The Daily
Also in Government
Government
Broken Ground
by Southern Environmental Law Center
Today: #115 in Government on our combined chart.
Chart positions today
If you like Broken Ground, try…
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
Also in Government
Huberman Lab
Also in Science
Wild
Also in Natural Sciences
Energy Policy Now
Also in Science
The First Sixteen
Also in Science
Ranking history
History builds daily. We started tracking this show on the Government chart recently, so the trend line appears after a second day of data.
View as table
| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 8 | #115 | #115 |
About the show
Broken Ground is a podcast produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South.
Latest episodes
-
Christian Cooper on Birding for Your Soul
April 22, 2026 · 25 minWalk out your front door, listen, and look. That’s the advice avid birder Christian Cooper gives to those wanting to take up his passion, birdwatching. Cooper is a lifelong birder, Emmy Award-winning host of National Geographic’s…
-
Jo and Joy Banner: Reclaiming Home
November 25, 2025 · 28 minJo and Joy Banner envision a time, not too distant from now, when travelers visiting their small town along the Mississippi River don’t gawk at the concentration of polluting petrochemical plants nearby, but instead revel in the area’s…
-
Aya Shabu: Highway Through the Heart
November 13, 2025 · 30 minOn her group walking tours around Durham’s Hayti District, performance artist Aya Shabu brings Black history to life, transporting visitors back to Hayti in its heyday. Once known as a Black Wall Street, the community was founded by freed…
-
Michelle Lanier: What the Land Witnessed
October 30, 2025 · 28 minA “keeper of memory” and Director of the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites, Michelle Lanier has built a career on understanding layers of history underlying our Southern landscapes, not just battlefields and burial grounds…
-
Latria Graham: The Roots of Environmental Injustices
October 16, 2025 · 30 minWriter Latria Graham helps us unearth the surprising ways in which long-ago plantations and modern environmental injustices are intertwined in the South. From some of the earliest Freedmen’s communities built on frequently flooded land, to…
-
Season 8: Plantations to Pollution
October 9, 2025 · 1 minOn a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were these things built where they are, and who lives next door? Answering those questions reveals a surprising truth: it’s often a short…
-
Rural Justice: The Power of Coalitions
December 19, 2024 · 14 minThis season of Broken Ground we spend time in the rural South with the people who call it home. Often celebrated for the quiet life close to nature, and a region that defines many perceptions of the South, it’s also a place polluting…
-
The Landfill Next Door
December 10, 2024 · 35 minWe don’t spend a lot of time thinking about where our trash ends up but, when you live next door to a landfill, you don’t have that luxury. The burning smell of chemicals, the flocks of circling vultures, the constant rumble of truck…