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The U.S. Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been ma...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:01
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Lake Superior’s northern shore has been home to woodland caribou for thousands of years. But now, the species is facing local extinction. Some blam...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 16:27
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Harmful algal blooms are a growing concern in the Great Lakes. The toxins they produce can close beaches and even poison drinking water. What’s fue...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:45
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About 20 feet down on the bottom of Lake Michigan, there’s a white marble crucifix from Italy. Diver Denny Jessick uses a trail of rumors to search...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:37
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States in the Great Lakes kill beavers and remove dams on select rivers and streams. They’re doing it, in part, for anglers and the multi-billion d...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:14
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In October 1960, Prince Akihito of Japan visited Chicago for 21 hours. Chicago’s mayor presented the prince with a diplomatic gift: 18 bluegill. Wh...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 12:32
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It’s a dry spring – 1984 in Wisconsin – and all these suspicious fires are popping up. A conservation warden named Dave is pretty sure it’s arson, ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:18
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How Wetland Scientists Made D-Day a Success. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 09, 2024
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Angelo Coast Range Reserve , Credit: Ian Shive
Located between Highway 101 and the Pacific Coast Highway in Mendocino County is one of the most pristine pieces of northern coastal range ecosyste...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Dave visits with NYU Environmental Studies Professor Michael Mehta Webster to discuss his book, The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth....

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Tasting the past" - What food reminds you of a certain time - or maybe a particular person - in your life? This hour, we’ll meet kitchen...

  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Sociologist Diana Mincyte has been studying dairy farming in Lithuania and other post-socialist Eastern European states. She says that what happens...

  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Employees of the DNR releasing a river otter into the wild, Credit: Carrol Henderson
Next year, Carrol Henderson has a memoir coming out from Afton Press about his 41 years as the Minnesota DNR's first Nongame Wildlife Program Super...

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
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We follow where Hazel's legacy lives in Chicago’s EJ struggles today, and commit to the mission of actualizing the legacy Hazel envisioned.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:08:45
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As her health begins to wain, Hazel passes the baton to her daughter Cheryl who guides PCR through the treacherous waters of attacks, blackballing,...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:14:51
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We hear Hazel become a mother of the newly coalesced global Environmental Justice movement and take EJ to the highest halls of power, while still c...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:03:18
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We learn about and from Hazel's early fights scrapping with the power of the state, and the new possibilities for healing that she created.

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
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We go to the roots of the land where Altgeld Gardens sits and where Hazel's legacy lives, digging through the layers of indigenous, Black liberatio...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:53
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We begin our story–the story of Hazel Johnson, of Altgeld Gardens, of Environmental Justice, and of how we each fit into the fight to change our li...

  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 43:27
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Tonight we're talking ravens, fishes & loaves, and the soul-crushing indoor indoctrination of the Empire's State Religion. Sir James George Frazer,...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We’re once again turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties on Afterglow, to hear the songs from last century that have stuck around. We’ll foc...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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In our continuing coverage of the ongoing climate catastrophe, we often ask what we can learn from the experiences of people living on its frontlin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A Man Was Indicted for Smuggling…Greenhouse Gases. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In her new book No Meat Required, food writer Alicia Kennedy looks at vegetarian movements of the past and shares her low-tech vision for the futur...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00