PRX » Search » Browse

Episode 3 - Agroforestry

From: Grounded Hope

This month, when the maple sap is flowing, we have three different stories about the importance of trees and our interaction with them. We’ll meet ...

Progress for Who?

From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise

Caption: Phillips Committee resident Richard Habersham, Credit: Paige Polk

In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.

Love Canal, 40 years later

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice

This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio

Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods

From: Great Lakes Today
Series: Environmental Injustice

Caption: Children playing next to Garden Valley [Bill Nehez/CSU Cleveland Memory Project]

Would you want an industrial waste dump near your house? Probably not. But across the country, environmental hazards like waste dumps tend to be lo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more

Divers chronicle Great Lakes shipwreck that left 32 dead

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: The Admiral shipwreck, Credit: Marc Duncan

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

American side of Niagara Falls to go silent

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park., Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Pedestrian Bridge to be replaced at Niagara Falls State Park.

New York State plans to shut off the American Falls, a major attraction for tourists who flock to Niagara Falls. It's part of a project to replace...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more

Viking ship Draken leaves Great Lakes, but hard feelings linger

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Draken Harald Harfagre, Credit: courtesy of Draken Harald Harfagre

The replica Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre has sailed out of the Great Lakes, wrapping up a summer visit marred by a dispute over pilots fees. ...

Bought by WCPN, WXXI Rochester, WMUK, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more

Michigan town rebrands itself as shipwreck capital of the Great Lakes

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Passengers of the Lady Michigan look down through its glass bottom in hopes of spotting one of the area’s many shipwrecks., Credit: Veronica Volk

Alpena, Michigan used to be a bustling port on Lake Huron. But since the decline of its major industry, residents of the small town have shifted th...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WCPN, and WBFO

Unspun Looks at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich, Biologist, Environmentalist and Author

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

Unspun peers into the future at the Sixth Great Extinction with Paul Ehrlich. Paul R. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and the ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9

Stanford considering the fate of century-old dam threatening endangered trout

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: Searsville Dam, Credit: Wikimedia commons user Gazebo

The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...

The Greenhouse Project: Bringing San Francisco’s forgotten flower farm back to life

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...

Evicted From the Wild

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Caption: The mountain pass, Sierra Nevada, Credit: Library of Congress

Producer Jesse Dukes has the story of some five hundred families who were made to leave their homes in an area supposedly “pristine and free of hum...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix

The Blue Revolution

From: Chrys Bocast
Series: Aquaculture and You

The history of aquaculture from the mid-20th century to the present.

Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered

From: WMMT

This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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...