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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Ireland has finally shared the pot-o-gold at the end of their rainbow by pledging to fully divest from fossil fuels.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
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He saw it coming. John thought that water would not be an issue but the County and State of Washington had not quite worked out how groundwater tha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 05:58
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Sea level rise is a global concern, and on the whole, policy and funding for mitigation aren’t keeping pace. Today on Gen Anthro, producer Isha Sal...

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 10:52
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Donald Trump, Credit: Nick Castele/ideastream
The proposal now moves to Congress, where Great Lakes Senators and Representatives on both sides of the aisle have pledged to fight back and try to...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, WMUK, WKSU and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Tim Eder, executive director of the Great Lakes Commission
Great Lakes advocacy groups are meeting with members of Congress this week to shed light on the region’s priorities.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WMUK, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Lake Erie, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
When the Trump Administration reveals its proposed budget for 2018, it might include a 97 percent cut to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a ...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUK, WILL, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: A combined sewer over flow in Avon Lake, Ohio's Heider Creek, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
The Great Lakes Commission, a binational group, released its annual list of priorities, which includes recommendations to improve and rebuild water...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media, WMUK and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Cutouts of Clinton and Trump at the Great Lakes Restoration Conference, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Representatives from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's campaigns spoke Thursday at the Great Lakes Restoration Conference.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, WSKG, WMUK and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: :56
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: View of Lake Michigan shoreline from Empire Bluff, Credit: National Park Service
Although Waukesha, Wisc., lies outside the Great Lakes basin, it wants to draw water from Lake Michigan because its wells are contaminated with rad...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, WILL, WXXI Rochester, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Fossilized coral lies under foot in the pine rockland ecosystem., Credit: Anna Hamilton
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
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A group of citizens continues to work to delay a measure adopted by the Bloomington City Council to thin out the deer population at Griffy Lake – t...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
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Mike Rollin has worked as a translator, writing instructor, and community organizer. He lives in Minneapolis. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
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The drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- has drawn increased scrutiny around the United State and the world in recent y...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 08:41
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Last week the Hoosier Environmental Council announced a long list of concerns it has with legislation that been proposed by lawmakers in the Indian...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
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Bloomington's 2nd Annual Bike Summit was held in City Hall last Thursday. The summit was, according to a city press release, "part of an on-going e...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 09:13
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The true story of the first state to sponsor a rock concert ... nicknamed "the Governor's Pot Party"... and what became of that governor.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Power lines at Hoover Dam, Credit: Michael Plasmeier
The Environment Report for Tuesday, August 4th - Hosted by Lester Graham

  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
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Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world. But since European settlers first arrived on American shores, more than half of the...

Bought by KMXT, KOSU, and WEPS


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 3
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Colorado?s candidates for governor squared off in a debate on the Western Slope

Bought by KOTO and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 2
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A federal judge in California reinstated a Clinton administration ban on building new roads in portions of national forests nationwide.

Bought by KOTO


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Two of the Congress? fiercest critics of the federal endangered species act held a committee hearing on it in Greeley Monday.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
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EPA LIKES NEW NAVAJO COAL PLANT - STATE SAYS NO TO S. PLATTE WATER AUDIT

  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 05:09
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A consortium of federal agencies involved in conservation and the natural environment are holding a listening session at UCCS.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 06:39