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Mala Mujer in the Mules

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of ...

Does my charger still use power when it's not connected to a phone?

From: Possibly

Today, we have a question from Michael in Charlestown, Rhode Island. He wants to know: does a charger still use some power when it's plugged into a...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP

GN_3.04_Web Footed Work Force

From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3

Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.

Pesticides are harmful. In Vergenoedg, farmers are using ducks as natural and amusing pest control.

The Beauty and the Trash

From: Theo Greenly

A volunteer picks up trash along the I-5 in Northern California

The Real House-Foxes of Woods Hole

From: Michael Falero

Caption: Red fox in Woods Hole, MA, Credit: Mathew Alvarez

In the village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, red foxes are everywhere. They skulk around the school, run through the streets, and even steal from peop...

Bought by PRX Remix

The Write Question - Paige Embry - 316

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Paige Embry discusses her book Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.

Wild Lettuce

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

I like the title Wild Lettuce for this show. It seems incongruous, as in wild and lettuce don’t seem to go together.

Sycamore Waiver signed

From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Petey loves Platanus wrightii and daydreams of streets lined in huge unruly sycamores. He’s a dreamer. Of course sycamores in the wild are magnifi...

New generation in Cleveland embraces "Burning River"

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Brad McBride of Burning River Adventures, Credit: Elizabeth Miller

When the Cuyahoga River caught fire on June 22, 1969, it badly scarred Cleveland’s image. Some other polluted rivers were burning in American citi...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, WILL, WXXI Rochester, WBFO and more

American Cougars

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Everything you didn't want to know about mountain lions!

Where is the highest point in Chicago?

From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City

The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

Bought by PRX Remix

The Audiophiles: The mysterious language of blue whales

From: KALW

Stand on the beach overlooking Half Moon Bay, and the sound you’re most likely to hear is of waves crashing against the rocks. But when Roger Bland...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW

Seeing the Marfa Lights, rough audio

From: Katie Ball

Some "happy" tourists wait for the Mysterious Marfa Lights, just outside of Marfa, Texas. (This is rough, unedited audio with a lot of wind noise. ...

The arrival of spring

From: Will Dewees

Old man winter seems to have the last say on the arrival of spring.

Denver's Backyard Chicken Initiative

From: Nadia Khasawneh

Exploring the appeal and annoyances of backyard chickens as some Denver residents push for an initiative to change the city's current hen laws.

21. France Was Years Ahead

From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry

Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks

In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...