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Part 3: Green movement pivots toward minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: A few members of Outdoor Afro Cleveland, including Smith-Woodford (holding sign), Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 3 of series -- The Great Lakes region is home to millions of people of different races and ethnicities. But diverse backgrounds – and issues ...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 7
Part 2: Flint water crisis a turning point for Green movement
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: WT Stevens replaces a pipe under a Flint street, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Part 2 of series -- Historically, the environmental movement hasn’t always been welcoming to people of color – and issues that are important to the...

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


  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 8
Part 1: Environmental groups slow to seek out minorities
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: New Faces, New Issues
Caption: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite in 1903, Credit: Library of Congress
Part 1 of series -- When you think of the environmental movement, what comes to mind. Preserving the wilderness in national parks? Or guaranteeing ...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 8
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


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
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


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 8
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 ...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 8
MacArthur Genius Says BP Disaster is Far from Over
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Wilma Subra questions how the government measures seafood safety., Credit: Barry Yeoman
(NOTE: This piece is non-narrated.) The Guardian has described Louisiana chemist Wilma Subra as BP’s “worst nightmare.” A winner of the MacArthur ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 05:49
The Polar Ice Sheets are Melting
From: Judy Lubow
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Stand-alone segment of Planet Warning Series. With the earth heating up with global warming, the polar ice sheets are melting. But nobody knows ho...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Ocean Acidification
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:58
The geologic impacts of global warming.
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
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A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 12
From: David Kattenburg
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Conserving scarce pockets of precious water and their wildlife. In the middle of one of India’s largest cities, citizens say, ‘Don’t touch our lake...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 27:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 11
From: David Kattenburg
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In today’s edition, communities struggle to be healthy in the shadow of the Big Three: tuberculosis, malaria and HIV-AIDS.

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 8
From: David Kattenburg
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The plight of the farmer – struggling to produce for global markets, avoiding the toxic tailings of chemically treated fields, or robbed of the lan...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:56