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Lead - The Pernicious Poison

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Doug and Patti speak with "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin

Climate Connections August 5 - August 30, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections New Jersey launches a heat awareness campaign, California moves to protect indoor workers from heat, a Maryland ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WNIJ, WNIN, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more

Are sewers the best way to deal with stormwater?

From: Possibly

Paved surfaces like roads, sidewalks, and driveways send stormwater into our sewers, but engineering solutions that filter water through the ground...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, and KICI Iowa City

Are we close to 100% renewable energy?

From: Possibly

For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KTNA, and WRFA-LP

What are wilderness areas and why do they matter?

From: Possibly

For decades wilderness areas have provided access and protection to millions of acres of land. Today, climate change is shifting how we think about...

Bought by WRFA-LP

Why did I see a bunch of dead fish in the Providence River?

From: Possibly

One Possibly listener wondered why she saw so many dead fish in the water last spring. Turns out it’s called a fish kill – which can happen when th...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Raven Radio

How can buses become a climate solution?

From: Possibly

The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana

Feet To The Fire

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix

Jess talks with California's Attorney General Rob Bonta about a historic lawsuit he filed against Big Oil to hold them accountable for the devastat...

Ride into the Danger Zone: Tornado Chasing, Hurricane Hunting, and Smoke Jumping

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

We're talking with professional storm chasers and smoke jumpers whose job it is to run towards danger.

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

770- Hycean Worlds

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)

Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

Bought by KCHW, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KGLP and more

Post-Roe America: 3. Trust Women

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.

Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary

From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America

When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP

California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Dale Stout is one of the first people to benefit from the additional housing supports in California’s new Medicaid initiative, CalAIM. , Credit: Ryan Levi

California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...

Below the Waterlines, Houston after Hurricane Harvey - Hour Long Special

From: KUHF
Series: Below the Waterlines, Houston after Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey was a seminal moment in the history of Houston. Five years later, where do things stand? Houston Public Media examines efforts to ...

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 07/19/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

Bought by WXDU

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/29/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care

From: Tradeoffs

We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/25/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/05/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/18/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...

World in Progress 04/29/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Who owns space? - We dive deep into outer space. Who owns space? Who owns mineral resources and water? The race is on — i...

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