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Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
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As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 12
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As heat waves, storms, droughts and wildfires continue to worsen, talking can seem like a seriously insufficient climate solution. It’s fair to ask...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:55
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On this week's edition of The Spark Weekly, Scott Lamar speaks with Professor Matt Wilson about Susquehanna University's Freshwater Research Insti...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 46:25
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Laurie Leshin shares stories about space exploration and her commitment to diversifying STEM fields. She is a distinguished geochemist and space sc...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:17

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Raised in landlocked Soweto, South Africa, this Black woman's first ocean dive felt like coming home. She wants all to feel welcome beneath the waves.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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Ideal for broadcast around Earth Day: What was the carbon footprint of your dinner last night? Listeners to this sound-rich inquiry will learn that...

Bought by WUWM, WHYY, WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 23
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A deep dive into mining in Brazil. The Latin American country is the second largest exporter of iron ore in the world. The resource makes up a sub...

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


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This time on The Children’s Hour we learn about the concept of querencia: the feeling of “home” in a place, and with our communities. Using poetry,...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
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The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not incorporate sc...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in biologica...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: From left to right: Frank Bibeau, Thomas Linzey, Alexis Bunten and Samantha Skenandore
The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Suzanne Simard
Forests have long occupied a fertile landscape in the human imagination. Places of mystery and magic - of wildness and wisdom - of vision and dream...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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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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Today’s question comes from a listener here in Rhode Island. They’ve been following local efforts to pass a bottle bill- that’s where you get money...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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So-called “Natural gas”- the stuff a lot of us use to heat our homes and run our stoves- is basically methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. In the sh...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Recently, we got a question from one of our listeners. Matt from Providence wants to know - can we harness electricity from electric eels? We were ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KICI Iowa City, WRFA-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: William, Credit: Adriano
The fresh water seas, the largest source of fresh water on the planet, hold the keys to life to come. Can we envision the life of the Lakes decades...

Bought by WGTE Public Media


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Crawford Lake 1953, Credit: Bryan Davies
For better or worse, humans have altered and will shape the future of the Great Lakes. The Anthropocene epoch has arrived.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: James St. Christmas, Credit: Gene Ubriaco
As the climate changes, how will the Great Lakes watershed be transformed? Will it still sustain its great diversity of flora and fauna?

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Algoma Steel, Credit: Adriano
The geology of the Great Lakes is the source of North American industrial strength, but how can these resources be used to sustain economy and ecol...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Courage, Credit: Cheryl Thomas
From commerce to transport, fishing and tourism, what happens on the waters happens to the waters.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:02
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The life, death, and rebirth of the world class fisheries of the Great Lakes - and the myths, tales, and yarns that go with them.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Legend of the Serpent Snake, Credit: Norval Morisseau
The eternal mystery that lives in the heart of Turtle Island and the legend of the sturgeon fish (Ojibwe nma) family.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:00