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Downwinders Look to Renew and Expand Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
From: Brian Bahouth
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For more on the renewal and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, we spoke with a pair of downwinder advocates. Steve Erickson is a...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2021
  • Length: 17:16
Severe drought spells catastrophe for California salmon populations
From: Brian Bahouth
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With a severe drought looming this summer, we spoke with John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association to learn more about the pli...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
Children & Toxins
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dark Psychic Force
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Remember last August, a year ago, when the national media found it very funny that presidential candidate Marianne Williamson mentioned the "dark p...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Groundwater Pumping around Pahrump impacts Amargosa Canyon speckled dace
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect three populations of speckled dace in the D...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
The Planet Chapter 1: Land
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Chris Gough, scientist and professor at VCU.
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 27:37
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
David Inouye — A passion for pollinators
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with biologist and ecologist, David Inouye.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Dispossessed, Part 5; The Mountain People, Chapter 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: The Blue Ridge Mountains, Credit: Charles McGuigan
The Mountain People had settled in the Blue Ridge long before the United State gained its independence. They followed the Great Wagon Road from Lan...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1
439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
Following the Mexico City 7.1 earthquake, we are again hearing about the need to stay alert in California and Washington. In reality, though, that ...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hang Together or Hang Separately
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
356-Seeds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Methane Leak Lessons
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The massive methane leak in California’s Aliso canyon highlights the global side effects of the fossil fuel industry on the atmosphere.

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Food Sleuth Radio, Anita Poeppel Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the drift of spray and dust from pesticide applications can expose people, wildlife, and the...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Robert Shimek Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Would you want your children exposed to pesticide drift at home and at school? Potatoes grown in northern MN are routinely sprayed, putting childr...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
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Food Sleuth Radio, Howard Vlieger Interview, Part II of II
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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If genetically modified feed has negative effects on hog health and fertility, one has to wonder what effects GMO food ingredients might have on hu...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
2/16/12 Food Sleuth Radio: Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., on the Detrimental Effects of the Herbicide, Atrazine
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., biologist, University of CA-Berkeley. Hayes is known for his groundbrea...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
TruthToTell Apr 25: POLYMET MINING CASE-Part 1: Copper-Nickel Mining Will Kill Northern Waters
From: Andy Driscoll
Series: TruthToTell
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What is more important? Jobs? Or the long-term integrity of our air and water? TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI talk with those who are ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Natural State
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
Caption: natural gas well, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...

Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 3
Bats in Peril: White-nose Syndrome
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: An infected little brown bat., Credit: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Part 1 of 7 - The Global Triple Crisis
From: Bing Gong
Series: Confronting the Global Triple Crisis & Local Responses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3-Day Teach-in in Washington DC on Global Crisis in September 2007

  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 54:09
Adapting to Climate Change
From: The Environment Report
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Business are coping with effects of climate change.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1