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The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 20:11
When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2023
- Length: 14:52
In Montana, two ranchers adopted ‘Delilah.’ They’re among the growing number of people actually getting paid to adopt wild horses and burros.
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 15:40
In Arizona, two incarcerated men rehabilitate wild donkeys for adoption.
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 18:19
Horses and humans evolved together. Much as we do with dogs, we have a special relationship with the species. In this episode, host Anna Coburn spe...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Sep 17, 2020
- Length: 21:25
- Purchases: 1
If wildlife managers, landowners, wild horse advocates and the BLM cannot work together to come to a solution, the Wild Horse and Burro Program wil...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Sep 17, 2020
- Length: 18:53
- Purchases: 1
When you hear those statistics that tell you the oceans are warming and you wonder where those numbers come from, this is where: From scientists me...
Bought by KMXT, KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, KUT, WAMU and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
David Hecht reports on the condition of Sierra Leone's diamond trade
- Added: May 08, 2018
- Length: 05:07
Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2017
- Length: 07:28
On the front lines of climate change, the Inuit of the high Arctic - together with scientists, educators and policymakers – are fighting a battle f...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, KUHF, NPR Now, and KWIT
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
From: Barb Seaman
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 05:27
There’s more than just fish and sand in the Great Lakes – there are thousands of ships, airplanes, and other vehicles under the water. A story on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester and more
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 8
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 09:50
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire.
Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 2
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.
Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 3
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Larger-than-life Serbian sculptor Zoran Mojisilov creates work from the most primal of elements: rocks, wood scraps and steel he hauls to his North...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:22
Minnehaha Falls has been a popular tourist spot for politicians since Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his epic poem, “The Song of Hiawatha” in 185...
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Questioning the threat to moose in Maine
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:07
- Purchases: 2
In his backyard in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood, Arne Jin An Wong coats a pink and white striped, eight-foot-long surfboard. This bo...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
A proposed east-west highway across the state of Maine has been on the minds of legislators since it was included in the original proposal for the ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 07:41
