# Steven Hawley

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Episode 36: Monica’s Road Trip

Northtown Books https://www.northtownbooks.com/ Decomposition Books https://decomposition.com/ Bicycling With Butterflies; My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman The Overstory by Richard Powers The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, a…

Earth911 Podcast: Steven Hawley Documents the Cracks in the Western Water Strategies

Dams are more common than you think. Author Steven Hawley reports that 58,500 large dams worldwide have trapped 3,155 gigatons of sediment, meaning they are rapidly filling up and will eventually become useless for storing water or generating electricity. Steven's new book, Cracked: The Future of D…

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 166: Steven Hawley, Author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

Listeners of the podcast will remember a number of dam-focused episodes over the past few years, Free the Ocklawaha (Florida) and Snake River Dams (Idaho, Columbia River basin) to name just two. But the issue of dams – the blocking of the arterial systems of the earth – is not about just a few high…

Steven Hawley, author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

In this episode, I interview Steven Hawley, author of author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World. Steven talks to me about the real environmental impact of dams, how they actually aren't climate-friendly, and how people can help join the grassroots efforts across the world to get…

Cracked: The Ugly Truth About Dams

Steven Hawley, an environmental journalist, has revealed the ugly truth about dams. The estimated 800,000 dams in the world can’t be blamed for destroying the Earth’s entire biological inheritance, but they play an outsized role in that destruction. What started as an arguably good government proje…

What Is the Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World?

All dams are dirty. The Round Butte Dam and its reservoir has been spewing methane, polluting Oregon’s Deschutes River and blocking its iconic salmon and steelhead since 1964. In his piece, “The Wrong Green,” writer Steven Hawley shows how efforts to mitigate this destruction are only making things…

BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 166: Steven Hawley, Author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

Listeners of the podcast will remember a number of dam-focused episodes over the past few years, Free the Ocklawaha (Florida) and Snake River Dams (Idaho, Columbia River basin) to name just two. But the issue of dams – the blocking of the arterial systems of the earth – is not about just a few high…

Revisit: Steven Hawley - Cracked

Steven Hawley is an environmental journalist who writes about rivers, dams, and the ecological impacts they have on salmonids in the American West. He is the author of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World (2023), Recovering a Lost River (2011), and the writer and co-producer of an aw…

Classic Episode: Astronaut Steve Hawley

Originally aired 2022.   In 1990, astronaut Steven Hawley deployed the Hubble telescope in space as part of the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. Kansas-born Hawley was among the civilians selected to be part of the space program on the basis of his expertise in a specific area: astronomy. One…

Sally Ride

Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Tuesday, 26 May 2026, is Sally Ride.Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, an…