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Caption: Amit Shivprasad outside his home in Hollis, Queens. Shivprasad advocates for basement reform, and his community is prone to flooding. Despite previous floods, the area is still undesignated as a flood zone., Credit: Diana Cervantes
Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 31:45
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Many songs have a story to tell. Sometimes this message is clear other times it’s not. Sometimes it would be nice to know what the artist was think...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 36:08
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Today on Art Beat we talk to some of the production team from Theatre du Mississippi’s production of Shipwrecked! Original air date: 09/06/22 Art B...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 21:30
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A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
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This week on the show: We ask a climate economist if Putin’s war in Ukraine could see the world fast-track a switch to renewables. From the South...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Asia's troubled Mekong River - The Mekong River begins in Tibet and runs through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia be...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: As The Netherlands desperately tries to reduce its nitrogen emissions, Dutch farmers are up in arms about what that will m...

Bought by KVNF, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A monsoon approaches Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Suffering from pandemic blur Sandip takes solace in the familiar sounds of the seasons… and frogs.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Sherry Manning, Founder Global Seed Savers
An American citizen creates a Filipino based nonprofit to help fight injustice in a simple, yet powerful way: through seeds.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 13:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Images courtesy of Eric Hsu. All rights reserved.
On February 12th, the Lunar New Year begins. Celebrated by Asian cultures across the globe, this week Cultivating Place speaks with Eric Hsu, a pla...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on the show: What’s in our air? - It’s all around us and critical for life: air. But besides oxygen, that gas we breathe to live, wha...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Indonesian villagers fighting the cement industry Villagers in the Kendeng mountains of Java fight for their livelihoods a...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Michael Benanav studies nomadic people as a writer and photographer. So when he was invited to accompany the Van Gujjar of northern India on their ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:19
Caption: Meguro River, Tokyo, Japan , Credit: Photo by Zhaoli Jin
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the magic of water and the ways it defines our urban spaces. This episode focuses on To...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Why Indonesia is a target for tobacco companies Indonesian households spend almost as much on cigarettes as they do on ri...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
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This week on the show: The power of indigenous people - Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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World in Progress: Urban futures - On this week's show, we head to Singapore where 100 scientists have gathered for the Future Cities Laborat...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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In 2016, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated an international ivory-smuggling ring. It all began with a sea cucumber trader in Zanzibar.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 22:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Wang Ping wanted to go to Tibet to bless the world. But to do that, she had to risk her own safety.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:04
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: we'll take a closer look at poverty and how it affects people in different ways around the world. We'll hear about Finland'...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On this week’s show: Plastic planet? - We are drowning in plastic! It pollutes our oceans, beaches, rivers and forests. Let's talk solutions. W...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFIU, KMUN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Ashley Belle, John Michael McCarthy. and Lek Chailer, San Francisco, CA 5/25/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lek Chailert, Ashley Bell, and John Michael McCarthy talk choices, chirping, and how an elephant can be like a Prius.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:48
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"Why Elephants Never Forget" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been...

Bought by KSTK and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2