanut).

Trent Miller is plant collection manager at the South Carolina Botanical Garden. He’s going to talk about the flytrap and why it grows natively in only one small sliver of the Carolinas. He’s also going to talk about other plants that are unique to the Palmetto State.

For show notes and additonal resources, visit https://blogs.clemson.edu/earthly/.
Earthly is hosted and produced by Clemson University.