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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...

Won't more CO2 help plants grow?

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

Plants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of foss...

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...

A public health expert’s guide to climate change

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...

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Wildfires—and how we're changing them

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...

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Don't throw away your refrigerator

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...

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How tackling methane cools the planet fast

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....

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Wait, how do greenhouse gases actually warm the planet?

From: Laur Hesse Fisher
Series: TILclimate Podcast

You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...

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Healthy Grief - A conversation with Dr. Karen Kramer

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Caption: Roadmap to Emotional Intelligence

Karen has written about grief in a way that will help people find healthy ways to come to terms with losses that matter to them. We all are challen...

Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Noah Whiteman: Toxic Allure: The Hidden World of Nature's Most Captivating Poisons

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show

Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series

My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

Against The Grain

From: Things That Go Boom

In this fall special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: how Indigenous knowledge is challenging the military industrial complex.

Bought by KCBX, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more

Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Hands holding up public comment cards in the Louisiana Senate chamber on Pride Day at the Capitol 2023 in Baton Rouge, LA., Credit: Raegan Labat

Louisiana, like many other states, has seen a slew of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this legislative session. Sophie Ziegler joins to...

Bought by WORT, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 19

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg

After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Pt. 1

From: Tradeoffs

There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

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The Mothers of Gynecology

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo

Bad Blood, Bad Science

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

The African Burial Ground

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Is it possible to study human remains ethically?

Roughhousing

From: ROS: Crushed

Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply person...

Bought by WUAL, WILL, WJCT, and WVXU

The Emotion Roadmap Successfully Planning for A Special Holiday Gathering

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Emotion Roadmap explained with an example from a caller, Jim, who wants to make sure his new partner, and his son and daughter, who are all meeting...

Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We talk to Raj Patel and Rupa Marya about their new book "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice."

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Save the Planet, Go Solar With A Friend

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Solar United Neighbors is building a movement by helping neighbors go solar.

Bought by KZYX, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City

Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics

Caption: https://unsplash.com/photos/2x-dj_r0H9Y, Credit: Jeremy Bezanger

This is a Veterans Day program. "Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]" is a musical program containing Patriotic Songs and music praising the ...

The FDA Super Bowl

From: Tradeoffs

Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...

The Brazilian-Jazz Way

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time

A special program of Brazilian-styled jazz music including Bossa Nova, and Samba.

Bought by KAAD-LP

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