Bruce Gellerman

As the US prepares to leave Afghanistan, there is an ugly legacy of environmental costs of 30 years of war.

The beauty of Central Park lies in its carefully planned landscape and unique trees. One New Yorker and tree-lover has walked every inch of the park and mapped all 19,933 of its trees.

The Mayan Long Count Calendar is nearing the end of its 5125 year cycle. New age prophecies, based on the ancient calendar, warn the world will end when the cycle concludes in December 2012.

A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, we revisit the place and the people lived and worked in the evacuation zone.

To commemorate ten years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant core reactor meltdown and radiation release in the Ukraine, Living on Earth sent producer Bruce Gellerman to the site of the world’s most serious nuclear plant disaster. Narrator Gellerman describes the terrain and the fears he enounters as he visits the entombed sarcophagus of the reactor, […]