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Answering the Call: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line - Two-way

From: Tradeoffs

In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...

CBC S1 E8: Student Athletes

From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts

What's it like when a pandemic crushes your dream of playing a Division One sport?

Can Asian carp be kept out of Lake Michigan?

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: Kiowa pushes barges over electric carp barrier , Credit: Chuck Quirmbach

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 President Trump's 2018 eliminates $300 million for projects along the Great Lakes. That threatens efforts to...

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more

Dam removal on Lake Huron tributary at risk

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: Chris Pierce oversees the removal of dam on the Maple River, Credit: Ben Thorp

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 A look at a northern Michigan dam removal project that is threatened by President Trump's budget plan. The p...

Bought by WBFO, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCPN and more

Research on Lake Erie algae blooms imperiled

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: A piece of walleye head meat before it gets blended with dry ice - the first step in extracting the microcystin toxin from the fish tissue.a, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 By now, most of us have heard that President Trump wants to eliminate a 300-million-dollar program created t...

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WBFO, Wisconsin Public Radio (ops), Wisconsin Public Radio and more

Lake Superior cleanup threatened by Trump budget cuts

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: Working for U.S. Steel, employees from Barr Engineering install instruments that measure groundwater seepage and flow between the sediments and St. Louis river. Data collected from the instruments will help in the design, construction and installation of , Credit: Derek Montgomery for MPR News

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 President Trump's budget plan eliminates $300 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative -- hurting ...

Bought by WLPR , North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Wisconsin Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more

Sturgeon recovery endangered on Lake Ontario

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Troubled Waters: Trump and the Great Lakes

Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / USFWS biologists prepare to examine a lake sturgeon, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / USFWS biologists prepare to examine a lake sturgeon

NOTE: EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 12 Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been using federal funding to monitor the health of ...

Bought by WBFO, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN and more

Insurance Rules Can Be An Obstacle To Recovery From Opioid Addiction

From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Recovery: Obstacles & New Approaches

Caption: When used in conjunction with psychological therapy, Suboxone strips placed under the tongue, doctors say, can help ease opioid cravings and other withdrawal symptoms in people trying to quit a heroin or painkiller habit., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects

When used in conjunction with psychological therapy, Suboxone strips placed under the tongue, doctors say, can help ease opioid cravings and other ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WABE, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio

Diana Diaries, Part 2: A teacher's first year in Oakland

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Diana Diaries

Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom

Diana, 27, is learning to lead in the classroom with the help of her Coordinating Teacher, or CT. She has felt a sense of responsibility to her stu...

Diana Diaries, Part 1: A lesson in teaching from a first-time instructor

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

This is Diana’s radio diary of her first year teaching at Oakland High in a ninth grade English class. You’ll hear what was challenging and what wa...

Researchers Call Oil Spills and Climate Change a Devastating Combination

From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS

Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman

Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...