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A recent release of an environmental report provides insight in to the Mississippi River's condition.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 05:18
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
This year’s outbreak of the West Nile virus is breaking records, with over 1500 cases reported so far. One researcher believes that decreasing the ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
In late 2011. the federal government decided to demolish five old seaside cottages on Cape Cod that were at threat of being washed away due to coas...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 08:26
- Purchases: 1
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 28:30
When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 3
Plants don't have ears, right? And if they can't hear you would assume that noise wouldn't matter much to them, which is why researchers haven't gi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 1
Bad news for the bat population, a disease that has killed more than five million bats in the eastern United States and Canada has now reached Miss...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
This 90-second short feature briefly explores whether the often frantic reporting on a severe weather event mirrored the reality of those who exper...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:24
Exploring the scientific debate over the risk of another major earthquake along the New Madrid fault system in the Midwest.
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 04:36
Cleanup is continuing along the Yellowstone River in south-east Montana where an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a burst ExxonMob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...
- Added: Jun 10, 2011
- Length: 04:11
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year.
The world community spends billions of d...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
In Detroit, the price of water is so high that for some, it’s out of reach. In response, citizens have come together to form the Detroit People’s ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2010
- Length: 09:03
The local food movement is beginning to threaten global agricultural brands like the iconic Idaho potato.
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 06:12
Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:38
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:37
Shawn Allee finds old dioxin pollution from a Dow chemical plant poses a health risk today.
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:29
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
Duke Energy is now renting business rooftops to set up a distributed solar network. The project has timely benefits for several North Carolina bus...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:35
From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country, working to protect...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
With school back in session, administrators have to deal with the possibility of swine flu in their classrooms.
- Added: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 03:39
