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Yes. Global warming increases the intensity of our weather because it causes temperatures to rise, which leads to more water evaporation. When thos...
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- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 03:52
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Today we’re answering a question that has been on a lot of people’s minds during the COVID-19 quarantine: while we’re limiting trips to the store, ...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
Driftnets are fishing nets that have largely fallen out of fashion because they can accidentally catch other marine life. But it's still legal to u...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:41
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Air quality has definitely improved during the pandemic. Air monitoring stations in Rhode Island and the greater Northeast have seen about a 30% de...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 03:56
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Today we’re going to focus on some positive news — a bright spot. Scientists have noticed something remarkable about blue whales— after years of ne...
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- Added: May 25, 2020
- Length: 04:00
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- Added: May 22, 2020
- Length: 02:27
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Explore what the Northwest looked like pre-contact, with Native nutritionist and food sovereignty expert Valerie Segrest of the Muckleshoot Tribe. ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Apr 22, 2020
- Length: 29:46
- Purchases: 4
By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 27:13
- Purchases: 2
What is the most beautiful sound? Teenager Alex Soto investigates.
A version of this story was selected as a finalist in the 2020 NPR Student Pod...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 07:53
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It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
Researchers are investigating a method of creating power from fast moving streams in Nepal. Sometimes these micro-hydro minigrids work and sometime...
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- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 16:08
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Research shows that when Republican parents are thinking about their parental identity rather than their partisan identity, they are more likely to...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 14, 2020
- Length: 20:37
- Purchases: 2
An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.
- Added: Jan 11, 2020
- Length: 26:13
2019 has seen a record number of women hold the top state jobs in Agriculture. Colorado, Florida, and Ohio all have a female leading the state’s a...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 04:48
In 1991, President George Herbert Walker Bush was looking for ways to stem the illegal drug trade in Colombia, by giving more incentives for legal ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Canadian researchers have shown that 78% of the worlds seeds are now owned by three companies, and it’s those companies who decide which ones to m...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 04:34
In this piece we hear the process of musicians and scientists who collaborated to turn deep sea research into a song. Produced in Woods Hole, MA, ...
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 11:46
History Repeats as our country once again brings Impeachment charges against the President- we revisit earlier trials and listen to climate activis...
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 01:58:02
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
We’re use to hearing about how much humans have impacted the earth. Scientists have given a name for this period to recognize human dominance over ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....
- Added: May 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From artificial beaches maintained by natural ocean currents, to projects that make extra room for rivers flowing through cities, the Dutch know ho...
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 18:14
How accurate was Vonnegut when he described the end of the world? We tackle climate science with climate researchers from the Scripp’s Institute of...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 24:57
The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy.
Bought by KRZA and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Apr 22, 2019
- Length: 22:22
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