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Do wind turbines kill birds?

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...

Do wind turbines freeze up in the cold?

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...

Why does it take five years to build a wind farm?

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

And how California’s car emission standards continue to influence the rest of the country.

The poison PFAS which is in most of us and wildlife!

From: Debra Grobman
Series: Green Under Pressure

The stuff in Scotchguard and Teflon coatings is poisoning water supplies and never goes away It's even been found in animals on the North Pole! Wit...

Distillery along Great Lakes turns booze into food – fish food

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: New York distillery and fish farm turns waste into supper, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON

Two companies in the Great Lakes region are teaming up for an unusual experiment in sustainability. They’re starting an aquaculture business. And a...

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

Planes, drone monitor harmful algae in Lake Erie

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A photo captured by Ansari 9-24, Credit: Dr. Rafat Ansari

Algae blooms continue to color western Lake Erie a deep green. Now researchers and scientists want to know more about toxins produced by the algae....

Bought by KPIK-LP, WBFO, WOSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

How can cities keep sewage out of Great Lakes? Go underground

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A photo of the finished Euclid Creek Tunnel, the first of 7., Credit: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Combined sewer overflows are common in over 700 cities and towns in the country. Several cities are under consent decrees to solve this problem --...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO

Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk

Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more

Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUVO, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

The Economics of Climate Change V. The Cost of Business-As-Usual with Dr. Mark Jacobson

From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling

Dr. Mark Jacobson, distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, is on-air with us to explain the economic...

Bought by KZYX

Sailing The High Seas 2.0

From: Jason Albert

Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert

90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix

The Field Trip Podcast: Wildfires

From: The Field Trip Podcast

Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

Katrina, two years later

From: George Mesthos
Series: Memories of WBRU

Caption: Elevator interview with John Kerry., Credit: Ryan Muller, 2007

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf was (and is) still in a shambles in many places. The culprits of the man-made disaster? Ridiculed but l...