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Time To Transition

From: Edwina Stott

Ed Ayres is a Radio presenter and classical musician. It took a 10,000 mile bike ride and a job teaching in one of the world’s most dangerous count...

Bought by ABC

For some veterans, underwater adventures bring solitude and therapeutic benefits

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Shawn Campbell helps Justin Herris get back on the boat after a dive at the Circle of Heroes military memorial off the coast of Clearwater, Fla., Credit: Stephanie Colombini/American Homefront

A growing number of programs try to treat PTSD by getting veterans into nature, even deep under the sea. But there's little scientific evidence tha...

Bought by KPBS, WOUB, Texas Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Colorado Public Radio

Replicas of Columbus ships stir protests

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Protest in Oswego, N.Y., Credit: Payne Horning

Two replica Christopher Columbus ships are sailing across the Great Lakes this summer, offering visitors a chance to learn about the famous explore...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WFIU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXXI Rochester and more

Michigan town raises money online to clear harbor

From: Great Lakes Today

With its harbor closed because of silt and other sediment -- and no help in sight from the federal government -- the town of Leland found an unusua...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, and WBFO

Africa's Beating Heart (feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Letters to The Dead

From: Terence Mickey
Series: Memory Motel

In the United States, the obituary article is reserved for the famous, to remember their greatest achievements and notable struggles.

“Steelhead Alley” brings a bump to Great Lakes economy

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Patrick Robinson goes to catch a fish in Elk Creek, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

As winter sets in, Americans who live along the Great Lakes are bundling up. But another season is underway – and it brings an economic bump to an ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, and WCPN

Muzica Populara

From: Sheila Cowley
Series: Sound and Violence - Work by NYU Students

Ben Dumbauld explores Sunnyside, Queens and Muzica Populara, a Romanian genre where "the politics was never as important as the dancing."

Bought by WABE

Inside Richmond's Immigration Detention Center

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Danielle Gabriel and her daughter stand vigil outside West County Detention Facility., Credit: Photo by Stephen Southern.

Every month, Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men a...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

New law gives undocumented Californians a chance to apply for driver’s licenses

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: People wait for their numbers to be called inside the San Jose Driver's License Processing Center, Credit: Angela Johnston

Rosa Santos is leaning over a pile of forms and documents in the corner of the San Jose’s new DMV. I meet her along with her friend. They’re both a...

Why are there anti-Muslim ads on our public buses?

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Earlier this fall San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was pa...

Shopping with Seafarers

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Dheeraj Singh trying on sunglasses at Old Navy in Emeryville, Credit: Julie Caine

Dheeraj Singh is the first officer on a container ship that makes regular runs from China, to California, to Japan, and back again.

Home to Home

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Some exes live 15 minutes apart, but they drive more than an hour to exchange their kids through an organization in Brunswick, Maine. Home to Home ...

Engineering Gotham From Below

From: Bishop Sand

Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.

The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix

Should Buenos Aires’ trains be Re-Nationalized?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The trains of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina are falling apart. A group of train workers and student activists says the problem is that private co...

Transit for All

From: Making Contact

Caption: Free MUNI for Youth campaign celebrants in San Francisco, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...

Overnight Metropolis

From: Ashley Cleek

Caption: Luxury hotels and apartments across the street from an earthquake-risk neighborhood., Credit: Ashley Cleek

Istanbul is a massive city of around 15 million people living in 3 million apartments. But Istanbul is also a city that is slated to have a major e...

Bought by PRX Remix

Digital Detox

From: John L Myers

Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Starting Over at Sea-Tac

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound

New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...

Kentucky Bourbon Gains Wider Appeal

From: Louisville Public Media

Caption: Wild Turkey's Jimmy Russell, Credit: Rick Howlett

Kentucky's signature distilled spirit--bourbon--is surging in popularity in the U.S. and abroad.

Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition

From: Liz Ruskin

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...